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and a simpler explanation of penalties. The professional players changed their allegiance to the newer Control Council, and the professional championships were played under BCC rules, whilst most amateurs continued to play under Billiards Association rules. The two organisations decided that it was in their mutual interest to amalgamate, and formed the Billiards Association and Control Club, later renamed the Billiards Association and Control Council (BA&CC), in 1919.
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The WPBSA took over the running of tournaments that had been organised by the B&SCC, and paid the prize money originally announced. It also bought the B&SCC's trophies and other assets from the liquidator and ran the amateur game whilst looking to support the establishment of successor bodies
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on 12 December 1970, and declared itself the governing body for the professional game, recognising Williams as champion. Driffield and Karnehm were, at first, the only two professionals to recognise the BA&CC as continuing to have authority over the game. From 1972, the WPBSA organised the World
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The Billiards Association's control over the professional game of billiards was challenged by the Billiards Control Council (BCC), formed in 1908, which issued a different set of rules. The key differences in the BCC's version were that a player could not make more than two miss shots successively,
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offices to consider revising the rules of billiards, chaired by a Mr. A. H. Collins-Orme and attended by the majority of the prominent professional billiards players. This followed an article written by journalist Alf Burnett criticising the existing rules. Burnett and Peter Jennings contacted the
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grants, but this was, according to Everton, stopped "on the grounds of limited efficiency", and at the beginning of the 1990s, the B&SCC was struggling financially as a result of the removal of this funding. The London and Home Counties Billiards and Snooker Association cut links with the
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made on them were to be recognised in official records. The March 1885 match between John Roberts Jr. and Cook, which Roberts won 3,000-2,980 was the first to be held under the rules of the Association. An amateur championship under the "all in" rules, with no restrictions on the number of
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Collins-Orme proposed that an association be created. This was agreed, and "The Billiard Association of Great Britain and Ireland, India and the Colonies" (known as the Billiard Association) was formed. Ten players were tasked with authoring a new set of rules for
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was the driving force behind the formation of the Billiards Association, and the newspaper retained a strong influence over the association's affairs. The influence of the paper over the Association later led to prominent player John Roberts Jr. (who became the
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in June 1971. On 1 October 1970, the Professional Billiard Players Association, which had been reestablished in 1968 Williams and seven other players, disaffiliated from the BA&CC. The Professional Billiard Players Association changed its name to the
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for the professional Billiards Championship. Williams declined to play Driffield within the five months time limit that the BA&CC Council had set, which expired on 7 July 1970, and forfeited the title, which was then contested between Driffield and
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defeated Claude Falkiner 16,000-14,500 to win the first BA&CC title, in May 1920. There were many variations of the rules of snooker at the time, and the new Association codified the rules of snooker in 1919. The new rules included the concept of a
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countries were allowed to enter. From 1926, only English and Welsh players were allowed to participate, and the event was renamed the English Amateur Championship. The first snooker competition organised by the Billiard Association was the
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and Alf Nolan were among the players who took part in exhibition matches at the official opening. On 21 January 1971 the Billiards Association and Control Council changed its name to the Billiards and Snooker Control Council (B&SCC).
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In 1992, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) was expected to take over the B&SCC, but following a vote of the B&SCC members approving this, the WPBSA discovered that the B&SCC had undeclared
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The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association is responsible for governing professional billiards and snooker, whilst the International Billiards and Snooker Federation governs the amateur game.
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and organised professional and amateur championships in both sports. It was formed in 1919 by the union of the Billiards Association (founded in 1885) and the Billiards Control Club (founded in 1908).
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The English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards has been the governing body for non-professional snooker in England since June 2019, when a resolution was passed by the
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The Association came to be recognised as the governing body for billiards, and organised amateur and professional championships. They also produced templates for standard
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The B&SCC lost control of both the amateur and professional games in the early 1970s, following a dispute with professional players over challenge matches for the
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20–11 (although Davis had reached the winning margin at 16–7 before "dead frames" were played to take the total to the agreed 31 frames) in the final.
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The B&SCC had a proportional representation system of delegate voting that meant that the representatives from just two English counties,
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served as the first secretary, and his office served as the first office of the WB&SC. In 1973, the WB&SC renamed itself as the
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1,500–928. The competition was restricted to players from Great Britain before 1917, which was the first year that champions from other
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in February 1885 when Cook failed to respond to Roberts' challenge for the title) refusing to recognise the Association's authority.
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The BA&CC had its own premises for the first time in 1970, when it opened offices and a match room, based in
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consecutive scoring shots that could be played, was organised by the Association in 1892, when Sam Christey beat
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of 1916, which was played to benefit the British Sportsmen's Motor Ambulance Fund.
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persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council to recognise an official
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World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) official website
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of £100,000 and cancelled the planned takeover. The B&SCC then went into
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Everton, Clive (April 1992). "New English body on very verge of formation".
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B&SCC in 1990, to start a new English Billiards and Snooker Federation.
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Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards: The Inside Story of the Snooker World
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in the event of points being level at the end of a frame, and having a
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The Complete International Directory of Snooker Players – 1927 to 2018
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in the mid-1920s, and Davis and Birmingham billiard equipment manager
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was held at Camkin's Hall, and Davis won the tournament by beating
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Hale, Janice (4 November 1984). "Amateurs in a different world".
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Everton, Clive (14 November 1988). "A great billiards amateur".
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players with a view to getting together to rewrite the rules.
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Everton, Clive (April 1992). "B&SCC for knacker's yard".
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Everton, Clive (10 October 1990). "Hendry's cue handed in".
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The Billiards and Snooker Control Council Handbook and Rules
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1919 (as the Billiards Association and Control Council)
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Former governing body for snooker and English billiards
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Index

Billiard Association and Control Council
Snooker
English billiards
Billiards Association
Billiards Control Club
governing body
English billiards
snooker
World Billiards Championship
voluntary liquidation
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
The Sportsman's
English billiards
John Roberts Jr. (Chairman)
William Cook
John Roberts Sr.
Royal Aquarium
Billiards Champion
pocket
breaks
Sidney Fry
Commonwealth
English Amateur Championship
Willie Smith
re-spotted black
free ball
in hand
object ball
foul
billiard hall

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