Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21
INTERIORS; CHESS
TEAM HOLDS LEAD
Defeats Treasury HandiIy.
QuadrupIe Tie in Club
Championship.

The Departmental Chess League players
We're somewhat quiet during the past
week. there being no meeting between any
of the first division clubs. The three lead
ing teams won their latest engage
ments, SO there is no change to record in
their relative positions. The champion
ship series is now drawing near compile
ton, consequently the remaining matches
between the leaders are exciting unusual
interest The important feature Of the
present weeks play will be the meeting
next Wednesday between Government
Printing Office and Agriculture. These
teams are at present second and third,
respectively, on the list, each having lost
one more game than Interior. They are,
board for board, exceedingly well match
ed, SO Il close contest Will no doubt be the
order of the evening
The result of this match may have a
material bearing on the championship is
sue, as the winner will probably be in a
position to fight it out with the cham
pion Interiors for the title. The latter
team takes a rest this week, after which
the schedule calls for match with a gri-
culture, which will be another battle
royal
Last Mondays engagement between In
terror A and Treasury, although it turned
out to be rather one-sided, was productive
vi SUITE ehctllcHI ClleSS- OIl DOdTu L
Walker offered the queens gambit. which
Halstead met by countering with the
kings pawn, a variation that he had pre-
viously used with good effect, but Walker,
by not taking the proffered pawn compli-
Gated the opening and made the sequence
less familiar. Nevertheless, for a long
time there was little to choose between
the positions; the Interior captains supe-
ror steadineSs, however. later on gave
him an opening which he skillfuliy turned
/ N a vii
not StaVe off defeat.
Pratt Beat Topper.
Pratt and Upper had good game on
board =. but the latter's Scotch gambit
was Intellectual in opening breach in
Pratts defense, and the failure of the at
tempt so weakened his own forces that
the Interior representative was enabled
| TO sail in and wind up the game in COM
parativeIy short order. This made the
score > to in favor of Interior. Prander
meantime had been making a good effort
to stem the tide of disaster and succeed
ed to the extent of drawing with Boykin.
and LanderS and Satterley did not
play, this left the Interiors easy winners
Agriculture had a three-board contest
with Independent Bureaus Wednesday.
winning by TO l. Zapoleon encountered
Ruff on board l and scored his ninth
straight win in the league series. He had
considerably the better Of the argument
in the opening and middle stages, but Ruff
hung on tenaciously and later found an
opportunity to seriously worry his oppo-
nent: in fact, it was only by winning the
opposition in the ending that the Asricul-
ture expert did the trick. Huntington and
Bursley had a pretty game, the former
winning by means of one Of his famous
mating nets Powell counted the only win
for his side by defeating Roberts in a
lively set-to.
The summaries. team standing and in
dividual records of 500 and over in the
league series to date are as follows: