Whatever it was called, it clearly left an impression on players, which would prove useful when the matter came to the attention of the law courts, years later. It transpired that a certain Charles E. Todd, who ran a hotel in Germantown, Pennsylvania – where Charles Darrow had been a regular – had been introduced to the game by Eugene and Ruth Raiford.Todd later recalled: 'The first people we taught after learning it from the Raiford’s was Darrow and his wife Esther. They had never seen anything like it and showed a great deal of interest in it. Darrow asked me if I would write up the rules and regulations and I wrote them up and checked with Raiford to see if they were right.’