New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-21

. SERVICES AS ADJCDlCATOR IN "hEAI DE-
,,,xn-rAs,ER AND sTEINrTz MAY PLAY
~ Moscow-PREPAIATIoNs FOR
THE CABLE MATCH.
,.ao, Feb - (speciaD.-The chess season is
4N ,,s height in London and many interest
ua ,mportant contests daily jostling against
-, other that the newspapers can hardly enron
~. more than the brlefest summaries.
-, the arrival Of Pillsbury here from ST. Peters
,ro he became at once in demand. and has been
,n,tas everywhere TO play and to adudicate games
in n'erclub matches Iei' u'''''''s' W " ''
social occasions.
4. the "a, home" given on Monday by the bench
ave Of the Inner Temple to the benchers Of the
Middle Temple consultation games were the enter
,ainnoent provided in addition 10 blindfoid ana
Simultaneous play by Blackburne and Teichmann
All the unfinished games were adJudicated by Pills
,u-v in whom the Lord Chief Justice, who was
r-essnt took great interest. Many women also were
present and yesterday P!llsbury visited the Ladies
rhoss club in Great Russell-st. and delighted them
with r simultaneous performance Of his own. con-
ce1ng 10 most Of his fair antagonists the odds OF
a knight
Pllsbury has brought the news from Russia lha'
the Moscow Chess Club has offered purse OF ''VV'
r,bles TO the winner and 1900 rubos to the loser
for a match between Lasker and Stelntz, 10 DE
nlaved at the Moscow Chess Club in May. This o.
fer will undoubtedly result in the upsettng OF 'he
proposal OF the Hastings Chess club OF tloo 10 'hese
players for similar match at Hastings
But the chess contest exciting the most interest
here s without question the forthcoming caoie
match which IS to be played on March IL between
the representative players of the United states anu
those OF Great Britain and Ireland
The British Selection Committee has nameu inc
following team Of fifteen players, eight OF who on,
VII play and the remaining seven make up '''e
reserve - -,,..o 7 II
H. f. Atkins II. +. Bird. j. H. Blackburne j. II ~
Blake A. Burn +. +. Carr. W. DorlsthoFlv T. "
Iackson r O Jones' c. d. Locock F. w IorI'
d y Mills Dr. s. F. Smith, 5 Tinsley ana H. W.
Trenchard. ,,ooo ..a,, or
1t is reported here that the American team O.
twelve players will be made up as follows; unoro
ID Z, BAIRD John F. Barry. G. +. Burille. Eugene
Delmar Hermann Helms, A. r. Hodges. Edward
Hymes sidney c. Johnson. Judge Leon l." i-apott,
H. y P.llsbury. Walter Penn Shlpey ana JACKSON
". Showalter. - ,,,,.. ,a
Emanuel Lasker will act as adjudicator' and
Baron Albert de Rothschild. of Vienna has been
asked to serve as referee as SIR George Newnes,
donor OF the challenge cup and president OF the
british Chess Club was disincned TO accept the
position. so strongly urged upon him by the Brook-
fvn Chess Club In accordance with the request
OF the Americans l.. Hoffer has accepted the posi-
ton OF representative In London OF the American
team
played nineteen games simultaneously at the Rus
stan club losing only one OF the whole number
The latest score in the Vienna Masters Chess
Tournament reads follows:
Engisch. ~; Marco. Si2: Schlechter. &: Schwarz.
81: Ziuk 5i2 Weiss Aibin, Judd, Halpr.n. AZ
each; Mandebaum 4.