Chess 11 Apr 1909, Sun St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com
In the minor tournament of the West End Chess Club the winners were: First, Sheridan Webster, with a score of 4 to 1, and Dr. J. L. Cooley and J. R. Webber, second, with 3½ to 1½. The club at its last meeting voted not to remove to the Y.M.C.A. Building, which some of the members were advocating. It will continue to be a social organization, and meet around at the residences of its members as heretofore. The special match between A. F. Rudolph and James D. Carney, who won the first and second prizes, respectively, in the major contest, was played one Mr. Rudoph secured three wins and illegible.
A. H. Bierwirth has emerged winner of the annual handicap tournament of the Rice Chess Club of New York City with the score of 25 won and 5 lost, one-half a point in advance of L. Rosen, who finished second with a score of 24½ to 5½. Third prize was won by O. Roething, with a score of 24 to 6.
The Oxford and Cambridge universities have played their thirty-seventh annual match, the former winning score 4½ to 2½. Total result to date is C. 21 ). 13, drawn 3.
Frank J. Marshall, who is matched to play Jose R. Capablanca, the Cuban chess champion, in New York on April 19, left there for a tour of the West, in the course of which he will give exhibitions at Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Norwalk (Ohio), Toledo, Chicago, Kenosha (Wis.), Racine, Milwaukee, Madison, St. Paul and Minneapolis, returning by way of Indianapolis and Dayton. This interary will bring him back to New York in time for the match, which is exciting much interest among followers of the game.
Chess Champions' Club.
A new chess club has just been formed in Philadelphia, known as the Philadelphia Chess Champions' Association. This is to be an exclusive club, and to be eligible for membership, the applicant must be under 30 years of age and have won at least one championship tournament. The following players comprise the charter members: S. L. Stadelman, present and last year's champion of the Mercantile Library Chess Association; W. H. Hughes, ex-champion State of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania; W. A. Ruth, present champion Columbia Chess Club; S. Mlotkowski, ex-champion Mercantile Chess Association and winner of minor tournament at St. Louis, 1904; S. T. Sharp, present champion State of Pennsylvania. The following officers have been chosen to serve for the first year. President, S. T. Sharp; vice president, N. T. Whitaker; secretary, W. H. Hughes; treasurer, W. A. Ruth.
The association is now in a position and waiting to play matches with a six-board team of any club or association in the East, the only conditions it imposes being that where it leaves its home city to play matches with other clubs, that the losing club pay the expenses of the match.
