Bert Terry
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Bert Terry (died 1958) was a professional snooker player who played in the 1936 World Snooker Championship.
Biography
Terry entered the 1936 World Snooker Championship and was drawn against Horace Lindrum in a match over 31 {{cuegloss|frame}}s.{{cite magazine |title=Snooker championship at Thurston's |magazine=The Billiard Player |date=April 1936 |page=18}}{{cite news |title=Record entry for snooker title |newspaper=Dundee Evening Telegraph |date=1 January 1936 |page=2}} Members of his local club in Camberwell raised the £10 entry fee, {{Inflation|UK|{{£sd|l=10|s=0|d=0}}|1936|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}, for him.{{cite news |title=Terry's snooker title bid |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 March 1936 |page=21}}
He won the first two frames, and the score was level at 5–5 after the first day. Lindrum won 8 frames on the second day to lead 13–7. Terry won the first frame on the final day but Lindrum won the next three to comfortably secure the match at 16–8. The match ended with Lindrum leading 20–11.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=30 March 1936 |page=6 |title=Snooker Pool – World's Professional Championship}} An article in The Billiard Player magazine praised Terry's {{cuegloss|safety}} play and, although he lacked consistency at it, his {{cuegloss|pot|potting}}, and called it one of the best debut
He died in 1958. The article in The Billiard Player about his death referred to him as "an exceptionally good player some years before the war".{{cite magazine |title=(Untitled article) |magazine=The Billiard Player |date=October 1958 |page=13 }}