Women's Professional Snooker Championship

[3] Their professional snooker championship was first held in 1934, and was open to players from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Irish Free State.

[8] Harrison won each instance of the annual event to 1940, and claimed her eighth title when the tournament was re-established in 1947,[1] after it had been suspended during World War II.

[9] She did not participate in the 1949 tournament as she felt that holding the event in June meant it would fall outside of the annual snooker season,[10] and only Carpenter and Morris entered for the 1950 championship.

The last time that the tournament was held, in 1950, Carpenter took the title, a few days after winning the World Women's Billiards Championship event.

[15] Gardner, three-times Women's Professional Snooker Championship runner-up, was the top seed in 1976,[16] and Morris, the 1949 champion, reached the final in 1980.

A group of women next to a snooker table. Some are holding trophies.
Women's Billiards Association awards 1948. Pictured, (left to right), are Ruth Harrison , Thelma Carpenter , Joyce Gardner , Agnes Morris , Valerie Hobson , Evelyn Morland-Smith, Beryl Stamper, Joan Adcock, E. Peters. Back row: Gladys Burton