Show CHilD NORMAL S TO All SAVE CHESS When He Is Not Beating 1 r i Masters at Game He Is Just Normal Kid I. I IY t i EW YORK YORK De Dec ll Little I SamI Samuel Sam Sam- Sam Sam- I uel Polish chess won won- d W der-W tot 8 S years who has defeated th the t formidable masters of ot th the checked square wherever the game 1 Is played ln In Europe and who Is fulfill fulfill- t Ine tn a months months' engagement deron der- der on acing his skill to American exper ex exper ex- ex per per s has been in training quarters yin Mn- in the he country near New York mos most r pt pf Uie since he ho arrived In this I I country i the The he child prodigy explains through t f t ya k Staff of ot Interpreters who translate successively from tho the youngsters youngster's PoT Po Po- T fish into French or German an and theneA finally Into English that a w 9 chess h S players player's training differs mate mate- i rJ from that undertaken by chamI cham cham- I I pfons' pfons in other In-other In other lines when they pu put t r themselves Into combat form torm In if w ri ring g his Intellectual decks fo for tor t 7 inaction ta aptton t on young young- Samuel does everything i. i se within his juvenile capacity ex ex- ex s J. t c pt play chess Thus he is able to appear fresh and with an unburdened f i brain when called upon to match tactics fac with his opponents whom h hS he S 4 i t b takes tales on fifteen to thirty f 4 time So so in anticipation ofa t a. a spirited til tilt 7 some of the nations nation's foremost w l the youngster is running gamut of youthful activity from Indian or chasing cottontails n the the fields to operating a miniature I ff f ra system and braving the 1 E dan daner s-er s er of being soundly scolded by J his s elders elders should one of his toy locos loco- loco t i k motives Jump the tracks and mar the I polished parlor floor rat n r For young Samuel away from a ass a ar r. r ch ss ss board to perform on which has a i leon cn almost an obsession with him t str ce ethe the age of 3 Is a very normal tt sort of at little boy rather shy and backward v-backward with grownups but with a taste for diversion dl out-of-doors out which r would have entitled entitled him to place ol of honor among among the associates of ot Tom Terri Sawyer Huck Finn and the rest crest r st st. of of tho the gang bang had he been an j American and a contemporary a of that noted society tr i one of his favorite diversions since Scorning coming Jc to America has been in learning learn- learn v a ing to drive a new automobile ac- ac c- c for his use ft BEAT E BEAT T FATHER AT 3 Accor According ing to Samuels Samuel's father who fis a Po- Po Polish Is is a a. player noted for his skill in Polish Po- Po lish lish chess circles the boy first showed aptitude for the game at the age of when 3 3 3 when he was taught the various t moves of moves of the chessmen After playing through ough only a few games the boy a such skill that his father w was s. s no longer any match for him T Thereafter his skill and fame int In- In t r sed apace as one by one he met and overcame o the most formidable players j-players of his native lan land an and later of of the entire continent During the w wr r the youngster Is y y eaid said lq to have provided many an eve- eve f nines nine's amusement for fOl German officers tho at expense of their fellows who r were were humiliated by the st stripling In i games at army head- head r quarters rs WON WONDERFUL WoI D E P. P F U L' L LM M MEMORY E M O R Y Speculation ll on the source of the b ys has br brought most of those i ter ed in him to no certain know- know V fe f l e on the tho the subject He has a prof pro- pro 4 f digou s memory and delights in glanc- glanc glancing j ing lug at a board on which the men ire are re rearranged arranged as in a game partly and then going back one two r years rears in fn his experience and telling swelling the occasion and circumstances o f Ids llis previous acquaintance with the l presented After recalling he time and place of the game as asvelt vell velt as the person with whom he played it the youngster duplicates it play for play from the opening to I the checkmate nate as it was played originally |