The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-17

being familiar with the move, he pictures the
board in his mind. So it was with Zukertort.
There 1t was constantly before him, and he
knew just what to do next. good story is
told of his wit. 1t seems that young man,
who was one of the sixteen players, approached
him during the IL o'clock interim and said, in
bold. loud voice: Doctor do you think am
playing pretty good gamer Yes, replied the
chess-player, your first twelve moves were
book moves, and they were good ones, but
your thirteenth was an original move, and it
was a bad one
"There was young fellow named Morphy
who lived in the South about the ffties who
atterward went to the American Chess Con-
gress and wiped out Paulsen, at that time an
American champion. After that he went
abroad and walked through the chess centers
like Caesar through Gaul, beating everything
In sight. There was an attempt to get Stanton
the great English player, to meet him, but
Stanton always gave as an excuse that he was
busy getting out his great edition OF Shake
speare. Morphy then went to Paris Professor
Anderson OF Berlin was sent for and came
Anderson was the man who wrote the treatise
proving that the great Evans ganbit opening
was worthless, and consequently he was looked
upon as an authority. Well when he sat down
to play Morphy, much to his establishment and
chagrin the American began by opening with
the Evans game. Anderson asked him wheth er
or not he was offering an insult, but Morphy
merely urged him to proceed with the game.
The result was that Morphy beat the life and
the reputation out of him, thus proving that
one opening was good for him as another
Anderson, who was an immense man, reached
across the table, picked up his youthful OPP
ponent and Rugged him, exclaiming, Great
Jupiter, how in the world did you do it.? And
SO 1t goes. a master OF the game is prepared
for any kind of an onslaught"
Say, Joe, how about the panoramic memory
you were talking of?' inquired bystander
"Why, panoramic memory is one which
can retain 8 few yards of poetry or prose and
reel 1t of aud forget it as it passes by, seldom
retaining any of it. The politicians possess
this kind of memory-seldom remembering
what they said. That includes promises and
platforms"
Alexander G. Fisk OF New York, member of
the firm of Harvey Fisk e. Sons, bankers, is Wis
iting California for pleasure and recreation
With Frank Hatch of Visalia he visited tho
water carnival at Santa Cruz, returning to San
Francisco last evening. Both have seen carni-
val displays at Venice and Geneva and do not
hesitate to declare that the spectacle at Santa
Cruz surpassed in many respects the old world
exhibitions on the water. "The electric dis
play" said Mr.. Fisk, twas the finest l ever
saw, and the damming Of the river was unique
in its way. pronounce the Santa Cruz Water
Carnival great success" Mr.. Fisk will visit
Yosemite Valley next week.
General R. H. Warfield returned from Santa
Cruz last evening. He speaks of the carnival
as the Queen of Sheba spoke of her visit to a
wise man, asserting that half has not been
told. He says that his judgment in this regard
is verified by tourists from older countries
who saw the Examinations and attractions of
the scene.
Reports come from the scenes of pleasure and
revelry at Santa Cruz saying that George T..
Bromley is still there. When last seen he was
on the ground where he opened hotel thirty
years ago explaining to a bevy of young and
alluring beauties the excellence of the clam
chowder on that famous OCCASION