Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-07
DEATH WON TIE GAME.
Ewo Great Chess Players Leave a Mar
vaIo,s Contest Undecided.

Ewo Great Chess Players Leave Mar
VelOus Contest Undecided.
Eiyht months and half the game had
gone on. And such game, my childrenl
Tom Penny, Britisher, against Jonathan
Pym, Yankee; England against America;
the Old World against the Newl
Between the Club ElectSc of New York
and the Club Eccentric of London emula-
ton had exalted itself to patriotism. On
the day of defeat the flag of the vaaquished
nation would float reversed from the bal
cony of the dishonored club and all the
chessboards for six months at least re-
main yelled with Grape
Thus openly must be carried, and as
frankly borne, these tokens of mourning
and affront, which no revenge should eff
face.
For such was the condition of the com
bat-the match to be the only one of its
kind.
The momentous question of the battle
decided upon, then arose the subsidiary
question, Where should the encounter
take placer
They sought ground Of Cancellation.
But where find it2
Cornelius kevick, the impresario, in
charge of the affair, proposed to charter a
steamer, which should be stationed in mid
ocean, eduidistant from the American and
the English coast, aboard which The two
adversaries should betake themselves and
there remain while the match lasted. In
genious as it was. however, this idea was
| forced to the wall They must find some
other way.
They found tin the electric cable,
which once more was going to merit its
name of "bond of union" between the
Old and New Worlds
This is how it was that for eight months
and half Jonathan Pym and Tom Penny
had disputed by dots and dashes for the
| glorious title of Universal Champion oil
the Noble CANE of Chess"
At u o'clock, say, Tom Penny would
telegraph to Jonathan Pym.
And one hour later Jonathan Ppm would
respond.
Dating from Oct Is, 1889, the game for a
long while bad been indecisive. Toward
the end of December Tom Penny showed
signs of weakness, throwing the partisans
of Jonathan gym into state of excitement
that set then to quarreling among them
selves like political "bosses."
But suddenly, in the middle of January
the English champion by genial ruse re
conquered all his lost advantage. Dowr
went Pym! up went Penny
At last, on the 25th day of May, 1889, thu
American had one of those inspirations
that conquer even destiny. On the re
ceipt of his dispatch Tom Penny had colo
sweat
But he did not give up-oh, nol-and fiv'
days later, o. the 3Oth of May, had posi-
lively glear'1 of hope sudden move
his adversary had opened to him door o
safety. One such blunder at that momen
was decisive Could it be possible?
Tom Penny examined the board NOR
closely. The blunder was not certain. |
! might cover q supreme stratagem. Wha
should he tunk? What course to pursl
s of the two in viewP Was it sham or error
Should he / SIS the door that had bee
o opened to HIN? If error, Jonathan Pyr
T. was lost; if s. Nm, Tom Penny was routed
That day y m Penny wrote out his ow
s telegram; he played his last stake an
' knew it.
t An hour later, unfolding his message
e Jonathan Pylo smiled triumphantly.
i Gentlemen" said he to his colleague
of the Club Electric, ''wait until tomorrow
10 In twelve hoI IS time EnglanHs champio
t will have sig ed his own condemnation"
g The next day in London members of til
!. Club Eccentr'r found Tom Penny on tn
; floor of his chamber, struck down by ape
plexy and s+'ll rigidly clutching in h
8 hand the dispatch that had killed him
. And already for two long hours in tn
Q grand salon OF the Club Electric Jonatha
d Pym had av aitcd from London the tel
J. gram of his vuAquished foe.
Jonathan pym frowned and fidgetec
= That Telegram he must have-then, an
~ then only, could the game be ended. Witt
:, out it the ma ii would remain unfinished
+ The door opened and flunky appeare'
- bearing on sllver folded paper.
"a "a dispatc' for Mr. Jonathan Pym."
~ He seized 1t, opened it and read alou
the following four words:
'Your adversary is dead"
;, The paper escaped his fingers and fell
- : the floor, caught up at once by those b
= side him to verify the text.
" "That is not alp they cried; 'they d
- mand response"
10 "They shall have itp' said Ppm, al
VI with firm hand writing beneath Il
II line "Your adversary is dead" the tv
words 81 alsol" he drew a pistol from b
H. pocket and sent ball through his brain.
G. The game was still draw betwe'
IN them, but was no longer an information
). affair Boston Globe.
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