Talk:1972 World Snooker Championship

Qualification
The qualification results for the 1972 tournament were:

1st round:

Alex Higgins 15-6 Ron Gross Maurice Parkin 11-10 Geoff Thompson John Dunning 11-10 Pat Houlian Graham Miles 15-6 Bernard Bennett

[for these matches the 'dead frames' were played after the winning margin of 11 had been reached]

2nd round:

Alex Higgins 11-3 Maurice Parkin John Dunning 11-5 Graham Miles

Tim Sandle (timsandle@aol.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.207.0.240 (talk) 12:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Final Score
There are some differences in sources about what the winning score was.

For Higgins 37–32 Spencer
 * Clive Everton: Snooker Scene
 * Masters of the Baize
 * Clive Everton: Snooker: The Records
 * Ian Morrison: Snooker: records, facts and champions
 * Janice Hale: Rothmans Snooker Yearbook 1991–92

For Higgins 37–31 Spencer
 * The Times
 * The Guardian
 * Coventry Evening Telegraph
 * Clive Everton in The Birmingham Post
 * Chris Turner's Snooker Archive link
 * CueTracker (not regarded as a reliable source)
 * The Daily Telegraph

I'd tend towards favouring 37-31 based on dates of sources. Any views? BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:58, 22 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Agree. Contemporary newspapers all have 37-31 and Clive Everton's piece in the Birmingham Post is quite convincing. See also https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K5ZAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6777%2C5305316, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cApiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3826%2C9596953 (Sydney) for other examples. Short of some explanation as to why they're all wrong, I'd go for that. Nigej (talk) 16:18, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * 31 is what we should use - however, I recommend a note stating that some references suggest otherwise. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:57, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with Lee, this is a case of taking a judgement on the best representation per RS, but also acknowledging that many other RS have a different result. Footnotes should abound.  The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 22:28, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Until January 2022 cuetracker had 37-32, see waybackmachine. Also see this discussion https://www.snookerisland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9890#p726532 which also didn't come to any conclusion as to the cause of this. Nigej (talk) 07:15, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Given that Everton himself wrote 37-31 in his post-match reports and then wrote 37-32 in Snooker Scene soon afterwards (which I haven't seen) there seem to be two plausible causes. Either he made a mistake in Snooker Scene (which is plausible since one of the semis was 37-32, and that mistake has been propogated) or Higgins was docked a frame post-event, unknown to all the press at the time. Nigej (talk) 08:18, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I had a look at the CueSport book. It does indeed say "Higgins triumphed 37-31 (not 37-32 as so many publications have wrongly printed)" as per the comment on the Snooker Island thread. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:33, 23 April 2022 (UTC)