CHESS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 133, 2 December 1935, Page 3

CHESS

WELLINGTON CLUB

This year's annual handicap tourney of the Wellington Chess Club has been, wpn by Mr. W. J. Cornish, a member [who has made considerable progress during the past two seasons. A year ago he tied for first place with Mr. H. P. Yarrell and lost the play-off, but had the consolation of taking first prize in the club's B grade tourney. By his latest success he is entitled to hold the Petherick No. 2 trophy for the ensuing year.

The annual Petherick tourney is named after the late Mr. Edward Wade Petherick, who died on December 25, 1915, aged 75 years. Mr. Petherick. who was said to be v the second white child born in Wellington, was for several years a popular president of the Wellington Chess Club, and one of its most generous supporters. The three trophies donated by him for the annual handicap tourney have been, won as follows:—(a) Gold medal won by F. W. Collins (who is now. residing m Greenhithe, Auckland); (b) Petherick Trophy. No. 1 was won outright by the late Mr. R. J. Barnes in 1908, the winners' names engraved on it'being as follows: 1903, C. W. Tanner (who died on March 22, 1930, aged 69); 1904, R. J. Barnes; 1905, A. W. Gyles; 1906, R. J. Barnes; 1907, H. Jessup; and 1908, R. J. Barnes, this being his third win at intervals. And (c) Petherick Trophy: No. 2, a combination of silver knight and rook, which cannot be won outright: 1909, W. E. Mason; 1910, R. J. Barnes;. 1911, A. Gyles, sen.; 1912, R. J. Barnes; 1913, W. Cowper Hill (who was killed in France in September, 1916); 1914, W. White; 1915, no contest; 1916, W. White; 1917, E. S. Taylor; 1918, Al W. O. Davies (who died in Auckland on January 16, 1928); 1919, E. S. Taylor; 1920, H. Jessup; 1921, E. S. Taylor; 1922, H. Jessup (who died on December 9. 1924); 1923 and 1924, A. E. Jessup; 1925; J. A. C. Barnes (a son of the late R. J. Barnes); 1926, F. Grady; 1927, A. G. Grabham; 1928, J. L. Hardy: 1929, A. W, Gyles; 1930 and 1931, J. L. Hardy; 1932 and 1933, R. A. Godtschalk; 1934, H. X Yarrell; and 1935, W. J. Cornish. Mr. R. J. Barnes, who won five of these tourneys, died on January 7, 1929, aged 68. Mr. E. S. Taylor, who was successful on three occasions, returned to England four years ago, and is now living at St. Austall, Cornwall. In order to cater for members during the slacker half of the year, the club is now holding two Gambit tourneys and also a summer tourney, features that successfully kept up the attendances in last year's off-season. The club is to be represented by its champion (E. J. Dyer)'and exHihampion (A. W. Gyles) in New Zealand's 45th. championship tourney, which is scheduled to be held in-this city dur-i ing the Christmas-New Year holidays, MANAWATU v. WELLINGTON. A match between a combined Manawatu team and a Wellington side is scheduled to be played at Levin on. Wednesday evening. The1 home' team will comprise ten players from Palmerston North, three from Feilding, eight from Shannon, and seven from Levin. The half-holiday is observed on Wednesdays in-Levin and other Manawatu centres, and it is therefore hoped to have an -afternoon session for several players who can reach Levin by 3 p.m..