Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-20
SOLDIERS CHECKER PLAYERS SURPRISE
 BISBEE AND WIN
Team from Naco Perform Ex- cellently in Match and Now Local Chess hampions Issue Challenge to Uncle Sam's Men

A three man checker team com posed of men from the 18th, Infantry stationed at Naco came to Bisbee on Sunday and engaged in checker match with three of the Bisbee check CT players, and after an interesting
 and well-played contest of eighteen games the soldiers finished with a score of none games won and three games drawn. while the Bisbee players had score of six games won and three games drawn
 The match was very closely played unu near the end. At one time the score stood drawn at five wins and two draws each, but the soldiers man aged to establish a fair lead in the remaining games. Although the Bis gee players lost, an dall credit is due the soldiers, the Bibsee men lost with honor, and had good excuse for not winning
 The soldier team is a team of con- siderable note, as they have the scalps of many well known checker clubs hanging fro mtheir belts These same soldiers ruled supreme in the checker world in Sheridan, Wyo, and Texas City Texas. but their most noteworthy matches were played with the Calves. ton and Houston checker clubs, in which the soldiers were victorious.
 In the Galveston match this same etam won every game, and in the Houston match the soldiers won by practically the same score as they reg istered against the Bisbee team, so there Is really honor due the Bisbee men for maintaining the score they did against checker team with the record the soldiers have.
 Due to a misunderstanding it was
 understood in Bisbee that the soldiers were coming to play a chess match with the Library Chess Club and the Bisbee checker players knew nothing of the intention O fthe soldiers to play checkers until the visitors called at the Copper Queen Library, where the Bisbee chess players were prepared to play them chess.
 After the latter explained that their challenge was delivered for a chess match instead of checkers, the mem bers Of the Library Chess Club ar ranged for the checker players to com pete. The Bisbee players have never before had a match sthey have never been organized into a club, but a team was gotten together in thirty minutes time, and more or less at random. They now intend organizing a club and preparing for another match with the soldiers in which they hope to give a better account of themselves.
 The Bisbee men do not intend to belittle the ability of the soldier check ! CT team as they are able plyaers, but they do think they are entitled to some consideration on account of their un- preparedness.
 After the match was finished Pri- ! vate Woodcock gave an excellent eX- ] hibition of blindfold playing in which | he obtained a draw with one of the l Bisbee players. MT. Woodcock has ac- quilted himself wit hhonor in matches | with some of the best checker play | CTS fthe country
 The teams were composed of the | following men: Soldiers; Serg. w. w. | James, Priv. h. E. Woodcock and . Private J. D. Lane. Bisbee: George l Bunker, J. G. Brady and P. Brennan.
 The Library Chess Club is now anx. ious to get a chess match with the ! soldiers and see how such a match . would end but at the same time the chess players of Bisbee have no great fear of the ouctome of said match.
 And to get to the point, the Libra ny Chess Club of Bisbee hereby issue a chess challenge to the soldiers at Naco, and guarante ethey will ask no quarter and will give no quarter Soldiers please take notice and no- tice, and notify Mir C. H. Vail, Pres. | HHN.