Steve James (snooker player) Steve James (snooker player) Stephen "Steve" James (born 2 May 1961) is a retired English professional snooker player. A former postman, the high point of his career was his sole ranking title – the Classic in 1990, beating Australian Warren King 10–6 in the final. His world ranking peaked at number seven the following season, the best of his five seasons in the top sixteen. On 14 April 1990, in his match against Alex Higgins at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, James became the first player to produce a 16-red total clearance in competitive play. In other words, he
Gary Owen (snooker player) the resident professional at a snooker club in Sydney. After gaining Australian citizenship, he represented his new country at the Snooker World Cup in 1979. Gary Owen (snooker player) Gary Owen (born 1929 in Tumble, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died 1995 in Brisbane, Australia) was a Welsh snooker player. Owen first emerged as the inaugural British Under-16 champion in 1944 and reached the final of the prestigious English Amateur championship six years later. He then gave up competitive play for a number of years, returning only in the early sixties. In 1963 he matched the achievement of his brother Marcus, winning the