B. Priestley's account of the 1929 Professional Billiards Championship, Chambers was described as "[his] profile was rather like that of the Mad Hatter; his face was all nose, teeth, and glittering eye; and he had an ecclesiastical dignity and gravity of manner.

It was a voice that belonged to solemn ritual, and it did as much as the four walls and the thickly drawn curtained windows to withdraw us from ordinary life and Leicester Square.

To the surprise of spectators, Brown produced a small fountain pen-sized cue from his vest pocket, chalked it, and played the stroke.

"[13][14] The official rules of both snooker and billiards now state that "A cue shall be not less than 3 ft (914 mm) in length and shall show no change from the traditional tapered shape and form, with a tip, used to strike the cue-ball, secured to the thinner end.

[7] After the venue was bombed during World War II, which made staging matches there impossible, Chambers moved to Taunton, where he took part in local British Legion activities, and won the club's handicap snooker tournament.

[1] Joe Davis, the first player to hold the professional titles in both billiards and snooker,[20][b] called Chambers "the most efficient referee in the game", and praised his fairness and integrity.

[1] The referee's competence and ability to be unobtrusive were remarked upon by Tom Newman, who felt that these attributes of Chambers were why so many record-making breaks had happened when he was officiating.

[1] Other leading players also wrote testimonies, including Smith, Claude Falkiner; and Melbourne Inman, who called Chambers "the best referee the game ever possessed".