1953 World Snooker Championship

1953 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format:	knockout
Playing time:	1952/53
Association:	PMC
Tournament details
Attendees:	12
Defending champion:	Fred Davis
Winner:	Fred Davis
2nd finalist:	Walter Donaldson
Final venue:	Houldsworth Hall, Manchester
Prize money:	?
Frames in the final:	Best of 71
Records
Highest Break:	133 John Pulman
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The 1953 World Snooker Championship was officially known as the Professional Matchplay Championship ( PMC ) and was the second edition of this tournament since 1952. It took place in the " Houldsworth Hall " in Manchester , where the year before the rival Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) had held its world championship.

After a dispute between some professional players and the BACC in 1952 , Fred Davis founded the Professional Matchplay Championship (PMC) in the same year . After both associations hosted a world championship in 1952, the BACC withdrew from hosting the world championships in 1953 and the Professional Matchplay Championship was rated as a world championship until 1957.

For Jackie Rea from Northern Ireland , after 1949 and 1952, it was the third participation in a world championship.

In the final, defending champions Fred Davis and Walter Donaldson from Scotland faced each other for the seventh time in a row . Davis secured, with a 37:34, the fifth victory over the Scots and thus the fifth world title.

The Englishman John Pulman scored the highest break with 133 points.

qualification

	Round 1 Best of 35/37 frames				Round 2 Best of 71 frames
	Willie Smith	21st
	Jim Lees	14th
					Willie Smith	29
					Kingsley Kennerley	42
	Kingsley Kennerley	25th
	Rex Williams	12

Final round

Quarterfinals Best of 61 frames

Semi-final best of 61 frames

Final Best of 71 frames

Fred Davis

32

John Barrie

29

Fred Davis

36

John Pulman

25th

John Pulman

36

Jackie Rea

25th

Fred Davis

37

Walter Donaldson

34

Walter Donaldson

42

Kingsley Kennerley

19th

Walter Donaldson

31

Albert Brown

28

Albert Brown

35

Alec Brown

26th

Individual evidence

1. ^ High Breaks ( Memento December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on Global Snooker.com. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
2. ^ 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.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Results Snooker World Cup 1953 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Global-Snooker.com. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 1953 Snooker World Cup on Snooker-Scene.com. Retrieved February 6, 2013.