Draughts Items.

Otago Witness, Issue 2009, 25 August 1892, Page 36

Draughts Items.

Melbourne. —On > Saturday, July 9, Mather's Cafe was the scene of a successful exhibition of simultaneous play by Mr David R. Hay. lie met a team of 11 players from Brighton and Cheltenham, and in the course of an hour and a-half, scored 8 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses. Wyllie, tho " Herd Laddie "— who is now, by the way, a "laddie" of 73 — was never engaged on the occupation which the sobriquet would suggest (asserts the Liverpool Mercury). The simple mistake of a spectator at one of the earliest matches conferred a title which ■ has stuck to him nigh on to 60 years. During his interesting career he has followed many callings— weaver, pedlar, pawnbroker, and so forth. Of late years professional draughts playing has formed his sole ocoupation, 'and this has taken him round the world in tours extending over years. So varied are his talents that recently, though stone deaf, he occupied the chair at a concert held in a town in Lanarkshire.