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1978 Australian Professional Championship
The 1978 Australian Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament, which took place between 4 and 15 December 1978 at the Grafton Services Club in Grafton, Australia. Eddie Charlton won the tournament defeating Ian Anderson Ian Scott Anderson (born 10 August 1947) is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist, acoustic guitarist and leader of the British rock band Jethro Tull. He is a multi-instrumentalist w ... 29–13 in the final. Results Group stage * Eddie Charlton 8–1 Dennis Wheelwright * Eddie Charlton 8–1 Jim Charlton * Warren Simpson 12–3 Dennis Wheelwright * Ian Anderson 8–6 Paddy Morgan * Ian Anderson 8–2 Philip Tarrant * Philip Tarrant 8–6 Lou Condo * Eddie Charlton 8–0 Warren Simpson Final * Eddie Charlton 29–13 Ian Anderson References {{Snooker season 1978/1979 Australian Professional Championship 1978 in snooker 1978 in Australian sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafton, New South Wales
Grafton ( Bundjalung-Yugambeh: Gumbin Gir) is a city in the Northern Rivers region of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located on the Clarence River, approximately by road north-northeast of the state capital Sydney. The closest major cities, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, are located across the border in South-East Queensland. At the 2021 census, Grafton had a population of 19,255. The city is the largest settlement and, with Maclean, the shared administrative centre of the Clarence Valley Council local government area, which is home to over 50,000 people in all. History Before European settlement, the Clarence River marked the border between the BundjalungTindale, Norman (1974) "Badjalang" in his ''Catalogue of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Professional Billiards And Snooker Association
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards based in Bristol, England. It owns and publishes the official rules of the two sports and engages in promotional activities. The Professional Billiard Players Association (PBPA) was founded in 1946, and, after some years of inactivity, was revived in 1968 and renamed the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association in 1970. It owns a 26 per cent share of World Snooker, which organises the professional snooker ranking circuit events. It also supports World Women's Snooker and World Disability Billiards and Snooker, and English billiards through World Billiards. Overview According to its financial statements for the year ending 30 June 2019, the principal activities of the WPBSA are "the governance of professional snooker and billiards through the regulation and application of the rules of the association, the development of snooker and bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker World Rankings
The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour. The ranking lists are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Each player's world ranking is based on their performances in designated ranking tournaments over the preceding two years. The world ranking list is updated after every ranking tournament. The system of world rankings was inaugurated in the 1976–77 season. Until the 2013–14 season, the point tariffs for each tournament were set by the governing body, but the rankings transitioned to a prize money list in the 2014–15 season. Background The rankings determine the seedings for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour, organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), and who gets an invite to prestigious invitational events. Tournaments open to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Charlton
Edward Francis Charlton, (31 October 1929 – 8 November 2004) was an Australian professional snooker and English billiards player. He remains the only player to have been world championship runner-up in both snooker and billiards without winning either title. He later became a successful marketer of sporting goods launching a popular brand of billiard room equipment bearing his name. Early life Charlton was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and came from a sporting family. His grandfather ran a billiards club in Swansea, New South Wales, and young Eddie began playing cue sports when he was nine years old. At the age of eleven, he defeated fellow Australian Walter Lindrum in a wartime snooker exhibition match, and he made his first century break when he was seventeen. He was involved in numerous other sports during his youth: he was a first-grade footballer and played in the Australian First Division Football (soccer) for ten years; he was a champion surfer, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Anderson (snooker Player)
Ian Anderson (born 2 April 1946) is an Australian former professional snooker player. He is the current president of the World Pool-Billiard Association. Career Anderson turned professional in 1973, playing his first World Championship match against Perrie Mans of South Africa in 1974; Anderson held Mans to 1–1, but Mans pulled away to win 8–1. The following year, he was eliminated 4–15 in the last 16 by Rex Williams, and in 1976, he lost 5–8 to Jackie Rea. In the 1979 tournament, Anderson was defeated in qualifying by Steve Davis, by 9 frames to 1, but in the 1982 Australian Masters, the group stage being in one-frame shoot-out format, he defeated Ray Reardon 70–48 and incumbent World Champion Alex Higgins 70–50 before losing 115–119 over two frames to Davis in the semi-final. In 1979 he won the Australian Masters, his sole professional win as a snooker player. His other professional final came the year before in 1978, when he was defeated 29-13 by Eddie Charlto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Australian Professional Championship
The 1977 Australian Professional Championship The Australian Professional Championship was a professional snooker tournament which was open only for Australian or Australian-based players. History From 1963 to 1974 the Australian Professional Championship was held on a challenge basis and d ... was a professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament, which took place in September 1977. Eddie Charlton won the tournament defeating Paddy Morgan 25–21 in the final. Main draw References {{Snooker season 1977/1978 Australian Professional Championship 1977 in snooker 1977 in Australian sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Australian Professional Championship
The 1984 Toohey's Brewery Australian Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of o ... snooker tournament, which took place in August 1984. Eddie Charlton won the tournament defeating Warren King 10–3 in the final. Main draw References {{Snooker season 1984/1985 Australian Professional Championship Australian Professional Championship Australian Professional Championship Australian Professional Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Professional Championship
The Australian Professional Championship was a professional snooker tournament which was open only for Australian or Australian-based players. History From 1963 to 1974 the Australian Professional Championship was held on a challenge basis and dominated by Eddie Charlton who won ten times in that period. It became a knockout tournament in 1975. It was then not held until 1984 when the WPBSA The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards based in Bristol, England. It owns and publishes the official rules of the two sports and engages in promotion ... offered a subsidy of £1,000 per man to any country holding a national professional championship. This subsidy ended in 1988/1989 after which date most national championships were discontinued. Eddie Charlton won the tournament on a record 20 occasions. Winners Notes See also * Cue sports in Australia References Australian Prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Simpson
Warren Alwyn Simpson (28 March 1922 – 28 June 1980) was an Australian snooker player. He was world amateur champion before turning professional in the early 1960s. Career Simpson won amateur championships at state and national level before becoming world amateur champion in 1954. He played an exhibition against world professional champion Fred Davis in 1960 and later turned professional. Simpson reached the final of the 1971 World Snooker Championship, losing 37–29 to John Spencer in a match played in Sydney, Australia in November 1970. Simpson competed in three further World Championships between 1973 and 1975. In 1974, despite suffering from influenza, he discharged himself from hospital to play in his match against Bernard Bennett, but lost 8–2. He suffered from diabetes for many years and died in 1980, aged 58. He was married and had a son. Career titles * New South Wales Snooker Championship: 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 * Australia National Snooker Championship: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Tarrant
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Morgan
Paddy Morgan (born 7 January 1943) is an Australian former professional snooker and English billiards player. He was born in Belfast, and moved to Coventry in 1960. Following an amateur career in which he won junior and national titles in both sports, and reached the semi-finals of the 1968 World Amateur Snooker Championship, he emigrated to Australia in 1969. He became a professional player in 1970 and competed in the World Snooker Championship for the first time in the 1971 tournament. In 1972, he was runner-up to Leslie Driffield in the World Open Billiards Championship, which featured both amateurs and professionals competing against each other, losing the final 2,404–3,055. In snooker, he defeated Dennis Taylor and Alex Higgins to reach the semi-finals of the 1976 World Professional Match-play Championship. Morgan was twice runner-up in the Australian Professional Snooker Championship (in 1976 and 1977). He was a member of the Australia team at the World Cup of snoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
