Snooker’s Pool Record
Westminster Gazette, Tuesday 31 January 1928
On good authority I hear of a phenomenal Snooker’s Pool performance, accomplished by A. Mann, a Birmingham professional, who is among the entrants tor this year’s championship.
It is said that Mann in four visits to the table scored the highest possible total points, 147, which can only be done by a player taking the whole of the fifteen red balls, with the black after each, and then all the coloured balls in rotation
Unless Mann conceded any penalties his opponent’s score must have been nil.
The previous best on record stood to the credit of the late Mr. F. Garside, who, in a match with Sir C. Kirkpatrick, in May, 1909, scored 115 out of the possible
Recently Joe Davis, the professional champion, made a break of 100 against F. Pugh, at Manchester, but his aggregate for the game was only 104, Pugh scoring 21.
LUD