Database
EMBASSY WORLD SNOOKER PRIZE MONEY
Champion £190,000
Runner-up 115,000
Losing Semi-Finalists 57,000 x 2
Losing Quarter-Finalists 29,000 x 4
2nd Round Losers 15,500 x 8
1st Round Losers 8,750 x 16
9th Qual Round Losers 7,400 x 16
8th Qual Round Losers 4,450 x 16
7th Qual Round Losers 2,350 x 32
6th Qual Round Losers 1,475 x 32
Highest TV Break 16,000 x 1
CRICKET - COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP MOST WINS [since 1890]
1 Yorkshire 30 wins
2 Surrey 16 wins
3 Middlesex 12 wins
4 Lancashire 8 wins
5 Kent 7 wins
6 Essex 6 wins
7 Worcestershire 5 wins
8 Warwickshire 4 wins
8= Nottinghamshire 4 wins
10 Glamorgan 2 wins
10= Hampshire 2 wins
Derbyshire & Leicestershire have
both won once.
Gloucestershire, Somerset,
Sussex, Northamptonshire &
Durham have never won the title
ANNIVERSARIES
Today Birth of professional basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947).
Monday Births of yachtswoman Clare Francis (1946); and Italian motor- racing driver Riccardo Patrese (1954); the first international boxing match took place at Farnborough, Hampshire (1860).
Tuesday Births of racing driver Jochen Rindt (1942); and West Indian fast bowler Malcolm Marshall (1958).
Wednesday The first Boston Marathon was held (1897); births of former England international footballer Trevor Francis (1954); and Test cricket umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird (1933).
Thursday Birth of former Rugby League coach Maurice Bamford (1936); the world's first motor race using mechanical power took place in Paris (1887).
Friday Birth of British tennis player Angela Mortimer (1932); at Denial Bay, South Australia, Alf Dean landed a great white shark weighing 2664lb, which is the largest fish ever caught on a rod (1959).
Saturday Births of Australian tycoon Alan Bond (1938); and British world champion boxer Lloyd Honeyghan (1960); death at 81 of the former boxing champion Jack "Kid" Berg (1991).
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