New-York tribune., 1911-12-17
CHESS CHALLENGE HERE
Berlin Club Wants to Play a
Match by Gable.
DETAILS NOT YET AT HAND
In Previous Contest Manhattan
Club Won by Four Games
to Two.

Club Won by Four Games
to Two.
Berlin. Doc l6-SeekinG an opportunity
to wipe out the defeat of leo. the Berlin
Chess Society. which on that occasion SUI
fered defeat by the score OF ! games 10 -
has issued a challenge to the Manhattan
Chess club Of New York 70 play another
cable team match, on limited number OF
boards. as soon after the new wear as II
may bc possible to arrange the contest
The moves in the games between Inc
players on the respective sides VIII he 'A-
changed by cable. communicating directly
with the headquarters OF the two cluts.
At tho rooms Of the Manhattan Chess
club. i'm tho Carnegie Hall Building, the
members were greatly Interested in IL"
news of the challenge from Berlin an"
surmised that il would reach them In due
course bv mail rho feeling was that 1t
would be accepted unless the conditions of
tho Germans should prove proh!htire.
Tho first match, OF November II and T.,
ioGi aroused a great deal Of interest. II
was contested on six boards. and was won
by tho Manhattan club. after hard fight.
by games TO . despite tho fact that tho
Berlin team included such seasoned play
ers as H. caro-. Or. y. Tasker brother
Of the worlds champion. T.. Schallopp, Dr..
VI. levitt. f. Post and n. Ranneforth.
Subsequently an effort was made by Berlin
to arrange a return match but the ncGo-
tatiors came 10 raught.
I'm tho presence OF large gathering OF
chess lovers r. &. Selover, jr., former sec
retary Of the Brooklyn chess Club. played
| simultaneously on twenty boards AT the
/ Evening Recreation Centre, at Pubic
| School ~. Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, on
| Friday night. The single player finished
| in the quick time of two hours. making Il
score of fourteen victories and six drawn
games s Kavaler, +. Shapiro. IT,.
| Schmerzler. IT, Berman. ID. Karaler and >.
Ginsberg were the opponents who drew
! their games. \ number of Boys High and
( Eastern District players took boards IN the
exhibition, which aroused much enthusi-
| asm.
| According to advices received from
| Jacques Mieses, of Leipsic, manager of the
| second international chess masters tourna-
ment, TO be held at San Sebastian next
February and March, a programme VIII be
| issued very shortly, announcing the num-
! her of prizes entries and other conditions.
The first tournament at the Spanish water
| ing place was won by j. X. Capablanca.
/ Carl Schechter of Vienna, Amos Burn,
of Liverpool, and A. Niemzowitsch of Riga
! Russia, have all written to the manage
ment OF the New York International Chess
| Masters Congress, saying they gladly ac-
cepted the invitations extended TO them and
would come over here next October 10 play
against the other European masters and
American representatives.
Hamilton College, which is expected 10
apply for membership in the Triangular
! College Chess League, enjoyed the first
/ taste of intercollegiate chess at Ithaca last
week There were four boards. and Cor
nell won by a score of points to 0, two
rounds being contested +. X. Perkinson,
f. Simonson, y. ;. Perkins and \. {.
! Ehrlich defeated G. s. Adams, w. J. Du
! Raudien. G. S. Dayton and r. T. Clapp, re-
spectiyely. ..
| Alfred Schroeder, former champion of
| Naples has emerged winner Of the minor
tournament just concluded at the rooms of
the Brooklyn Chess Club, with a score OF
9is points out Of a possible II. Schroeder
! lost only one game. to Louis J. Wolff for
mer Columbia University captain. and drew
one. with G. w Kahless. Wolff captured
| Of 20 2
w. :. Pitts the third, with ~ TO 3i2, and
! {. A. Neff the fourth, with to I. E. Il.
Heal and NJ. Schroeder tied for fifth place,
each credited with 6l2 to f2
Since losing 20 Harvard in the annual
match on ten boards the Yale varsity play
| ers took on team of nine players repre-
senting the Yale faculty, including Presi-
dent 4. T. Hadley. who suffered defeat at
the hands of +. f. Stearns at the third
| board The faculty, however, won the
match by tCs4. thanks to victories by Pro
fessors Hawley, Woosey, Boltwood and
Palmer. A. S. Terry and W. II. Chandler
won for the varsity team, while p. Robert
son drew with Professor f.. W. Brown, and
r. A. I.ightner drew with Secretary
! Stokes.
Ry winning the pivotal game with J. Ro-
| seminal last years champion, Magnus
! Smith is practically assured Of the cham
pionship Of the Manhattan Chess club for
! 1912 Smith has score Of TO ], with
two adjourned games I'm hand. Against both
of his opponents he is said to have the su-
perior position.
J The Eastern District Chess club OF
/ Brooklvn has moved into permanent head
o,iarters i'm the Tollner Building Bedford
/ avenue. between Madison street and Put
nam avenue. William H. Rudolph, its pres
! ident. Is engaged I'm 4 match with j. IL.
Taft. jr.. new member Taft won the
! first game.
SHOWS NEED OF COACHING
New York Five Not Up to Last
Years Standard.
/ The basketball team of New York INT
yersity played it's first game on last
/ Wednesday. ard showed that it needed con