The final of the Cornwall Individual Billiards Championship was played at the SWEB Social Club, Bodmin, on Wednesday 2nd April and resulted in a victory for Dave White (Bude SC) who defeated Steve Downing (Redruth RBL) 800-533. White had taken an early lead with a break of 89 and stayed ahead throughout the match making additional breaks of 50, 60 and 69. Downing had breaks of 50, 65 and 74. Cecil Brown, President of the Association, presented trophies. Ray Vassie was referee and Peter Lawrence the marker.
In the semi-finals Steve Downing had prevailed in a close match against Geoff Lingard, the scores having been called level at 601 before Downing edged a victory 650-629. Dave White's semi-final win over Chris Mitchell was also closer than the score of 650-471 might suggest, White running to his points with 88 unfinished.
However, one of the closest matches of the Championship had come in the quarter-finals when Dave White defeated Charlie Gay (St. Day) by just four points. Gay went ahead during the first half and with the help of a 94 break, built up a lead of over 100 points. White came back with a break of 118 but Gay edged ahead again to go within four points of game when White secured the victory by running out with an unfinished break of 47.
| Mervyn Wills
(St. Day) | 500 | Tim Johnson
(Godolphin Cross) | 438 | ||
| Steve Downing
(Redruth RBL) 79 | 500 | Dave Clue
(Menheniot) | 158 | ||
| Dave White
(Bude SC) 56, 57, 80, 80 | 500 | Ian Hunn
(St. Dominic) | 420 | ||
| Chris Mitchell
(Dobwalls) 96 | 500 | Roger Northcott
(Dobwalls) | 260 | ||
| Geoff Lingard
(Camelford WMI) 54, 52, 70, 50unf | 500 | Robert Bader
(Bude Golf Club) | 351 | ||
| Alan Snell
(Dobwalls) | 500 | Mike Burnard
(Camelford WMI) | 380 |
| eve Downing
| 650 | Mervyn Wills
| 119 | ||
| Chris Mitchell
61 | 650 | Keith Olver
| 374 | ||
| Geoff Lingard
63 | 650 | Alan Snell
56 | 400 | ||
| Dave White
118, 47unf | 650 | Charlie Gay
94 | 646 |
| eve Downing
73, 50 | 650 | Geoff Lingard
97 | 629 | ||
| Dave White
60, 54, 88unf | 650 | Chris Mitchell
| 471 |
| Dave White
89, 69, 60, 50 | 800 | Steve Downing
74, 65, 50 | 533 |
The final of the Team Billiards Championship was held at Looe SC on Tuesday 18th March. Mr. Peter Lawrence was referee. All rounds in this competition saw teams of three players contesting games of 45 minutes duration, matches being decided on the total aggregate points.
The result was a victory for Dobwalls who beat St. Dominic 542-452, Alan Snell swinging the result in Dobwalls' favour in the last game.
| C. Mitchell
| 145 | D. Hunn
| 175 | ||
| R. Northcott
| 128 | M. Searle
35 | 145 | ||
| A. Snell
43, 66, 31 | 269 | I. Hunn
32 | 132 |