Word: tournaments
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Besides the indoor intercollegiate tournament which will be held in New York City sometime in March, the University team will compete in three other intercollegiate matches this winter. The first of these will be against the Norwich University riders on January 16, at North field, Vermont. The Norwich team will leave shortly after the contest with Harvard for a trip through the Middle West. The Yale date has been set for March 6, and the Crimson polo trio will go to New Haven, if this match does not conflict with the intercollegiate championship for which the date has not been...
After several embarrassing hours explaining the deficiencies in his passport, José R. Capablanca came ashore last week from the Leviathan. The hours had been made even more harassing by the persistence of news-writers. Since the Moscow chess tournament TIME, Dec. 7) the market for chess news has developed rapidly. In particular the persistent writers wanted to know "Why?" Why had Capablanca-born with chess strategy "engraved by dry point upon his infant brain"-been defeated by two Russian "unknowns"? He who had declared "Chess-it is too simple" -why had he been driven to a draw by Lasker...
...drawings for the matches in the first tournament of the new Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and West Point Chess League, which will be held at the Manhattan Chess Club of New York. City on December 28, 29, 30, were announced yesterday by K. P. Smith ocC., President of the University Chess Club...
...desperate and vain sortie, defying the white death that comes in the end to the gallantest chevalier and the most stubborn chessman. The gods who had directed the battles-chessplayers, the most famous in the world-put on their neat traveling clothes and left Moscow. The International Tournament, which had endured for six weeks, was over. The winner? There was no excitement about that. E. Bogoljubow, modest Russian, clinched first prize days before the end. Statuvolent Dr. Emanuel Lasker was second, as had been expected; José R. Capablanca (TIME, Dec. 7) wriggled into third place...
Less proficient players indulged in a tournament of their own. On the desk of the Soreno Hotel the winners' trophies stood on display-two cocktail shakers...