Sidney Harold Fry (1869 – 3 September 1961) was an English amateur

billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions ...

and

snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in Ind ...

player and amateur golfer. He won the

English Amateur Billiards Championship The English Amateur Billiards Championship, organised by the English Amateur Billiards Association (EABA), is a tournament in the game of English billiards dating back to March 1888. In the first championship, Hugh Lonsdale of Manchester defeated ...

eight times between 1893 and 1925 and the

English Amateur Snooker Championship The English Amateur Championship, an annual snooker competition, is the highest-ranking and most prestigious amateur event in England. It is also the oldest and longest-running snooker tournament in the world, having been established in 1916, a ...

in 1919, becoming the first player to win both titles. He was the author of "Billiards for amateurs". In golf he was runner-up in the

Amateur Championship The Amateur Championship (sometimes referred to as the British Amateur or British Amateur Championship outside the UK) is a golf tournament which has been held annually in the United Kingdom since 1885 except during the two World Wars, and in 19 ...

in 1902 and twice runner-up in the

Irish Amateur Open Championship The Irish Amateur Open Championship is an amateur golf tournament held annually in Ireland and organised by the Golf Ireland. The championship has been played as a 72-hole stroke-play event since 1958. Previously it was played as a match-play t ...

. He was a regular competitor in the Amateur Championship, playing 25 times between 1898 and 1931. He finished 14th in the

1902 Open Championship The 1902 Open Championship was the 42nd Open Championship, held 4–5 June at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. Sandy Herd won the Championship, a stroke ahead of runners-up James Braid and Harry Vardon. All entries played 36 ...

Royal Liverpool Golf Club The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a golf club in Wirral in Merseyside, England. It was founded in 1869 on what was then the racecourse of the Liverpool Hunt Club. It received the "Royal" designation in 1871 due to the patronage of the Duke of ...

Results in major championships

''Note: Fry only played in The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship.''
NT = No tournament
WD = withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play Source for British Open
www.theopen.com
Source for 1898 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 27 May 1898, pg. 11.
Source for 1899 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 25 May 1899, pg. 7.
Source for 1901 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 9 May 1901, pg. 10.
Source for 1903 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 20 May 1903, pg. 13.
Source for 1904 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 1 Jun 1904, pg. 11.
Source for 1905 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1905, pg. 12.
Source for 1906 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1906, pg. 8.
Source for 1907 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1907, pg. 12.
Source for 1908 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 27 May 1908, pg. 14.
Source for 1909 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 26 May 1909, pg. 14.
Source for 1910 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 1 Jun 1910, pg. 10.
Source for 1911 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 1 Jun 1911, pg. 10.
Source for 1912 British Amateur
The American Golfer, July, 1912, pg. 198.
Source for 1913 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 27 May 1913, pg. 14.
Source for 1914 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 20 May 1914, pg. 12.
Source for 1920 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 8 Jun 1920, pg. 12.
Source for 1921 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1921, pg. 3.
Source for 1922 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 26 May 1922, pg. 12.
Source for 1923 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 9 May 1923, pg. 13.
Source for 1927 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1927, pg. 10.
Source for 1928 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 24 May 1928, pg. 3.
Source for 1931 British Amateur
The Glasgow Herald, 19 May 1931, pg. 17.

Team appearances

England–Scotland Amateur Match The England–Scotland Amateur Match was an annual men's amateur golf competition between teams representing England and Scotland. It was played from 1902 to 1931, although the match lapsed between 1913 and 1921. The match continued after 1931 but ...

(representing England): 1902, 1903 (winners), 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909

References

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