Chess Items

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 59

Chess Items

Two well-known chess player, in the persons of Mr "W. Evans of the Otago Cuass C'iub and Mr J. J. Milner ol the Canterbury Club, have recently joined the great nii'jorjt;-. At the Otae.o Club on Monday mght a motion oi coruo'ente with Mrs Evans was carried unanimously, p'n.d, on the motion of Mr F. J. Mouat, seconded by the Ja?v. A. T. Chodowski, the secretary was instructed to forward a letter to Mrs Evans and family, expressive of the cluVs sjrapathy.

A 10 a-side match by tele^ra^h. between the Odnuni and Otago Cte=o Cinba \v..l jji all probability take place on Sjtusdiv, ,Tu';- 9, commencing at 7 p.m.

It was unanimously agreed at a meeting of Ilia committee of the Otago Chess Clv.h on Monday night to siibscribe £1 Is toward* the proposed 1 Hookham memorial trophy. A Wellington correspondent writes- — ' Play is progressing rapidly in. the aiumo! haudiesp flies* tourney of the Wellington VTorLiEg ilon'a Club. Messrs Op pier ffour vims) wad. Moitoa iiLiec wins) have not jet sniiercd defeat. Barnes (the scratch man who is called on to give odds varying from pav.'n and move to qxieeix and move) is well up with Tour wins and one loss. Tbe following have also made ;•• good start: —Lane 2—l.2 — 1. Brnv.m 2 — i, Boxall 5—2,5 — 2, and O'Leary 4—2. Theio is every pioimse o£ an exceedingly clo=e finish. The annual match between, the Wellington Chess Gmb and the Wellington Working Men's Chess C!ub is fixed for Thursday, 23rd iirst., at the club's social hall. A. return niat--ii will be played iv the Wellington Ohess Club's looms about the beginning of Aug-ust, the Weilingfo.i C!ub having agreed to the oroposal to .nstiUite -i iiome-pnd-honie fixtuse."