Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-20

the center and Black Q side and seems to
be well worth the loss OF a move.
&C. unresistingly Fielding to the pressure Bob
game, principally with pieces. as possible, was the
proper policy.
(dl Whites strategy is to constantly keep his
opponent busy. without giving him time for de-
velopment.
te) The ought to retire to Kt3. Even then
White might advance his pawns in front OF his
pieces and damage Blacks position. But Black
would have had the opportunity for fighting II out
As 1t is his game becomes Immediately disorgan-
lied by the advance OF the KIP.
in splendid style. Whites eighteenth is especially
brilliant and vigorous
(g! White might have safely. played kip, but
prefers the more forcing variation Of the text,
which threatens Ktxkt, &c.
The "automaton chess player once set
all Europe guessing. Houdin explains the
trick. The figure was a Turk, apparently
too small to hold man inside, and it
played chess successfully against the best
players in the world being rarely beaten.
But the whole contrivance was a mere de-
ception. The figure was moved by Polish
officer, a refugee, who had lost both legs
in battle and was therefore able to stow
himself snugly into the hollow figure or
into the chest upon which it sat. When the
inside of the Turks body was examined
the officer was slowed in the box below
and he climbed into the Turk when the
box was inspected.
Thus hidden, the officer played chess with
Catherine of Russia while that empress
was offering a reward for his capture 1t
is said that the imperial player cheated,
whereupon the mechanical Turk lost his
mechanical temper and swept the chess
men from the board.
Catharine ordered the figure to be left
in her palace, Kempelin, the inventor, be-
ing thus forced to carry off the real player
in a packing box. The next day (probably
after the empress had tried in vain to
discover the missing link'D kempelin
explained that the chess player required
his own personal attention.
A circumstance that helped to fool the
public was the fact that the Polish officer
wore artificial legs when out of the figure.
This automaton was once owned by Ma
poleon Bonaparte having been taken from
Berlin on its capture-Frederick the Great
had purchased it from the inventory. came
twice to this country and in 1854 was
burned in Philadelphia.
johnny Reif on Winner.
At the first days racing at Derby, Eng
land, yesterday the Doveridge handicap
plate of 5000 for three-year-olds and up
wards, at one mile, was won by ]. r. Row.
sons Ichi Ban, with John Reiff up. Mr.. F.
Hardy's St. Beurre was second and Sir S.
Lockhart's F1ume third. Twelve started
The Craven stakes of s., 500 for three
year-olds. was won by Mr.. Russells bay
gelding Rigo. Sir j. Blundell Naples bay
colt Champagne was second and William
c. Whitney's chestnut colt Petronius, rid
den by L. Reiff, was third. Twelve ran.
CycIer StinsOn's PIucky Race.
In the opening bicycle races of the sea-
son at Charles River Park, Boston. yester-
day, William Stinson of Cambridge de-
feated Johnnie Nelson by a trifle over one
lap, and Bobby Walthour, the southerner,
by one and a third miles, his time for the
twenty-five miles being 40.34ls seconds
There were present over 1000 persons and
one of the finest exhibitions Of pluck was
exhibited when Stinson, after having lost
three-QuarterS of a lap In the fourth mile
because of an accident to his motor pace
continued gamely. and shortly after he re-
gained his pace and made up the distance
he had lost. Nelson had taken the lead
over Walthour, and after the latter Stinson
went. closing the gap between them inch
by inch until he had passed him. 1t was
not until the seventeenth mile that Stinson
passed Nelson, although he did not succeed
in getting far enough ahead of the Swede
to lap him until the twentyfourth mile.
Stinson for the first time defeated Nelson
in race. Walthour was the favorite but