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Show I CHECKERS June 17. Ull. . Conducted hy O. J. Orlmes. ill West Second South. Salt Lake City. I tab. Checker and chess headquarters, room ft7 Sharon building, opposlia south entrance en-trance to temple grounds. Visitors welcome. wel-come. Resident players Invited to Join Subscription rale tor Saturday Telegram, II for all months, 12 per year. K. Q. Churchill DM you get letter? Can I be of further servlc-i? 8. C. Johnson Osrd received In ample time and you are enrolled. T. Patterson Letter received. Toil are correct. - 1 Alfred Jordan, the Ungllsh champion, -hows no favors and treata all alike. Pittsburg was expected to give the Cham-plon Cham-plon all he wanted, hut Henderson wsi III and could not leave his home and Kirk failed to show up. Harrlgan, the stale champion, waa In the thick of ttu fray, bul took the count to the tune of I to 4 and about to drawa. Pierce played four games and drew them all. Only onr flame went axalnst the Englishman and I was won by O. B. Jones In simultaneous simultane-ous play. Will H. Tyson of Big Run plaved sixteen games and drew all of them, eettlng a record. The nearest competitor com-petitor was Hopewell of San Francisco, who plsyed sixteen gamee aad drew fifteen fif-teen of them, losing the last gsme played. Aa haa been the case at moet other points, the Ptttsburahers became familiar Willi mere bonk losses than they thought possible to exlet. (We had a few similar simi-lar lessons In our half dosen games.) It seems If tl) British colors are to be lowered low-ered on this lour the Americsn champion, cham-pion, Newell W. Banka, will need all our prmvers betareen now and August It. when he le to meet Jordan at Cedar Point for a puree of 1309. In anticipation of a two weeks' vacation vaca-tion In the Colorado mountalna, begln-nlng begln-nlng about June li, we are now preparing prepar-ing copy for the Issues within that period. pe-riod. Of course the newa notea will be missing and correspondents will be neglected, neg-lected, but aa vacation only cornea about once a year we hope ta be forgiven. We regret that we cannot at present furnish (toe further encounters of ''Blow-hard" ''Blow-hard" and "Flaunt. " but Scrubby" donates do-nates a gam which he captured from the "Profeaaor." It cams about In thle way: The evening waa very cool, . but the warmth of the clubroora had thawed the Professor Into a talkative mood and carefully wiping hi glaaaee and aettllng Into the comer, began what promised to be a lengthy discourse on tb relative merit of rheas and checker. A chees la his favorite game, checkers didn't have a "look la." Just when the Profseanr waa getting warmed up to hia aubject In walked "Scrubby" and raaually remarked that the man who talked In such a manner man-ner knew nothing of the game of checkers check-ers and could never learn. Thia had about the earn effect aa waving a red flag at a bull. "Scrubby" waa Invited to demonstrate hia superior anility or take a lesson, and the game beaan with the majority of the club member aa Interested In-terested spectators. y Osme No. HW Bristol Tmss. Black, Professor. White. Scrubby. U-U-a - 1-1 11-1 te-14 IJ-II-b ll-t ll-14-f 11-14 1U 14-10 (-11 10-17 10-14 . U U 14-11 IS.zJ 11-14 ' 24-11 ll-l (-14-0 11-11 11-17 17-M-h k-t-11 U- , -H H-14 W-tt-l -! -14 ii-34 i-ia-g ii- J-f 54-11 !-! 14- . 1-1 4-11-4 -ll 11-11 -! 1-4-4 U-ll 11-11-e 11-14 17-1-1 B. wine. "The Bristol la my favorlt and equally aa good aa 11-1. . h ''And thia makee It the Bristol Croea, one of the old set and atronseet replies." 0 "Of course, anyone knovea that I -11 here would lose by 1S-U. 10-1S. lt-14, 4-11. sl-s. 4-11, rr-M, etc 1S-U la aafe enough, hut I'll give you some thing to think about In thia" 1 d "You're gueealng aoena now. N-lt look very awkward, but I expected to lose you with little difficulty." s "Now how doea It look,-Prof sasorr The Professor aaalntalned a dignified al- f "To nraat think l"m aaay." "till no reply. . g ''That tl-M seems vary poor: In )ut a few aiovee I shall have a king behind be-hind you end the game will be over. The eeveral move following were accompanied ac-companied by much thinking and shuffling shuf-fling of feet. b 1 could probably hare given, yon this man and drawn, but I make It a rule to alwavs take the elrongset move." 1 Scrubby smtlsd blandly aa ha mad thle move and the Professor talked again: "What? Don I yon know the maa oa 11 belong to ma and you are throwing throw-ing away a man for nothing? ' 1 fear you do not give each move the proper consideration: It simply Illustrate ths lack of power of concentration-" J The Profeseor had lumped !-!! thout the allghteat hesitation, but thia caused him to atralghten up very eud-denly. eud-denly. Scrubby wore the eama eld smile and tb enlckertng of the spectators became be-came painfully audible, the Profeaeor'a face chanaed from white to red. After some deliberation he said: "Now that was a great deal of noise ever nothing. I shall on rue to 14 and In a very few moves you will be glad to return that man and hunt for the draw."" k "What did 1 tell you: some people become eo conceited over a fairly good move that they toe sight of tb real science sci-ence of the game." I Thins hadn't fon juet M the Professor Pro-fessor had anticipated and as he mads this move he hastily aroee and left the room with I his parting shot: "Chsckers le a ohiid's gsms and not for men. aa I have always contended." Oame No. tie Glasgow. This waa game No. I In the Orlrr.ee-Smltb Orlrr.ee-Smltb match for the l'tah championship. Black-Smith. Whlte-Ortmee -I4-A ie-11 a- rJ-e is-s. lIl-ll l-l-D 14-14 4-1 11-11 U-l.t-a II-I4-B -l4 1"-14 14-11 ll-ll-B T-14 M-U 1-11-H 1-7 1-11 14-H 4- 14-1 . I' M li-ll" 14-14 14-11 1-11 M-S4 11-14-C M-U-F l-ll-O l-t 1114 14-1 11-11 I1-1T 11-11 r 14-10 14-11 17-14 1-1 7-1 14-1 n-11 14-IT 17- 14-11 11-14 7-14 11-14 1-14- 14-14 lr. A Aa thia waa an unreetrtcted game, Mr. Smith adopted tha Double earner, ble favorite opening. B netting back to lha eM time book openlnaa. C Now a regular Glasgow. D 1-1 drawa but le not aa food aa l-T: 1-1. 11-7. 1-11. 11-14. ll-l. 14-M. U-ll. 14-11. 1J-14. -ll. I-1. 14-:l. l-ll. 19-11. 1-14. 11-14. 4-S. 17-11. 4-1. 11-14. l-ll. 11 1. 11-14. Si ll. tO-ltV drawn. J. Leea K Best. 11-1 ta wrak aad should be Avoided. - r 4-u Is good bu4 this foreee the eee and mskee a nice gam. 0 1-4 also draw. H On of th spectator, after ' the game, euggeeted 14-17 as better than the test and a possible win overlooking 21-14, sic. which wins for white. 1 This game waa played three different differ-ent tlmee In the match, drawn the flrat and second tlmee. but the third time. Orimes laboring under some sort of a hallucination hal-lucination very generously handed up two tor sot nine anef reelgned. . Smith mlaeed a win In one. Neat ballot waa 1-14. 21-14, an opening long a favorite favor-ite with Smtth. but he loet both etdea The last waa another double corner, 1-14. Il-lt, wtilch quickly reeohed tnto s Wbilter and a Souter and were both drawn, both player made a miserable showing bul have gained aome valuable experience, eepectallv Crimea, aa It was hia first match. Hmtth la comparatively a at ranger to match play, having played but one prior to thle. About four year ago be played Hugh MacKeaa. the noted Scotch expert, a tea-fame match for the etate ehamptonehlp. but waa unable te wreet th title from such a fornudebie ep-ponant. ep-ponant. . Problem No. 44. By J. Drammoad. Black 4. 4. I. 11. 11. 14. 1. White II. It, II. It. 14. 17. 11. White te play and win. Problem No. 41 and eolutloa. B'ack 14. IS: king 11. White It. 11. 11. Bleck to play and win. 11-11 11-11 eu-t 11-14 Brack 11 1 : lt-14 1-11 . 17-11 wine 14-lt-A 1-1 14-1T A 14-fO. 11-1. 14-14. t-l, 14-17.. I-T, n-11. 7-14. drawn. Otimee retains the L'tah ehamptonehlp. kavtng defeated J. B. Smith 4 to I and II draws la their twenty-game match. It took the full number of gamee to decide the winner and wee eroee enough at all tlmee te cauee conelderable tntereet. At the end of the fourteenth game tha eeere sioodi Smith I. Orlmee a end I drawn. The next ballot brouaht out 11-14. 11-17 and both gaasee were drawn, although |