DRAUGHT ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 383, 10 July 1889, Page 3

DRAUGHT ITEMS.

Arrangements have been completed for a match between Messrs Gunthorpe and Wilson. It will eventuate on the 20th July, at Nowton. As the players are considered pretty evejil} .matched, the i - esult wiirbe awaited with interest by draughtplayers in Auckland. Play will commence at 7 o'clock in the evening 1 . Up to the present Mr Wyllie has played 163 games at Newcastle, of which he won 159, the other four being drawn. Mr R. Lover, of 'Newsham, was seriously injured on the 19th of April, whilst following his employment as a miner. He was favourite for the pending draughts tourna menb for the Championship of Northutnland. "Brethren the brod" will be sorry to learn of the death of Mr Stephen Ferry, editor and publisher of " The Chcckerist" at Mount Hamer, Florida, on the 15th of April, at the early age of 32 years. t " C. 11. Freeman, of Providence, ox-cham-pion of America, has recently been giving exhibitions in legerdemain. His performances are said to be truly marvellous, arid he is meeting with excellent success." — "Woonsooket Reporter." The Championship of America. — The arrangements for .the meeting of tho two champions — Barker' and Reed — • are completed, and play commenced ' at Chicago on Monday, June 3rd. Fifty games are to be played- 28 restricted,, 22 unrestricted, the same'opemngs assuggested by Mr Reed. This (adds «• Turf ") can be looked on as a match to be not a whit less exciting and interesting than the one recently contested by Barker and Smith. The " Chicago Lamp " says : "If Reed devotes his entire leisure to draughts, and leaves chess and other fascinations alone,he may capture the coveted prize.'' "Get down to hard work, Jimmy," ie advises, "and throw the broken Reed into Lake Michigan,- and do yourself and the groatest checker club in the workl justice." 1