World Snooker Championship 1970

= The event =

The 1970 World Snooker Championship took place in April 1970 and like the previous year the final was at London's Victoria Hall.

David Taylor, having turned professional after winning the 1968 World Amateur in Sydney, brought about an increase of one on the entry for the previous year. He held John Pulman 12-12 at Grimsby before going down 20-31.

Pulman also crushed the previous year's runner-up Gary Owen in a semi-final at Middlesbrough and after trailing 14-27 to Ray Reardon in the final in London recovered to 33-34 before losing 37-33.

Controversy attended the other semi-final for which a diabolically difficult table was installed at Bolton. Defending world champion John Spencer let the difficulties it presented get the better of him and Reardon, adapting himself better to the conditions, scored a narrow victory of 37-33 to reach the final.

This year was the first of Reardon's six world titles; he held the title for only 7 months until the next championship in Australia during November 1970.

Prize Money

Winner £1,225

The Results

First Round Best of 21 frames

flagicon|England David Taylor 11-8
Bernard Bennett flagicon|England

Round8
Best of 61 frames
flagicon|England John Spencer|31 |flagicon|Northern Ireland Jackie Rea|15|
flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|31"' |flagicon|England Fred Davis|26|
flagicon|Wales Gary Owen|31|flagicon|England Rex Williams|11|
flagicon|England John Pulman|31"' |flagicon|England David Taylor|20
Best of 73 frames
flagicon|England John Spencer|33 |flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|37|
flagicon|England John Pulman|37"' |flagicon|Wales Gary Owen|12
Best of 73 frames
flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon |37|flagicon|England John Pulman|33