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Show Ohockor Notes. The challenge to j. Jordan S. Crumb's uhal-leupo uhal-leupo to Alfred Jordan reads thus; In bohalf of Nowvll ,v. Batiks. I hereby challengo Alfred .lor-ilau .lor-ilau to a jnotch of forty games far thn checker cluirnplonsh'lp of tho world nnd a nldo bet of 5 500, undor the following conditions: First. That tho match tako pluco In Boston, provided tho Boston Chucker club raises a puroo of 3250, to bo played for In addition to tho stakes, uud that tho winner tako all after tbo axpoustsi of both players are dnducted. neither player to rccclvo over J50 for ospenses. Second., That play commenca an tho second Saturday Sat-urday of February, 1911. Third. All dntalls rogardlng the match to ba arranged mutually bctwocn Jordan and Banks. Mr. Crumb has put up a forfeit of 850. Wo havo llttl! hope of this match taklnc; place. The icoberg wo sco ahead Is tho punto proposition, -As tho winner liaa to tako nil, why not lucreasn the sldo stakes and go to It? A match for blood will pioduco a mora definite rOiiult. and be of more Interest to checker players. Tho winner would thon havo mora money to back himself with for a. real wnrld'o championship. Why do these two players persist In this faroo of playing for the world'n tltleT Let either of them Issue a challenge to the world, offorlnK to give or take traveling exponsen. and wo assure them that the gauntlet would be taken up at once. There Is a good turnout of chocker and chrsa player every evening at tha Y. M. C. A. It. Gardiner, tho veteran player Is a frequent rlsltor. It Is expected that Honry Hcusser of Murray. J, D. Smith and J. Holmes, threo of the strongest strong-est checker players In the atate, will ma&e matters mat-ters interesting for eomo of the tourney players this season. Thero still remain a. fow tloo left over from tho 1913 city tournoy to be played off under a handicap for the valuable checker books presented to the club by J. D. Smith. The city tournoy for tha McConaghy challenge cup starts on Thanksgiving day, Still plenty of lltno for challongere. Mcoam. Plumly, Erb, Sbaw and Koyworth nre expected to get busy. |