THE GREAT CHESS MATCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 67

THE GREAT CHESS MATCH.

Impressions, specially contiibuted to (London) Punch by Sir Kennedy Bart. I. As the men sat down there was silence The moment had come. Fiontmg them l»j Aie i«sue And an issue vastly broader and d Than a personal issue.. The cheeky S?°r^ tO Trier^^r-vaf SSffi Sa^rcssion, which has made England what it is Rule Britannia. 11. The board is set. . The P*^. B J^*,^ other curiously. Smith was an Anglo-baxoii, his king's pawn also. ni. The two pawns were fronting each other. And fronting them lay the issue. An issxte vastly deeplr and broader than a persona issue The checking of— see section I). But Tones moVed his queen also. He moved his k££s pS and now he moved his queen defence ! The fourth hour. He has lost his queen Smith has lost his queen. But he leacU. For he has taken two pavm?. . And they are at it gloriously again. Again! Oh, {he indomitable instinct. Jones has lost another pawn. And) another. Surely this man has always been losing pawns. Go on! Go on! A bishop! Jones has lost a bishop. No. it is only another pawn V. And things went on; and here was the eighth hour. Jones is done, but he Hghts on. He has lost another pawn, but he fights on^ Good old Englishman He has a Latin-like face, but he is an Englishman. And he does not know when he is beaten And he is beaten. Beaten! But what 1S that? *o man is really beaten who fights to the end. His defeat is a fine sacrifice offered up to the glorious god of combat. The instinct of right. The men of England must never forget that they owe everything to the instinct of fight. Jones is beaten, but he s still an Englishman. So is Smith. Rule Britannia.