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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2254, 14 September 1914, Page 9

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$ HANDICAP TOURNEY. Four, games were played last week in tho section play of the Wellington South Chess Club's annual handicap tourney. Berry won from Thompson and lost to Armstrong. We'ine won from I'aughton and also from Clark. Messrs. Purchas, Allen, Berry, and Weine have cpialified for the finals, the two remaining places in which are being contested by Jlessrs. Perrott and Douglas in Section A, and by Messrs. Loney aiid Arm'strong in Section B. At a committee meeting held on Friday evening it. was decided to accept the offer of the Working Men's Club to play the ninth annual inter-club match on Monday evening next. Last week's play in the Working Men's Club annual handicap • chess tourney yielded J Reid a win from Featonby, while Burgess won from C. Reid. These results .leave the issue. a very open one, the scores of the leaders being now as follow: —Gray, 6 wins, 2 losses; Featonby, 7J-2i; Burgess, 8-3; Perry, 7-3; J. Reid, 8-5; Key, G-4; and Mowtell,. 5-3. Arrangements are well forward for the ninth annual match with tho Wellington South Chess Club, which will probably be played in Eho Social Hall. It is hoped to have about 20 boards in uso on this occasion. Very little progress has been made during the past fortnight in the Wellington Chess Club's annual "Petherick ' Tournament. Mr. White (Class V) is leading, with 6 clear wins, closely followed bv Mr. Still,(Class I), 4-1; and Mr. W, Ci. Hill (Class III), 4-2. Mr. A. W. Gyles, one of the club's members who has made three good bids for the New Zealand ohampionship, is expected back from London _ before the end of the year. Ho was invited to take part in the Major Tourney of the British Chess Association (which was scheduled to commence at Chester a mouth- ago), but was unable to accept the invitation. Tho tourney to decide the championship of the Auckland Chess Club is rapidly approaching completion. Mr. A. W. O. Davies, formerly of Wellington, is sure of the first place, and there is evidently going to be a close finish for the remaining prizes. Two of the Wairarapa's Congress representatives are leading in the Masterton Chess Club's tourney for the D.igg Shield, viz., W. Moore (Carter-ton;,-5 wins, 1 loss, and G. A. Jones (Masterton), 4-2. The telephone match between Carterton and Te Wharau ended in favour of the former by to 3J; To avoid the tediousness of a match b.v telegraph, the oliess clubs of Oamaru and Timaru journeyed to a "half-way house" and played their annual fixture at Waimata. ' Oamaru won by 1 game, scoring 6i to Timaru's 4£. DRAUGHTS. A dozen games were disposed of last week in the Working Men's Club annual draughts tourney, as follow; —Eriokson, (2'}) v. Burgess (1$); J. Reid (4) v, Milesi (0); And J. Reid (4) v. Warren (0)... The host tallies.to date (apart from.,the sealed handicap) are as follow: —Eriokson, 38-6; J. Reid,'.4o-16; Burgess, 29-12; Manson, 20J-11J; and C. Reid, 22J-13&.