1940 World Snooker Championship

1940 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format:	Knockout
Playing time:	1939/40
Association:	BACC
Tournament details
Attendees:	9
Defending champion:	Joe Davis
Winner:	Joe Davis
2nd finalist:	Fred Davis
Final venue:	Thurston's Hall , London , England
Prize money:	-
Frames in the final:	Best of 73
Records
Highest Break:	113 ( Joe Davis )
← 1939	1946 →

The 1940 World Snooker Championship took place for the eighth and final time at Thurston's Hall in London , England . Because of the Second World War, this was the last world championship until the end of the war. The next world championship was held in 1946.

For the first time, brothers Joe and Fred Davis faced each other in the final. Although the goal of the game of Best of 73 Frames with a score of 37:35 for Joe had already been reached, a "dead frame" was played to the final score of 37:36. Joe Davis played a century break in the decision frame and was also the player with the highest break of 113 points. With that he secured his fourteenth consecutive world championship title.

Despite the outbreak of war in Europe, the Canadian Conrad Stanbury took part again in the tournament. But again he was eliminated in the qualification with 13:18 against the Englishman Herbert Holt . This in turn had to admit defeat to the Scots Walter Donaldson in the quarterfinals .

Main round

	Quarterfinals Best of 31 frames				Semi-final best of 31 frames				Final Best of 73 frames
	Joe Davis	24
	Alec Brown	7th
					Joe Davis	22nd
					Walter Donaldson	9
	Walter Donaldson	24
	Herbert Holt	7th
									Joe Davis	37
									Fred Davis	36
	Fred Davis	20th
	Sydney Lee	11
					Fred Davis	17th
					Sidney Smith	14th
	Sidney Smith	22nd
	Tom Newman	9

qualification

	Round 1 Best of 31 frames
	Herbert Holt	18th
	Conrad Stanbury	13

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} World Championship 1940 ( 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} High Break ( Memento December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Retrieved May 15, 2012
4. ^ Clive Everton: Guinness Book of Snooker , Rev. Edition, Guinness Superlatives Ltd., Enfield, Middlesex 1982, ISBN 0-85112-256-6 , pp. 58-59.
5. ↑ Hayton Eric: The Book of CueSport Professional Snooker: The Complete Record & History . Rose Villa Publications, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-9548549-0-4 .