1938 World Snooker Championship

1938 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format:	Knockout
Playing time:	1937/38
Association:	BACC
Tournament details
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	Joe Davis
Winner:	Joe Davis
2nd finalist:	Sidney Smith
Final venue:	Thurston's Hall , London , England
Prize money:	-
Frames in the final:	Best of 73
Records
Highest Break:	104 ( Joe Davis )
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The 1938 World Snooker Championship was a tournament that was held for the sixth time at Thurston's Hall in London , England . This was to remain the venue until the war-related break from 1941.

For the first time in the history of this tournament, a qualifying round was played in which three players competed against each other. Joe Davis , who won the title for the twelfth time in a row, won the final against Sidney Smith 37:24. He was also the player with the highest break of 104 points.

After 1935 and 1936 , the Canadian Conrad Stanbury took part again in the tournament, which was dominated by English players, but was eliminated after his first game. For the first and only time, CW Read, a player of unknown origin, took part in the World Cup.

Main round

	Quarterfinals Best of 31 frames				Semi-final best of 31 frames				Final Best of 73 frames
	Joe Davis	24
	Sydney Lee	7th
					Joe Davis	24
					Willie Smith	7th
	Willie Smith	16
	Tom Newman	15th
									Joe Davis	37
									Sidney Smith	24
	Alec Brown * 1	6th
	Fred Davis	14th
					Fred Davis	13
					Sidney Smith	18th
	Sidney Smith	27
	Conrad Stanbury	4th

Remarks

• * ¹ Brown dropped out due to illness.

qualification

	Round 1 Best of 31 frames				Round 2 Best of 31 frames
					RD2-game1-date
					Fred Davis	23
					Herbert Holt	8th
	Herbert Holt	21st
	CW Read	10

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 c} World Championship 1938 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Queryed on May 9, 2012