Game of snooker
The North Platte semi-weekly tribune, (North Platte, Neb.), 07 April 1896
Mr. Shelf nodded significantly toward the newcomers, as much as to hint that a third person with them would be distinctly an inconvenient third. Cambel turned to them, cue in hand, and proposed a game of snooker.
“That’s precisely what we came up for,” said Amy Rivers promptly. “Hamilton, get out the balls. Mr. Cambel, will you put the billiard balls away, so that they don’t get mixed?”