Three-cushion world championship 1928

1st three-cushion world championship 1928
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Café St-Denis, Reims
Opening:	May 6, 1928
Endgame:	May 9, 1928
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	-
Winner:	Edmond Soussa
2nd finalist:	Carel Koopman
3rd place:	Otto Unshelm
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	0.552 Edmond Soussa
Best ED:	0.746 Emile Zaman
Maximum series (HS):	009 Edmond Soussa00
Venue on the map
Reims
	1929 →

The three-cushion world championship in 1928 was the first tournament in this discipline of carom and took place from 6 to 9 May 1928 in Reims .

history

Before this tournament, only world championships in the Cadre-47/2-WM and Cadre-47/1-WM were held.

The superior winner was Edmond Soussa from Egypt , ahead of Carel Koopman from the Netherlands. The only German participant was Otto Unshelm , who took third place. Soussa won his second world championship within four weeks. In April he won the Free Game World Cup in Basel / CH .

mode

“Everyone against everyone” was played with 50 points.

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	Edmond Soussa	14: 0	350	634	0.552	0.602	9
2	Carel Koopman	10: 4	333	675	0.493	0.632	8th
3	Otto Unshelm	10: 4	331	676	0.489	0.609	5
4th	Jacques Davin	8: 6	323	627	0.515	0.625	5
5	Emile Zaman	8: 6	307	626	0.490	0.746	5
6th	Elmar Sidney Prather	4:10	296	710	0.416	0.480	5
7th	G. Braid	2:12	251	676	0.371	0.480	4th
8th	FF Prats	0:14	272	719	0.378	---	5
Tournament average : 0.460

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 8th year, no. 2 . Cologne June 1928, p. 34-35 .