Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-04
NOTED CHESS PLAYER
TRAINS ON DIAMOND
J. R. CapabIanca, Captain of
Collegiate Team, Finds
Diversion in Base Ball.

NEW YORK. July 4.-That the national
game of base ball has been made to
serve the purpose of a training device in
the preparation of an international chess
master may not be generally known to
the followers of either pas.ime, but such
is the fact in the case of Jose r. Capa-
blanca of New York, famed both S
Cuban champion and Pan-American
champion.
This youth. who will step into the in
ternational chess arena without having
had to incur the customary and laborious
preparations which go to make up the
recognized master, finds the active out
door life provided by the pursuit of base
ball indispensable to his physical and
mental we'll being. The complete chang.
of surroundings and atmosphere enables
him to direct his thoughts, focused for
long periods at time upon the com
binations on the chessboard in the smoke
laden air of the clubrOoms. into totally
different and more refreshing channels.
Thus it is that this youth. to whose APP
pearance in Hamburg this month the en-
tire chess world is looking forward with
eager expectancy, hardly knows what it
is to have moments indisposition, ex-
cepting in the winter, when an occasional
cold will obtain the upper hand.
Capablanca has played base ball since
he arrived from Cuba to study at Column
bia, and this year is the captain of
little band of tOssers reorganized as the
Collegiate base ball team. which plays
most of its home games a. Park Ridge.
n. J. That it is good team Is shown
by the fact that only one game has been
lest this season. On the eve of his de-
parture for Hamburg CapaDlanca will
figure in a game scheduled to be played
II
morning he will board the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm II, bound for Bremen.
whence he will repair to the scene of the
International contest which opens at
Hamburg July Is.
Capablanca in his initial effort will be
called upon to face the pick of European
chess talent According to the official
list Of accepted entries, limited to eighteen
and in which Capablanca is classed as
from Cuba. there are ten countries repre-
sented and no less than seventeen differ
ent cities. Vienna is the only city which
will have two masters in the competitions.
The official list. received here yesterday.
is as follows:
Prague: L. Forgacs Budapest; d. Janow-
ski Paris: w. John. Dresden: w. koehn-
lein Pirmasens. Bavaria; P. S. Leon
hardt. Leipzig: F. j. Marshall New York;
P: Niemzcwitsch. Riga: A. Rubinstein'
ter. Vienna: A. Speijer. Amsterdam; r.
Spielmann. Munich: DR.. s. Tarrasch. Nj
remburg: S. Tartakower. Vienna: r.
Teichmann. Berlin. and F.. d. Yates. Man.
chester.
One of the few newcomers and the only
one to represent England is F. D. Yates.
who like Capablanca. has not won
mastership. but was accepted because OF
his recent fine showing in national tour
naments and the cable match. Amos
Burn of Liverpool who was wont to play
for England. withdrew his entry in con-
sequence of a misunderstanding with the
committee. Mr. Burn took umbrage at
a formal communication informing him
that an answer to his application would
be sent him in three weeks from the time
of filing Notwithstanding a letter of ex-
nlanation from the secretary. Burn re-
fused to reconsider his withdrawal.