Sydney Lee (snooker player)

Sydney Lee
Sydney Lee with the Empire Trophy
Born(1910-04-25)25 April 1910
Streatham, London
Died10 November 1986(1986-11-10) (aged 76)
Holsworthy, Devon, England
Sport country England
Professional1934–1952, 1973–1974

Sydney Raphael Lee (25 April 1910 – 10 November 1986)[1][2][3] was an English professional billiards and snooker player. He was four times a quarter-finalist in the World Snooker Championship during the first half of the twentieth century. He was a snooker referee on Pot Black. He was the game consultant for a 1970 episode of Steptoe and Son entitled "Pot Black" and, as well as performing a number of trick shots was the stand-in for many of the more difficult regular shots seen in the show.

  1. ^ Rubinstein, Simon D. (22 February 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 558. ISBN 978-0230318946.
  2. ^ Ernest, Peter (11 November 1986). "Sydney Lee died at 76". The Daily Telegraph. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Amateur final". The Guardian. 17 April 1931. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.

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