The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-22
CHESS MASTERS
AT EXCELSIOR
Notables Meet at Lake to Contest
for the Western Cham
pionship.

The sixth annual tournament Of the Western
Chess association started yesterday at pm.
at Excelsior, with eighteen entries, represent.
Minneapolis-E. P. Elliott, N. Cohen c. G.
Rosen, J. W. Clark, F. N. Stacy.
ST. Paul-Geo. B. Spencer, DR.. A. T. Bige-
Chicago-Louis Uedemann, b. F.. Lee, Jamea
Abbott.
ST. Louise. s. Schrader.
Michigan-Judge Smith, CassopoIis.
Ohio-R. G. Fitzgerald, Dayton.
North Dakota-Wm. Widweyer, J. Friedland.
er, E. P. Updegraf.
Canada-Magnus Smith, Chas. Blake, Winni.
peg.
This is the largest number of entries in the
six annual contests of the Western association,
and the prospects is that the 1905 tourney at
Mnnetonka will exceed in interest even tho
last two which were held respectively at st.
Louis and Chicago.
The scores in the first two rounds played
Monday afternoon and evening resulted as fol.
lows:
First round.-Bigelow defeated Updegran;
W1dmeyer won from Abbott; Uedemann de.
feated Blake; Cohen beat Spencer; Magnus
Smith defeated Elliott; Stacy lost to Clark:
Schrader beat Fr1edlander; Lee won from Rosen,
| and the game between Judge Smith and Filter.
gerald adjourned.
Schrader defeated Lee; Judge Smith lost to
Friedlander; Magnus Smith beat Fitzgerald;
Spencer lost to Elliott, Stacy drew with Cohen,
Uedemann defea ted Clark, Blake beat Updegraf,
Abbott from Bigelow
There will be seventeen rounds played, which
with two yesterday, means three daily up to
| and including Saturday night.
| Uedemann, the Chicago expert, is the present
i holder of the Western championship. Schradee
is champion of the st. Louis club. Magnus
Smith is champion of Canada. The above three
made clean score of two wins each In the first
days play. Spencer is chess editor Of the st.
Paul Dispatch DR.. Bigelow holds the ST Paul
club championship. E. P: Elliott holds tho
, twin city championship title. Stacy holds the
Minnesota state and Minneapolis city cham
| pionships. Wtdneyer is present holder of tia
North Dakota championship. Blake recently
won the Manitoba title. Fitzgerald is club
champion Of Dayton, Ohio. and likewise holds
| the championship of the Tri-State league, in
Guiding the states of Ohio, Michigan and In
diana. Updegraf, of Fargo, but until re.
Gently an Iowa man, still holds the champion
ship Of Iowa.
| Perhaps every man in the tournament, how.
ever has held the championship of his state or
city both at various times, and good share
of them fairly confident of winning the
500 first prize and championship button Of the
west, or at least second place. The youngest Of
the eighteen entries is Nathan Cohen, the young
university man, who made the best score at the
last state tournament and played splendid chess
on his first two rounds yesterday. Doubtless the
player Of the widest chess experience in match
} and tourney play is Louis Uedemann. the present
holder Of the western championship. Uede-
mann played his first tourney Of national inter-
. est as early as 1885 IN such company as Show
alter, who, until Pillsbury's advent, thu
American championship. Uedemann has Won sthe
Chicago title perhops dozen times in two dozen
years, and has the western title three out
: Of the five previous Journeys.
Magnus Smith, the Canadian champion, Is the
unsolved riddle among his American friends, this
! being his first appearance in the Western asso-
, citation. His brilliant victories Elliott and
Fitzgerald yesterday stamp him one Of the
strongest men in the tournament.