The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03


Playing ahead CT the schedule, Cap
ablanca has won the Masters tourna-
Iment OF the Rice Chess club, with the
splendid score OF 1s straight wins wins.
with fG II The KuRsnih sshaduis fourth fds he to rs
r2und in the Prize Winners tourna-
rfent at the Mechanics Institute
received a letter from DR.. w. r. Love-
grove, the well known local expert
stating that he would be unable to
appointment to the contestants as we'll
as to the doctors many friends, who
looked forward to seeing him in action
who were learning the rudiments while
Lovegrove was playing. with uniform
success against some of the strongest
players In the United States. Indeed.
say that, like the shot fired by the
.embattled farmers. at Lexington,
Lovegroye's defeat OF Worlds Champ p
around the world.
/ However, an agreeable substitute
has been named in the person OF a:
time held the chess championship OF
Edinburgh university in Scotland.
/ Branch has several victories to MS
credit over Prof. Ryder. and is a dam
gerous opponent.
/ 1t Is with sincere regret that we
4 TGCOTQ the recent uGall Ol GLlinCA 14OA~
ben, we'll known in Nebraska chess
circles, but who for several years nao
made his home in Los Angeles. We
rst met M Holben os IA At the ban
ruary, 1913, soon after the Inaugural
ton Of this column as a regular sun
day feature of the The Call. HOLDEN
had then abandoned the strain OF
lcrossboard play, but retained interest
| In the less strenuous branches OF end
games and problems.
A. J. Fink. the genius OF the Prob
! lem department, and HOLDEN spent sew
/ eral pleasant afternoons during the
llatter's periodical visits to this city,
discussing the art OF problem constr uc-
around the table many choice morsels
of strategy composed by the masters
the spenda G ena ns same study w 5y
Bething which appeared March 3. Il
was. introduced by paragraph giving
HOLDEN credit for bringing It to our our
i score of solutions received most OF
| them referred to 1t as Mr. Holbens
end game" Probably no one item OF
any description printed in this column
has given rise to as much discussion.
1t provided keen enjoyment to many
enthusiasts: Thus there WILL be those
over the loss Of a brother chess play
er and In extending sympathy to the
Holben by his friend. Edward P. sharp,
chess editor Of the Nebraska State
Journal of Lincoln:
The friends OF Elmer HOLDEN have known
for a long time that he was making almost
hopeless fight to regain his health. Yet
this knowledge in no way lessened the
4 steps through the door into that which has
such compelling interest TOR all thinking
mer HOLDEN as he was at the chess table.
quiet courteous and alert to offer
% saers matter ssep whst
| our beliefs or philosophers may be, when
we take out our chessmen In the quiet OF
is doing beyond the door. II Elmer does not
sometime play game upon board with
unlimited squares and with pieces OF al
most unlimited power.
we have received letter from q
/ friend who until recently has been q
| faithful solver and correspondent. Ex-
planning his silence he writes: "Ow-
| ing to a severe attack OF grip have
it will be some time before I tackle
problems. You may hear from me when
Richard is himself again. Which Is
to health will be speedy and more per-
| manent than that of the valiant king
who. in his troubled dreams. saw
and nd who met his fate on historic Bos-
worth field Speaking of Richard III,
it was during his brief reign I4S3-
tsss or at Least st. dur,nE hnnE nls
in England treatise on chess, from
the press" of the famous Caxton.
Another valued friend and corre-
spondent who is on the sick list is
w. ID. Pennycook, postmaster OF VAL
lejo He was s,sI recently the ecs victim ~ OF
| the term for his tribe until the In
vention OF the auto and motorcycle,
since when the bicycle has been re-
garded as comparatively harmless. Mr..
lPennycook was reported as having re-
ceived a severe scalp wound besides In
ternal injuries We trust that his con-
course to "Our Chess Corner and the
week to week Here's hoping that
Uncle Sam; will not long be deprived
of his services!
Harvard has again triumphed over
the ase, northern team a1ssh IN the North North vs..
South Correspondence match, has re-
ceived the score of two games won by
lRev. Il. b. Adams Of San Diego. Both
players are probably as good as any
lever graduated from their respective
universities. The games will be print
ed next week.
O. E. Frazier of Los Angeles. who
was a visitor at the Mechanics Institute
this week. reports that c. B. Scobey of
the Southern team has eyened accounts
with his Northern opponent, 9. Her
rington,. by winning the second game:
lHerrington, however. has the honor OF
scoring first blood for Northern Cali
fornia.
Recent visitors at the Mechanics In
stiute Chess club were: p. B. Wester-
man, principal of the Oakdale high
school. who came to San Francisco
|pecialIy to meet and play with Amer
lean Champion Frank J. Marshall; Rev.
Leander Turney of Corning, one of the
founders OF the Pil1sbury National
| ICorrespondence Chess association;
Hugo Legler, government weather wiz
| ard stationed on the Farallon isla nds,
who spent his vacation playing his fav-
orite game at the Institute; w. E. Nc
Cracken Of Vacaville, who has reco1-
lections of Zukertort, Lasker. Pillsburv
and other famous masters who played
at the old Institute building
GAME DEPARTMENT
The following we'll played game was
contested in tlegraphic. match four
teen years ago between San Francisco
and Los Angeles. The winner. Mr. r.
i Kendrick, is still worshiping at Cais-
sa's shrine, and was to have taken part
In the DECORATION day l913) tele-