LET ‘EM ALL COME!
Armley and Wortley News, Friday 21 April 1899 Who shall say that Wortley men Are wanting brains or lacking muscle?Who kens in lists of late…
By-Laws and Rules
Albany Club. Conservative. 1899 THE ALBANY CLUB. INCORPORATED 1882. 17.— Billiard Room. (1) The game of English Pool shall have choice of tables and take…
Jimmy Whyte’s decisive win
Dundee Courier, Tuesday 16 April 1935 MIDLAND SNOOKER DRAW Jimmy Whyte, of St Salvador’s, had a decisive win over Geo. England, Carnoustie Regal, in the…
A siren of the streets.
Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 14 March 1896 A queer adventure in Liverpool. At times I am not so certain that Augustus Ganderton was quite the…
Christmas country, games for houses
Country Life, Saturday 17 December 1898 Our beneficent Santa Claus, catering for our Christmas-tide entertainment, has a whole new field thrown open to his kindly…
Billiards
The Spectator, 10 October 1896 The new “Badminton” volume maintains the high standard of excellence which the public has learned to demand from contributors to…
Illustrated by the game of “Snooker.”
Huddersfield Chronicle, Saturday 26 February 1898 Colonel Carlile, in response, thanked Major Welsh and those present for the hearty manner in which his health had…
Playing Snooker for a Bishopric.
BILLIARDS ILLUSTRATED. March 9, 1910 The Duke of Landport is not strikingly generous, by any means, whatever other virtues he may possess. That he has…
THE ORIGIN OF SNOOKER: THE NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN STORY. By Peter Ainsworth. 10th October 2017
The game of snooker was invented by Neville Chamberlain in 1875. Everyone knows that. At least this is today’s commonly accepted theory. But prior to…
A “Snooker” Problem
Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, Saturday 01 September 1923 A “SNOOKER” PROBLEM. A correspondent writes: a remarkable stroke occurred in a game of Snooker’s pool…