New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24
ENGLISH EASY VICTIMS
American CoIIegians Retain Rice
Chess Trophy.
GIVE LOSERS NOT A GAME
Two Yale Players and Cornell
Man Score Victories IN
Gable Match.

Princeton. ". r.. April ,5-vithout zfvfrg
their English opponents single chance
throughout the entire days play IN Alex
ander Han here to-day. N. SIX American
coliegians. representing Princeton. Yals.
Cornell and Pennnsytvania IN the tenth an
rual intercollegiate cable chess match. de-
featsd teh sextet representing Oxford and
Cambridge. stationed N the Hotel Savoy. N
London. by the decisive score % "a % n,
II Is the third year IN succession that the
American team has won. and the score was
the same BY which the British were beaten
In 1902.
Yale CARRIED OF the honors OF the match.
as both her players. r. Chandler a.
Board and @. Burgess sat Board scored
their games by splendid play against J. "
Bee. OF Cambridge. and n. y. Bewley. %
Oxford. respectively.
Louis ToIins. Of Cornell. was The first -
win his game. his opponent. G. II. Stevens.
OF Cambridge. being no match for him
Drawn games were placed 70 tire credit
OF y. T Whitaker. OF Pennsylvania. L w
Stephens. OF Princeton. and H l. Baudsr.
OF Pennsylvania Each OF these three
players more than held his own. and
Bauder on his thirty-sixth move missed q
positive win through hasty play.
Three EdIIcr HEIr 1lAAliAcAA-A NtA0A 80
ceased. but they had reached stages whers
they could be properly adjudicated- In tho
absence OF the regular referee. J. Finn. ths
positions were dssided BY II. Cassel. OF
New York. and ". n. Hughes. Of Phia-
delpbia. They awarded a win 20 Burgess
and declared the games OF stephens and
Bauder drawn.
Dating To the lateness OF the Oxford con-
tingent in putting in an appearances al mo
T4ot.i savoy in London. the beginning on
hostiltti.s was delayed beyond the time
planned BY the Americans. who had siepr
over night in Princeton and were Up bright
and early in order 20 begin the games az
$50 o'clock New York time
Professor O. ". Richardson. member OF
the Princeton faculty and a graduate OF
Oxford University. acted as British unpirs
IN Princeton. James Mortimer. Virsinian
bv birth. acted in behalf OF the American
universities at the London end OF tho
match
On the American team were two BROOK
Ivn players-L. Walter Stephens. cap
tain OF the Princeton team. who paired
at the third board with A p Waterneid' o.
Oxford. and Louis Tolins OF Cornell who
met G. II. Stevens. OF Cambridge. at tns
fourth board. G. Burgess. OF Garden City.
Yale at the ffth board against
H. y. Bewley. Of Oxford
Among those on hand 20 witness the play
were Professor Isaac L. Rice OF New YORK.
president OF the Triangular College Chess
League. OF which Cornell and Pennsylvania
are members. and the gfver OF the interna-
tfonaI trophy ar stake. and Edward a Cas-
well. Yale SIS. secretary OF the intercolie-
gfate COMMITTEES for the league. which com
prtses Columbia. Harvard. Yale and Prince
ton
The distinction Of scoring first blood for
the American side. as said above. fell D
Tolins. OF Cornell who. playing the black
side OF four knights game. forced the
OF his Cambridge opponent after
a brief and decisive struggle, lasting twen-
ty-one moves. TOlins adopted the Petroir
defence. which however was turned into =
four knights opening by his opponent Both
castled on the kings side OF the board
The "Cantab" lost some time with his
tenth and eleventh moves, which enabled
the ithaca player 20 institute strong and
dangerous attack by advancing his kings
bishops pawn. With full appreciation %
the possibilities IN the position. TOlins sacrt-
feed his rock for knight on the fourteenth
move. a course OF play which completely
broke I'D the white kings POSITION AFTER
winning three pawns TOlins captured a
knight. leaving the Engiishman in hopeless
plight.
Whitaker. OF Pennsylvania. selected .
novel continuation against he PetroI de-
fence. and emerged from the opening with
pawn ahead. Queens and rocks were ex-
changed however. and the players remained.
With bishops moving on squares OF opposite
AL.
could not make his material advantage tel.
and the game was recorded as drawn after
forty-eight moves. leaving the Americans n
the lead ar that stage with a score OF n
70 u.
The following is the summary OF rls
match:
Board AMERICAN BRITISH
N. T. Whitaker. = X Lob .----..-. -
. y. r. Chandler. IL J. 81. Bee. .-...-.O
81. ". stephens. Dol. = A. p Water1eld. =