THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS.
TO THE EDITOR 0? "THE PRESS." Sir, —The New Zealand Draughts Championship and Handicap Tournament was held this year at New Plymouth. Play commenced on Good Friday, April lOth, and concluded on Saturday, April 18th. There were twenty-seven entrants from various parts of the Dominion, twenty-four started play, two fell out during the progress of the tournament, twenty-two played on to the finish and completed their full quota of games. The players who finished were from Invercargill, Dunedin (two), Christchurch (three), Wellington, Marton (two), Dannevirke, Hamilton (two), Opunakc, Stratford, Tarurutangi (two), Waitara, Fitzroy, and New Plymouth (four), which shows that the tournament was a truly national event. These tournaments, with the exception of an interval during tho war, have been held annually for many years. In the past it has been usual for the Press of the Dominion, to announce the commencement, and record the final result of the tournament, with the name of the winner of the championship, but this year your influential paper, and so far as I know, most of the papers in the Dominion, overlooked it. When the intellectual nature of the game is considered, also the desirability of encouraging the playing and study of such games, especially amongst the rising generation, I and other lovers of the game wonder why such an event should have been practically boycotted by the newspapers of the country.—Yours, etc., DRAUGHTS PLAYER. April 23rd, 1925.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 13
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