New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
COLUMBIA CHESS TITLE.
EASY.
TEAMS VICTORI II
Yale Beats Princeton and Comes
IN .Sccond-HwU0rd Last.

Columbia emerged easy winner from the SIX
,eentb annual intercollegiate chess tourfla1+nt.
a-hich came to Al end at the rooms OF the ,t ese
side Republican Club last night 1I 1IIis T,-e-s
second consecutive victory for the New -
They finished with to'i15 scere coIea IN sec
I'D onlv three points behind. despite the tact
+ha- ola Eli triumDhcd over Princeton pE $50
of +, l Yesterday Yale got 612 pclhtS and IT,
80, AZ Harvard nine times winner or the cup
vas beaten by Columbia. 81 10 >, ana prouth NJ ut
- Ca, for the first time with total score OF
81 noints as the result of the three days play-
The members Of the winning team We're captain
I I Wolf and II. BlUnberg. both OF Whom M n1aGe I
- ecores for their university a year ago, IL u
r1ar,sdeu and G. F Comstock. the last named nav
sr<z substituted L. H PfeEer after Ine mrs.
roYnd or SATURDAY.. Blumberg once again made
: -, scorn of rhres straight victories Neither
Wolf nor Comstock suffered defeat at Ine hahoS
of their opponents. O. Burgess son OF hlSLop roy
Burgess, Of Long Island. playing louf1h podru io
Yale shared the distinction Of a clean score Win
Plunberz of Columbia.
f-aptatn Wolff. of Columbia, met with sturdy re
ejs-ance on the part of Johnson of Harvard the
latter defending Ruy Lopez with much care anu
Judgment The play was quite even throushout
fhe opering and middle game and finally enued In
3 draw after a pawn and bishop ending
AT the second board. Hit sacrificed a pawn on
pIunnberg however, ready with an adequate
defence and took his innings on the twenty-ninth
when he gave up pawn nus, Iins oe The
queen. BlumbeTg had little difficulty IN winning
thereafter ,.., -.
Ramsdell of Columbia, worked up a capital at
,sck IN q French Defence put up by Parshley. II
cost the latter the exchange TO get out OF ms dlI
ficulties, but he lost in the end arter ioriS-h'e
49, eo,,-.t
hoard won his second game defending q queen
<za,,bif He obtained control OF the open queen
rocks file ard won a pawn neatly on me V"ehtN-
ninth move. Two moves later he won q ileSe'
whereupon he brought about a siillpie e-i.is
returning the piece Tor aliotlieA pawn 9
forty-seven moves. r,.es 1,a
Tr1urston and Williams discussed a Petron De
ea,ca at the ton board OF the AA4e-f -filiiOe'oli
,.h md for inward of thirty moves the contest
-Ss evenly ,yaged. Then Williams got his rook
to the seventh row, winning n pawn ne iooa -
and pawn ending which ensued was was oiliiCuI . 1oS g
snded IN a win for Williams aiter III AN"
~ ,ta refferson- Stephens game at the slAh
.a che larter obtained a promising attack
xhsc, Vas repelled in good style by eIIefson- me
yele rlsyer won pawns ana scofeo Iho s"i
after thirty-eight moves TO-. ,Iox
!. = burgess obtained the verdict against ~ <ieA-
ander by winning the exchange 1A0 7o
thirty-seven moves. - l.,
The shortest game of the day was that won oy
q Burgess of Yale against Tiemanns OF frlnce-
ton TTernann found himself minus q piece after
eleven moves and struggled against late IoF
sozen moves longer. when he resigned
YESTERDAY morning the contestants were the
r7lests at breakfast at the Yale Club OF td~aro
a CasNrell. Yale 60 who originated the INTERIOR
Iegiate tournament The members of the alumni
chess committee present were J. L. Lockwood 1r'
nf vale. n A Keeler of Columbia and w. Catch
inqs If Harvard The annual business meeting
was held at the time, the time limit belng lhe
main topic Of discussion A motion TO increase the
limit from fifteen twenty moves an hour was
voted down by 9 10 The following were ap-
pointed members of the international cable match
committee which viii have charge of the contest
for the Isaac L. Rice trophy, now in possession
OF Oxford and Cambridge: A S Jamison. Yale;
L. J. Wolff. Columbia; E. r. Perry, Harvard; j.
3. Hunt, Princeton
The inal