Davis successfully defended his title for the next three years. In the 1929 final against Newman, Davis made 63 century breaks and his average score per visit to the table was 100. In 1930, he set a new record average score-per-visit of 113.3, beating Newman 20,198–20,117. The event was not held in 1931 as most of the leading professionals did not enter, mainly due to a disagreement with the BA&CC over the to be used. The only entrant was Willie Smith, who was not declared champion. In 1932, Davis faced New Zealander Clark McConachy in the final; McConarchy had won three of their four warm-up matches but in the championship itself, Davis won 25,161–19,259, scoring over 11,000 of his points through a series of runs of "close cannons", in which the three balls are kept close together for consecutive . Davis contested the final again in 1933 and 1934, losing on both occasions to Australian Walter Lindrum.