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Show CHECKER EXPERT TO WRITE FOR TELEGRAM Hugh McKean to Note Problems Prob-lems and Explanations and Conduct Instruction Pport readers of The Telegram, who srs interested In that great and an-' clent gam of rhprkrrs, arc du for a , ia if at neat tfunday when this department gtvee to the fana for tha flrat lima lta new checker department. depart-ment. Th new checker editor will he Hueh McKean, for many vrara checker cha...-iilon cha...-iilon of 1'iah, of K ansaa and of th MUM la Writ. Ha la a checker player with ft brilliant racord from tk-otland to Halt I . It. MK KA5PS ( ARKKR. -r Bora 1a bcoil! aad -Jkacaaaiaa; -a lover of the Kama wh-n a txy. tic )as heen a figure In checker hlatory for lha pa at thirty-five yea re. lla haa been untiring In recording- various plays lu. us uf students. Ite learned tha rudiments of match ?lay under James Ferris of tirecnock, or a number of years champion of the wo r 11. Although born In Hoquhsm, .Stirlingshire, tha greater part f Ms yout h was spent In tlreenox-k. where neuron tha championship of Knfrew-shfre Knfrew-shfre from tha famoua Hush Cairney In; April, 189S. Tha folio-In- year he1 cams to tha t'ntted tiiatee ana settiau In (Salt Uki City. PI.AYI4 WITH B10 SIX. There Is probably no expert with wbom ha Is not acquainted nor faced across the board. Home of these are tieorge Hnrhanan. J. Ferrle, James Wy-lla. Wy-lla. tha "Hard I -addle." Itobart Martin. "Stonewall' Harkar, ir. Auguet Shafler, J. I Klrhmond, J. H. Hanson and Jsmee Ieea. At preeent he le playing a match gam bv mall with Christy Mnthrwson, tha famous "Hie; Klx" of baaeball who has become a chrckrr pert since he has been ekln,f return re-turn to health at Haranao Iak. Ucksn performed one of tha prat-f-ata In checkers avr-ral yrara bia In Halt !.ake whrn without alejht of na ho ant, ha plavrd twentr games almtti-inn'outly. almtti-inn'outly. McKtt sat In one rootit whllo In a second wrra (winly axpr-rirncad axpr-rirncad playrra. Tha board was numbered num-bered and as each play was mad In the second room, McKean waa told of H and ordered bin move to ba made. He only mads a record of winning; fifteen games and dra wlner the other five. Urk n ' a iw rnltimn. with Its nrnh. lems. tte explanation. Its aratnee snd rhker Instruction, will he a regular fenfnre of The Telerram Htmday aport paces, beirlnninir next Sunday. |