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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2595, 18 October 1915, Page 3

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WELLINGTON SOUTH V. WOBKING MEN'S CLUB. The tenth aumial match between tho Wellington South and Working Men's Club was played last Monday evening at the Newtown Public Library. Both sides suffered from "absenteeism,'" nevertheless a hard-fought anil exciting contest was witnessed. The result was in doubt right up to the finish of the last gamo shortly before midnight. The score of the match is as follows:— Wellington South. Working Men's Club. B. 8.. Allen ... 0 Barnes 1 Purchas 0 Kelling 1 Harper 1 Peake o Weino 1 Burgess 0 Clark 0 Wild 1 Loney 0 Perry i Douglas 1 Featonby ■ 0 Perrott 0 Arden 1 Murray, sen 0 Travers !" X Bland $ Key £ Laugliton 1 Mayne 0 Falkiner ......... 1 Larking o Easton 0 C. Kcid 1 Curtis 1 Coulter 0 Total 6i Total 7J Of the ten matches played to date, the Workingmen's Club has won five, the Wellington South Club four, and one ended in a tie, viz., the 1907 contest; in which each club scored 12 points.

LOCAL TOURNEYS. The outstanding feature of last week's play in the Wellington South Club's annual handicap tourney was the fine form of Mr. Berry, who defeated Messrs. Purchas and Harper. These results have markedly improved the chances of Messrs. Armstrong and A. Clark, who are now only half a point behind Mr. Purchas. There are three more rounds to be played in this tourney. • The Working Men's Club's annual handicap chess tourney has been won by Mr. A. T. Peake (Class IV), with the fine score of 9J wins 1-J- losses. He was a member of the Battersea and other suburban clubs while residing in London. His win is both popular and well-deserved. Messrs. Key, Barnes, Featonby, and Burgess have also scored well. Only three outstanding games have now to be disposed of, and the full prize-list should,therefore, be available at an early date. The Wellington Chess Club's match against the combined suburbs now 6tands as follows:—Suburbs 22 wins, club team 15 wins, and 13 games outstanding. ■ As this is the fourth and last week of tho match it is hoped to give the final result in next week's notes. The ladder match for rnng 3 between W. Mackay (challenge) and P. Still (defender) ended in ifavour of the former, who is now calling on W. E. Mason to defend rnng 2. ' Kecent visitors to the rooms of tho Wellington Chess Club included Pastor A. G. Brown (late of Spnrgeon's Tabernacle, London) and Mr. John Mason, of Hastings, who was the New Zealand chess champion for 1910. The latter paid a short visit to Wellington to see his brother,.Mr. Blake Mason, who is a member of the Seventh Reinforcements, and .who has twice been a prominent prizewinner in the Dominion's Chess Championship' Congress, John Mason goes into camp next month, and will probably leave with the Eighth Reinforcements. He will be in the Ambulance Section.

Mr. W. Cowper Hill, who is the latest local chess player to enlist, goes into camp next month. Ho has been honorary secretary and treasurer of the Wellington Chess Club for the past two years, and made a very promising first appearance when representing the club at the la6t Championship Congress. •