Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
Copyright. 1se9.l

| SucSo players III luS Oulltu OldltS
are looking forward to great increase
in interest in their favorite amusement
| during the next few months. Several
important fixtures will shortly take
place, as well as some new and inter-
esting events. The facts that the bril-
liant Partisan expert Janowski is now
in this country giving exhibitions OF
| his skill and that young Harry Pills
bury, the American champion, is max
| ing tour of the country playing at
| chess clubs in various States, have al
ready done muen to stir up. lovers OF
| the sport as well as to interest out
| siders.
| Among the great events in the chess
world is the international tournament
| to be held in London, commencing May
| 80. The chess mastersof the globe will
| be present, and the American experts
| have hopes of carrying off the trophy.
| The game has gained a great hold
among the college men, and the inter-
collegiate tournament, held every year
| in New York during the Christmas
| holidays, is always well contested and
generally serves to bring forward some
young player. After the last tourney it
was suggested that the Intercollegiate
| Chess League of America challenge the
combined universities of Cambridge
| and oxford to tournament by cable
| The idea met with instant approval,
| and unless other things should Interfere
| the games will take place during the
| Easter vacation. Six players on each
SIDE Will probably participate. They
| VIII be chosen from those who were
| eligible to play in the recent intercol-
leglate tourney on this side and the re-
| cent Oxford-Cambridge university
match in England. Those who are
| likely to have the honor of representing
| the American universities are Southland
and Arensberg of Harvard, the former
| CT whom is the intercollegiate individ-
ual champion; Falk and Meyer of CO.
lumbla and one representative from
Yale and Princeton respectively. they
being the four universities in the
| league.
The chess players Of our Congress
and those of the British houses of
Parliament will also engage in an
| other test of skill on the checkered
boards and thus add still another link
to the chain of circumstances that is
binding the two countries in the
strong bonds of friendship.
The great chess masters have often
been noted for the peculiar actions in
which they indulge while engaged in a
match. When Lasker and Steinitz
were playing their great series for the
championship Of the world in 1894 in
various cities of this country. which
. match resulted in the former beating
the veteran holder of the title, many
bo
most as much interest in the actions
Of the two men as in their play. AS
is well known. Steinitz is a cripple.
His frail and slender lower limbs,
which are constantly racked by rheu-
matism, are in striking contrast to his
massive head, with its great red beard
and auburn hair. He never moves
without crutches, and when playing
these are held between his legs. He
occasionally drinks a glass Of water
or ginger ale, and if the game has
reached an intricate stage studies the
board stolidly for many minutes be-
fore moving, regardless of the relent-
less ticking of the clock at his elbow
If it be his opponents move he may
pick up his crutches and move about
the ROOM whispering greetings to ac-
Quaintances; but generally, on account
of his infirmity, he sticks to his chair,
keeping close watch of the board and
now and then tWiddling his thumbs.
Lasker, on the other hand, looks
like a divinity student with his close
shaver face and short hair his spec
tacles and pallid complexion. His ia
vorite position is leaning his elbows
on the table, with his head in both his
hands. Thus, staring at the board, he
sits, still and immOvable, like statue,
till he has made up his mind as to his
next move. Suddenly his white hand
moves toward a figure. 1t is tremb-
ling, for he is terribly in earnest. The
move accomplished, he gets UP and
walks around. still absorbed in the
game and chewing vigorously on his
cigar, ready to return as soon as his
opponent has played.
Janowski, who has recently been
playing a series of games with Show
alter and the young Brooklyn expert,
Marshall, is Partisan. Neatly dress
ed in black, with white collar and col
cred link cuffs TO match his shirt and
a neat bow tied in knot at his throat,
he forms a striking contrast in every
way, with black hair cOmbed back from
his forehead without parting. His
aquiline nose is surmounted by pair
of >dark2rimmed eyeglasses. Marshall,
on the contrary, is fair and good deal
taller than his opponent He has a
large Roman nose and deep set eyes,
which ever and anon glance at the Eu-
ropean as if to learn by this means
what his next play may be. He is
dressed very carelessly and when not
smoking a cigar chews continuously
on a match. Janowski now and then
lights a cigarette and slowly inhales
the smoke.
The Partisan is delicate and graceful
in every movement and action. Mar
shall is quick, jerky, abrupt, as though
in this manner he would sweep away
opposition in typical American fashion.
Michael Tschigorin, CT st. Petersburg
is another chess master whose actions
| during contest often provoke COM
ment among the spectators. He is of
nervous temperament and can be very
obstinate when he thinks his rights are
infringed upon. Once during tourna-