German three-cushion championship 1953
21st German three-cushion championship 1953 |
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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): | 8 | Franz Matuszewski
Venue on the map | |
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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! "
mode
It played "everyone against everyone" ( round-robin mode ) to 50 points with a push . Third place was not played out.
Closing table
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Karlheinz Krienen: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . Cologne May 1953, p. 7-8 .
- ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 936 .