Judge — December 7, 1929 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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wis was the week Junior had it IMIG I bout a broadening day he spent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but he got himself either snookered into a game called hooker or hooked into a game called snooker. He sus- pects it was the latter. It took place in the company of a printer, a kibitz- ing oaf, an extremely violent-tempered movie critic, and Mac. — So you're going to he: rr, like it or not. “Snooker or “rounders,” as it is called in 4, from where it was imported —why, nobody knows—is a refined pool game played iy by a group of young intellectuals who, having been barred from the Fifth Avenue Public Library for loud snoring, pursue their studies in the learned purlicus of Doyle's Billiard Academy on Broadway. The game is ed on an sh billiard table with’ cues, telescope. or forty pretty colored balls and any number of zers, An English billiard table, as we see it, is a large plateau several miles in are: ba covered with green nd takes from two to three days to circumnavigate completely. ‘The telescope is required to sight balls lying at the other end of the table, the distances between shots often being greater than that between Boston and Whun- kle, Ind., or Munsey, Kansas. In cases of fog, it is often impossible to distinguish the balls. It is best to use Very Lights or Opal Rockets under such conditions. ‘Three times during our game, even though it remained sunny at LN one end of the table, the fog banks and kibitzers so thick at the other end we had to postpone the ame until they cleared. A foghorn, by the way, is practically of no use, as it is hard to distinguish it from the low moanin’ of the kibitzers. — Inci- dentally, because of the high average rainfall in the Middle West and southern California the game cannot be played at all, the tables flooding so led because of wet rounds, fling, the table is provided with small, or Scotch, pockets. The pockets rarely eves receive a ball, the balls be a mite too large for them. Such being the case, the pockets make excellent places to park your chewing gum, children, revolvers, ete. The aforementioned kibitzing oaf is the only human (and that’s open to question) who can pot balls, he having the uncanny ability to drop them in when nobody is lookin To make a long story a five-foot shelf, Junior will ma’ no attempt to explain how to play the game. The sim- plest way to go about it would be to rent an acre of the Whitelaw Reid town house, purchase a snooker table and outfit from the Brunswick-Balke Company and kidnap a ballboy from Doyle's to caddy and explain th Of course if you buy an outfit and then ¢ always use the table for lawn nting trees on it and stocking it with wild n excellent hunting preserve. Or it will six-hole putting (Continued on page 25) shots. t learn the PEPPERMINT * SAW: BREAKER’ WHEN (D °BREAK" FSR CUR SIDE, MY TOMER WAS So “ERRIFIC, WWNICR WOULD HAVE To USE A PAG RAG RackeT™ “>_KEEP US FROM _PEWG PENALIZED! > i “RE OMY BALL VPUT INTO AM THANG GAME. WE WONDERED WHY TE BALLS. KEPT BoUNCiuG ANE THOUGHT “HE GAME EQDED IN A Ve VATIL | Gor HOME AND DISQVERED A RED PALL INA ‘CORNER ROCKET Ge MY PANTS, WHICH WRAED OST 16 te THE WANG POINTS SLPPED ANT ONE OF THE FocksTs AND i WAS LOST FRoM FRIDAY UTIL ToEsDay! comicbooks.com