[Ads-l] Antedating of "Snooker"

[Shapiro, Fred]

snooker (OED 1889)

1884 Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) 10 Oct. 6 (British Newspaper Archive)

Billiard players have been promised a new game called Snookers, which, we are assured, is to supplant Pyramids and Pool ere long.  The rules given below.

Fred Shapiro

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