World Snooker Championship 1947

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World Snooker Championship 1947
Tournament dates
Tournament format: Knockout
Playing time: 1946/47
Association: BACC
Tournament details
Attendees: 19th
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Joe Davis
(did not attend)
Winner: ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson
2nd finalist: EnglandEngland Fred Davis
Final venue: Leicester Square Hall , London , EnglandEnglandEngland 
Prize money: -
Frames in the final: Best of 145
Records
Highest Break: 135 ( Fred Davis ) EnglandEngland
← 1946 1948 →

The 1947 World Snooker Championship was a tournament that was played at Leicester Square Hall in London , England .

It was the first world championship that took place without the 15-time series winner and defending champion Joe Davis . For the first time, the Scotsman Walter Donaldson and the Englishman Fred Davis , younger brother of Joe Davis, faced each other in the final . Donaldson was the first non-Englishman to win the title with an 82:63 victory. Fred Davis scored the highest break with 135 points.

For the first time, the later 8-time world champion (1957 to 1968) John Pulman appeared in this competition. However, he lost his first round match in qualifying with 14:21 against Albert Brown . The New Zealander Clark McConachy took part for the second time after 1932, but lost his first round game against Davis clearly with 20:53.

Main round

Quarterfinals
Best of 71/73 frames 		Semi-final
best of 71 frames 		Final
Best of 145 frames
                   
   
 EnglandEngland Fred Davis  53    
 New ZealandNew Zealand Clark McConachy  20th  
 EnglandEngland Fred Davis  39    
     EnglandEngland Sidney Smith  32  
 EnglandEngland Sidney Smith  43
 EnglandEngland Alec Brown  28  
 EnglandEngland Fred Davis  63
     ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson  82
 ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson  46    
 EnglandEngland Stanley Newman  25th  
 ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson  39
     AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum  32  
 AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum  39
 EnglandEngland Albert Brown  34  

qualification

Round 1
Best of 35 frames 		Round 2
Best of 35 frames 		Round 3
Best of 35 frames 		Round 4
Best of 35 frames
                           
     
 EnglandEngland Albert Brown  21st    
 EnglandEngland John Pulman  14th  
 EnglandEngland Albert Brown  28    
     EnglandEngland Eric Newman  7th  
 EnglandEngland Eric Newman  kl * 1
 EnglandEngland Herbert Holt  -  
 EnglandEngland Albert Brown  24    
     EnglandEngland John Barrie  11  
 EnglandEngland John Barrie  25th
 EnglandEngland Fred Lawrence  10  
 EnglandEngland Albert Brown  21st
   
     EnglandEngland Kingsley Kennerley  14th
 EnglandEngland Kingsley Kennerley  23    
 Canada 1921Canada Conrad Stanbury  12  
 EnglandEngland Kingsley Kennerley  23    
 EnglandEngland Alec man  12  
 EnglandEngland Kingsley Kennerley  21st
     EnglandEngland William Leigh  14th  
 EnglandEngland Jim Lees  16    
 EnglandEngland Sydney Lee  19th  
 EnglandEngland Sydney Lee  10
     EnglandEngland William Leigh  25th  
 EnglandEngland William Leigh  19th
 unknownunknown HF Francis  16  
Remarks
  • * 1 kl = won without a fight

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c World Championship 1947 ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnooker.com. Retrieved May 23, 2012
  2. ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b High Break ( Memento December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnookerCentre.co.uk. Retrieved May 23, 2012