World Snooker Championship 1949

World Snooker Championship 1949
Tournament dates
Tournament format:	Knockout
Playing time:	1948/49
Association:	BACC
Tournament details
Attendees:	11
Defending champion:	Fred Davis
Winner:	Fred Davis
2nd finalist:	Walter Donaldson
Final venue:	Leicester Square Hall , London , England
Prize money:	-
Frames in the final:	Best of 145
Records
Highest Break:	115 ( Fred Davis )
← 1948	1950 →

The 1949 World Snooker Championship was a tournament which, for the third and final time, was played at Leicester Square Hall in London , England .

The final contested, also for the third time, the Scot Walter Donaldson and the Englishman Fred Davis . As in the previous year, Davis prevailed with an 80:65 victory and secured his second of eight world titles. After his older brother Joe , he was the second player to defend his first title.

Donaldson scored the highest break with 115 points.

The Canadian Conrad Stanbury made it back into the main round after 1939. He was eliminated from the eventual finalist Walter Donaldson with 13:58.

The Northern Irish and since 1947 Irish Champion Jackie Rea made his debut at the World Cup, but retired in the second qualifying round.

Main round

	Quarterfinals Best of 71 frames				Semi-final best of 71 frames				Final Best of 145 frames
	Fred Davis	50
	Kingsley Kennerley	21st
					Fred Davis	42
					Sidney Smith	29
	Sidney Smith	41
	Alec Brown	30th
									Fred Davis	80
									Walter Donaldson	65
	Walter Donaldson	58
	Conrad Stanbury	13
					Walter Donaldson	49
					John Pulman	22nd
	Albert Brown	29
	John Pulman	42

qualification

	Round 1 Best of 35 frames				Round 2 Best of 35 frames				Round 3 Best of 35 frames
									Herbert Holt	17th
									Conrad Stanbury	18th
					Jackie Rea	17th
					Conrad Stanbury	18th
	Conrad Stanbury	18th
	HF Francis	17th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} World Championship 1949 ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnooker.com. Retrieved May 25, 2012
2. ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} High Break ( Memento December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnookerCentre.co.uk. Retrieved May 25, 2012