New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
CORNELL ENDS WE'LL
WINS TWICE At CHESS.
Pennsylvania s Lead Too Much To
BE Orercome for TrophN.

Chief interest in the fourth and final round Of
the tenth annual tournament Of the Triangular Col
lege Chess League. contested at the rooms of the
Rice Chess Club of this city. lay In the fact that
Cornell and Brown were competing for the honor
of second place in the competition, and the further
fact that the players were to a certain extent on
trial for consderati ton candidates for The AmeTi-
can team in the next cable match against oxford
and Cambridge. which is scheduled to take place
on March 20. Cornelrs players finished I'm a blaze
OF glory. both her men winning their games in good
style.
Louis TolIns of Brooklyn. the senior player for
the Ithacan team who had allowed Hughes. of
Pennsylvania, to escape him on the opening day.
after having had the game we'll in hand admin
istered the first and only defeat to Norman 7.
Whitaker. the other Pennsylvania representative
in the longest game Of the tournament The On
counter lasted eighty moves. r. X Perkins, the
other Cornell player also Von hs game from
Omar r. Mccoy Of Brown, in consequence Of
which the Providence university left poor
third in the
In the final round Hughes, of PENNSYLVANIA, beat
Freeman. Of Brown; Perkins. Of Cornell defeated
Mccoy. of Brown and Tons. of Cornell. won
from Whitaker, Of Pennsylvania The hnal score
was Pennsylvania, 7; Cornell, 3l2; Brown, ~
Hughes openrd with the Vienna Debut against
Freeman the latter exchanging both his bishops
for the opposing knights. on the twelttn move
after useless check with the queen. he exchanged
queens and gave up a pawn needlessly- To make
matters still worse, lie lost a clear piece on the
fourteenth move and after Hughess next turn
the Providence player resigned the shortest game
of the meeting.
Mcooy and Perkins discussed q normal variation
Of the Queens Gambit Declined the latter conduct
ing the black pieces. Mccoy obtained an excellent
development and Fixed n knight strongly at Q6
Perkins however, got his knights into action Ike
wise and. after exchanging one for a bishop, won
the white kings pawn on the twenty fecond move
This gave him the upper hand.
had he ifa
the latter resorted to the sician Defence The
Ithaca player defended well, but could not avoid
6 wea kness In the centre in consequence Of the
backward queens pawn. Nevertheless, he heId MS
own iugeniously until the twenty sixth move when
Whits ker by offering sacrifice Of the queen,
captured pawn. Tons wisely refrained from
the exchange OF queens At that stage, but had TO
submit 10 a passed pawn being established at
KB6 Queens were then traded off and thereupon
Tolins was enabled to equalize matters, Whitaker
later ests blished passed pawn on the king s
rocks file while ToIins had the majority of Pavns
on the opposite wing. Each player had rook, and
the prospects We're for draw. At his htty-third
turn however, Whitaker made his irst mistake IN
endea roring force the situation, and the outcome
Of the manGuyre was that Tons emerged in tns
ending with passed pawn each side of the board.
The Pennsylvania held out for eighty moves, and
then resigned this being his first defeat
It was the consensus Of opinion among colegians
in attendance the tournament that test matches
should be arranged between K. T. Wsslewsii,
holder of the University Of Pennsylvania chess
championship, AMI J. ". Alexander, Of Princeton.
and between H. Blumberg, of Columbia, and l.
Tolins Of Cornell to determine their eligibility for
places the American college team to play in
the cable match against Oxford and Cambridge
scheduled for March 20. To-days match on six
boards between Columbia and Cornell at the Rice
Chess Club will also have some bearing on the
selections be made.
The complete record of the competition for the
second Rice trophy IS appended.