World Snooker Championship 1939

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World Snooker Championship 1939
Tournament dates
Tournament format: Knockout
Playing time: 1938/39
Association: BACC
Tournament details
Attendees: 15th
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
Winner: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
2nd finalist: EnglandEngland Sidney Smith
Final venue: Thurston's Hall , London , EnglandEnglandEngland 
Prize money: -
Frames in the final: Best of 73
Records
Highest Break: 113 ( Fred Davis ) EnglandEngland
← 1938 1940 →

The 1939 World Snooker Championship was a tournament that was held for the seventh time at Thurston's Hall in London , England . It remained the venue until the war-related break in games from 1941.

In the final there was a new edition of the previous year's final. Once again stood Sidney Smith and Joe Davis over. Davis won the final 37:24 and thus secured the thirteenth consecutive world championship title. His brother Fred scored the highest break with 113 points, but was eliminated in the semifinals with 14:17 against his brother.

For the second time, after 1933 , the Scot Walter Donaldson took part in the tournament again. It was not until 1982 that there was another Scottish World Cup participant in Jim Donnelly . Also for the second time, after 1936 , Stanley Newman , the younger brother of Tom Newman, was there, but lost his first game in the qualification with 12:19 against HW Laws.

The finalist from 1936 , world champion from 1952 and only Australian participant Horace Lindrum , was eliminated in his first round game with 14:17 against the Englishman Alec Brown .

Main round

  Round 1
Best of 31 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 31 frames 		Semi-final
best of 31 frames 		Final
Best of 73 frames
      
          EnglandEngland Joe Davis 19th  
          EnglandEngland Willie Smith 12  
            EnglandEngland Joe Davis 17th  
 EnglandEngland Fred Davis 19th        EnglandEngland Fred Davis 14th  
 Canada 1921Canada Conrad Stanbury 12      EnglandEngland Fred Davis 20th  
 EnglandEngland Tom Newman 19th      EnglandEngland Tom Newman 11  
 EnglandEngland Alec man 12        EnglandEngland Joe Davis 43
 EnglandEngland Sidney Smith 21st        EnglandEngland Sidney Smith 30th
 EnglandEngland Sydney Lee 10      EnglandEngland Sidney Smith 16  
 EnglandEngland Claude Falkiner 10      ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson 15th  
 ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson 21st        EnglandEngland Sidney Smith 20th  
            EnglandEngland Alec Brown 11  
          EnglandEngland Alec Brown 17th       
          AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum 14th       
      

qualification

  Round 1
Best of 31 frames 		Round 2
Best of 31 frames
             
 ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson 18th      
 EnglandEngland Herbert Holt 13  
   ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson 18th
   unknownunknown HW Laws 13
 unknownunknown HW Laws 19th  
 EnglandEngland Stanley Newman 12  

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c World Championship 1939 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Queryed on May 15, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  3. ^ A b Ashok Kumar: Snooker and Billiards . Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 9788171414758 , p. 13. - [1] . Retrieved May 16, 2012
  4. ↑ Ashok Kumar: Snooker and Billiards . Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 9788171414758 , p. 10. - [2] . Retrieved April 26, 2012