WORKING MEN'S CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 10

WORKING MEN'S CLUB.

This club's annual handicap chess tourney was completed last week. The scores of those who have won 50 per cent, or more of their games is as follows:—

The tie for third prize is to be played off this week. Mr. Barnes is to be congratulated on adding one more .triumph to hia formidable and ever-growing.list of successes. By annexing the first prize, two years in succession he wins the Staples Cup outright. The winners of this handsome trophy are as folloir:—R. J. Barnes, 1899,1901, 1917, and 1918; F. K. Kelling, 1898, 1900, and i9O3 5 W. Brown, 1902; and A. Douglas, 1916. (The trophy was not competed for during the years from 1904 to 1915 inclusive.) The wins secured by Mr. Barnes are the most meritorious, as they are the only ones obtained from the scratch' mark. Mr. W. Brown, the 1902 winner, recently returned to this city after a yearV stay in Sydney. He is now 80 years of age, and is the only survivor of thoie who competed in the New Zealand Championship Congress of 1888-9, on which occasion he was "second string" to the late Mr. C. W. Benbow, the then champion of Wellington. ;j.,, r

; Clas3. Barnes : I. HTiite,. W . 'IV. Faulknor, 8 V. Long, H. E X. Larking VHI. Wild V. Ostello XI. Won. Los 104 14 . 1C) 2 9 3 9■■•■. . 3 '.-■,7 ,5 ■6 6 6 ... 6