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Happy to discuss, or be challenged on, any of my review comments. BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 20:33, 12 September 2020 (UTC) I've made some hopefully uncontroversial small copyedits and added some reference details. BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 02:49, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
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Many printed sources give the score of the final as 37-34 (e.g. the Rothmans Snooker Yearbook, Morrison's Snooker: Records, Facts and Champions, and Everton's Guinness Book of Snooker). Chris Turner's site has the same. I'm confident that the final score after dead frames was 38-35, as we currently have in the article and as reported by many newspapers in 1955, including The Times (21 March 1955 p.10) and The Observer (20 March 1955 p.12). This would mean that the final was over 73 frames, again as reported in multiple 1955 newspapers, so a player would need 37 frames to win.
The most detailed account I could find of the final day's play is on page 5 of the Lancashire Evening Post, 21 March 1955, in the British Newspaper Archive. This states that Davis was 36-30 ahead going into the concluding session, and "Davis lost the first frame [of the session] ... and took the second at 94-21 to become champion in the 68th frame of the week." This would mean that a winning margin was achieved at 37-31. It reports frame scores consistent with this result and 38-35.
Both Downer's Crucible Almanac (2019 ed.) and Kobylecky's International Directory have the winning score as 36-31, but this can't be right as 37 frames were needed.
I would be happy to take the Lancashire Evening Post as the most suitable source for the decisive score, despite it being in a minority. What do others think? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 21:22, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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Reviewer: BennyOnTheLoose ( talk · contribs) 20:21, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
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Happy to discuss, or be challenged on, any of my review comments. BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 20:33, 12 September 2020 (UTC) I've made some hopefully uncontroversial small copyedits and added some reference details. BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 02:49, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Copyvio and Plagiarism check
Image
Edit wars?
Infobox
Overview
Format
Schedule
Summary
Main draw Some inconsistency between sources - it may be better to use the newspaper sources for match scores.
References
Lead
References
Many printed sources give the score of the final as 37-34 (e.g. the Rothmans Snooker Yearbook, Morrison's Snooker: Records, Facts and Champions, and Everton's Guinness Book of Snooker). Chris Turner's site has the same. I'm confident that the final score after dead frames was 38-35, as we currently have in the article and as reported by many newspapers in 1955, including The Times (21 March 1955 p.10) and The Observer (20 March 1955 p.12). This would mean that the final was over 73 frames, again as reported in multiple 1955 newspapers, so a player would need 37 frames to win.
The most detailed account I could find of the final day's play is on page 5 of the Lancashire Evening Post, 21 March 1955, in the British Newspaper Archive. This states that Davis was 36-30 ahead going into the concluding session, and "Davis lost the first frame [of the session] ... and took the second at 94-21 to become champion in the 68th frame of the week." This would mean that a winning margin was achieved at 37-31. It reports frame scores consistent with this result and 38-35.
Both Downer's Crucible Almanac (2019 ed.) and Kobylecky's International Directory have the winning score as 36-31, but this can't be right as 37 frames were needed.
I would be happy to take the Lancashire Evening Post as the most suitable source for the decisive score, despite it being in a minority. What do others think? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 21:22, 2 March 2024 (UTC)