World Snooker Championship 1927

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World Snooker Championship 1927
Tournament dates
Tournament format: Knockout
Playing time: 1926/27
Association: BACC
Tournament details
Attendees: 10
Defending champion: -
Winner: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
2nd finalist: EnglandEngland 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 )EnglandEngland
  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
                           
     
   
 EnglandEngland Tom Dennis  8th    
 EnglandEngland Fred Lawrence  7th  
 EnglandEngland Tom Dennis  12    
     Wales 1807Wales Tom Carpenter  10  
 Wales 1807Wales Tom Carpenter  8th    
 EnglandEngland Nat Butler  3  
 Wales 1807Wales Tom Carpenter  8th
     EnglandEngland Melbourne Inman  3  
 EnglandEngland Melbourne Inman  8th
 EnglandEngland Tom Newman  5  
 EnglandEngland Tom Dennis  11
   
     EnglandEngland Joe Davis  20th
   
 EnglandEngland Albert Cope  8th    
 EnglandEngland Alec man  6th  
 EnglandEngland Albert Cope  7th
     EnglandEngland Joe Davis  16  
 IrelandIreland Joe Brady  5
 EnglandEngland Joe Davis  10  

Highest breaks

EnglandEngland Albert Cope 60

EnglandEngland Joe Davis 57, 46, 45, 41

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Calendar of events in the history of English Billiards and Snooker (May 9-12 , 1927) on Snookergames.co.uk. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  4. ^ Calendar of events in the history of English Billiards and Snooker (November 29, 1926) on Snookergames.co.uk. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  5. ^ John Thurston ( August 13, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ) on NormanClare.co.uk. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  6. ^ Global Snooker Archive WM 1927 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 4, 2012.