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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian billiards and snooker player (1924–1989)}}<br />
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{{Infobox snooker player<br />
| name = Chandra Hirjee<br />
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|birth_date = {{circa|1924}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{circa|1989}} (aged 65)<br />
|death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India<br />
| World champ = 1958<br />
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[english billiards]]}}<br />
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{{MedalCompetition|Indian Open Billiards Championship}}<br />
{{MedalGold | 1946 | Singles}}<br />
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[snooker]]}}<br />
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{{MedalCompetition|Indian Snooker Championship}}<br />
{{MedalSilver | 1952 | Singles}}<br />
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'''Chandrasinh Hirjee Jewraj''' (1924–1989), known simply as '''Chandu''' to friends and fans and often referred to by the media as The Stylist,<ref name="The Stylist">{{cite web | url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19991229/isp29067.html | title=Wilson Jones crosses barrier; Chandra at the threshold | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115347/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19991229/isp29067.html | archivedate=2014-08-26 }}</ref> was an [[Indian people|Indian]] amateur billiards and snooker player. He represented<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_BtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22chandra+hirjee%22 | title=India 2001: Reference Encyclopedia, Volume 1| isbn=9780945921424| last1=Myer| first1=Hanna| year=1995}}</ref> Bengal and India in domestic and world championships - the World Amateur Billiards Championship <ref>{{cite web | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/75731612| title=No.2 Indian Player Beats Bob Marshall}}</ref> and the World Amateur Snooker Championship. He won the inaugural World Amateur Snooker Championship held at Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1958.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19581222&id=6Z1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gqoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3828,3330648 | title=Indian Wins Snooker Title - The Age - Dec 22, 1958}}</ref> He was also Indian Open Billiards Championship winner in 1946, 47,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cMTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22chandra+hirjee%22 | title=Asian Recorder, Volume 1| year=1955}}</ref> 56<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbNKAAAAMAAJ&q=%22chandra+hirjee%22 | title=The New Year Book, Volume 26| last1=Thakurta| first1=Jnanranjan Guha| last2=Ghatak| first2=Amal C.| year=1963}}</ref> and 58,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpAjAQAAMAAJ&q=%22chandra+hirjee%22 | title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who| last1=Reed| first1=Sir Stanley| year=1958}}</ref> runner-up in 1952, 54, 55, 57 and Indian Snooker Championship runner-up in 1952, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58.<br />
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