1946 World Snooker Championship

The Snooker World Cup 1946, a tournament that was held in the Horticultural Hall in London, England. It was the first World Cup after five years of war-related break.

For the second time after 1937, the Australian Horace Lindrum and the English title holder Joe Davis stood over in the final. Davis sat down with 78:67 against Lindrum through and became the fifteenth and last time world champion. After Davis never came back on at a World Cup. To date, he is the only undefeated world champion and record holder. In the final he played six Centuries, a total of ten during the tournament. En passant, he still had two new tournament record of 133 and 136 points. For his performance, he received a winning prize of £ 1800 and the replica of that cup, which he had bought in 1927 itself, Lindrum could still take 550 pounds to take home. The prize money was funded by entrance fees, which ranged from 5 shillings and three pounds. The often very high number of frames in the finals came from the fact that their playout often lasted for weeks. Only then could attract a sufficient audience and pay correspondingly high prize money.

Joe Davis was on the final day (19 May 1946) with 45 years and 34 days, until then oldest world champion. His record was only 32 years later, on 29 April 1978 broken by Welshman Ray Reardon with 46 years, 203 days, which is still valid today.

After Tom Carpenter (1927) and William widower (1937 ) was the nearly 73 -year-old English Billiards Champion Tom Reece, the third Welsh participant in the World Championship. Even before completing his first game but he withdrew from the tournament.

The only Canadian participant Conrad Stanbury came, as in the previous tournament, not on the qualifications beyond.

Main Round

Qualification

• * 1 Tom Reece withdrew from the tournament.