Joe Davis (pool player)
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| birthday | April 15, 1901 |
| place of birth | Whithwell , Derbyshire |
| date of death | 10th July 1978 (age 77) |
| Place of death | Hampshire |
| nationality |
 England
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| Active time | 1927-1964 |
| Success in snooker | |
| World Championship | 15 × winners (1927–1940, 1946) |
| Highest break | 147 (1955) |
| Century Breaks | 687 |
| Success in English Billiards | |
| World Championship | 4 × winner (1928–1930, 1932) 4 × finalist (1926–27, 1933–34) |
| Highest series | 2002 |
Joe Davis OBE (born April 15, 1901 in Whithwell , Derbyshire , † July 10, 1978 in Hampshire ) was an English billiard player . He had been a billiards professional since 1919 and soon afterwards played snooker in particular .
Career
Davis's parents owned a hotel called the Queens Hotel on Whittington Moor, about two miles north of Chesterfield . There was an English billiards table there, which Davis started playing at when he was 11. At the age of 12 he was already playing a series of 100 and at 13 he was already winning the local “Amateur Billiards Championship”. This laid the foundation for his extraordinary career.
In 1927 he organized the first snooker world championship and won it with a win of 20:11 frames against Tom Dennis . The prize money was 6.10 pounds sterling . Davis won every world championship thereafter until he retired from that tournament in 1946. He holds the record with 15 titles won. In the years 1928–1930 and 1932 he was even double world champion, in fact he was able to achieve four titles in English Billiards during these years . Despite his retirement from the World Cup, Davis continued to play professional snooker until 1964. When he last won the World Cup on May 19, 1946, he was the oldest (45 years, 34 days) title winner to date, a record that was only set 32 years later, on April 29, 1978, by the Welshman Ray Reardon (45 years old , 203 days) was broken. This is still valid today.
Davis played his first Century Break in 1928, by 1953 he had already played 500 of them. He set a new record five times, partly it was his own, in 1937 with 137 points, in 1938 (138), 1947 (140), 1950 (146) and finally on January 22, 1955 the first maximum break (147). In 1935, Davis also scored the first Century played at a world championship. During his career he played a total of 687 century breaks. In addition to his success in snooker, he was World Professional Billards Champion from 1928 to 1938 .
On October 26, 1959, Joe Davis introduced Snooker Plus , an extension of ordinary snooker. He hoped for a more exciting game with two additional colored balls. However, this expansion never caught on.
Private
In his parents' “Queens Hotel” his father ran a silent film cinema in the club room and his sister played the piano.
Joe's brother, Fred Davis , who was twelve years his junior, was also a successful snooker player and eight-time world snooker champion. Neither of them are related to Steve Davis .
As he watched his brother Fred in the semi-finals of the 1978 World Cup, Davis suffered a collapse , as a result of which he died two months later on July 10, 1978.
Davis had been married since 1945 to June Davis (née Malo, July 23, 1910), a former singer who died in 2008 on her 98th birthday. She had been celebrating her birthday with friends when she returned home early that evening, took a call from her friend Ted Lowe and fell asleep half an hour later.
Awards
In 1963, Davis was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II .
In 2011, Davis became the first player to be inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame .
Works
- How I Play Snooker . Country Life, London 1949. New edition: Star Books, London 1975, ISBN 0-352-30057-4 .
- Advanced snooker . Country Life, London 1954.
- Complete snooker . Country Life, London 1967. New edition: WH Allen, London and New York 1974, ISBN 0-491-01521-6 .
Web links
- Joe Davis First TV Century 1962 Video (6:49 minutes b / w) on YouTube. Retrieved April 22, 2012
- Photo by Joe & June Davis with Walter Donaldson on normanclare.co.uk. Retrieved April 16, 2012
- Our new Billiards Champion 1928 Video (0:29 minutes, silent, b / w) on British Pathé . Retrieved April 16, 2012
- Snooker Battle Of The Brothers (1940) Video (1:00 minutes, b / w) on British Pathé . Retrieved April 16, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d player profile ( Memento from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Chris Turner's Snooker Archive . Retrieved April 24, 2012
- ↑ a b Funny Old Game: Clash of the Titans on news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 21, 2019
- ↑ Davis's Break of 2002 (English) , The Courier-Mail . February 14, 1935. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ↑ a b Joe Davis - His Story Interview with Joe Davis. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ↑ World Snooker Title Message in "The Advertiser" of May 20, 1946. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ↑ Davis wins marathon final on ESPN -online. Retrieved May 23, 2012
- ↑ Calendar of events in the history of English Billiards and Snooker (January) on Snookergames.co.uk. Retrieved May 23, 2012
- ^ The 147 Club ( January 19, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 22, 2012
- ↑ Snooker Plus Newspaper Article in The Glasgow Herald, October 27, 1956. Retrieved April 17, 2012
- ↑ Announcement about the passing of June Davis on July 23, 2008 ( memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on SupremeSnooker.com. Retrieved May 27, 2012
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| SURNAME | Davis, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English pool player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whithwell , Derbyshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1978 |
| Place of death | Hampshire |