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Show 1 CHECKERS June 10, Jtll. . Conducted by o. J. Grimes. 218 West Henri 1 Koiith. Stilt Lake City. I'tah. Choker and chess headquarters, room 27 Sharon hulldlntc, opposite south entrance to temple urounds. Visitors welcome. Uesldfnt players Invited to Join. 8ub-rrlptUm 8ub-rrlptUm rates for Saturday Telegram. $1 for six months. t pt year. ' THE MAIL BAG. C. O. Schroeder Many thanks. It'a hear from yn often. Some of yuur game will h- lntrritting- O. H. Jennings Have hnded to the circulation department. Let's know ir paper doean't show up next week. Many thanks. Games and problems always ac-Vt-p table. W. C. Wright Have 'mailed copy which give particulars. You're on. W, . Moree Have mulled copy. Glad to hav you with us. P. Tltdke Copy mailed. Have enrolled en-rolled you. Thflre are some very Interesting an me at the flub, but our players are afraid to net their names Into print and we can very seldom get much help from them. However, we have secured a few frames for the critic to shoot at and will use them from time to time. An occasional note may be added, hut a a rule we shall leave them to the mercies of our readers. Healthy criticism Is what la needr-d to stir up Interest and all will be benefited. Our mutual friends, "Blow-hard" "Blow-hard" and "Flxum," ara found In argument argu-ment so frequently that no one was surprised sur-prised to see them lock horns one nlfrht last week, but as usual the crowd lent Its attention, and below we have the games and a few comments which serve aa punctuation marks. Osme No. 107 Edlnhnrrh. BtrrtTTrm: WMtwBmwhirtr -13 2-;&-ri 7-14 S1-3S 3- S 22-18-A 1S-U-K 30-15 U'-M 0. 7 10- is-B 1'3-14-k 1-22 : -:': s-u 5-?2 M-19-G :'6-10-I 9-13 7-3 24- 4- t 2S-23 11-16 i 2I-17-C 2-1R 27-23-J M-20 K- I- 7 1 11- lfi 22-IS l-ii 32-27 Drawn l-lt 13-29 23-18 li-tS 8-16 18-1A-H 6- 9 18-14 A "I'll show you how to trv that Edinburgh Edin-burgh on your betters. Don't you know It's the weakest opening on the board?" B "Sure. H i weak against a player, but this looks ffood to me." C "Take that: 23-lB and 18-14 are all rlirht. but you don't know this." D ".Vow. the book say 3--5, but this ta Rood enough." ,K "All riaht; hop over." F "You don't come that on me: guess again." 0 "Well, then, look at this. H "Say! You been pout in on that, too? Well, this will fix vou.' 1 "Vow, what do you say?" J "Give up?" From here on everything every-thing mas exceedingly quiet and all eves wer glued to (.he board, each player taking his time and moving carefuflv. K "Nothln" but a beastly draw. Never mind I'll be loaded next time." flame No. log. Double corner. Black, Blowhard: White. Flxum. -14-a 27-24 7-10 21-17 U-25 33-lR-b 10-19 17-18-f 18-23 3u-2t 6- 24-15 8-7 22-18 11-18 25-22-c J-7-e 29-25-g 12-18 20-4 11-U-d 31-27 8-12 24-20 19-24 ' 18-15 1.19 27-24 7-11-1 k-2-l! 10-19 rS-lh 4-8-h 18 14-1 10-14 ' 24-15 12-19 - 28-22 9-18 17-10 7- 10 22-17 14-18 25-23 Prawn a "I'll fool you this time; no U-l for mine." b "Oh. anything Is good against that." c "Thoueh I'd go 24-19. didn't you? d "J4-1S was your best move; now see where you are!"- e "Anybody can plav book; why don't you try aomethlne original ?" f "How doea tfila look to you?' a "Fooled again: thought I'd go !7-24. eh?" h Ever get leftT" ' I "Homehody'a goin' to get hurt, and It . won't be the colored population, either." J "Is that so? Well, you guess agin": take that." After some meditation S-18 waa made, coupled with some rether uncomplimentary un-complimentary remarks. M-22 and other exchangea followed quickly. k "Another bloomin drt' anybody can play draws; why don't you win once In a whiter' With this parting shot the lights were turned out and we wended our wav homeward. The following night witnessed another battle with different reaulta. and It will be a delicate proposition to secure se-cure the gamee, but we have hopee. Problem Ne. 3. By Hugh Bvara. This Is another oldtlmer and familiar to many of our readers, but deserves attention, at-tention, and Is not as easy as It looks. We saw it published once - under the name of an entirely different author, who. In hia solution, waa kind enough to allow al-low bla-k to win In about six movea. As a gentle tip. we add "nothln1 doln', look again." m m u ni m m. m m mm sqbc i n m m 1 mcmomm m m jusl ' if m mm Black 14, IS: klnc'll. White. II. 32. 21. Black to play and win. ' Problem No. 81 and solution. Hlack 7. 11: klnf 23. White 20. 24: klna 2. Rlack to plav and draw. 11-14.1-11, M il. 24-18 drawn. The twenty-game match between Smith and Griroea for the a tat championship cham-pionship Is now In full blast and up to the . present time belong to anybody. Neither player le showing any form and blunder are numerous. The first ten gamee completed showed one win each and eight game drawn, although several sev-eral wlna had been mlaaed. In the eleventh elev-enth game Smith choea the Defiance and Immediately became entangled and loet a hard ending Th twelfth game wa a Glasgow and drawn. Then w1 on game the lead. Grimea got funny with a boutfr and tendered Smfih another win to even up. This Smith generously declined and mlaeed the point entirely. Not to be thrown down In that manner. Grime tm-med tm-med lately ahoved the freed man In the wrong dlreetlo nend forced hi challenger to aocept the game. The thirteenth game was an old and threadbare Glasgow, which bad already Agured twice In the match, and adopting the same old "Martin "Mar-tin rest" after a few movea. Orlmea UI being generously tr.clnd, handed up two for nothing and took the count. By some miracle the fourteenth game wa drawn and th score now stands 3 to 3 In favor of Mr. Smith. If an yon a has ever ar-cuswd ar-cuswd lthr of the conteatanta of being a checker player, he ta kindly aaked to put in appearance- and beck the charge. George S. Jennings,, the Iowa cham- ton. made a trip to Madison, la., on lemorial day and gave a simultaneous exhllattlon. When the smoke cleared , away the core board ahewed forty-six wins for the champion, three tosses and Sixteen game drawn. Since the depart-! depart-! ur eof Hugh MacKeaa. the former Utah champion, we have not had a treat of thi kind; can't aom of our talent scare up the courage? John Tougnertv. formerly of Ellsworth. Kaa . late of Kanaaa City. Mo . a battl acarred veteran of many a Kan aas tournament, tour-nament, can withstand the "call of th Plain" no longer, and can now be found at 10 South Fourth street. Manhattan, Kan. The state of Colorado has beea with- out a checker champion for several year, but not o now. Through th Globe Democrat our old correspondence frknd. D. A. Mulr of Greeley, announces his Intention of shouldering the title and It's burdens and stand ready to show his right to thoee Inclined to argument. While It has never been our pleasure to meet Mr. Mulr arroaa board. If he puta up as much of a flght at close range as he does by mall, we have a wholesome respect for bis ability. Frank James, the genial editor of the checker department in the Columbia State, waa kind enough to give THE TKI.EG RAM correspondence tourney 'quite a little space In a recent tseue and aa a result we have a number of the most prominent southern player enrolled. en-rolled. In closing. Brother James tendered ten-dered the following reoommendatloo: "Our southern correspondence player would do well to enter the above tourney. tour-ney. Mr. Grimes Is a fine stl round player, and hi column in th Kelt Ik City TK LEG RAM is very abiv edited." It Is very good of Brother Jsme to feej so kindly toward u and we take off our bonnet to him. but It 1 too bad that he should impose on his friends concerning concern-ing our ability. If he could only be present pres-ent at a fw cross board contest he would nulcklv ee how very, badly we have been misjudged. It Is our hope that the column In the Salt Lake Saturday Satur-day TFXEGRAM will do as much for the Intermountaln players as that in the Columbia Co-lumbia Stat baa duo for the- Southern t ! plaver. (i |