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George Buchanan, the Scottish champion has been touring in the Harthill district, and has given. some very successful exhibitions of blindfold and simultaneous play. In simultaneous contests he played altogether over 100 games, his opponents scoring only three wins and 13 draws. ' In a blindfold exhibition against eight "of the strongest players of the district he won 4, lost 1, and 3 were dTawa. Harry Freednxan. — The Leeds Mercury, in mentioning the fact that the ex-Scottish champion is now in Port Elizabeth doing duty as a captain in the Salvation Army, remarks: — Harry was nothing if he was not versatile. During his match with A. Hynd at Manchester he tried his hand at boxing with the light-weight champion. "Where'er he may ba Harry will take a leading hand; it ia one of his strong characteristics. He took one or that occasion, but it was "the othei fellow's," and h? received it in the eye, and for some tims he carried about vith him a "tender recollection" of the affair.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2691, 11 October 1905, Page 59
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171DRAUGHTS ITEMS. Otago Witness, Issue 2691, 11 October 1905, Page 59
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