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CHESS and WHIST CLUB. - Regular meeting tonight at 7.30, 25 Robert's Blk. Election of officers at 8.30. All are urged to attend...
CHESS AND WHIST CLUB. - Regular meeting tonight...
...Harvard Chess and Whist Club has received a letter from Mr. E. A. Caswell Yale '66, stating that the subscriptions for the Challenge Chess Cup have been completed and that the designs will be finished by the first of February. The cup will be owned by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, and will be played for every year in a tournament to be held in New York during the Christmas vacation. Mr. Caswell suggests that immediate action be taken. The first tournament will doubtless be played next winter. A meeting of the Harvard Chess Club will be held tonight...
...went out and started colds which lasted through the trip. At 3.25 they left Washington for St. Louis, 28 hours ride away. As the country was flat and uninteresting, amusement had to be furnished inside the car and the fellows spent the time reading, scrapping and playing whist and other more lucrative games. In the evening, an entertainment of specialties was given by the fellows. They all gathered at one end of the car and the porter's step ladder placed in the doorway was used for the artists to stand on. Several songs, speeches, and specialty "acts" used...
...LATHROP.CHESS AND WHIST CLUB. - Regular meeting tonight at 7.30, 25 Robert's Block. All games in the preliminary round except those to finish ties must be played before 10 p. m. tonight. Finals will be started, as well as games to decide ties...