1928 World Snooker Championship
1928 World Snooker Championship | |
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Tournament dates | |
Tournament format: | challenger |
Playing time: | 1927/28 |
Association: | BACC |
Tournament details | |
Attendees: | 6 + 1 |
Defending champion: | Joe Davis |
Winner: | Joe Davis |
2nd finalist: | Fred Lawrence |
Final venue: | Camkins Hall , Birmingham , England |
Prize money: | - |
Frames in the final: | Best of 31 |
Records | |
Highest Break: | 46 ( Alec Mann ) |
← 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 |
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Alec man | 14th | |||||||||||||
Albert Cope | 9 | |||||||||||||
Alec man | 11 | |||||||||||||
Fred Lawrence | 12 | |||||||||||||
Tom Newman | 12 | |||||||||||||
F. Smith | 6th | |||||||||||||
Fred Lawrence | 12 | |||||||||||||
Tom Newman | 7th | |||||||||||||
Tom Dennis | 5 | |||||||||||||
Tom Newman | 12 | |||||||||||||
Fred Lawrence | 13 | |||||||||||||
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.
Alec man | 46, 43 |
Joe Davis | 44, 40 |
Web links
- Tournament overview at CueTracker
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
- ^ Embassy World Championship. (No longer available online.) Snooker Scene , 2011, archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; accessed on May 31, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b Archive on Global Snooker ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 4, 2012
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ Ron Florax: Frank Smith - Season 1927–1928 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: Frank Smith - Season 1911–1912 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Frank Smith - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Professional Snooker Championship - Contest at Leamington . In: Leamington Spa Courier . December 30, 1927, p. ? ( Online at the British Newspaper Archive ).