1952 World Snooker Championship

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1952 World Snooker Championships
Tournament dates
Tournament format: knockout
Playing time: 1951/52
Association: BACC / PMC
Tournament details
Attendees: 2 (BACC) / 9 (PMC)
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Fred Davis (BACC)
Winner: AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum (BACC) Fred Davis (PMC)
EnglandEngland
2nd finalist: New ZealandNew Zealand Clark McConachy (BACC) Walter Donaldson (PMC)
ScotlandScotland
Final venue: Houldsworth Hall , Manchester (BACC)
Tower Circus , Blackpool (PMC)
Prize money: -
Frames in the final: Best of 146 (BACC)
Best of 73 (PMC)
Records
Highest Break: 140 ( Fred Davis , PMC) EnglandEngland
← 1951 1953 →

The 1952 World Snooker Championships were hosted for the first and only time by two competing organizers.

After a dispute between some professional players and the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), defending champion Fred Davis founded the Professional Matchplay Championship (PMC). So it came about that in 1952 there were two world snooker champions.

For the first time since the BACC tournament was held, there was no Englishman in the final, which was contested by Clark McConachy from New Zealand and Horace Lindrum from Australia . The Australian prevailed and was the first non-British winner and world champion. Horace was the nephew of English Billiards Champion Walter Lindrum .

At the Professional Matchplay Championship, which was played in Houldsworth Hall , Manchester , Fred Davis was able to prevail against the Scots Walter Donaldson and win his fourth title. The two met for the sixth time in a row since 1947. In a direct comparison it was 4: 2 for Davis. He played the highest break of the tournament with 140 points.

In the period that followed, the BACC did not organize any more world championships. The Professional Matchplay Championship prevailed as the official world championship until 1957.

Main round (BACC)

  Final
Best of 146 frames
 AustraliaAustralia Horace Lindrum 94
 New ZealandNew Zealand Clark McConachy 49

Main Round (PMC)

  Round 1
Best of 61 frames 		Round 2
Best of 61 frames 		Semi-final
best of 61 frames 		Final
Best of 73 frames
   
         
         
         EnglandEngland Fred Davis 38  
 EnglandEngland Jackie Rea 38        EnglandEngland Jackie Rea 23  
 EnglandEngland Jim Lees 32      EnglandEngland Jackie Rea 35  
       EnglandEngland Kingsley Kennerley 26th  
         EnglandEngland Fred Davis 38
         ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson 35
         
         
         ScotlandScotland Walter Donaldson 31  
 EnglandEngland Albert Brown 32        EnglandEngland Albert Brown 30th  
 EnglandEngland John Pulman 27      EnglandEngland Albert Brown 36    
 EnglandEngland Alec Brown 39      EnglandEngland Alec Brown 25th    
 EnglandEngland Rex Williams 22nd  

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horace Lindrum leads clearly. . In: The Argus , March 8, 1952. Retrieved May 21, 2012. 
  2. ↑ a b High Breaks ( December 8, 2004 memento in the Internet Archive ) on GlobalSnookerCentre.com. Retrieved May 22, 2012
  3. ^ A brief history of the World Professional Championship ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Chris Turner's snooker archive. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b World Championship 1952 ( memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker. Retrieved April 6, 2012
  5. ^ Roll of honor ( Memento of February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker Archive. Retrieved April 6, 2012
  6. ↑ Horace Lindrum's Snooker Win Easy . Article in The Mercury of March 10, 1952. Retrieved May 22, 2012
  7. ↑ Chris Downer, Crucible Almanac (2014 edition), p. 179.