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Clive Harold Everton MBE (7 September 1937 – 27 September 2024) was an English-born Welsh sports commentator, journalist, author and professional snooker and English billiards player. He founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published (as World Snooker ) in 1971, and continued as editor until September 2022. [ 1 ]
It took place around November each year. Prior to the 1999/2000 season, it was held later in the season. As a result, two tournaments were held in 1999, one for the 1998/1999 season and one for the 1999/2000 season. Since 2022, the tournament's trophy is named the Clive Everton Trophy, after the popular commentator. [1]
Everton had been the editor of Billiards and Snooker from the December 1966 issue [1] until the February 1971 issue when he was succeeded by Doug Organ. [2] [3] According to Everton, he was sacked at the instigation of Jack Karnehm, the Chairman of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council (as the Billiards Association and Control Council had renamed itself) for "giving professionals publicity ...
[1] [2] Davis and Rex Williams arranged to play a series of 31 matches with the winner taking the title, and with each player taking a fee from each of the match venues. [3] Snooker historian Clive Everton has suggested that the agenda behind the contest was to allow Williams to gain a world snooker title and become more marketable, at a time ...
Since the 1980s, the world championship has sometimes been contested as a series of shorter games, for example in 150-up, the first player to win a designated number of games of first-to-150 is the victor. From 1989 to 2011, Mike Russell was the dominant player, closely followed by Geet Sethi who won five titles.
In 1968, he won the English Amateur Billiards Championship with a 2,652–2,540 victory against Clive Everton. In 1977, Wildman was runner-up to Michael Ferreira in a World Open Billiards Championship held in Christchurch. He was accepted as a professional player by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) in 1979.
Clive Everton 2,804 - 1,976 1972 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 3,115 - 2,469 1971 Norman Dagley W. J. Dennison 3,672 - 2,019 1970 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 4,467 - 2,372 1969 Jack Karnehm Mark Wildman 3,722 - 2,881 1968 Mark Wildman Clive Everton 2,652 - 2,540 1967 Leslie Driffield Clive Everton 3,395 - 2,328 1966 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 3,018 - 2,555
[1] [2] The tournament was originally organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BA&CC). After a dispute over a world championship challenge match, the Professional Billiard Players Association (PBPA) — which had been re-established in 1968 by reigning world billiards champion Rex Williams and seven other players ...