Davis had the best of the first four days and led 29–19.[65] Donaldson won sixteen frames on the last two days but Davis held on to win the championship.[66] Davis made a break of 140 in the final, a record for championship play, beating brother Joe's 136 set in 1946.[67] The second unofficial championship was called the 1953 World Professional Match-play Championship and resulted in another final between Fred Davis and Walter Donaldson. The seventy-one frame final and was the last held at Leicester Square Hall before its closure in 1955.