European Free Game Championship 1961

11th Free Game European Championship 1961
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	European Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Casino Estoril, Estoril
Opening:	May 2, 1961
Endgame:	May 5, 1961
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	Joseph Vervest
Winner:	Henk Scholte
2nd finalist:	Joseph Vervest
3rd place:	Siegfried Spielmann
Prize money:	European amateur championship
Records
Best GD:	125.04 Joseph Vervest
Best ED:	500.00 Henk Scholte Joseph Vervest Salvador Orti Vélez Antoine Schrauwen 000000 000000 000000
Maximum series (HS):	001486 Joseph Vervest
Venue on the map
Estoril
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The Free Game European Championship in 1961 was the 11th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from May 2nd to 5th, 1961 in Estoril . It was the second European Free Game Championship in Portugal.

history

After a defeat in the second round against Fritz Vesely from Vienna, Henk Scholte from Eindhoven ended the tournament without further defeat. The title was in jeopardy, however, as the best player of the tournament had ended the game in the last game against Scholte and Scholte needed a draw in the follow-up to become European champion. He did that with nerves and after Kees de Ruijter , who won the title in 1950, he was the second Dutchman to secure the European title in the free game. Siegfried Spielmann from Düsseldorf landed again in third place . It was his fourth medal at the European Championships in this discipline.

mode

The game was played in a final round "everyone against everyone" up to 500 points. Extended series were counted.

1. MP = match points
2. GD = general average
3. HS = maximum series

Closing table

Closing table space Surname MP Pts Recording GD BED HS 1 Henk Scholte 11: 3 3327 37 89.91 500.00 965 2 Joseph Vervest 10: 4 3001 24 125.04 500.00 1486 3 Siegfried Spielmann 9: 5 2548 45 56.62 166.66 481 4th Jorge Pinto 8: 6 2598 43 60.41 166.66 442 5 Salvador Orti Velez 7: 7 2350 26th 90.38 500.00 956 6th Antoine Schrauwen 7: 7 2403 33 72.81 500.00 977 7th Fritz Vesely 4:10 1810 48 37.70 71.42 484 8th Jean Raval 0:14 422 36 11.72 - 78 Tournament average : 63.21 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. ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . 39th year, no. 1 . Mönchengladbach July 1961, p. 3-5 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 37 .