Draft:Clare O'Donnell

Clare O'Donnell was born {{circa}} 1903.{{cite news |title=Another Snooker Champion Comes to England |newspaper=Evening Standard |date=17 December 1935 |page=31 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-another-snooker-champio/164284217/ |via=Newspapers.com}}

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-herald-another-snooker-expert/164284257/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/football-post-newcomer-from-canada/164284266/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-mirror-newman-beats-odonnell/164284276/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-snooker-title-en/164284298/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-herald-stanburys-rival/164284783/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/western-mail-odonnell-leads-lee/164284795/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/football-post-a-hard-hitter/164284846/

Joe Davishttps://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-mirror-putting-pep-into-snooker/164284859/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-mirror-snooker-star-came-without/164284885/

Chambershttps://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-dispatch-the-best-way-to-test-a-b/164284899/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-times-ontario-champion-fails-to/164284946/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/marylebone-and-paddington-mercury-billia/164284972/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-mirror-even-a-cue/164285004/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-sport/164285025/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-canadas-best-cue-champion/164285043/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-canadian-cue-titlist/164285389/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-odonnell-ad/164285414/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-expositor-billiard-room-ad/164285839/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-clicking-em-off/164285831/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-odonnell-wins/164285871/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-donation/164285905/

Canadian final v Polloc. COD from Toronto{{cite news |title=Pollock and O'Donnell are snooker finalists| newspaper=The Daily Record |date=4 May 1928 |page=12}}

Clarence; 3-3 best f 7{{cite news |title=Edmonton boy breaks even in snooker tourney |newspaper=Edmonton Journal |date=5 May 1928 |page=37}}

Ontario pro snooker champion{{cite news |title=Hodgson qualifies in billiards play |newspaper=The Gazette |date=1 Mar 1930 |page=17}}

"confines activities solely to the multi-ball game for the simple reason, in his own words, he hits the cue-ball too strongly to ever make a success at billiards"{{cite magazine |title=Billiards |magazine= Tattersall's Club Magazine |date=March 1936 |volume= 9 |number=1}}

"has a special habit of his own. He plays with terrific speed and runs round the table for each succeeding shot as though he were on a time limit.... He is reputed to be a very fine player but was no match for Horace Lindrum when they met during March. The Australian champion was so far ahead at the end of the first day that Clare decided to call it a day and forget to keep his appointment."{{cite magazine |title=Billiards |magazine= Tattersall's Club Magazine |date=May 1936 |volume= 9 |number=3}}

hard hitter{{cite magazine |title=Billiards and snooker |magazine= Tattersall's Club Magazine |date=February 1937 |volume= 9 |number=12}}

O'Donnell entered the 1936 World Snooker Championship,{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=2 January 1936 |page=5 |title=Professional Snooker Championship}} and was drawn to play Sydney Lee at Thurston's Hall in a match of the best of 31 {{cuegloss|frame}}s.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=24 March 1936 |page=5 |title=Snooker Pool – The Professional Championship }} O'Donnell led 6–4 after the first day; the correspondent for The Times wrote that O'Donnell "takes very little time over his strokes, sights quickly, and pots cleanly." and 11–9 after two days.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=25 March 1936 |page=6 |title=Snooker Pool – The Professional Championship }} Lee won the last two frames on the final afternoon to reduce O'Donnell's lead to 13–12 and then added the first three in the evening to lead 15–13, before O'Donnell took the last three frames to win the match 16–15.{{cite news |title=Snooker Pool – The Professional Championship |newspaper=The Times |date=26 March 1936 |page=5 }}{{cite magazine |title=Snooker championship at Thurston's |magazine=The Billiard Player |date=April 1936 |page=18 }}

In the quarter-finals, O'Donnell faced Horace Lindrum at Burroughes Hall.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=14 April 1936 |page=5 |title=Snooker Pool}} Lindrum led 8–2 and 15–5 after the first two days.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=14 April 1936 |page=5 |title=Snooker Pool Championship}} O'Donnell won frame 21 but Lindrum won the match in the next frame, securing a decisive margin at 16–6. The afternoon session ended with Lindrum 19–6 ahead.{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=16 April 1936 |page=5 |title=Snooker Pool – World's Professional Championship}} O'Donnell did not appear for the evening session and Lindrum played an exhibition match against Bert Terry.{{cite news |title=Snooker Championship – Unexpected ending to Lindrum-O'Donnell match |work=Aberdeen Journal |date=16 April 1936 |page=4}}}{{cite book |last=Everton |first=Clive |date=1986 |title=The History of Snooker and Billiards |publisher=Partridge Press |location=Haywards Heath |isbn=1852250135 |pages=51–53}} O'Donnell did not enter the championship again.

Lindrum later wrote that he could not remember watching a player who would "hit a ball harder or with such devastating results", adding that O'Donnell "brought off some remarkable shots crashing the ball into a pocket at a terrific pace from the most delicate angles."{{cite book |last=Lindrum |first=Horace |title=Horace Lindrum's Snooker, Billiards and Pool |publisher=Paul Hamlyn Pty |location=Dee Why West, Australia |year=1974 |isbn=978-0-7271-0105-1 |page=76}} Unusually, O'Donnell kept his {{cuegloss|chalk}} under his hand while cueing.

Might's Greater Toronto city directory, 1954

Billiards and Snooker Jan 1969: won Toronto tournament

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