The tournament is disputed, as it had only two participants, and other players boycotted the event to play in the 1952 World Professional Match-play Championship.

Lindrum won the Australian Professional Billiards Championship on multiple occasions, first winning the event in 1934.

[1] He challenged Frank Smith for the Australian Professional Snooker Championship and, on 5 December 1931, at the age of 19, won by an aggregate score of 8899–8262.

[5] Three years later, on 24 November 1934, he also won the Australian Professional Billiards Championship, successfully challenging his uncle Fred who had held the title since 1908.

[8] Davis was scheduled to depart Australia on 30 October but accepted an invitation to play against Horace Lindrum at snooker, delaying his departure until 7 November.

[9] An 81-frame match was scheduled at the Tivoli Billiard Theatre, Bourke Street, in Melbourne from 29 October to 6 November with two sessions of five frames played each day.

[14][21] Fred Lindrum criticised Davis for demanding a £100 side bet and for insisting on the use of the match table on which he had recently played.

[23][24] After his arrival, Lindrum played a week-long billiards match against Tom Newman at Thurston's Hall.

[26] In December, Lindrum played two snooker-only best-of-61 matches against Joe Davis over successive weeks at Thurston's Hall.

Lindrum met Bert Terry in the first round, Clare O'Donnell in the quarter-final, and Stanley Newman in the semi-final, winning all his matches comfortably.

However, Lindrum levelled the match at 15–15,[32][33] before winning six out of ten frames to lead 21–19,[34][35] and led at the conclusion of the penultimate day 26–24.

He won his quarterfinal against Sydney Lee and his semi-final against Willie Smith comfortably, and met Joe Davis again in the final.

[47] After the final afternoon session, Davis still led 29–26, with Lindrum needing to win five of the six evening frames.

[49][50] Lindrum returned to Australia in the middle of 1937, playing a series of exhibition matches with Melbourne Inman.

[54] However, he played a two-week exhibition match against Davis, the new champion, at Thurston's Hall immediately after the championship.

[57][58] In the Daily Mail Gold Cup, Lindrum was again handicapped as the second strongest player but now received 20 points per frame from Joe Davis.

[59][60] Lindrum played in the 1939 World Snooker Championship, but he lost his first match 14–17 to Alec Brown.

Lindrum played in the World Championship in 1947 and 1951 where he lost to Walter Donaldson in the semi-final on both occasions.

[74] By 1957, Lindrum retired from competitive play to become an exhibition player, touring Australia and South Africa and describing himself as the "undefeated world champion.

"[71] In 1963, the Australian Professional Billiards and Snooker Association asked him to return to competitive play to combat the flagging interest in the sport in Australia.

[75][73] Lindrum died on 20 June 1974 at the Delmar Private Hospital, Dee Why, Sydney, of a bronchial carcinoma.