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).