1951 World Snooker Championship

1951 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format:	Knockout
Playing time:	1950/51
Association:	BACC
Tournament details
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	Walter Donaldson
Winner:	Fred Davis
2nd finalist:	Walter Donaldson
Final venue:	Tower Circus , Blackpool ,England
Prize money:	-
Frames in the final:	Best of 97
Records
Highest Break:	106 ( Walter Donaldson )
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The 1951 World Snooker Championship was a tournament that was held for the second time at Tower Circus in Blackpool , England .

In the final, for the fifth time in a row since 1947, the Scot Walter Donaldson and the Englishman Fred Davis faced each other. With a 58:39 victory, Davis secured his third world title after 1948 and 1949 . In a direct comparison of the two players it was now 3: 2.

Donaldson scored the highest break with 106 points.

After he had beaten the now 45-year-old 2-time finalist (1938 and 1939) Sidney Smith in the quarter-finals with 38:33, the 15-year-old John Pulman was in the semifinals of this tournament for the first time. At 14:22 he withdrew from the tournament against the eventual winner Joe Davis, whereupon the latter reached the final prematurely.

Main round

	Quarterfinals Best of 71 frames				Semi-final best of 71 frames				Final Best of 97 frames
	Walter Donaldson	41
	Kingsley Kennerley	30th
					Walter Donaldson	41
					Horace Lindrum	30th
	Horace Lindrum	43
	Albert Brown	28
									Walter Donaldson	39
									Fred Davis	58
	Fred Davis	42
	John Barrie	29
					Fred Davis	22nd
					John Pulman * 1	14th
	John Pulman	38
	Sidney Smith	33

Remarks

• * ¹ John Pulman withdrew from the tournament.

qualification

	Round 1 Best of 35 frames				Round 2 Best of 35 frames
					HW Laws	7th
					John Barrie	28
	John Barrie	23
	Sydney Lee	12

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} World Championship 1951 ( memento of March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnooker.com. Retrieved May 27, 2012
2. ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Break ( Memento of December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnookerCentre.co.uk. Retrieved May 27, 2012