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Show CHECKER EXPERT TO PLAY MATCHES TODAY Newell W. Banks Will Give Exhibitions This Afternoon After-noon and Evening. Newell W. Banks, the young checker prodigy of Detroit, is here, fresh from hia victory over Alfred Jordan at Los Angeles. He will give exhibitions of his skill at checkers this afternoon and evening even-ing at the Salt Lake Chess and Checker club, 313 Continental National bank building. build-ing. He is also what billiard players would call a good "shortstop" player at the sister game of chess, and will play all comers at both games. A warm friend of the famous Cuban, Capablanca, Banks ba.i doubtless learned many a clever trick from him, and possesses a sound knowledge of the game. But checkers is his first and true love. His father, Dr. Banks, is a well-known player who held the championship of Michigan for many years, and Ncwoll's first playthings were a checkerboard and men. When he was a very bad Utile boy he would be punished by havi his checkerboard taken from him. Wlieiry In his teens he had learned all his fati". er could teach him of the game and he challenged the great Barker for the chum- i pionship of America, but before the match ' could be played Barker's death made him champion by default. A little later if played a match with Hugh HendersonW Pittsburg and won. Banks has played three subsection matches with Alfred Jordan, losing the first for a small purse, tying the second at Kansas City and winning the third a few weeks ago at Los Angeles. The last t wo were for substantial purses, worl h while springing "cooks" to win. Unquestionably Unques-tionably the best match player in America, Ameri-ca, Banks is a worthy successor of the ''Stonewall" Barker. |