Cadre 45/2 World Championship 1913

10th Cadre 45/2 World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	FFB
Tournament details
Venue:	, Antwerp
Opening:	May 2, 1913
Endgame:	May 12, 1913
Attendees:	7th
Defending champion:	Charles Faroux
Winner:	Pierre Sels
2nd finalist:	Henri Maréchal
3rd place:	Edmond
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	13.55 Pierre Sels
Best ED:	23.52 Rudolphe Agassiz
Maximum series (HS):	00130 Rudolphe Agassiz
Venue on the map
Antwerp
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The Cadre 45/2 World Championship in 1913 was the tenth FFB World Championship, which was held in Cadre 45/2 until 1947 and from 1948 in Cadre 47/2. The tournament took place from 2. – 12. May 1913 in Antwerp , Belgium.

history

A world championship with several participants was held again. For the first time, Rudolphe Agassiz, a Swiss who played for Switzerland, took part in a world championship. Agassiz showed his class by setting a new amateur world record. He increased the amateur world record in the highest series to 130 points. The Belgian Pierre Sels secured his third world title among amateurs.

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	Pierre Sels	12: 0	13.55	15.38	81
2	Henri Maréchal	10: 2	9.72	13.33	76
3	? Edmond	6: 6	9.88	13.79	89
4th	Raymond de Drée	6: 6	9.16	13.33	63
5	Rudolphe Agassiz	4: 8	13.37	23.52	130
6th	Leon Rudelsheim	4: 8	10.02	13.33	72
7th	Arthur François	0:12	9.00	-	57
Tournament average: 10.53

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 8th year, no. 8 . Cologne December 1928, p. 183 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 178 .