1928 World Snooker Championship

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1928 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format: challenger
Playing time: 1927/28
Association: BACC
Tournament details
Attendees: 6 + 1
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
Winner: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
2nd finalist: EnglandEngland Fred Lawrence
Final venue: Camkins Hall , Birmingham , England
Prize money: -
Frames in the final: Best of 31
Records
Highest Break: 46 ( Alec Mann ) EnglandEngland
← 1927 1929 →

The 1928 World Snooker Championship took place at various venues during the season. The final was played in May 1928 at Camkins Hall in Birmingham , England .

There were only 6 participants who all accepted the challenge to play against Joe Davis in the final, Davis did not play in the pre-finals. He was able to defend his title from last year for the first time.

The identity of the first round participant F. Smith is unclear. The Global Snooker Center gives the name Frank Smith , for whom, among other things, a 97 break played in Sydney has been handed down, which is why it is likely that he is also of Australian identity. The database CueTracker also mentions this name, but he is listed there as an Englishman who took part in the Australian Professional Championship in 1911 and reached the final there. However, the entry overlaps with an English professional player of English nationality from the 1990s, which is why the correctness of the nationality is unclear. The English-language Wikipedia , on the other hand, names an Englishman Fred Smith as a participant and confirms this with a newspaper article by the Leamington Spa Courier accessible via the British Newspaper Archive . If it were the Australian Frank Smith, he would have been the first participant from outside the UK.

Main round

Round 1
Best of 23 frames 		Round 2
Best of 23 frames 		Final qualification
Best of 23 frames 		Final
Best of 31 frames
                           
     
 EnglandEngland Alec man  14th    
 EnglandEngland Albert Cope  9  
 EnglandEngland Alec man  11    
     EnglandEngland Fred Lawrence  12  
 EnglandEngland Tom Newman  12
 ~~Nothing F. Smith  6th  
 EnglandEngland Fred Lawrence  12    
     EnglandEngland Tom Newman  7th  
 EnglandEngland Tom Dennis  5
 EnglandEngland Tom Newman  12  
 EnglandEngland Fred Lawrence  13
   
 EnglandEngland Joe Davis  16
   
   

Highest breaks

The highest break of the tournament was a 46 break by Alec Mann, who played a second break with a 43 break. The other two 40s breaks were accounted for by Joe Davis.

EnglandEngland Alec man 46, 43
EnglandEngland Joe Davis 44, 40

Web links

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. ^ Embassy World Championship. (No longer available online.) Snooker Scene , 2011, archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; accessed on May 31, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Archive on Global Snooker ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Ashok Kumar: DPH Sports Series: Snooker and Billiards . Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 978-81-7141-475-8 , pp. 6th f . ( Online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Frank Smith - Season 1927–1928 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Frank Smith - Season 1911–1912 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  7. ^ Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Frank Smith - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  8. ^ Professional Snooker Championship - Contest at Leamington . In: Leamington Spa Courier . December 30, 1927, p.  ? ( Online at the British Newspaper Archive ).