Horace Lindrum

Horace Lindrum ( born January 15, 1912 as Horace Norman William Morrell in Paddington, Sydney, † June 20, 1974 in Dee Why, Sydney ) was an Australian snooker and carom player.

Family

Lindrum billiards comes from a family. He is the great- grandson of the first Australian billiards champions, the grandson of the billiard coach, Frederick William Lindrum II, and nephew of Frederick William Lindrum III and the English Billiards champion Walter Lindrum.

Career

At the age of 16 he played his first CenturyBreak, 1931, he turned professional. 1936 and 1937 he stood for the first time in the final of the World Snooker Championship, but lost each Joe Davis. It was then, according to Clark McConachy from New Zealand, the second non - Englishman in a World Snooker Championship final. In the first world after the Second World War, in 1946, he came again to the finals, but was again defeated by Joe Davis, who stepped down after this victory as the unbeaten champion.

In 1952 he finally won the World Cup against Clark McConachy with 94:49; However, it was this year for the rift between the then Association Billiards Association and Control Council, so that it in 1952 in addition to the BA & CC World Cup a second, as Professional Match Play Championship called, WM gave and all the players competed only at the World Matchplay except Lindrum and McConachy. Therefore Lindrums world title from 1952 is not as fully satisfying, although it appears in most histories.

1957 Lindrum resigned as a professional player. He died in Sydney in 1974.