1946 World Snooker Championship
1946 World Snooker Championship | |
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Tournament dates | |
Tournament format: | Knockout |
Playing time: | 1945/46 |
Association: | BACC |
Tournament details | |
Attendees: | 14th |
Defending champion: | Joe Davis |
Winner: | Joe Davis |
2nd finalist: | Horace Lindrum |
Final venue: | Horticultural Hall , London , England |
Prize money: | 1800 pounds |
Frames in the final: | Best of 145 |
Records | |
Highest Break: | 136 ( Joe Davis ) |
← 1940 | 1947 → |
The 1946 World Snooker Championship was a tournament that was played at the Horticultural Hall in London , England . It was the first World Cup after the five-year game break caused by the war.
For the second time since 1937, the Australian Horace Lindrum and the English defending champion Joe Davis faced each other in the final. Davis prevailed against Lindrum with 78:67 and became world champion for the fifteenth and last time. After that, Davis never went back to a world championship. To this day he is the only undefeated world champion and record holder. In the finals he played six Centuries , a total of ten during the tournament. In passing, he set two new tournament records of 133 and 136 points. He received a prize of £ 1,800 for his performance and the replica of the trophy he had bought himself in 1927, Lindrum was able to take home £ 550. The prize money was funded by entrance fees, which ranged from 5 shillings to £ 3 . The often very high number of frames in the final was due to the fact that they were played out over weeks. This was the only way to attract enough viewers and pay out correspondingly high prize money.
On the day of the final (May 19, 1946), Joe Davis was 45 years and 34 days old, the oldest world champion to date. His record was only broken 32 years later, on April 29, 1978, by the Welshman Ray Reardon at the age of 46, 203 days , which is still valid today.
After Tom Carpenter (1927) and William Witwers (1937), the almost 73-year-old English Billiards Champion Tom Reece was the third Welsh participant in this world championship. Before the end of his first game, he withdrew from the tournament.
As in the previous tournament, the only Canadian participant, Conrad Stanbury , did not get beyond qualification.
Main round
Quarterfinals Best of 31 frames |
Semi-final best of 31 frames |
Final Best of 145 frames |
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Joe Davis | 21st | |||||||||
Walter Donaldson | 10 | |||||||||
Joe Davis | 21st | |||||||||
Stanley Newman | 10 | |||||||||
Syndney Lee | 12 | |||||||||
Stanley Newman | 19th | |||||||||
Joe Davis | 78 | |||||||||
Horace Lindrum | 67 | |||||||||
Horace Lindrum | 17th | |||||||||
Herbert Holt | 14th | |||||||||
Horace Lindrum | 16 | |||||||||
Fred Davis | 12 | |||||||||
Fred Davis | 24 | |||||||||
Alec Brown | 7th | |||||||||
qualification
Round 1 Best of 31 frames |
Round 2 Best of 31 frames |
Round 3 Best of 31 frames |
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Stanley Newman | 16 | |||||||||
Willie Leigh | 15th | |||||||||
Stanley Newman | 17th | |||||||||
Conrad Stanbury | 14th | |||||||||
Conrad Stanbury | 18th | |||||||||
John Barrie | 13 | |||||||||
Stanley Newman | 21st | |||||||||
Kingsley Kennerley | 10 | |||||||||
Kingsley Kennerley | 22nd | |||||||||
Fred Lawrence | 9 | |||||||||
Kingsley Kennerley | 8th | |||||||||
Tom Reece * 1 | 2 | |||||||||
- Remarks
- * 1 Tom Reece withdrew from the tournament.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c World Championship 1946 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnooker.com. Retrieved May 22, 2012
- ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ↑ a b c World Snooker Title Message in "The Advertiser" of May 20, 1946. Retrieved May 23, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Davis wind marathon final on ESPN -online. Retrieved May 23, 2012
- ↑ Hayton Eric: The Book of CueSport Professional Snooker: The Complete Record & History . Rose Villa Publications, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-9548549-0-4 .
- ↑ World Championship History on SportingLife.com. Retrieved May 23, 2012.