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*1982 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion |
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*1980 Guinness [[World Women's Snooker Championship|World Ladies' Snooker Championship]] Runner-up - lost 2-4 to [[Lesley McIlrath]]<ref>[https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ World Champions] Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 28 July 2019.</ref> |
*1980 Guinness [[World Women's Snooker Championship|World Ladies' Snooker Championship]] - Runner-up - lost 2-4 to [[Lesley McIlrath]]<ref>[https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ World Champions] Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 28 July 2019.</ref> |
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*1978 Women's Amateur Champion (UK Championship) |
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*1949 Women's Professional Snooker Champion (beat Thelma Carpenter 10-5) |
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*1940 Women's Professional Snooker runner-up |
*1940 Women's Professional Snooker runner-up - Lost 2-11 to Ruth Harrison<ref name="TIMES /> <ref>{{cite news |date=1940-03-28 |title=Women's Title |url= |work=The Manchester Guardian |location=2 |via=[[ProQuest]] Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer }} </ref> |
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*1939 Welsh Ladies' Billiards Champion |
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Born | [1] Saron, Denbighshire,Wales | September 30, 1920.
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Died | February 13, 2011 | (aged 90)
Sport country | Wales |
Agnes Davies, born Agnes Morris, (30 September 1920 - 13 February 2011) was a Welsh snooker and billiards player. She was known for having a competitive playing career spanning 64 years,[2] during which she reached world championship snooker finals in 1940 and 1980.
Biography
Her father was a coal miner, who was forced to leave the industry after contracting pneumoconiosis. He used his compensation money to open a one-table Billiard hallbilliard hall in Saron, where Davies played and practiced. She won the Welsh women's amateur championship at her first attempt, without losing a frame, aged 17, and won the following two years as well.[1]
Davies, then still known as Agnes Morris, was runner up in the 1940 Women's Professional Snooker championship[3] and the winner in 1949. She had married Dick Davies (who died in 1996) in 1940, and took a break of some 30 years from competitive snooker. Returning to competition in the late 1970's, she won three tournaments before reaching another world championship final in 1980. In 1985 Davies was Voted Life President of the World Ladies' Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA).[1] [2]
In 1998 she qualified for the Ladies Welsh Open at Newport, Wales at the age of 77 - sixty years after winning as a 17 year old.[4]
She played for Wales in the home international series until 1999, and played until 2001 in the Amman Valley league.[2]
Davies died in 2011.[1] In 2012, Women's World Snooker held the Agnes Davies Memorial tournament, which was won by Jaique Ip. [5]
Titles and achievements
- 2003 Regal Ladies' Welsh Over 40s Final
- 1982 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion
- 1980 Guinness World Ladies' Snooker Championship - Runner-up - lost 2-4 to Lesley McIlrath[6]
- 1979 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion
- 1978 Women's Amateur Champion (UK Championship)
- 1977 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion
- 1949 Women's Professional Snooker Champion (beat Thelma Carpenter 10-5)
- 1940 Women's Professional Snooker runner-up - Lost 2-11 to Ruth Harrison[3] [7]
- 1939 Women's Amateur Champion
- 1939 Welsh Ladies' Billiards Champion
- 1937, 1938, 1939 Welsh Ladies' Snooker Champion
References
- ^ a b c d e Everton, Clive (1 March 2011). "Agnes Davies obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ a b c "Snooker Queen Agnes Dies". South Wales Guardian. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ a b "Snooker Championship". The Times. No. 48578. 3. 1 April 1940 – via The Times Digital Archive.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Malone, Emmet (3 January 1998). "On The Sidelines". Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) – via NewsBank.
- ^ "Jaique Ip Wan In". Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ World Champions Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ "Women's Title". The Manchester Guardian. 2. 28 March 1940 – via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer.
{{cite news}}
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