AUCKLAND CHESS CLUB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12818, 18 March 1905, Page 4 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND CHESS CLUB.

At a committee meeting of the club, held on March !), it was resolved that the annual meeting should take place earlier this year—about the third week in April. In the circumstance?, time would not permit the starting of an intermediate tourney, and it was agreed that the usual championship and handicap tourneys bo commenced immediately after the annual meeting. A letter was read from Mr. Blackburnc relative to the rules -question. But little discussion look place on the communication, the comittce considering that the subject should be left in the hands of the club's delegates to the New Zealand Chess Association.

Mr. Hall, chemist, of the Thames, though opportunities for putting in an appearance at the club room are but rare, expressed a wish to become an honorary member, and was unanimously elected. Mr. Hal!, on a recent club night, contested a number of games, and more than held his own.

Chess-players were grieved to learn of the mishap which last week befell Mr. E. .7. Miles (Auckland's representative at the late New Zealand Chess Congress) and his recently-married wife, through being thrown out of a trap by collision with a motor car, thereby sustaining serious injuries. Inquiries yesterday elicited the welcome intelligence that, both were recovering. Messrs. Davles and Connell are playing a match in Wellington as to which of the pair shall first win 12 games. The score st present stands 6J wins each.

Marshall has arrived in Tan's and commenced his match with Janowski. The result at the conclusion of the fifth game was two wins each ami one draw. Previous to leaving, Marshall contracted a somewhat romantic marriage. On the eve of his departure he called to pay a farewell visit to Miss ('. D. Krauss, the daughter of a retired merchant of Brooklyn, whom he had met a few months before. The young couple took a walk., during which Marshall proposed marriage. Miss Kra'iss accepted him, and they proceeded to Marshall's home, picking up on the way a clergyman, who performed the ceremony ten minutes before midnight, in the presence of relative-. Within six hours Mr. and Mrs. Marshall hurried on board the steamer Philadelphia. This proceeding would lie quite in keeping with Marshall's reputation as a chess-plavei. as, seeing a chance for a brilliant direct mate", he loses no time in effecting it. Marshall proposes to take a long European tour, in t'.ie course of which he will play matches with several first-class masters. Regret will bo felt, at the announcement of the death of the celebrated master, Mr. James Mason, who died at Thundersley, Essex, after a long and painful illness, at the age of 55. He was one of the best of the English masters, and had he paid more attention to his health would unquestionably at one time have made a bid for the world's championship. He was the author of several chess works, his " Principles of Chess" and " Art of Chess" being considered specially valuable.