The Daily Mail Gold Cup was an important professional cue sports tournament from 1935 to 1940. In the first two tournaments it was contested as a billiards event before becoming a snooker event. It was sponsored by the Daily Mail. The tournament was suspended following the 1939/40 event and not played again. The concept of a handicap snooker tournament was revived for the 1948 Sunday Empire News Tournament.
The tournament was always played as a round-robin handicap event. Most matches were played at Thurston's Hall in London, England, although, in most seasons, a few matches were played in other major cities. Matches lasted a week (Monday to Saturday) and generally followed each other, week after week, so that the tournament ran for an extended period of about 3 months.
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Everton 2012a, pp. 9–10. Morrison 1987, p. 48. Everton 1986, p. 53. "Snooker GoldCup won by Davis". The Morning Bulletin. 21 December 1936. Retrieved 17 October...
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event. The Championship started on 23 March, following the 1935/1936 DailyMailGoldCup English billiards tournament two days earlier which has fully occupied...
to defending champion Joe Davis. He participated in the 1935/1936 DailyMailGoldCup, finishing last after failing to win any of his six matches. After...
break of 135, beating the 133 scored by Sidney Smith during the 1936 DailyMailGoldCup earlier in the season. Davis's break was a total clearance during...
Western Australia. Hosted by the Geraldton Turf Club, the GoldCup is raced over 2100m. The Cup was first run on 8 December 1887 with a winner's purse of...
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