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Twelfth Chess Match By Atlantic Cable 06 Mar 1910, Sun The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Twelfth Chess Match By Atlantic Cable
Native American and British Teams Will Play Friday and Saturday.
FOR THE NEWNES TROPHY.
Eight Players Named for Places on Challenging Team—Record of the Series.
Once more America and Great Britain are ready for a test of supremacy at the game of chess and await the annual struggle by Atlantic cable between the best native talent on both sides, which has taken place each year, with only three lapses when the use of the cables was not available, since Sir George Newnes placed in competition his $1000 international challenge trophy.
Just at present, that emblem is in a safety vault in London and it will be the aim of the ten American players next Friday and Saturday to withdraw the trophy from its retreat. To accomplish that, however, it will be necessary to do more than draw the match, for a tie score will be equivalent to a British victory, so far as continued possession of the emblem is concerned.
Last year, with a stronger team than the one with which they made a record score against the British in 1908, the Americans suffered defeat by the score of 6 points to 4, after a most propitious start on the first day of play. It was the eleventh of the series, of which the Americans have won six, viz., in 1896, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, and 1908, and the British four, viz., in 1897, 1898, 1907 and 1909. There was a tie in 1901, just at a time when an American victory was needed the most. The side scoring three successive victories, it should be mentioned, will acquire permanent possession of the trophy. That issue will not be involved this year, but it will behoove the Americans to put forth their best efforts to prevent loss in order to avoid facing a ticklish situation in 1911.
Although the date of the match is less than a week distant, neither side is prepared to announce the personnel of its team. Eight of the American team have been named as follows: F. J. Marshall, A. B. Hodges, J. F. Barry, H. G. Voigt, S. L. Stadelman, A. W. Fox, G. H. Wolbrecht, and G. J. Schweitzer. Of these Barry represents Boston, Voigt and Stadelman hail from Philadelphia, Fox from Washington and Wolbrecht from St. Louis. The remaining three are Metropolitan players, including Marshall, United States champion, and Hodges, former champion whose cable match record is unique in that he has not lost once, having played in all of the eleven contests of the series.
Marshall has had varied success, but won a special brilliancy prize, last year, by defeating the famous J. H. Blackburne at the top board. Neither Voigt or Stadelman has yet lost a game and Fox played only once before, in 1907, when he drew. Barry had the finest record of any American until he lost his first game to H. E. Atkins, the British champion, in 1907. Wolbrecht has acquitted himself well, drawing in 1907 and winning brilliantly the following year. Schweitzer won in 1908 and lost last year; but will be given another chance.
Two places remain to be filled and for these positions there is a long list of promising material. L. B. Meyer, R. T. Black, A. F. Kroymborg and F. F. Russell have been playing in a trial tournament at the Brooklyn Chess Club. Meyer leads Black by one game in this tourney. In addition, there are S. Mlotkowski, W. A. Ruth, of Philadelphia, both of whom lost last year, N. T. Whitaker, the University of Pennsylvania champion, H. Rosenfeld and A. Marder.
The British will have the following list of players to pick from: J. H. Blackburne, T. F. Lawrence, H. E. Atkins, A. Burn, W. Ward, G. E. Wainwright, J. H. Blake, R. P. Mitchell, V. L. Wahltuch, Dr. H. Holmes, E. G. Sergeant, H. Jacobs, G. W. Richmond, G. A. Thomas and F. D. Yates.
| Year |
America W L |
Great Brain W L |
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1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1907 1908 1909 |
4½ 4½ 4½ 6 6 5 5½ 5½ 4½ 6½ 4 |
3½ 5½ 5½ 4 4 5 4½ 4½ 5½ 3½ 6 |
3½ 5½ 5½ 4 5 5 4½ 4½ 5½ 3½ 6 |
4½ 4½ 4½ 6 6 5 5½ 5½ 4½ 6½ 4 |
Play will begin at 10 o'clock Friday morning from the rooms of the Brooklyn Chess Club, in the Thomas Jefferson Building, which will be placed in direct communication with the Hotel Savoy, on the Thames Embankment, in London.
