A FINE "SHOT."
The following game Vas. awarded first prize in Liverpool Mercury competition, for game selected containing finest "shot." It was entered by T*Lr L. S. Head.
"Maid of the Mill." Asplayed at Buffalo, N.Y.
(a) Mr Mercer, having the blacks against the veteran, Mr Hodges, had frequently drawn this continuation of the opening quoted, but his opponent persisted in playing the whites in tho same manner time after time.
This was unlike Hodges ; but he knr how that sooner or later Mercer won duce a variation.
(c) They had been at this point many a unie and Mercer had always followed a couise irritatingly contrary to the fond wishes of tho veteran. At last the "shot" was taken, out of pure speculation
(c) But the veteran of 87 was careful to take it the right way.
(d) And continued operations after tho same niannei.
The- Southland Times states that Messrs O. Hazlett, B. O. Hazlett. Stewart, Seelye, Sise, Boot, and Drs Sale and Hotop have chartered the ketch Anna for a trip to the Sounds, and intended to start on Saturday evening;, but the weather was not propitious. The cruise will extend about a for** night.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 67
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