The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-13
pLnAsANr MMsInHins.

Herr Lipschutz INDUCES in Reminis
ceuces of Compromising Gam =.
In the Athletic club rooms Friday
evening Champion Lipschiitz was shown
an article ia the New York Recorder
stating that ]. w. Showslter having de-
ieated Albion is challenger OF the cham
pionship OF the United States.
"Showaltes, ." said Mr.. i2schulz. "is
simply blowing his own bucle. This
sounds very much like the Showaltsr OF
old who always forgot chess ecores when
they were agAinat him. He played &
match with Laskar for the champion
snip of America and waa easily defeated
Nothing daunted by this he challenged
Hodges and Hodges defeated him. /
Was the next recipient of a challenge
and defeated him by score oil to l.,
and now that he has defeated Albion,
who ID hardly considered an up to-date
player, he is again claiming the cham
pionship. Showalter," continued Mr..
Lipschutz, lis very fine player aud an
excellent analyst, but he is not q cham
pion."
The grounds on which Sbowalter baees
his c!aims to the championship are not
very clear to chess players generally.
In hia match with Laskar for the cham
pionship. which, by the way, he was not
entitled in any way to play, not being
che champion himself and Laskar being
ineligible because lie was a non resident
OF tina United States, he was defeated
by decisive score, and no subsequent
match csp give him the title until Las.
knr is beaten.
In conversation about the old mas
eers he had met. Mr.. LipcGutz said
MY fret contest with great player
YVES IN the Manhattan handicap tourney
aE New York in 1884 There / met for
Soc first time Captain Mackenzie. He
Was tail and eQnarely built. with very
black eyes, q rather prominent Roman
nose, and martial bearing. He would
glare at an offending knight or caetle
with es much herceneee as at flesh and
blood antagonist. and l used to think al
times when he deployed the different
pieces and pawns over the ohess board
that he imagined himself maneuvering
his soldiers on field OF actual battle.
His attacks were more spirited and his
games conducted with more energy and
force than any other player had met.
in my first game | was so nenplused
by bis rigid bearing and decisive play
thay lett my queen en- prise at the
fourth move. Mackenzie always played
without glasses. but would put them on
after making move, to record it. He
sedom smoked while playing, but ina
dul2ed in an inordinate number of small
beers, and he used to puff out his cheeke
when something went amisH in his game
IN manner that always made me i'm
sgine they were filled with ouss word:
that he would allow to get no further
although never heard him ndulge even
TO tbs slightest degree in the use OF pro
family.
zUKERToRT's CIGARETTES.
Sin the same tournament | met lux.
ertort, the great Anglo German player
and ex-champion OF the world. He was
man of short stature, but with a head
OF almost enormous proportions; his hat
number was 778. Zukertort was a bril-
liant, fascinating player. his moves were
always made with an erratic nervousness
that seemed to indicate the necessity Of
naming some post OF vantage with all pos
Hibie haste. He was o veritabls cigar
cite tiend. I have seen him smoke al
many rs 20 to the hour. He had dis
like, however, for all the popular
brnads, and nsed TO always roll his own
tobacco In his match with Steinitz al
New Orleans, he informed some ladies'
with whom, by the way, he was uni
sersal favorite. that when they OBJ
,ervod him rolling cigarette. il would
nean that he had game won. Stei-
aitz told me afterwards in New York