LOCAL TOURNEYS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 5

LOCAL TOURNEYS

The annual handicap tourney of the Working . Men's Club has been won by •h\ A. T. Poake, of class IV., with the ne score of 9 wins 1 loss 1 -draw Mr. . J eake, who came ' to the Dominion four .•tsars ago, was formerly a member of he Battersea and other London suburban -■lubs. His win is both popular and well deserved. Messrs. Key, Barnes, Feafconjy, and Burgess have also scored well. Two outstanding games have to be dis,x>sed of before the full prize-list can oe announced. i'he outstanding feature of last week's ,>Liy in the Wellington South Club's .nnual handicap tourney was the fine .our. of Mi*. Berry, who scored wins iom Messrs. Purchas and Harper, two f the leaders. These results have tarkedly improved the chances of l^ssrs. Armstiong and A. Clark — each {' whom is now only half a point behind vir. Purchas. There are three more • >unds to be contested in this tourney. In the Wellington Chess Club's match .gainsl the Combined Suburbs the latter c.-am has been steadily forging ahead luring the past fortnight. The tally is low 22 to 15 in favour of the Suburbs, .hile 13 games a.re still outstanding. As this is the fourth and last week of this big match we hope to give the final cores in our next week's notes. The ladder match for rung 3 between W. Viackay -(challenger) and P Still (de•enderj ended in favour of the former by ito 0 and two draws. Macka-y is now illing on*W. E. Mason to defend rung Uecont visitors to the rooms of the A'ellington Chess Club include Pastor V. G. Brown (late of Spurgetm's Taberacle, London), and Mr. John Mason, ■ f TJastings, who was the New Zealand •iiess champion for 1910. The latter as here on a short visit to his brother, >iake Mason, who is a member of the ah Reinforcements, and who has twice •cen^ a prominent prize-winner in the Jcminion's chess championship congresses. John Mason goes into camp vxt month, and will probably. leave with !ie Bth Reinforcements ; he will be in !l t ambulance section. Mr. W. Cowper till, who is the latest of our chess 'layers to enlist, goes into camp nest ■nonth. He has been hon. &ecretary iuid ueasurer of the Wellington Chess Club for the < past two years, and made a very promising first appearance when representing the club at the last championship congress. Mr. A. W. 0. Davies, who has twice won the Dominion Championship, was at latest advices still at Zeitoun Camp, Egypt. As the doctor won't pase him for the front, he is engaged in camp at clerical work. He writes' to a friend in Auckland Hating that one of the local cafes is frequented by cbessists, and that some of the Egyptians are strong players. The late Hon. J. A. Millar, M.L.C., who died in Auckland on Friday last^ was a former president of the Ota go Chess Club, and was a vice-president of the New Zealand Chess Association for the year 1910-11. He was a regular player in the contests Parliament v. Civil Service, always taking one of the higher boards. In 1904 he wa 6 apparently regarded as Parliament's third best player, Mr. John Kigg and the late Mr. Reminton, of Marton, being the only legislators to take a higher board in a big 21-a-.side >uatch, Legislature and Chil Service v. Wellington Chess Club (which the latter won by fourteen games to seven).