STEINER WINS
AUSTRALIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP WADE EQUAL IN SEC&KD PLAGE (Rec. 11.40 a.m.), SYDNEY, Sept. 20. ) By winning his game against M. Green in the final round of the Austra- . lian chess championship, Lajos Steiner secured the title. Second iplace was shared by Wade, Purdy, and Lazare. Wade and Purdy .met in the last round, and it was a homeric struggle. Both players, alive to the importance of the game t strained every nerve, but Purdy gradually improved his position and won.
The final scores were: .Steiner 12, Wade, Purdy, Lazare each 10$, Green 9, Koshnitsky BJ, Goldstein and Klass each 8, Crown and Watson each 7i, Shoebridge 6s, Salm SJ, Vaughan 5, Miller and Harris each 4}. McGrath 2.
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Evening Star, Issue 25593, 20 September 1945, Page 4
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