1936 World Snooker Championship

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1936 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format: Knockout
Playing time: 1935/36
Association: BACC
Tournament details
Attendees: 12
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
Winner: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
2nd finalist: AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum
Final venue: Thurston's Hall , London , EnglandEnglandEngland 
Prize money: -
Frames in the final: Best of 67
Records
Highest Break: 101 ( Horace Lindrum ) AustraliaAustralia
← 1935 1937 →

The 1936 World Snooker Championship was a tournament that was held at Thurston's Hall in London , England .

The winner, for the tenth time in a row, was Joe Davis . The highest break was achieved by Horace Lindrum with 101 points in the semifinals against Stanley Newman , the younger brother of Tom Newman . It is not documented why Stanley was only able to enter this tournament in the semifinals.

Main round

Round 1
Best of 31 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 31 frames 		Semi-final
best of 31 frames 		Final
Best of 67 frames
                           
     
 EnglandEngland Joe Davis  29    
 EnglandEngland Tom Newman  2  
 EnglandEngland Joe Davis  22nd    
     EnglandEngland Willie Smith  9  
 EnglandEngland Willie Smith  16
 EnglandEngland Sidney Smith  1  
 EnglandEngland Joe Davis  21st    
     EnglandEngland Alec Brown  10  
  Canada 1921Canada Conrad Stanbury  22nd    
 EnglandEngland Alec man  9  
 Canada 1921Canada Conrad Stanbury  15th
 EnglandEngland Alec Brown  16  
 EnglandEngland Joe Davis  34
   
     AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum  27
   
   
 EnglandEngland Stanley Newman  2
     AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum  29  
 AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum  20th    
 EnglandEngland Paul Terry  11  
 AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum  19th
      Canada 1921Canada Clare O'Donnell * 1  6th  
 Canada 1921Canada Clare O'Donnell  16
 EnglandEngland Sydney Lee  15th  
Remarks
  • * 1 Clare O'Donnell did not show up for the last session.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b High Break ( Memento December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Retrieved April 15, 2012
  2. ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
  3. ^ A b Ashok Kumar: Snooker and Billiards . Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 9788171414758 , p. 10. - [1] . Retrieved April 26, 2012
  4. ^ World Championship 1936 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Queryed on April 14, 2012
  5. ↑ World Championship 1936 ( Memento of 29 December 2015, Internet Archive ) on bgsnooker.com. Retrieved April 15, 2012