Alexander Gordon Higgins

Alexander Gordon Alex Higgins was a professional snooker player from Northern Ireland; he was known also as Hurricane Higgins and he earned this nickname for his speed of play. He brought the game of snooker to a wider audience and contributed to the peak in the eighties. Higgins had won 20 titles and in 1978 he beat Cliff Thorburn to win the Masters and, Steve Davis wrote a documentary about Higgins in Clive Everton's TV and he described that he had an exciting style. His doubles partner was Jimmy White and he played against a lot of players; Ray Reardon was one of them. Higgins passed away at the age of 61 years old.