Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-01

IN CHESS CIRCLES,


The tourney for the club championship
and incidentally to determine the ownership
of the set of loaded chessmen to be awarded
to the winner of the best played game was
started on the 18th instant Mr.. f. b.
Walker, prior to the opening. entered his
name as contestant and room was left in
the schedule for several players who had
expressed an intention to enter The pair
ing for the first round and results of the
flNe games played are: Harris won from
Adair, Walker from Boykin. Tibbitts from
Woodward. Hanna from Gwyer and Lyman
from Hodges. Messrs. Prender, Sournin
and Capt. O'FarIelI did not play.
The second tourney, ordinary club con-
te st of those not desiring to enter so stiff a
fight as the foregoing, was postponed for
week. The entries to this contest are
Messrs. Jno. Prender w b Mundelle. A.
E. Crotts. J. p. Campbell, S. w Tucker.
G. S. Rafter, c. II. Turner. w. E. Thomas
and DIR. w. E. Bradley The entrance fee
is 81, which is divided into three prizes.
The contest is open to the public on the
same terms as to members.
The checker players of the club have
organized a tourney, with Messrs. Potts,
Moore, Powers, MuHdelle. Hoffer, Wendell.
Sparks, Gordon and Trumbull entrants.
Each player will contest eight games
against each opponent.
Harvard College had a match the other
night with the Boston Chess Club. and sue
ceeded in getting three games to the clubs
TOUR. november ~ ana 81 Harvard VIII
play a match with Brown University.
The Brooklyn club has accepted the re-
Gently received challenge from the British
Chess Club for another cable match. March
9 and 10 or % and "a are proposed the
days of play. 1t would appear that the
time has come for the management of
these cable matches to pass to the United
States Chess Association, now thoroughly
organized. The only objection to the Brook
lyn club is that it is only one of many, al
though one of the most important, and
chess in this country is indebted to that
club for the management of these matches
during the time there was no organized
head to its interests.
Blackburn. the eminent English player.
was a stonecutter before he attained dis
tinction and income from the game of
chess.
The Calcutta club has finished a tourney
run in two sections, one for Europeans and
the other for the natives. After the games
in the sections We're finished the two lead
ing players in each played off. The first
prize was by native. Dwarkapath
Mukaji, with E. Robertson, an Englishman,
second.
is being made to increase the membership
of the Brooklyn club without loss of time.
Samuel H. Cragg of the finance committee
stated yesterday that invitation to Join
the club is open to all persons of good
standing who played or were interested in
the game of chess, and laid special stress
upon the fact that persons strength as
a player did not enter into the question of
identifying oneself with the organza ton.
An erroneous impression, said Mr.. Cragg,
seemed to prevail that the club was COM
posed mainly of experts and was exclusive
in character. Such are the opposite to the
facts of the case, for on the membership
rolls are players of all grades, from the
expert to the beginner. Nor are the dues
in any way prohibitive.
The facts as written above of the Brook
Iyn club apply very exactly to the Wash
ington club. There are players of every
class found in such a club, and members of
the club who after joining have stated
that they had long hesitated for fear of be-
ing entirely outclassed We're afterward
found to take very respectable positions
players. Some months ago the entrance fee
was dropped and the dues placed at 81 per
month. on which reasonable terms a num-
Der of players have since entered the club.
The Providence Journal notes that the
club al that place recently adopted the
same policy as the Washington club in the
endeavor to get all the followers of the
game into the local club.
About once in a generation the Washing
ton club loses a correspondence game of
chess, and the good luck fell this time to
Baltimore in a game resigned by the locals
a short time since. Such an unusual and
unexpected thing was almost as good a
cause for shouting returned naval
hero who has done his country proud. With
such ground for joy it is no wonder that
they had feast and concert to celebrate
the event and invited their friends to come
in and take part in the joy. Let them en-
joy themselves and bitter thought in
trude that they will not do it again this
generation.
The Baltimore Herald, from which the
above comes, also states that the Baltimore
club has engaged Janowski to pay them
a "a n aft toh
with Showalter.
The game appended was played in Phila-
delphia during Pillsbury's recent engage
ment there. The day previous D. Stuart
defending a Ruy Lopez, won from the
chamDiOn: