Cheery Evening at the Gurkha Mess
Tour to the Pindari Glacier. J. Gore. 1898 CHAPTER XVIII. <…> The rains are now upon us evidently, and I just escaped a deluge which…
Waiting Up
A Third Person. By B.M. Croker. 1893 CHAPTER IX <…> “Roger, shut the door at once; and come here and tell me what you have…
Kind of modified snooker
American Memories. By John Kendall. 1896 We made considerable use of the Boston Club in New Orleans, of which we had been elected members. We…
Partridge Shooting.
The Badminton Magazine. September 1895 The best nose I ever saw on a dog—if the expression may be used where there was uncommonly little nose…
Novel or Strange
Cornishman, Thursday 15 December 1898 Cyclists in Greece swear by the Dunlop-Welsh tyre as a perfect non-slipper, the roads in that country being so greasy….
Game of tennis and snookers
Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore), Friday 17 November 1899 Civilians, considering their easy circumstances, might do more for sport, and in particular for racing than…
A halt by the way
Reading Observer, Saturday 26 August 1899 Sport and anecdote. [by an Old Fogey ] For two months or more we have been passing through exceptionally…
Shell out, snooker pool, etc.
Hull Daily Mail, Thursday 28 September 1899 A correspondent writes: —Permit me to ask where the authorities draw the line at gaming on licensed premises?…
The balls must be perfectly free from grease.
English mechanic and world of science. 66.3 December 1897 Snooker.—A copy of the only number in print containing the recipe has been sent; but if…
Animal.
Slang and its analogues. Past and Present. A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three…
Snooker Pool Handicap.
Eastbourne Gazette, Wednesday 15 March 1899 Billiards.—Mr. J. A. Smith, the manager of the Billiard Saloon at the Gildridge Hotel, has promoted and arranged a…
Public school dinners.
Englishman’s Overland Mail. Thursday 06 January 1898 OLD CLIFTONIANS. The annual Old Cliftonian Dinner was hold on Wednesday night at No. 100 Clive Street under…