Tom Carpenter
{{short description|English player of English billiards and snooker}}
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Tom Carpenter (born 31 August 1887, date of death unknown) was an English player of English billiards and snooker.
Biography
Carpenter was born in August 1887, to English parents,{{efn|Riso Levi (1931) states that Carpenter was English, as his parents were. Other sources state that Carpenter was Welsh and the 1891 and 1901 censuses notes that his mother was a native of Rogerstone. The text of his book seems to imply that Levi had the mistaken belief that Monmouthshire was not part of Wales}} at Newport, Wales, and later lived in Cardiff. He started playing English billiards at the age of seven, and made a {{cuegloss|century}} break at the age of ten.{{cite book|author=Riso Levi|title=Billiards in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcl8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT43|date=9 January 2013|publisher=Read Books Limited|isbn=978-1-4474-8668-8|pages=43–|origyear=1931.}}
He won the Welsh professional billiards title in 1913, beating Arthur Llewellin by 4,084 points in a match of 9,000-up. Llewellin had held the title for 22 years.{{cite news |author= |title=New Welsh billiards champion |work=Pall Mall Gazette |page=15 |date=27 January 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 6 December 2019.}} Carpenter held the title until 1939, when he resigned it. In his 26-year reign as champion, he went 23 years without challenge.{{cite news |author= |title=(Untitled article) |work=Western Mail |page=4 |date=17 February 1939 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 6 December 2019.}}{{cite news |author= |title=Billiards: new Welsh champion |work=Western Mail |page=4 |date=19 May 1947 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 6 December 2019.}}
Carpenter reached the semi-final of the inaugural professional World Snooker Championship in 1927.{{cite web |url=https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/on-this-week_sto2047577/story.shtml |title=On this week |last=Turner |first=Chris |website=eurosport.com |publisher=Eurosport |date=31 August 2009 |access-date=5 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810093454/https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/on-this-week_sto2047577/story.shtml |archive-date=10 August 2019 |url-status=live }} He also reached the 1928 World billiards championship semi-final.
In January 1922 at Cardiff, Carpenter played Joe Davis in a 7,000-up game of billiards. The game ended on 21 January 1922 and Tom lost by a single point."Billiards". Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Monday 23 January 1922, p.6 - via British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 02 April 2021.
He coached Thelma Carpenter (no relation), who won multiple billiards titles.{{cite news |author= |title=Billiards: Women's Amateur Championship |work=Gloucester Citizen |page=12 |date=3 February 1931 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 6 December 2019.}}
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