Agnes Davies

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| birth_place = Saron, Carmarthenshire, Wales

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2011|02|13|1920|09|30}}

| Sport country = {{WAL}}

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| High ranking = 46 (aged 77)

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Agnes Davies, born Agnes Morris, (30 September 1920 – 13 February 2011){{cite news |last=Everton |first=Clive |date=1 March 2011 |title=Agnes Davies obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/mar/01/agnes-davies-obituary |work=The Guardian |access-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726173756/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/mar/01/agnes-davies-obituary |archive-date=26 July 2019 }} was a Welsh snooker and billiards player. She was known for having a competitive playing career spanning 64 years,{{cite news |date=9 March 2011 |title=Snooker Queen Agnes Dies |url=https://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/news/8897709.snooker-queen-agnes-90-dies/ |work=South Wales Guardian |access-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728024714/https://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/news/8897709.snooker-queen-agnes-90-dies/ |archive-date=28 July 2019}} during which she won the Women's Professional Snooker Championship in 1949,{{cite magazine |author= |title=Bath City Signings|magazine=Snooker Title Won on Last Frame|page=5 |date=20 June 1949|via=The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 19 August 2019.}} and reached world championship snooker finals in 1940,{{cite magazine |author= |title=Snooker Championship |magazine=The Times |issue=48578|page=3 |date=1 April 1940 |via=The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 17 August 2019.}} 1948,{{cite news |author= |title=Miss Adcock Takes Snooker Title|newspaper=Daily Mirror|page=5 |date=22 May 1948|via=The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 19 August 2019.}} 1950,{{cite news |author= |title=Bath City Signings|newspaper=Western Mail|page=5 |date=25 June 1950|via=The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 19 August 2019.}} and 1980.

Biography

Davies learned how to play billiards in her father's billiard hall in Saron, which he had set up using his compensation payment for pneumoconiosis caused by working as a coal miner. She first won the Welsh women's amateur championship in 1939, and won the following two years as well.

Davies, then still known as Agnes Morris, was runner up in the 1940 Women's Professional Snooker championship{{cite news|date=1 April 1940 |title=Snooker Championship |work=The Times |issue=48578 |page=3 |via=The Times Digital Archive }} and the winner in 1949. She was married to Dick Davies (who died in 1996) in 1940, and took a break of some 30 years from competitive snooker. Returning to competition in the late 1970s, she won three tournaments before reaching another world championship final in 1980. In 1985 Davies was Voted Life President of the World Ladies' Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA).

In 1998 she qualified for the Ladies Welsh Open at Newport, Wales at the age of 77 – sixty years after winning as a 17-year-old{{cite news |last=Malone |first=Emmet |date=3 January 1998 |title=On The Sidelines |work=Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) |via=NewsBank}} and was ranked 46 in the Embassy Ladies World Rankings for 1997/98.

Until 1999, Davies played in the home international series for Wales. She also played in the Amman Valley league until 2001.

Davies died in 2011. In 2012, Women's World Snooker held the Agnes Davies Memorial tournament, which was won by Jaique Ip.

{{cite web |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/player/jaique-ip-wan/ |title=Jaique Ip Wan In |website=Women's World Snooker |access-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728024721/https://www.womenssnooker.com/player/jaique-ip-wan/ |archive-date=28 July 2019}}