1950 World Snooker Championship

The Snooker World Cup 1950 was a tournament that was held for the first time at the Tower Circus in Blackpool, England.

For the fourth time in a row were in the final, the Scot Walter Donaldson and the Englishman Fred Davis over. This time, Donaldson was able to secure a 51:46 win his second and last world title. In a direct comparison between the two players, it was thus 2:2. Having previously 145 frames were played over the years in the finals, they had this high number (only surpassed in the 1952 World Cup with 146 frames) lowered to 97.

The highest break with Davis scored 140 points.

For the first time ever in the history of the World Cup, took the South African Petermans a player from the African continent in part. He left the first round match against Canadian George Chenier, also a World Cup novice, with 34:37 ​​. It is not known why Chenier, unlike his compatriot Conrad Stanbury (multiple World Cup participant ), skip the qualification and equal part in the main round was allowed.

The Welshman William Withers, who participated for the second time after 1937, resigned in qualifying against the now 64 -year-old two-time World Cup finalists and two-time world champion English Billiards Willie Smith clear with 28:7 from.

Main Round

Qualification

• * 1 Herbert Holt retired prematurely due to illness.