German three-cushion championship 1953

21st German three-cushion championship 1953
The winner: August Tiedtke
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	DBB
Tournament details
Venue:	Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle, Mönchengladbach
Opening:	April 8, 1953
Endgame:	April 12, 1953
Attendees:	11
Defending champion:	August Tiedtke
Winner:	August Tiedtke
2nd finalist:	Ernst Rudolph
3rd place:	Siegfried Spielmann
Prize money:	Amateur tournament
Records
Best GD:	0.860 August Tiedtke
Best ED:	1.136 August Tiedtke
Maximum series (HS):	8000 Franz Matuszewski
Venue on the map
Mönchengladbach
← 1952	1954 →

The German Three Cushion Championship 1953 (DDM) was the 21st edition of this tournament series and took place from April 8th to 12th in Mönchengladbach , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

For the first time, the number of participants rose to eleven players. Safely won August Tiedtke his 23rd German title, it was the twelfth in the DDM. For the fourth time he played the best individual average (BED) of 1.136 (1947, 1950, 1952), but was still a long way from his tournament record of 1.315 set in 1941.

The last-placed Franz Matuszewski from Berlin was able to take home the Michael-Bohnen challenge cup donated by Gerd Thielens, a bronze figure in female form made according to the Italian model, for the best high series (HS) of 8. This did not arrive with him in Berlin, however, as the Soviet border guards apparently took a liking to him and drafted him. And so Matuszewski had to continue to Berlin without him. It is unclear whether the Cup Matuszewski would later reach.

The oldest participant was Paul Maassen from Mönchengladbach at the age of 68. He showed a rather unusually good sense of proportion for his age, without glasses.

Karlheinz Krienen, president of the DBB since 1952, editor-in-chief of the "Deutsche-Billardzeitung" and a participant himself wrote the following in the association's own organ about the future of plastic balls and the return of ivory balls:

“As a résumé I have to state that if we want to bring out a second strong three-cushion player in addition to Tiedtke sooner or later, we have to move on to the ivory ball. The German art ball is otherwise so excellent that I personally consider it to be ideal for playing all other championships. The three-cushion, articulated and perhaps also one-cushion championships must be excluded. ...

As long as we hold our three-cushion tournaments with artificial balls, our players will never be able to approach the European standard in three-cushion play. A Tiedtke very often plays with ivory and can therefore never fail at an international championship. Rudolph, Spielmann and the others would get complexes if they saw the foreigners play designs with the greatest possible ease, which simply cannot be played with artificial balls. ...

So in the next year for the first time after the war with ivory balls! "

- Karlheinz Krienen : Deutsche Billard-Zeitung, May 1952

mode

It played "everyone against everyone" ( round-robin mode ) to 50 points with a push . Third place was not played out.

Closing table

Final ranking space Surname MP GD BED HS 1 August Tiedtke 20: 0 0.806 1.136 7th 2 Ernst Rudolph 16: 4 0.627 0.909 7th 3 Siegfried Spielmann 14: 6 0.559 0.694 6th 4th Willi Schmitz 12: 8 0.521 0.714 6th 5 Josef Janzen 12: 8 0.427 0.549 6th 6th Gerd Thielens 10:10 0.469 0.561 7th 7th Paul Maassen 10:10 0.454 0.588 5 8th Gert Tiedtke 8:12 0.490 0.574 6th 9 Karlheinz Krienen 4:16 0.404 0.416 7th 10 Werner Klerx 2:18 0.417 0.427 4th 11 Franz Matuszewski 2:18 0.400 0.568 8th

Legend Abbr. meaning Pt. points scored Recording required recordings ED Single average GD General average VGD Relative general average BMD Best team average BED Best individual average BSD Best sentence average BEVD Best Individual Relative Average HS Maximum series MP Match points PP Lot of points GUV G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren SV Sentence ratio 1st place (gold) 2nd place (silver) 3rd place (bronze) Best GD of the tournament / round Best VGD of the tournament / round Best ED of the tournament / round Best BVGD of the tournament / round Best HS of the tournament / round (It is possible that not all terms are used or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Karlheinz Krienen: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . Cologne May 1953, p. 7-8 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 936 .