Evening star., 1950-07-30
Chess
By DonoId n. Mueridee


United States champion for
1850 is Arthur Bisguier OF the
Manhattan Chess Club, who
thereby confirms the general i'm
preston that he is the most richly
endowed Of the new generation of
American chess masters. However,
in our report last week on the first
seven rounds of the open cham
pionship tourney at Detroit, Bis
guier was not among the first
seven places. In rounds two and
three he had dropped 11a points
to two little-k known Michigan
players and after the seventh he
stood in an eight-man bracket
with So. But thereafter he won
four games in succession, from
Edmund Nash, Weaver w. Adams,
jeremiah F. Donovan and Larry
Evans and in the 18th and last
round needed only to draw with
Robert Steinmeyer to clinch the
title. This he speedily accom-
plished and stood first with
9h-2h.
Only one player was able to
score as many as 9 points and he,
toe, came from behind in one of
those last-round bursts which
bring victory in Swiss System
events. This was Hermann v.
Hesse of Bethlehem, Pa, whose
score after seven rounds had been
only 4-3. He won in the next five,
but in his whole course he had
to meet only two of the II prize
winners, Leon Stolcenberg and
Hans Berliner-and he lost , to
both. This would seem to indicate
either that the pairings were not
accurately made at Detroit, or
that IL rounds are not enough
to reach a fair decision in a field
of 116 entries. Certainly most, If
not all, of the nine players in the
next bracket had scores of greater
intrinsic value than Hermann
Hesse's.
The managers at Detroit did not
follow the method used both in
the District and the Southern
Open Journeys, where ties were
broken by Sonneborn-Berger
pointage and so all nine players
who made scores Of 8la-312 re-
ceived prizes of equal value. They
were Weaver w. Adams, Open
champion in 1913; jeremiah F.
Donovan of the Marshall Club,
Larry Evans, who lead for most
of the tourney; George Kramer of
the Manhattan Club, Anthony E.
Santasiere, veteran OF many
Opens; Herman Steiner. United
States champion; Robert Stein
meyer of st. Louis and Leon Stol-
cenberg of Detroit In the "a
bracket the District champion,
Hans Berliner, shared prizes with
Maurice Fox of Montreal, who did
not lose a game but drew 8 out
of IL; DR.. A. Mengarini Of New
York, a former District champion;
Albert S. Pinkus of New York.
Paul Poschel of Chicago and Jack
Soudakoff Of New York.
After excellent starts. the Wash
ington entries failed to maintain
the pace. which called for 12I
games in Is days. Berliner won
six games out of his first seven,
including victories against Homer
w. Jones, George Kramer, Her
mann Hesse, Paul Poschel and
Edmund Nash. Thereafter he
failed to win favorable positions
against J. F. Donovan and Walter
Shipman and in rounds 10 and
IL he lost games to A. E. Santa
siere and w. w. Adams. A last
round victory from M. Guze of
Canada still enabled him to place
among the prize winners.
Carl A. Hesse defeated Ariel
Mengarini in round seven, and
had the excellent score Of 5l2-112.
In the eighth he played eight
hours to a draw with George
Kramer. and thereafter was the
victim of tournament fatigue. He
failed to defeat j. F. Donovan in
the ninth, and lost in the next
two rounds to Robert Steinmeyer
and Joseph Shaffer Of Chicago.
A last-round draw with Edgar T.
Mccormick gave him the final
score of Us, creditabls enough for
one who has had no recent tour
nament experience, and has never
before participated in an event
with daily rounds. Edmund Nash,
who had five points after six
rounds, fell away even more dras-
tically. Hugh c. Underwood fin
ished with score of 81.
Florencio B. Campomanes came
triumphantly out of his first at
tempt at simultaneous play, on
July 81 at the Divan. He dropped
only one point, to w. c. Freeman,
and won seven. The losers were
]. Jordan, H. Leithiser, L. N. Rey-
nolds, H. Sandlin, Miss M. Sewall,
D. Stokes and Mrs. Stokes. The
performer on Friday. August 4,
will be Sam Schwartz, leader of
the Naval Gun Factory team, 2445
Fifteenth street NV, at $3.50 pm.
WILLIAM wORDSwORTH. Co