OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 52, 29 August 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY

WELL-KNOWN CHESS AUTHORITY (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received August 29, 10 A.m.) LONDON, 28th August. Mr. Leopold Hoffer, the well-known chess authority, is dead. [Mr. Hoffer was the chess editor of The Field and the Westminster Gazette, and at one time of the Standard. He was born and educated at Budapest, but lived in Paris till 1870, and afterwards in London. Mr. Hoffer was present at and reported almost all the important international chess events that took place subsequent to the grand event in Paris in 1867. He was founder and late honorary secretary of the British Chess Association, and (in 1907) director of the Ostend Chess Congress. His publications include "Chess," "The Series of First-Class Games." He also edited The Chess Monthly, the chess articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and "The Book of Games Played in London International Tournament, 1909."] . MR. HICKORY WOOD. (Received August 29, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 28th August. The death is announced of Mr. 1. Hickory Wood, the pantomime librettist. [Born in Manchester, of Scottish parents, Mr. Wood was for a time an apprentice in a home-trade warehouse in Manchester, and later became an insurance secretary. He then entered on a literary and dramatic career. Hifl publications include "Recitations— Comic and Otherwise," "Soliloquies," "The Life of Dan Leuo,'* Chronicles of Mr. Pottersby," pantomimes, songs, and musical pieces.]