World Snooker Championship 1927
World Snooker Championship 1927 | |
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Tournament dates | |
Tournament format: | Knockout |
Playing time: | 1926/27 |
Association: | BACC |
Tournament details | |
Attendees: | 10 |
Defending champion: | - |
Winner: | Joe Davis |
2nd finalist: | Tom Dennis |
Final venue: | Camkins Hall , Birmingham , England |
Prize money: | 6 £ 10 shillings |
Frames in the final: | Best of 31 |
Records | |
Highest Break: | 60 ( Albert Cope ) |
1928 → |
The 1927 World Snooker Championship took place between November 29, 1926 and May 12, 1927 at various venues. The final was played at Camkins Hall in Birmingham , England . The very first game of this, and a Snooker World Cup at all, was played between Melbourne Inman and Tom Newman from November 29 to December 6, 1926 at Thurston's Hall in Leicester Square , London.
At that time the organizer was the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC).
It is considered to be the first officially held world championship in the history of snooker. The world championship was organized by Bill Camkin and the eventual tournament winner Joe Davis . He was not to give up this title until 1946. The field of participants consisted of 10 players.
Prize money
Participation in the tournament cost each player 5 guineas . Half of this sum was offered as prize money, with the other half being used by the BACC to buy the trophy worth £ 19 . The winner received £ 6 and 10 shillings (and the trophy he had bought himself).
Main round
Round 1 Best of 15 frames |
Quarterfinals Best of 15 frames |
Semi-final best of 23 frames |
Final Best of 31 frames |
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Tom Dennis | 8th | |||||||||||||
Fred Lawrence | 7th | |||||||||||||
Tom Dennis | 12 | |||||||||||||
Tom Carpenter | 10 | |||||||||||||
Tom Carpenter | 8th | |||||||||||||
Nat Butler | 3 | |||||||||||||
Tom Carpenter | 8th | |||||||||||||
Melbourne Inman | 3 | |||||||||||||
Melbourne Inman | 8th | |||||||||||||
Tom Newman | 5 | |||||||||||||
Tom Dennis | 11 | |||||||||||||
Joe Davis | 20th | |||||||||||||
Albert Cope | 8th | |||||||||||||
Alec man | 6th | |||||||||||||
Albert Cope | 7th | |||||||||||||
Joe Davis | 16 | |||||||||||||
Joe Brady | 5 | |||||||||||||
Joe Davis | 10 | |||||||||||||
Highest breaks
Albert Cope 60
Joe Davis 57, 46, 45, 41
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b World Championship Breaks Board 1927-1931 ( Memento from May 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Archive on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 4, 2012
- ^ A brief history of the World Professional Championship ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ↑ Calendar of events in the history of English Billiards and Snooker (May 9-12 , 1927) on Snookergames.co.uk. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- ^ Calendar of events in the history of English Billiards and Snooker (November 29, 1926) on Snookergames.co.uk. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
- ^ John Thurston ( August 13, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ) on NormanClare.co.uk. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
- ^ Global Snooker Archive WM 1927 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 4, 2012.