{"id":482,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/snooker\/legend\/john-spencer\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:45:49","slug":"john-spencer","status":"publish","type":"legend","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/legend\/john-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"John Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John Spencer<\/strong>&nbsp; was an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the&nbsp;Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters, and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition. This is regarded as an unofficial maximum break as the event used non-templated tables. He was born in&nbsp;Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. Three times world champion: 1969, 1971, and the first Crucible winner in 1977!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spencer was the first major professional snooker player to use a two-piece cue, which he used to win the 1977 title. Spencer was given the cue by Al Selinger of the Dufferin Cue Company during Spencer&#8217;s victorious run in the 1976 Canadian Open. He did not use the cue straight away but switched to it a few weeks before the 1977 World Championship.A few months later he changed his cue again to another 2 piece, this time from Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His cue action included an unusually long backswing which gave him immense cue power, and allowed him to develop shots using deep-screw from long-distance and maximum side spin which aided the progression to modern break-building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":523,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-482","legend","type-legend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/legend"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}