DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 83

DRAUGHTS ITEMS.

Otago Championship. — All competitors u{ this -event are requested to be at jhe club on Saturday evening next at 8 o'clock. He Couldn't Draw. — Mr Boswell, Christ!* church, sends the following: — At the cluH the other night I was engaged in a gam«( with another member when this position! occurred: Black kings 18, 23, White kings 17, 21. I iiad the Black pieces, and Whit* to play. My opponent, taking the game a< ended, played the men -17 22, 18 25, 21 30"* and said "Draw." "Hold on," I replied;! " put the pieces back, and let me play mjj own game. I reckon I've got Martins' movs on you." " I don't care whose blooming move you've got, you pant make anything but a draw out of it." So saying, he again*' played 17 • 22, I took the king, and 1 after, looking at the board for a while he smacked? his king on to 30, with " Where's youxf blooming draw?" I then played 23 26, andt repeated his question with emphasis, and th«r onlookers -laughed heartily. This ia the littl* joke by which Martins once iron sixpence. - A novel match has just been concluded a«( Ramsgate (England) between Messrs Anslej< and Franklin. The terms were that 20 gamea( should be played, and if Franklin succeeded in scoring one -win he would win the match* Ansley won, the score at the conclusion beina| —Ansley 16 wins; Franklin, 0; drawn. £ Mr Analey, the Leeds Budget reports, ia likely to play a match foi the championship of Kent with P. A. Crabbe, a well-known London player hailing from Plumstead. Th« match will probably consist of 12 gamesy under E.D.A. rules, for a ptake of from £5 to £10 a-side. Mr Crabbe is the challenger, , and offers Mr Ansley the option of playing either at London or Ramsgate, or half t\u number of games at each venue.