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Show if CHESS TOURNAMENTS I NOW BEING ARRANGED 1 i "-Devotees of the Royal Game ; i Preparing for IntercoIIeg- ij!;.: k iate Contest. ;:1 i i j i Tribune. Special Sporting; Sorvico. ij. . NEW HAVEN". Conn.. Dec. 1. , iWith the usual intercollegiate chess tournaments at Christmas fast up- ' proaching, the devotees of tho royal cjt game at the various big institutions ?- of learning arc busying themselves got- 5&. ting into form bv means of profim- 3 f innry tourneys and trial matches. Tlie if j championships of the C. II, Y. 1, or f liip four," comprising Columbia, Jlar- A ,r vnrd. Yale and Princeton, and the Tri- kv angular Collcgo Chess league, eompris- P- Cornell, Brown and Pennsylvania, 1 -will again be koonlv contested for. llar-( llar-( vard is still the "big four" champion, ;; but Columbia onfident of recovering her lost laurf'r. .i' for no other reason than I hat voting .lose R. Capablanca, J . tho Cuban prodigy, has cast his lot with JNcw York s great university'. Capablanca will piny "at tho top ' j- board, and those who are competent to f nudge say that ho will win every one . 'of tho three games ho will be required ! r . to piny. Captain L. J. Wolff will play j second board, and other members of the team will bo picked from Otto KW Brown, IT. Blumbcrg, II. Rnmsdcll and If 1 J. I?. Lent. With the exception of C. P. 2 Kimball, who played last year, Yale I . will havo practically a now team on 1 -this occasion, including such plavers as I P. T. Kclsey. II. T. Pritchard," E. B. rv. Burgess, M. Boinockc and H. D. At-4 At-4 ' kins. !j j Homer N. Sweet, who represented i Brown in tho club match with Oxford Jh; ' and Cambridge last spring and who I won his game, will head the Providence , team in tho forthcoming Triangular l v tournament. Ho will bo partnered by ,1V O. R. McCoy, R. W. Burgess or II. I. ! K -Mitchell. TADSHOwT"HOV TOMMY BURNS, SHORTEST HEAVY-WEIGHT IN t GAME, LOOKS IN ACTION. |