FSFAB World Championships in Cadre 35/2 and 45/2

FSFAB World Championships in Cadre 35/2 and 45/2
FSFAB magazine title from 1912
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	unofficial world championship
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Association / host:	FSFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Paris New York
Playing time:	1904-1913
Records
Most wins: 5th
Lucien Rérolle
Best GD: 23.72
Alfred Mortier 1913, Paris
Best ED: 40.00
Alfred Mortier 1912, 1913, Paris
Maximum series (HS): 190
Alfred Mortier 1913, Paris

Lucien Rérolle, most successful player with five titles

The World Championship Cadre 35/2 and 45/2 in 1903 by the French Karambolageverband Fédération des Sociétés Françaises des Amateurs de Billard called (FSFAB) into being and was played from 1904 to 1913. In retrospect, the world championships were only rated as “unofficial”, as the parallel association Fédération Française de Billard (FFB) owned the rights to the name “Championate du Monde” (world championship) at the time.

history

The FSFAB, founded in 1903, had the first two world championships held in cadre 35/2 on match billiards. This was still common at the time. It was not until 1906 that they played Cadre 45/2, like the FFB. Since the FSFAB was in cooperation with the US National Association of Amateur Billiard Players (NAABP), three of the thirteen world championships were played in New York. If you consider the time in which it was not yet possible to fly across the Atlantic, but had to undertake a day-long voyage by ship, a quite remarkable achievement and effort for the amateur players, for whom the stock market was by far not as high as the professionals. From this point of view, the FSFAB was closer to a world association than the FFB.

The most victorious player was the French Lucien Rérolle with five gold medals. The tournament records go to his compatriot Alfred Mortier.

mode

The game distance was consistently 400 points. It was played in the round robin / knockout system , mostly it still had trick games to play off the placement. In 1908 there was a challenge tournament based on the American model. The runner-up had the right to challenge the last winner in an individual tournament within six months of the end of the tournament. The game was played in three sections to 400 points with the goal of 1,200 points.

Tournament statistics

The GD indicates the general average of the respective player during the tournament. With the age of the tournament, not all information could be determined.

No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	place 3	GD
01	1904	Paris	Lucien Rérolle	15.30	Charles Darantière	09.16	Henri Blanc	08.54
02	1905	Paris	Lucien Rérolle	15.52	Charles Darantière	10.70	P. Letellier	09.57
03	1906	Paris	Lucien Rérolle	13.79	Henri Blanc	11.62	Charles Darantière	10.41
04th	1907	Paris	Lucien Rérolle	20.40	Charles Darantière	?	Arthur François	?
05	1908/1	Paris	Alfred Mortier	16.26	Lucien Rérolle	14.02	Henri Blanc	11.79
06th	1908/2	new York	Calvin Demarest	20.00	Lucien Rérolle	13.43	Charles Frederick Conklin	10.00
07th	1909	Paris	Lucien Rérolle	16.44	Alfred Mortier	13.83	Albert Poensgen	10.36
08th	1910	Paris	Edouard Roudil	13.10	Albert Poensgen	11.83	Alfred Mortier	11.46
09	1911/1	new York	Charles Frederick Conklin	12.28	J. Ferdinand Poggenburg	10.11	Edward Garner	10.07
10	1911/2	Paris	Alfred Mortier	12.38	Albert Poensgen	12.74	Charles Darantière	12.08
11	1912/1	new York	J. Ferdinand Roggenburg	11.97	Charles Frederick Conklin	10.59	Joseph Mayer	9.18
12	1912/2	Paris	Alfred Mortier	17.33	Henri Blanc	12.54	Albert Poensgen	12.08
13	1913	Paris	Alfred Mortier	23.72	Rudolphe Aggazis	11.57	Edouard Roudil	14.93

Swell:

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 149-151 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 163 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 164-172 .