Sidney Smith (snooker player)

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Sidney Smith
birthday March 26, 1908
place of birth Killamarsh
date of death 1990
nationality EnglandEngland England
Active time 1930s – 1950s
Success in snooker
World Championship 2 × finalist (1938, 1939)
4 × semi-finalist
(1937, 1940, 1947, 1949)
1 × quarter-finalist (1948)
Highest break 136 (1939)
Success in English Billiards
Highest series 1,292

Sidney Smith (born March 26, 1908 in Killamarsh , Derbyshire , England , † 1990 ) was an English snooker and English billiards player.

Personal

Sidney Smith began to make a name for himself as a professional gamer in his late teens, when he was already living in Doncaster . With the Yorkshire Professionals he had already won both titles, in English Billiards and Snooker . He then achieved national fame by winning the Junior Professional Championship in 1929. This tournament was open to all players under the age of 24 who had not yet participated in the Professional Championship . In 1931, Harry Young , a reporter for The Evening News , wrote that Smith was among the top five English players, behind Joe Davis , Tom Newman , Willie Smith and Claude Falkiner .

He died in 1990 at the age of 82.

Career

snooker

Smith, the first player was on a snooker tournament CenturyBreak managed by 136, which was with the Daily Mail Gold Cup in 1939. Before that he had already, on 11 December 1936 a new world record of 133 points in the Thurston's Snooker Handicap 'Championship set . He was a finalist in the Daily Mail Gold Cup in 1939 and 1940. His greatest achievements include finishing second behind Joe Davis in 1938, 1939, and beating Albert Brown in the 1952 News of the World Championship .

Smith made it to the finals twice at the World Snooker Championship , in 1938 when he beat Joe Davis' brother Fred at 18:13, and in 1939 . He was also a semi-finalist four times in 1937 , 1940 , 1947 and 1949 .

English billiards

During the 1930s Smith toured extensively with his namesake Willi Smith, both of whom were under contract with the well-known table and cue manufacturer Burroughes & Watts .

His achievements include a 939 break that Smith played in 52 minutes and a 2-hour average of 296 points in a game against Willi Smith in February 1932 in Newcastle. Later he managed three more 1,000 breaks: 1,023, 1,090 and 1,292, which was his personal record.

In 1948 Smith won the UK Professional Billiards Championship by beating John Barrie 7,000: 6,428 in the final.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sidney Smith - Death Report on EABAonline. Retrieved April 16, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e The Cue Collector (PDF; 123 kB) by Andy Hunter. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Tournament Archive ( Memento from February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Chris Turner's Snooker Archive . Retrieved April 18, 2012
  4. ↑ Tournament archive 1938 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 18, 2012
  5. ↑ Tournament archive 1939 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 18, 2012
  6. ↑ Tournament archive 1937 ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 18, 2012
  7. ↑ Tournament archive 1940 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 18, 2012
  8. ↑ Tournament archive 1947 ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 18, 2012
  9. ↑ Tournament archive 1949 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Sidney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English pool and snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Killamarsh , Derbyshire , England
DATE OF DEATH 1990