Antiquity of billiards.
A history and description of Billiards. Samuel May, Billiard Table manufacturer. 1867 Interesting relative facts. The origin of the game of billiards, like the antiquity…
The Game of Billiards.
A history and description of Billiards. Samuel May, Billiard Table manufacturer. 1867 The origin of the game. This delightful game has become so universally esteemed…
Billiards in the home circle—medically considered.
A history and description of Billiards. Samuel May, Billiard Table manufacturer. 1867 By Dr. Marcy, of New York Nothing contributes more to the physical, moral,…
The King of Games
A history and description of Billiards. Samuel May, Billiard Table manufacturer. 1867 In Europe, billiards has for centuries been called the game of Kings. In…
Mingot, the Great French Billiard Player
A history and description of Billiards. Samuel May, Billiard Table manufacturer. 1867 Inventor of the cue leather To the famous Mingot is attributed the invention…
Topping’s convert
Frank Leslie’s Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly. An Illustrated Journal of Amusement, Adventure, and Instruction, November 28, 1874 “Come to-night, my friend,” said Mr. Topping, joyfully,…
The way it is done.
The Portland transcript, Saturday, January 25, 1851 And so he mingles as a sort of social “dead-head” among the parvenues of Uppertendom, who, of course,…
The second great ordeal of the “snooker.”
Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service, Saturday 05 September 1863 A quarter of an hour after morning Academy there is…
Two hookers, two snookers
Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c., Containing a rare tract on the Lancashire witches, & c. &c. by John Harland, F.S.A. and T.T. Wilkinson, F.R.A….
Lieutenant Richard Nugent Snooker
The new annual Army list and Indian civil Service list. On 30 September 1874, Lieutenant Richard Nugent Snooker was promoted to the rank of Captain…