The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-11
SPORTS
UDEMANN WAS FIRST
The Chicago Man Won the Western
Chess Championship.
ELLIoTT,o OF MINNEAPOLIS, SECOND
The Tournament at Excelsior Closed
Saturday Night After Six
Days of Play.

AT 9 o'clock Saturday evening the third
annual tournament of the Western Chess
association closed, after weeks session
St Lake Minnet onka, with Louis UGe-
mann, Chicago, winner by score OF 161a
to ~, or .916 per cent; E. P. Elliott,
Minneapolis. second, with score of 141a
to 31e, or sos Per cent; w. G. Hine, Sa-
vannah, Mo-, and F. f. Wilcox Chicago,
tying for third and fourth places, with
score Of 1872 to 41a, or rs per cent; and
F. N. Stacy. Minneapolis, and ]. Fried
lander, Grand Forks, tying for fifth, with
a score of 111s TO 61H, or :63S per cent.
Udemann the Chicago expert, thereby
becomes western champion. He may be
challenged for the title, however, by any
player west of the Alleghanies; the chal
lenger posting with the association $25
to meet the expenses Of the match. and
the title going TO the player first getting
three won games. 1t is probable, how
ever, that none of the other eighteen
players in the recent contest will enter
a challenge, as Udemann's phenomenal
score Is enough to discourage the best of
them. He won his games with each of
the other five prize winners, his only loss
being to George B: Spencer of St. Paul,
and his only draw being Nelson Hall, the
Nebraska correspondent expert. J. w.
Showalter of Kentucky, who contested
the American championship four years
ago with Pillsbury, and S. P Johnston of
Chicago, who has divided Chicago cham
pionship titles with Udemann during the
past six years, are perhaps the only play
ers in the west who are liable to enter.
the lists against Udemann with even
chances to work out win.
With the exception Of Henry Bruins, the
young man of p years from Missouri
all of the nineteen players in the Mime
tonka cont test have had tournament and
match experience and all except posi-
bly, three have been prize winners.
Udemann's first notable tournament was
In the eighties against such national ex-
perts as Showalt er, Judd and Hanham,
in which he made a good score, although
not prize winner. Up to 1894, when
Johnston first came up, Udemann was the
undisputed champion Of Chicago, and
since then he has held the Chicago title
during fully half Of the local tournaments.
He was an easy winner of the northwest
ern tournament at Minnetonka two years
ago, when N. M. Macleod, last years
winner, stood second.
F. F. Wilcox, Chicago, who tied for
third and fourth places with Hlne, has
played on the Chicago team in three OF
the telegraphic matches Of that city with
Boston and Brooklyn teams, winning both
of his Boston games and getting tie on
the Brooklyn game. He stood second IN
one of the Chicago tournaments two
years ago. Had Wilcox not overlooked
a mate in two last Saturday with Judge
Smith, he would have tied for second
place with Elliott.
W. G. Hine. the Missouri lawyer, Is a
big man mentally and physically, and gave
Udeman the hardest earned game of the
tournament, and delivered to Elliott one
OF the latter's three defeats. Hine lost
only three games in 1.-The tournament,
those with Udemann, Wilcox and Stacy
fai nf or
cause Of his three drawn games
]. Friedlander, the Grand Forks archi-
tect, who ties for fifth place with Stacy,
has been the North Dakota champion for
several years and won third place in the
western tournament a year ago. He is
a brilliant player of the Morphy school,
and might have won higher place in the
score except for the strain Of week S
hard play on his health.
In the Minnesota list Of nine players,
all except one have been state cham
pions. Spencer and Bigelow were among
the early champions in the state associa-
tion tournaments. DR.. Lynde won in
1896; Clark in 1898; Husmann in 1899;
Hillman in 1900. Stacy In 1901; Elliott in
1902. until challenged and defeated last
spring by Stacy, who now holds it for the
second year. Elliott won second place
in the western tournament last year also,
and won the twin city tournament two
lis club tournament, and DR.. Bigelow has
won the last two or three St. Paul tourna-
ments.
Outside Of the prize winners in the
Minnetonka tournament one Of the fines
players was J. W. Taylor, Chicago, who
won the Chicago handicap tournament
over both Udemann and Johnson a veal
ago. Taylor's poor physical condition
arising from the effects of the trip and the
hard strain of three games a day for &
week, was responsible for his getting nc
higher than eleventh place in the score
Nelson Hald, the Nebraska crack who
drew with Udemann on a slalemate after
beating him to a finish, stands among the
first correspondence players in the coun,
try and is in a, good way to win frs
place in the Midland division of the
Pillsbury correspondence tournament
Judge Smith, the Michigan veteran, who
won fifth place in the western association
last year, secured game and draw from
the five prize winners this year and gave
all Of them hard struggle. One of tht
most brilliant and dangerous opponent:
the prize winners had to meet both thi
year and last was G. S: Jacobs of Kan
sas City, who was only half game shor
of prize in both tournaments. He CAV,
both Udemann and Elliott hair breadtl
scapes and won from Wilcox and Fried
ander. He held the Iowa state champion
ship as long as he lived in that state an
ranks high both asa correspondent
player and problemist.~