Daily Mail Gold Cup

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Daily Mail Gold Cup
Logo Daily Mail 1.svg
Tournament status
Ranking tournament: -
Minor ranking tournament: -
Invitation tournament: 1936-1940
Tournament dates of the last edition
Venue: ?, EnglandEnglandEngland 
Prize money (total): ?
Prize money (winner): ?
Frames in the final: Best of {{{Best of ...}}}
Records
Most wins: EnglandEngland Joe Davis (2 ×) Alec Brown  (2 ×)
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Highest Break: 138 Joe Davis 1938
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Venue (s) on the map

The Daily Mail Gold Cup , a premium snooker tournament, was played from 1936-1940. At the time it was largely the same rank as the World Snooker Championship . Before 1936 the Gold Cup was an English Billiards tournament.

history

The tournament was sponsored by the English newspaper Daily Mail . There was no prize money, instead there was the “Gold Cup” and prizes for goods.

The tournament was played in the so-called round robin or round- robin format over a period of fifteen weeks. A handicap system was used in all tournaments . All participants received a 45-point lead per frame over leading player Joe Davis . That made an impact. Davis won the first two tournaments. But then he had to bow to the enormous point advantage in the two following tournaments. Alec Brown then won both .

The tournament series was suspended with the outbreak of the Second World War and was not reissued after its end.

winner

season winner Second
Daily Mail Gold Cup - English Billiards
1935 EnglandEngland Tom Newman
1936 EnglandEngland Melbourne Inman
Daily Mail Gold Cup - Snooker
1936 EnglandEngland Joe Davis AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum
1937 EnglandEngland Joe Davis EnglandEngland Willie Smith
1938 EnglandEngland Alec Brown EnglandEngland Sidney Smith
1939 EnglandEngland Alec Brown EnglandEngland Sydney Lee

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ashok Kumar: Snooker and Billiards . Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 9788171414758 , pp. 10-12. - [1] . Retrieved April 26, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Tournament Archive ( Memento from February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Chris Turner's Snooker Archive . Retrieved April 18, 2012
  3. ↑ Billiards handicap won by Newman (English) , The Courier-Mail . March 18, 1935. Retrieved October 17, 2012. 
  4. ^ Inman win "Daily Mail" Gold Cup (English) , The Courier-Mail . March 23, 1936. Retrieved October 17, 2012. 
  5. ↑ Snooker Gold Cup won by Davis (English) , Morning Bulletin. December 21, 1936. Retrieved October 17, 2012. 
  6. ↑ Tribute to Horace Lindrum's prowess (English) , The Mercury. December 22, 1936. Retrieved October 17, 2012.