1947 Men's British Open Squash Championship

May 2025 June 2015 British Open Squash Championships 9 British Open Championships London, England Lansdowne Club & Royal Automobile Club 1938 1948 The 1947 Open Championship was between the defending champion Jim Dear of the Queen's Club and the professional champion Mahmoud Karim of Egypt. The Amateur Championships returned in December 1946 and the Professional Championships returned in March 1947, so there had not been time to organise a 1946 Open Championships. However the first leg of the 1947 Open Championships finally took place on 17 December at the Lansdowne Club with the second leg held at the Royal Automobile Club on 22 December. Mahmoud Karim ran out an easy winner in the first leg winning three games to nil before securing the Open Championship with a hard-fought second leg win.https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/reference-online Times Archives 1947 Open Championship Oxfordshire Libraries Results https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/ Squash Rackets The Times Archives 2 May 2015 18 January 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170118235618/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/ live First leg 5 Lansdowne Club EGY Mahmoud Karim 9 9 9 ENG Jim Dear 4 1 3 Second leg 5 Royal Automobile Club EGY Mahmoud Karim 5 7 9 9 9 ENG Jim Dear 9 9 8 7 3 British Open Squash Championships England (London) 1938 1948 1947 References Category:Men's British Open Squash Championships Men's British Open Squash Championship Men's British Open Squash Championship Men's British Open Squash Championship Men's British Open Squash Championship Category:Squash competitions in London