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She was runner-up in the 1930 British Women’s Billiards Championship, and in its successor tournament, the Women’s Professional Billiards Championship in 1931.Early life and billiards career[edit]Eva Collins was the daughter of professional billiards player George Collins, who was the all-England billiards champion in 1877 and 1888. Her sister, Ella Collins, was also a pioneering women’s billiards player.[1][2]She started learning to play in July 1902, and a few months later, at the age of 12, was the subject of an article in the Portsmouth Evening News for beating a boy of 16 in a billiards match.[3]In 1906, Collins played two series of billiards exhibition matches against “Madame Strebor,” a pseudonym used by an unknown woman player who had toured with John Roberts Jr.[4] The series held at Burroughes Hall finished 7\u20135 in favour of Madame Strebor.[5] Shortly afterward, Collins won 15 of 24 matches against Strebor in Manchester.[6]Collins became a billiards instructor at the Lyceum Ladies Club.[7] As of January 1936, she had been coaching for over 24 years.[8] She used her father’s cue in competition.[1]Women’s Billiards Association and Women’s Professional Billiards Championship[edit]In 1930, Collins was the losing finalist in the British Women’s Billiards Championship organised by the cue sports company Burrouhges and Watts.[9]When the Women’s Billiards Association was formed in 1931, Collins was one of four professional players appointed to a committee to organise the professional championships, along with Joyce Gardner, Ruth Harrison, and Margaret Lennan.[10][11]From 1931, the Women’s Billiards Association organised the world championship, with the same trophy used in the 1930 British Women’s Billiards Championship, and Collins was again a losing finalist in the first competition under the Association’s control, in 1931.[12][13]Collins played in the Women’s Professional Billiards Championship each year from 1930 to 1937, but did not play in 1938, possibly due to her other commitments as a coach and referee.[14]She also competed in the Women’s Professional Snooker Championship, but never reached the final of that tournament.Refereeing[edit]She was the first woman to qualify as a billiards and snooker referee,[15] at a time when only around 200 men held the same qualification.[16] At the Boy’s Billiards Championship in 1932, became the first woman to referee a championship match.[17]Titles and achievements[edit]SnookerBilliardsReferences[edit]^ a b “Holder Heading for the Finals”. Leeds Mercury. 22 February 1933. p.\u00a09 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 21 August 2019.^ “Champion in Form”. Daily Herald. 14 February 1935. p.\u00a019 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 21 August 2019.^ “Juvenile Billiard Match”. Portsmouth Evening News. 19 December 1902. p.\u00a06 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 24 August 2019.^ Everton, Clive (1985). Guinness Snooker – The Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp.\u00a0154\u2013156. ISBN\u00a00851124488.^ “Sporting Paragraphs”. Nottingham Evening Post. 5 November 1906. p.\u00a08 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ “Ladies Matches in Manchester”. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 19 November 1906. p.\u00a09 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ “Women’s Billiards Tournament”. Birmingham Daily Gazette. 2 April 1930. p.\u00a02 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ Carpenter, Thelma (January 1936). “Billiards for Women”. The Billiard Player. No.\u00a0181. p.\u00a04.^ “Midland Girl’s Billiards Title”. Birmingham Daily Gazette. 4 April 1930. p.\u00a01 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ “Women’s Billiards. Association Formed to Control the Championships”. Lancashire Evening Post. 1 October 1931. p.\u00a010 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 21 August 2019.^ “(Untitled Article)”. Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette. 18 September 1931. p.\u00a018 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 21 August 2019.^ “Women and Billiards”. Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette. 18 September 1932. p.\u00a018 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 22 August 2019.^ “Women’s Billiards. Association Formed to Control the Championships”. Lancashire Evening Post. 18 September 1932. p.\u00a010 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 22 August 2019.^ “In The Billiards World”. Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. 6 April 1938. p.\u00a011 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ “Quorn Hounds”. Nottingham Journal. 19 September 1936. p.\u00a010 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ “Women Referees Soon in Birmingham?”. Birmingham Daily Gazette. 15 May 1937. p.\u00a014 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ “Woman billiards referee”. Portsmouth Evening News. 16 December 1932. p.\u00a03 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2019.^ ““Trade” Snooker”. Birmingham Daily Gazette. 20 February 1934. p.\u00a012 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 25 October 2019.^ Carpenter, Thelma. “Billiards for Women”. The Billiard Player. No.\u00a0June 1936). p.\u00a08.^ a b “Women’s Billiards Championship”. Leeds Mercury. 23 February 1933. p.\u00a09 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 October 2019.^ a b “Women Professionals”. The Scotsman. 23 February 1933. p.\u00a015 \u2013 via The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 23 October 2019.External links[edit]Miss Eva Collins plays Mr Frank Smith in a Billiard Match in aid of comfort for mine sweepers, 16 February 1918Potting The Ball. Eva Collins teaching women to play at her Kensington billiards school, London, 2 November 1937.Eva Collins in 1939.Wikimedia ErrorOur servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem.Please try again in a few\u00a0minutes.See the error message at the bottom of this page for more\u00a0information. 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