Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 10 | Date for Western Chess Tourney Set

DATE FOR WESTERN CHESS TOURNEY SET Chicago Aug S. S Instead CL-Instead Instead of ot being held In August as heretofore the an annual annual annual an- an nual championship meeting of ot the Western estern Chess association has been scheduled for r the week beginning September September Sep Sep- 22 at Chicago The program calls for a n. masters masters' tournament a and d a m majors majors' jors' jors tournament Edward Lasker winner of ot the championship the last two years ears Is also secretary of oC the Western Chess association Uon One of the best known landmarks anthe on an n the Mississippi river Is gone A tall sycamore tree that stood 1 on the Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- 1 kansas ansas shore near neal Memphis and which for more than fifty years ears served as a amark amark mark for tor river pilots has hns been undermined undermined undermined under under- mined b by the tile action of oC tho the water sater and fallen Into the river Mark Twain was one of the famed pilots who held the pa of oC his boat bOlt on the tree