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Chess 24 Apr 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL, Editor Marshall and Manhattan Clubs Battle After having scored ten consecutive victories each in the annual inter- club competition of the Metropolitan Chess League, the Marshall and Man- hattan Chess club teams met in the eleventh and final round . for the championship at the 'new club house of the former. In the presence of a capacity crowd the sixteen contestants staged a battle which remained undecided after more than four hours of play, the league limit.
Of the four games finished the Marshall club, defending champion, won three and Manhattan one. The remaining four games all adjourned will be played off at a later date. The positions in two are favorable to the.
Marshall club and two are unfavor able. in one or the adjourned games United States Champion Frank J, Marshall Is doing battle with Isaac Kashdan. At the time of adjournment Kashdan was two pawns ahead. It is doubtful if Marshall will be able to recover this handicap when play is resumea. new Yonc Times.
Columbia's varsity chess team took on five players from Rutgers college at the rooms of the Marshall Chess club, with the result that the Blue and white gained a victory by the score oi avi-i. The secretary-tournament director's report of the Correspondence Chess League of America has recently been received. We find that the following have been elected officers for the year 1932: President Rev. Wm, J. Lang- noiz, wanaa, Minn.; nrst vice president, W.
J. Bryan, North Bergen, N. J.; second vice president, Walter Frere, Allendale, N. J.: secretary' treasurer, Z. L.
Hoover, Mineola, N. Y. A.' N. Tousen, of Harrisiburg, Pa., gave a simultaneous cness exmmtion at Williams port, playing against 15 players. The individual player made a score oi is wins ana two losses.
A. Herrmann, former and three times holder of tli city champion ship, gave a simultaneous chess ex hibition in the lobby of the local Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Herrmann made a very creditable score against 32 opponents. Mostly all the leading players in the ijehign valley played against the individual player, such as H. V. Hesse, C.
Koch. W. Shuler. W. Lumxden.
P. Albrecht and W. H. Steckel. R.
S. Goerlich. of Bethlehem, and re-elected president of the Pennsyl vania State Chess association, has ar- rangea witn tne eaitor to play a match of six games, draws not counting. The first of these games will be played on Tuesday evening in the lobby of the Allentown Y. M.
C. A. Mr. Goerlich is well known throughout the country besides the Lehigh Valley and has been a participant in many of the leading tournaments in this section. Mr.
Goerlich is also editor of the Bethlenem Globe-Times chess columns. Rpariinp And Allpntnwn cViass Iaikii nin rnr.T.fa nil -initr-Knav ouon tti rr r Reading In one of the largest team matclfes ever held in this section. Approximately 150 players took part in.
this gigantic affair. Results of this match wUl be published in next Sun day's column. Kashdan's Second Appearance Here Isaac Kashdan, who has astounded the chess world with his sensational chess feats during the past two years will make his second appearance in this city in the lobby of the local x. M. C.
A. on the evening of Friday, May 13, In a simultaneous chess exhibition. Mr. Kashdan will take on all comers, no limit being set to the number of players he will play against. A committee has been appointed to handle this affair and it is the com mittee's intention to have at least 75 players if not more lined up against him when he makes his second debut In this city.
Mr. Kashdan's record in simultane ous exhibitions is astounding. In almost every city he seldom loses more than one game. Fans will remember when he appeared here that he played against the strongest players in the valley and lost only one game and that to A. Herrmann, the nemesis of all simultaneous players.
' Prizes will be given to all who win or draw against Uiis young master. The second weekly rapid transit chess tourney was held in the loDDy oi tne Y.M.C-A. with 10 contestants par ticipating. The editor winner of last week's tourney repeated. Every Sat urday afternoon at 1.30 p.
m. these tournaments will b". continued. The standing follows: W. H.
Steckel, 9-0; w. Shuler 8-1 ; A. Herrmann, 6-z&; J. Harper. &v-ZxA: P.
Kruse. 4-5: R. Rockel, 3-6; C. Koch, 3-6; E. Foley, 3-e; f.
Jackson, 3-c; F. steiner, o-o, i . The editor will give a simultaneous chess exhibition in the local Y. M. C.
A. this coming Frida evening. Please make known your intentions of playing as soon as possible.
