1946 World Snooker Championship

1946 World Snooker Championship
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 )
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Joe Davis and Horace Lindrum shaking hands before the final

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
	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
	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

1. ↑ ^{a b c} World Championship 1946 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnooker.com. Retrieved May 22, 2012
2. ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} World Snooker Title Message in "The Advertiser" of May 20, 1946. Retrieved May 23, 2012
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Davis wind marathon final on ESPN -online. Retrieved May 23, 2012
5. ↑ Hayton Eric: The Book of CueSport Professional Snooker: The Complete Record & History . Rose Villa Publications, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-9548549-0-4 .
6. ↑ World Championship History on SportingLife.com. Retrieved May 23, 2012.