PURDY HOLDS LEAD

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 11

PURDY HOLDS LEAD

Melbourne Chess Contests (Received January 5, 1.50 a.m.) Melbourne, January 4. Play in the chess championships was continued to-day, results being: Watson defeated Couitas, Goldstein defeated Condon, Growl defeated Green, Lamparter defeated Thierjung, Hastings defeated Greenfield, Purdy defeated Hynd, Koshnitzky defeated Fillian. The leaders are: Purdy 84, Koshnitzky 8, Hastings 7. Goldstein 64, Crowl 6, Watson 6. DRAUGHTS CONTESTS Centenary Event Progress (Received January 4, 5.5 p.m.) r Melbourne. January 4. The draughts section of the Centenary chess championship has been in progress for several days. Boyles, Australian champion, won the winners’ final, defeating Armstrong in the final and Egan in the semi-final. Now he is to play the winner of the losers’ final The losers' section produced a discovery in W McLaughlin (New South Wales), who battled his way through to the Jinal’, which lie is now contesting with Rickard. New South Wales champion. The result is still undecided, owing to draws on the last rwo daS-s The winner of the losers' class p’lavs 'Boyles for the first and second prizes, but Boyles, under the winners’ two-life system, has the right to a second playoff if defeated in the first. Therefore Boyles. McLaughlin and Rickard decide the first three prizes Riley and Egan (Victoria) divide the fourth -Hid fifth, and Armstrong and McMil'an (New South Wales) divide tlie sixth