Three-cushion world championship 1938

11th three-cushion world championship 1938
View into the play hall of the "Theater Maravillas"
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Maravillas Theater, Buenos Aires
Opening:	September 14, 1938
Endgame:	September 25, 1938
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	Alfred Lagache
Winner:	Augusto Vergez
2nd finalist:	Jean Francisco Vergez
3rd place:	Alfred Lagache
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	0.884 Augusto Vergez
Best ED:	1,162 Augusto Vergez August Tiedtke 00000
Maximum series (HS):	12 Alfred Lagache000
Venue on the map
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← 1937	1948 →

The three-cushion world championship in 1938 was the eleventh tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place in Buenos Aires from September 14 to 25, 1938 . It was the first three-cushion world championship in South America and the last before World War II . Thus, the planned World Cup 1939 in Strasbourg was canceled .

history

Argentina joined UIFAB in 1937 and hosted the World Cup in 1938. There were many good pool players in Argentina at that time. Thus, in Augusto Vergez , an Argentine also won the title with two new world records. He screwed the overall average (GD) to 0.884 and the individual average (BED) together with the German August Tiedtke to 1.162 . The tournament took place in a theater that had space for 2,000 spectators. The total number of viewers was put at 15,000.

mode

In a final round "everyone against everyone" was played with 50 points.

Final round

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
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	Augusto Vergez	18: 0	450	509	0.884	1.162	7th
2	Jean Francisco Vergez	14: 4	405	598	0.677	1.020	8th
3	Alfred Lagache	12: 6	419	562	0.745	1.136	12
4th	Carlos Friedenthal	10: 8	422	627	0.673	0,0,769	7th
5	Enrique Miró	10: 8	426	650	0.655	0.909	6th
6th	August Tiedtke	8:10	392	588	0.666	1.162	6th
7th	Emile Zaman	8:10	386	609	0.633	0.746	6th
8th	José Iglesiaz-Diaz	6:12	335	674	0.497	0.684	6th
9	Jacques Davin	2:16	347	556	0.624	0.909	9
10	Daniel Silva Correa	2:16	342	645	0.530	0.675	8th
Tournament average: 0.652

Web links

Commons : Three Cushion World Championship 1938  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Robert Court: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . 18th year, No. 12 . Wuppertal December 1938, p. 172-178 .