CHESS
WORKING MEN'S CLUB
The 1927-8 chess season of the. Wellington Working Men's Club and Literary Institute was opened last week with a sides match, teams being chosen by the captain and., vice-captain. The latter side won a close contest by one game, as follows:— Captain. Vice-Captain. Kelling, F. X... 0 Fairburn, W. J. 1 Lindsay, J. ... 0 Burgess, J. .... 1 Rosenberg. H. 0 Craudle, H. E. 1 Wring, W. ... 1 Duncan, A. .. 0 Nolan, T. ..... 0 Walker, G. ... 1 Martin, J. 1 Andrews, K. .. 0 Bowry, F. 1 Lockerbie, R. ■ .. 0 M'Lean, J. ... 0 Costello, T. .... 1 Matejka, F. ... 1 Eton,' E: H. ... 0"" Stephens, D. .. ' 0 Turvey, J. H... 1 M'Ewen, J. .. 1 Boock, S. 0 Wright, J. ... 0 Coulter, J 1 Lane, E 1 Frcssley, T.".. 0 Total ...... 6 Total ....... 7 .Mr. R. J. Barnes, who has been the club's champion for more than three decades, was too unwell to take part. Eight of these opening matches have now been played, of which the captain's teams have won three, and the vice-captain four. The club has received very good entries for this year's tourneys, there being 18 competitors in the annual handicap chess tourney, twelve in the Minor Chess Tourney (from which the senior players are barred), and twenty in the annual sealed handicap draughts tourney.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 5
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219CHESS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 5
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