Cadre 45/2 World Championship 1937
| 30. Cadre 45/2 World Championship |
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 Groningen
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| Tournament dates | |
| Tournament Type: | World Cup |
| Tournament Format: | Round robin |
| Aligner: | UIFAB / KNBB |
| Tournament details | |
| Venue: | Salle de l’Harmonie, Groningen Netherlands[1]
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| Opening: | 18. March 1937 |
| Endgame: | 21. March 1937 |
| Participants: | 8 |
| Titleholder: |  René Gabriëls
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| Winner: | René Gabriëls
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| 2. Finalist: |  Constant Côte
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| 3. Place: | Louis Chassereau
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| Prize money: | World Amateur Championship |
| Records | |
| Best GD: | 35.59 René Gabriëls
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| Best ED: | 50.00 René Gabriëls
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| Highest Series (HS): | 02160German Walter Joachim
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| Venue on the map | |
| ← 1936 | 1938 → |
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The Cadre 45/2 World Championship 1937 was the 30th World Championship played in Cadre 45/2 till 1947 and from 1948 in Cadre 47/2. The tournament took place from 18 to 21 March 1937 in Groningen. It was after 1934 the second Cadre 45/2 World Championship in Groningen.
History
The new and old world champion in Cadre 45/2 is René Gabriëls. He improved the world record set by Albert Poensgen in 1933 in Cologne in the general average over a tournament (GD) clearly from 28.59 to 35.59. The tournament highest series with 216 was played by Walter Joachim from Berlin.
Tournament mode
It was played in round robin system up to 400 points. In case of a tie in MP (except in case of a tie in points for the winner) the score will be decided in the following order:
- MP = Match points
- GD = General average
- HS = Highest series
Final table
| MP | Match Points (Winner = 2; Draw = 1; Loser = 0) |
| Pts. | Achieved caroms |
| Rec. | Required tests |
| GD | General average |
| BED | Best individual average of a player |
| HS | Highest series |
| Best GD of the tournament | |
| Best ED of the tournament | |
| Best HS of the tournament | |
| 1. Place (Gold) | |
| 2. Place (Silver) | |
| 3. Place (Bronze) |
De Harmonie in Groningen
| Place | Name | MP | GD | BED | HS | ||
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| 1 | René Gabriëls |
12:2 | 35,59 | 50,00 | 207 | ||
| 2 | Constant Côte |
8:6 | 21,73 | 40,00 | 150 | ||
| 3 | Louis Chassereau |
8:6 | 20,19 | 40,00 | 137 | ||
| 4 | Cornelius van Vliet |
8:6 | 18,59 | 36,36 | 147 | ||
| 5 | Théo Moons |
8:6 | 18,39 | 26,66 | 130 | ||
| 6 | Walter Joachim |
4:10 | 17,62 | 26,66 | 216 | ||
| 7 |  Juan Butrón |
4:10 | 13,35 | 18,18 | 127 | ||
| 8 | Jan Dommering |
4:10 | 13,29 | 16,00 | 98 | ||
| Tournament average: 18.82 | |||||||
Individual references
- ↑
Robert Court: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung. 17. Jahrgang, No. 3. Cologne March 1937, p. 65. - ↑
Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Enzyklopädie des Billardsports. 1. Edition. Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3, p. 193.
Cadre-47/2 World Championships and their winners (until 1947 Cadre-45/2)
| Pre-War Tournaments (Cadre-45/2) |
1903 |
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| War Tournaments |
No world championships were held during the First World War. |
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| Interwar Tournaments (Cadre-45/2) |
1919 |
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| War Tournaments |
No world championships were held during World War II. |
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| Post-war tournaments (from 1949: Cadre-47/2) |
1947 |
Albert Poensgen –
Edmond Soussa –
Pedro Leopoldo Carrera –- Cadre 45/2 and 47/2 World Championship
- Carom event 1937
- Billiards tournament in Groningen