Cadre 45/2 World Championship 1938

31st Cadre 45/2 World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Billiards Palace de Anvers, Antwerp
Opening:	January 20, 1938
Endgame:	January 23, 1938
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	René Gabriëls
Winner:	René Gabriëls
2nd finalist:	Constant Cote
3rd place:	Théo Moons
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	45.90 René Gabriëls
Best ED:	100.00 René Gabriëls
Maximum series (HS):	00296 René Gabriëls
Venue on the map
Antwerp
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The Cadre 45/2 World Championship in 1938 was the 31st world championship, which was held in Cadre 45/2 until 1947 and from 1948 in Cadre 47/2. The tournament took place in Antwerp from February 20 to 23, 1938 . It was the third Cadre 45/2 World Championship in Antwerp after 1913 and 1930.

history

The Belgian René Gabriëls demonstrated his overwhelming playing strength at the time . He defended his world title unbeaten and improved all of his world records in Cadre 45/2. The general average over a tournament (GD) immediately improved from 35.59 to 45.90 . As the first amateur, he played a best individual average (BED) of 100.00 at a world championship . Until then, only professional players in the United States had achieved such performances. Here in Chicago in 1925 the American Jacob Schaefer junior played against Erich Hagenlocher the 400 points in just one recording, i.e. 400.00. Gabriëls also improved his top run from 1933 to 296 .

Tournament mode

It was played in the round robin system up to 400 points. In the event of a tie in MPs (except in the event of a tie for the winner), the following order will be used:

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	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	René Gabriëls	14: 0	2800	61	45.90	100.00	296
2	Constant Cote	12: 2	2573	94	27.37	80.00	193
3	Théo Moons	10: 4	2483	104	23.87	57.14	188
4th	Louis Chassereau	8: 6	2328	110	21.16	40.00	134
5	Jan Sweering	4:10	2168	113	19.18	22.22	145
6th	Walter Joachim	4:10	1802	122	14.77	22.22	135
7th	Piet de Leeuw	4:10	1657	119	13.92	21.05	119
8th	Heinrich Schwarzer	0:14	1183	137	8.63	-	61
Tournament average: 19.76

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 18th year, No. 3 . Wuppertal-Barmen March 1938, p. 48 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 193 .