The 1935 Daily Mail Gold Cup was a professional

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tournament sponsored by the ''

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''. Tom Newman won the Gold Cup, winning all his four matches, ahead of Willie Smith who had three wins. It was the first

Daily Mail Gold Cup The Daily Mail Gold Cup was an important professional cue sports tournament from 1935 Daily Mail Gold Cup, 1935 to 1940. In the first two tournaments it was contested as a English billiards, billiards event before becoming a snooker event. It was ...

tournament, an event which ran from 1935 to 1940.

Format

The event was a round-robin tournament played from 7 January to 16 March 1935 at

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in London, England. There were 5 competitors and a total of 10 matches. Each match lasted six days (Monday to Saturday) and consisted of two sessions of two hours each day. The 5 competitors were

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, Tom Newman, Willie Smith,

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and

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. The event was a sealed handicap in which the handicap was determined before the event started but was not disclosed to the players until after the tournament finished.

Results

Table

References

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1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...