Free game world championship 1934

7th Free Game World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Café Freyung, Vienna
Opening:	May 24, 1934
Endgame:	May 28, 1934
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	Walter Joachim
Winner:	Jean Albert
2nd finalist:	Ernst Reicher
3rd place:	Juan Butrón
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	57.66 Ernst Reicher0
Best ED:	500.00 Ernst Reicher0
Maximum series (HS):	877 Ernst Reicher0000
Venue on the map
Vienna Venue
← 1933	1935 →

The free game world championship in 1934 was the seventh UIFAB world championship in the free game. The tournament took place from May 24th to 28th in Vienna , Austria.

history

The young German Walter Joachim could not take part in this world championship as defending champion. The reason was a decree from the Reichssportführer in Germany: for our representatives who are in prospect for the World Cup in the Free Game in Vienna, Messrs. Joachim (Berlin), who is the defending champion, and Lütgehetmann (Mainz) cannot participate because according to the Reichssportführer's decree In view of the current political situation, any sporting relationship with Austria must be refrained from for the time being. (German Billard Newspaper)

The World Championship in Vienna was played with a tie for the first time. Before that, there was no follow-up at the end of the game. After seven games, two players had won six games each. According to the rules of the time, when the title was awarded, if there was a tie, the average was not what counted, but the title was decided by a tie-off game. That was very unfortunate for the Austrian Ernst Reicher , playing in his father's venue, as he had achieved all the best performances of the tournament by then. In doing so, he had equalized two world records. In the playoff game, Frenchman Jean Albert showed his best performance in the tournament and ended the game in one shot. Reicher had only scored 16 points and was only second. Before the game, Albert only played the fourth best general average (GD) of all participants, but in the end he became a deserved world champion. For the first time, the tournament average at a world championship was over 40 average per recording. Since extended series were evaluated for the first time in the official end tables of UIFAB, the highest series (HS) record increased to 877 . Prepared by Ernst Reicher.

Tournament mode

The whole tournament was played in round robin mode. In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:

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

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	Jean Albert	12	3000	63	47.61	250.00	343
2	Ernst Reicher	12	3114	54	57.66	500.00	877
3	Juan Butrón	10	2941	54	54.46	250.00	499
4th	Alfredo Ferraz	8th	2420	60	40.33	166.66	470
5	Jacques Davin	6th	2454	48	51.12	166.66	459
6th	Pierre Fauconnier	6th	2274	75	30.32	55.55	226
7th	Leo Dekner	2	1287	57	22.57	38.46	318
8th	Jan Sweering	0	1584	73	21.69	---	158
Tournament average: 39.40 (without the trick game)
-	Stitch game
-	Jean Albert	2-0	500	1	500.00	500.00	500
-	Ernst Reicher	0: 2	16	1	16.00	---	16
-	after stitch game
1	Jean Albert	14: 2	3500	64	54.68	500.00	843
2	Ernst Reicher	12: 4	3130	55	56.90	500.00	500
Tournament average: 40.30 (with trick play)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 14th year, no. 8 . Cologne August 1934, p. 64 .
2. ^ Robert Court: German Billard Newspaper . 14th year, no. 6 . Cologne June 1934, p. 33 .
3. ↑ Dipl. Ing. Ernst Reicher. 1968 for the 60th birthday in the carom. BSK Union Vienna, archived from the original on February 16, 2005 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 .  
4. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 12 .