Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-10 | Page 2 | Cable Chess Match

4 CABLE CHESS MATCH 5ir Mutual Agreement It is Called a DraC 3 New York March gThe cable chess match between the Manhattan Chess hIub of this city and the British Chess club resulted in a draw When play ceased at 620 oclock on yesterday one game was finished its result being a raw and the other games were left In r such a doubtful state when play was stopped that a decision was considered j impossible When Lasher was asked at I London to adjudicate upon these games I he proposed that the match be called a raw as adjudicating the remaining tames could not be satisfactory to either club The proposition was accepted and the match declared drawn Hundreds of chess players from all parts of the country coun-try were at the Manhattan club throughout through-out the day The arrangements were ex cellentlr carried out and the whole event went off in the best possible and agreeable agree-able manner The only game which was finished was that between B G Baird and Mills This resulted In a draw LIpschuttz had an advantage at onetime r one-time but Owen managed to equalize matters mat-ters later on Showaiter on the other hand had a decided advantage when the game was stopped and it looked as though he would have won had the contest been tontinued to the end Hodges could not wake any headway against Loeoek the game being even all I the tvav through I Hanaham and Lord only played a few moves as a mistake was made In calling this game and a good deal of time was lost in rectifying it I Ryan succeeded in getting a stron attack I at-tack on Guesta and with clever play he I ought to have won had the game been I rbteJ finished The game between Isaacson and Mortimer Mor-timer was prettily played each having an attack ready when play ceased J TF Baird and Trenchard were well matched and the game was even throughout Boppel gave up the exchange in his gamo with Slmon son and having a decided de-cided advantage in position the former might have won Devisser had the best of a game against Hunter and was looked upon as a sure winner before time was called