DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 40

DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

Melbourne.— The annual meeting of the Collingwood Draughts Club wss held on the 9th ult. at the Town Hall, Melbourne.— The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report and balance sheet, referred to the-prosperous year the club had just experienced. He congratulated the members upon their becoming the winners of the Sargood trophy", and said that it was a fitting reward for the zeal and i-erseverance, he was pleased to say, that the members had always shown in their study of the game of draughts. He was also pleased at the financial state the club was in, as they would ccimnaence the new year with a credit balance of £3 Bs.— Mr J. Best moved and Mr J. Minetti seconded—" That £1 Is be voted, to the Jordan testimonial fund." Mr Best, in moving his motion, referred to the stimulus that would be given to the game in Victoria by Mr Jordan's visit, and he was sure that those players who had the interest of the game at heart would contribute what .they could afford to the fund. Th« motion was unanimously cariied. — It was also de» cided to postpone the annual smoke concert, so an to give Mr Jordan an opportunity of being pre. sent.— The following officers ware elected :—President, Or J. Gaban ; vice-presidents, Messrs J. C. Carter and W. Duncan ; hon. secretary, Mr F. T. Best ; hon. treastirer, Mr " J. C. Carter ; committee—Messrs G. Richards, J. Minetti, D. Deimond, M. M Collins, and S Piper ; hon. auditors, Messrs H. G. Pitts and G. Plain ; match committee— Mesgrs It 1 . T. Best, J. C. Carter, and W. Duncan ; captain, Mr F. T- Best : vicecaptain, Mr J. C. Carter. Mr Boreham at Enfield.— Mr J. A Boreham paid a visit to Enfield recently, and contested games against six .players simultaneously. His opponente wer« Messrs J. Donnelly, J. Rainforth, L. Elliott, D. ladaie, A. Isdale, and J. M'Kenzie. Fourteen games were played, the champion, winning 13 games, the other game being " bagged by D. Isdale, thus saviug his team from the fate of the Spanish fleet »t Manila. The Enfield players will no doubt endeavour next time to put a numerically stronger team "on the table, as by so doing they each gain more time for laying a ground mine." That is the only plan of attack against a player who has the disagreeable habit of always moving the wrong piece just when he should by rights lose the game -that is, if ha hadn't moved that man.

The Late Mr John Love.— The Leeds Meroury, speaking of the late Mr Lovo, say 3 --" As president of the Lancashire Draughts Association, and also of numerous other clubs ,vhich'he himself had been the chief means of forming in Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton, Bury, and other Lancashire towns, Mr Love laboured for /ears.- in promoting and extending the knpWT ledge of the game. He had the happy knaok of making friends wherever lie went, and many draughts players throughout the kingdom in widely separated parts wul feel that in losing him they have lost a clear friend. Had he survived to see the formation of the English Draught! Association completed, in which he took a warm interest up to the last, he would in all probability been elected its first president. He was a generous imtron of the game; amongst other gifts he was the donor of the Lancasehire Club's Championship Cvp — the ' Lov»' Trophy. Only a, few days prior to his decease he informed us that he should also provide n suitable trophy for the English championship, to become the property of the player winning if three times. The gap caused bj? his un.tma.ebj death will be b,«ceL ta*lJU tt \ - ' " "