Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-13

from Truckee and where will the money for
those timbers be discussed Those moneys
amount to hundreds of thousands yes, mil
lions of dollars Is it better for us) they should
be spent among the people Of California, or
in Nevada This is a question We will not
answer, but it concerns the present and the
future of those boys and girls We all so
interested in and has something to do with
solving the question of the permanence Of our
homes here in the Great American Basin.
THE CHAMPION CHECKER PLAYER.
While the unwelcome information is CON
veyed to us in the following that the Young
Mems Christian Association not only suffers
its place Of assembling to be the habltual
resort of persons who are fascinated with the
a}lurements of the checker board, but that
their rooms are the special rendezvous for the
players of draughts, We are still interested in
all earthly way, in the accompanying sketch
of Yates, the champion player at that hard
headed game. The New York Sun of June .
contains the following
Robert D. Yates, the champion checker
PLAYER of the world, who has just accepted the
! challenge of James Wyle of Scotland TO play a
match for $500 a side, is boy 10 years of
| age, employed at the cash desk of his fathers
eating saloon, under Fulton Market. His
| forehead is broad, square, and high, and the
part of the head in front Of the ears looks
| overweighted Mr.. James Wylie, ''the
| invincible herd laddie, SO called because he
| learned to play checkers while watching cattle
! in the fields is % years Of age. He has
already had a taste of the champion quality,
/ Last wear he came to New York and played
| twenty four games with Yates. The youth
won two games and the rest were drawn. OF
twentysix games played IN Brooklyn, Yates
won five and WyIie one In match for $50,
Yates won two games. Wylie one, the rest
of the fifty being drawn. Yates, IN his recent
match with Thomas Martins, who crossed !
the ocean t. defeat him, wen three games, |
and Martins one.
Five wears ago a school companion OF
Yates came back from visit 10 Sullivan !
county enthused with the game He taught /,
the moves to Yates. * We used to play |
around on stoops in those days the cham |
pon said Yesterday. :" Afterward | went to |
the Union for Christian Work in Fulton |
street, near Dufield street, Brooklyn. There !
I first learned that | could take two men at
time. | thought that was big step gained.
Several years ago a gentleman IN Albany
wrote to a Brooklyn friend that he wished to
play with some good player by correspondence.
Yates, under the name Of II. {. Macdonald,
agreed to accommodate him. After the Albany
gentleman had been driven into close quarters
by his antagonist, the correspondence ended IN
an angry dispute Recently he wrote to the
checker editor of New York journal to in
quire whether Mr.. Wylie had ever been de
feated He received an editorial reply: Yes,
by your old antagonist, II. c. Macdonald
The letter was signed, "Robert D. Yates -
Two famous players from an inland city,
while visiting New y ork not long ago, routed
all competitors, in the rooms OF the Young
Mems Christian Association, at Twenty third
street and Fourth avenue. One of them cas-
ually met and played with Yates, in a Nassau
street Office After he had been defeated, he
induced Yates to visit the Young Mems Chris
tan Association rooms to play with his friend.
Yates was introduced under the name of
Craig The rural champion tucked his legs
under his chair and got to work. After five
short, sharp defeats, he gave up the contest,
that he had ''no luck Then
Yates was introduced as Yates.
The so-called Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations are simply clubs-or, perhaps, 1t is
more expressive to say that they are places of
resort which bear about the same relation to
.he clubs where men of wealth and fashion,
.aste and social proclivities gather together,
hat such innocuous and eyasive expressions
Is Il snum" do to downright hard swearing,
The end sought, We suPpose, IS Of the same
character. Men are gregarious; also they
ike the stimulation of mutual contact.
Where there is 40 club life to satisfy this
onging there prevails the passion for secret
ocieties Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges, a
Red Mems Wigwams and 50 on, these supply
n some degree the place of Clubs. Doubt =
ess the daily prayer-meetings OF the \. NJ c.
!. are a source of Joy and qualification to
many. There is some hypocrisy under the
ustom and mixed with it; but there is much A
hat is not hypocritical. But the desire for a
lace Of resort is the strongest incentive to
hese associations. The game of croquet has "
cen called, derisively, "Presbyterian Bill
ards, 1t is healthful game, 1t is played
ut of doors, and the exercise incident to its
laying is doubtless conducive to health But
Dung men and women prayerful ladies and r.
evout gentlemen get as hotly excited by it
nd over the desire to win as any poker play
IS. The game of checkers has always been III
limited into New England homes where