Chess 22 Dec 1937, Wed Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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By PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. INITIAL games of the annual tournament of the Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth Chess League, played Monday at the Marshall Chess Club, New York City, resulted in Harvard’s quartet, league champion last year, gamering a smashing 3 Vi-Vi victory over Princeton. Yale defeated Dartmouth by the margin of one game, sewing 3 Vi to its opponent’s l'/a. College players are averaging 3g moves per game for the first two hours of play and IS moves for each hour thereafter.
Frank J. Marshall, retired United States eheas champion, is the active referee. The four college teams are contesting for the Belden-Stephens Challenge Trophy donated by William Van Dyke Belden, Princeton, ’95, and L. Walter Stephens, Princeton, TO. Tournament Director Richard a Holbrook, Dartmouth, ’ll, announces the final round of play for today. Aggies Outpoint Archives, ry 8. BURCH and a select quintet of u chaeslsts turn its DepartnMSt of Agriculture recently encountered the Archives Chess Club, heeded by A. H. Leavitt, to win by a 4-1 score.
Major championship standings of the Washington Social Chess Divan are: w. L. D. Walter Jacobi_3 10 Simon Naidel___2 2 1 Carl Hene . ___2 0 1 William Reynolds_-_ 112 Anton Hetie__ 13 1 Robert Feeney_0 2 1 The last round of the first half of the Divan championship tourney will be completed by Christmas Day.
J^OBBRT HOSTLER, president of the Interhigh Chess Association, embracing Rooeevelt, Tech, Wilson, Central, Eastern and Western High School Chess Clubs, avers that round No. 4 of the team tourney will be played Friday afternoon at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel. Round Ne. i wiU be played during the Yuletide holidays at the lounge ae the several elnb captains may cheese. The Individual Intsricholtstic District Championship Tournament commences New Year Day.
3 p m., at the Central Y. M. C. A. for the annual challenge trophy and the Individual "Y” medal. Tomorrow evening at 1336 I street N.W. the Metropolitan Chess Association will entertain at its weekly “open house” party tad all chase enthusiasts an invited
Frank J. Marshall, retired United States eheas champion, is the active referee. The four college teams are contesting for the Belden-Stephens Challenge Trophy donated by William Van Dyke Belden, Princeton, ’95, and L. Walter Stephens, Princeton, TO. Tournament Director Richard a Holbrook, Dartmouth, ’ll, announces the final round of play for today. Aggies Outpoint Archives, ry 8. BURCH and a select quintet of u chaeslsts turn its DepartnMSt of Agriculture recently encountered the Archives Chess Club, heeded by A. H. Leavitt, to win by a 4-1 score.
Major championship standings of the Washington Social Chess Divan are: w. L. D. Walter Jacobi_3 10 Simon Naidel___2 2 1 Carl Hene . ___2 0 1 William Reynolds_-_ 112 Anton Hetie__ 13 1 Robert Feeney_0 2 1 The last round of the first half of the Divan championship tourney will be completed by Christmas Day.
J^OBBRT HOSTLER, president of the Interhigh Chess Association, embracing Rooeevelt, Tech, Wilson, Central, Eastern and Western High School Chess Clubs, avers that round No. 4 of the team tourney will be played Friday afternoon at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel. Round Ne. i wiU be played during the Yuletide holidays at the lounge ae the several elnb captains may cheese. The Individual Intsricholtstic District Championship Tournament commences New Year Day.
3 p m., at the Central Y. M. C. A. for the annual challenge trophy and the Individual "Y” medal. Tomorrow evening at 1336 I street N.W. the Metropolitan Chess Association will entertain at its weekly “open house” party tad all chase enthusiasts an invited
