Cadre 45/2 World Championship 1903

1st Cadre 45/2 World Championship
Café l'Eldorado 1903
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	FFB
Tournament details
Venue:	Café l'Eldorado, Paris
Opening:	March 1903
Endgame:	April 1903
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	-
Winner:	Lucien Rérolle
2nd finalist:	Hector Rasquinet
3rd place:	Léon Fouquet
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	15.90 Lucien Rérolle
Best ED:	33.33 Lucien Rérolle
Maximum series (HS):	0109 Lucien Rérolle 0
Venue on the map
Paris Venue
	1904 →

The 1903 Cadre 45/2 World Championship was the first FFB World Championship, which was held in Cadre 45/2 until 1947 and from 1948 in Cadre 47/2. The tournament took place in Paris , France , in March and April .

history

Up until this first amateur world championship, only professional world championships were held in Cadre 45/2. The then very well-known German billiard player Hans Niedermayr wrote the development of billiards for several years in the German Billard Zeitung. In the first few years he described the tournaments that were held as the world championship in the United States of America. The first world championship was held from June 23 to 26, 1873 in New York in the free game. The French Albert Garnier won. Back then it was common to challenge the world champion in a challenge match. So there were six challenges up to the second World Cup in 1879, which also took place in New York. In 1879, the German-born American Jacob Schaefer won his first world title.

The first Cadre World Championship was held from March 26 to April 6, 1883 in Chicago. Cadre 20/3 was played. Three collisions were allowed in each field. Jacob Schaefer was again the winner. Almost all of the big carom championships took place in the USA at the time. They were all professional tournaments in which a lot of money was played for the time. There were no billiards associations in Europe.

That only changed after the tournament in Paris in 1903, which was subsequently classified as a world championship. The best French and Belgian billiards players at the time were invited to this tournament. After the championship, the first large pool association of amateurs was founded. With the first president Raymond de Drée, the association called itself Fédération des Sociétés Francaises des Amateurs de Billard (FSFAB). Shortly thereafter, a second association was founded due to disagreements on the rules of the amateur term. This was called the Fédération Francaise de Billard (FFB). All championships organized by the FFB were later run as official world championships.

The first World Cup tournament was dominated by the French Lucien Rérolle. He won all games and showed performances that should not be improved until 1914. Exact results of the first FFB world championships up to 1914 are very sketchy. After the 1903 tournament, Hector Rasquinet and Léon Fouquet moved to FSFAB and were no longer eligible to play in the FFB. The results of the FSFAB, in which the best professionals played, were much better documented. The performance was accordingly better than that of the amateurs. Lucien Rérolle, who also switched to the professionals in 1904, won the FSFAB World Championship in 1907 with 20.40 GD.

Tournament mode

The whole tournament was played in the round robin system up to 400 points. In the event of a tie in the MPs, the following order is taken:

1. MP = match points
2. GD = general average
3. HS = maximum series

Closing table

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
Pts.	Achieved collisions
Recording	Required attempts
GD	General average
BED	Best individual average by a player
HS	Maximum series
	Best GD of the tournament
	Best ED of the tournament
	Best HS of the tournament
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	GD	BED	HS
1	Lucien Rérolle	14: 0	15.90	33.33	109
2	Hector Rasquinet	12: 2	9.83	10.52	91
3	Léon Fouquet	8: 6	?	?	?
4th	Barthélémy Maure	8: 6	?	?	?
5	Louis Naves	?	?	?	?
6th	Paul Lejeune	?	?	?	?
7th	Raymond de Drée	?	?	?	?
8th	Nélys	?	?	?	?

Web links

Commons : Cadre 45/2 World Championship 1903  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 7th year, no. 5 . Cologne September 1927, p. 112-113 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 173 .