I am being ruined altogether, and Doolan has retired discomfited." "I have not touched a cue since I went away," the Doctor said, "but I don't mind adding to the list of victims.

Who are the winners ?" "Messenger and Jarvis have been carrying all before them; there is a report they have just sent off two club waiters, with loads of rupees, to their quarters.

Scarsdale has been pretty well holding his own, but the rest of us are nowhere." A year's want of practice, however, told, and the Doctor was added to the list of victims: he had no difficulty in getting someone else to take his cue after playing for half an hour.
"It shows that practice is required for everything," he said; "before I went away I could have given each of those men a life, now they could give me two; I must devote half an hour a day to it till I get it back again." "And you shall give me a lesson, Doctor," Captain Doolan, who had also retired, said.
"It would be time thrown away by both of us, Doolan.

You would never make a pool player if you were to practice all your life.

It is not the eye that is wrong, but the temperament.