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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1898.
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HARVARD WINS TOURNAMENT,
YVale’s Play Shows Improvement
Over Former Years.
Harvard won the sixth annual Inter-
collegiate Chess Tournament with a
considerable margin to spare; Colum-
bia was second; Yale was third, and
Princeton fourth. The Tournament was
held at the Columbia Grammar School
in New York City from Dec. 27th to
Jan. Ist inclusive and was a very suc-
cessful one in all ways. It was under
the management of E. A. Caswell, ’66.
The colleges were represented by the
following players: Columbia: Arthur S.
Meyer, 1901, George O. Seward, ’98 S.;
substitutes, K. G. Falk, 1901 S., G. R.
Jacobus; “98; ~ Princeton: ‘David . T.
Dana, 1901, William W. Young, ’99;
substitutes, E. D. Carter, 1900, C. H.
Hale, 98; Harvard: James Hewins, Jr.,
98, Elmer E. Southard, Med.;_ substi-
ites, —P. WW. long, ‘oS, F.- RE. ihayer,;
90; Yale: Louis A. Cook, 1900, Wm.
M. Murdoch, ’98 S.; substitutes, H.
Logan, 1900, J. C. Pickett, 1900.
INTERESTING STRUGGLES.
An interesting game was that on
Tuesday between Murdoch of Yale and
Young of Princeton. Young adopted
the French Defense against Murdoch
and the game proceeded pretty evenly.
White’s game, perhaps, was slightly the
better one, because he had both his
bishops ready for action against his
opponent’s citadel. By reason of this
superiority in position, white won a
pawn at the fifteenth move. He could
not, however, find the correct continu-
ation, and at his twenty-eighth move
he initiated a combination by means of
which he sacrificed the queen for two
tooks. But, as he had also to lose
some pawns, his game became rather
weak. Eventually Young won a pawn,
later on another, and finally Murdoch
had to give up a rook in order to save
the mate.
that piece Murdoch resigned. Forty-
three moves were made.
On Friday Cook and Seward enter-
tained each other with the Dutch Open-
ing. In spite of the fact that this is
rarely played, and owing to the diffi-
culty in treating the variation, the play-
ers made the early moves in faultless
style. In the middle game Cook shift-
ed his line of attack from the center to
the queen’s side of the board, and sup-
ported by his queen and both his rooks
he began a combination, intending to
grab pawns. Meanwhile, Seward had
looked quietly at the manoeuvring of
his adversary’s forces. He advanced
his king’s pawn to his fifth square and
hampered Cook’s further aggressive
movements. After thirty-six moves the
game was adjourned in an even posi-
tion. In the evening session Cook
played a fine end game and won after
forty-nine moves.
AN EXPERT’S ANALYSIS.
The tournament has again shown
Harvard to be superior, but the contest
was not without benefit to Yale. It is
unquestionable that the quality of chess
in these tournaments improves steadily,
and that it requires a very much better
man to win to-day than it did five years
ago. If Yale had sent down their
present team in the third or fourth year,
her showing would have been very
much better. In Southard, Harvard
has a player of exceptional strength.
He belongs essentially to the mathe-
matical school. He takes no chances
whatever, but plays a-cautious, resist-
less game. He gradually creeps down
After his opponent had won -
on his opponent, always well guarded
in the rear, with an impregnable front,
and watches for a weak spot in his oppo-
nent’s array. After he has once gained
an advantage, he pounds on it relig-
iously to a win. His partner, Hewins,
has perhaps more imagination, and is
brilliant in dash and attack. Occa-
sionally he pushes ahead with too light
a force, and gets caught, but his play
is always interesting, and his ingenuity
frequently comes to his rescue and
saves him from a lost game. The Yale
players this year were more evenly
matched than in any previous tourna-
ment. Murdoch had rather bad luck,
and appears sometimes to follow out
at any cost a preconceived plan, with-
out sufficiently modifying and adapt-
ing it to the new situation caused by his
opponent’s move. For a veteran, he
did not show quite as good form as
was expected of him. The trouble with
the Yale players has been over-confi-
dence when the game was theirs, and
chess above any game in the world is
never finished till the end comes, for
it can always be easily lost through
negligence or inadvertence. Harvard
has been very free from that accusa-
tion, and has rarely failed to win, after
a strong advantage had been gained.
Cook is looked on by the experts as
a very strong coming man, and it is
perhaps not too much to say that he
played more even and reliable chess
than any Yale contestant who has gone
down to play. His knowledge of the
game’ seems clear, and his plans direct
and logical. He rarely falls into a
trap, and appears fully to value his
opponent’s strength. Meyer, the Col-
umbia Freshman, was rather a surprise.
He is a very shifty, quick-witted, and
ingenious player, but was perhaps
rather over-confident, and, thus far,
crude in form. There is no doubt that
a year’s practice will make him a strong
antagonist. Seward of Columbia, and
Dana of Princeton, are apparently defi-
cient in good knowledge of the books,
and play rather from their own heads,
and in an amateur manner, and, as a
result, they helped make up the end of
the procession. Young of Princeton
did good work, and played a careful,
conscientious game, with considerable
steadiness. He is not the equal of Sey-
mour, who represented Princeton for
two years, but may very possibly be
ranked along with Roberts as the
second bést man who has thus far come
from Princeton. We learn that Har-
vard could not have made any very
brilliant showing if Southard had not
been able to play, so that there is good
reason to believe that the fortune of
war may yet swing around this way,
and bring the cup to Yale next year,
or the year after. :
The following table shows the num-
ber of games won and lost by each
player:
Cotum-} Har- | yarr. | PRINCE-
BIA. ‘VARD. TON. <
S
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oO | re) ra S) e ise ° t
cq | = s = ce) 4 =) ety
o | & S i a Qu ee = eer es
We Oe ee ee ee ae a
" | het Q ' > ' ' .
he pees ae : ; : ‘ : :
| | ee eae
Ae hare | $10 Alois Bers tae
eward -. | FON ee Ylr | wile
Hewins.-| 0 | 1 Nee ne ge 4
Southard_| 1 I I I T16
C00 fcc ies Yio P0049
Murdoch.| o Ylo jo i e- 1a
Dana ....| 0 re) re) fe) fo) fo) re)
Young._.| o Ve eho oO Hate I 3
Lost ...' 1%! 4 2 fe) 3 4%! 6 3
The games won by each university in
the six tournaments are:
Harvard, Columbia, Yale. Princeton,
pReie cd 7% 9 5 3%
fo0s st. < 55 - 7 8% 5 3%
1894 -..----- 9 3 6 6
ee re 8% 8 3% 4
Ch ee Io : 4% 4 5%
ee 232 2 Io - 6% 4% 3
Totals ...52 390% 28 2534
YALE'S TAX CASE,
Her Counsel Shows Reasons Against
Taxation—The Property.
Following are the reasons of appeal:
filed by ex-Governor Ingersoll and
Bristol, Stoddard & Bristol; counsel for :
Yale University in the case of “Yale
University vs. the Town of New Ha-
ven.” The appeal is from the decision
of the Board of Relief that Yale Uni-
versity must pay taxes on property
which has hitherto been exempt:
FIRST.
“The Governor in Council and Rep-
resentatives of the Colony of Connecti-
cut, in General Court assembled, on
the oth of October, “1701, by an act
entitled ‘An Act for liberty to erect a
collegiate school,’ granted to the per-
sons therein named, and their suc-
cessors, ‘full liberty, right and privilege
to erect, form, direct, order, establish,
improve, and at all times, in all suitable
wavs, for the future, to encourage the
said school, in such convenient place or
places, and in such form and manner,
and under such order and rules as to
them should seem meet and most con-
ducive to the aforesaid end thereof.
“Pursuant to the liberty and privilege
granted by the act aforesaid, to the
trustees therein named for that purpose,
said collegiate school was, in the year
1717, erected in the town of New Haven,
consisting of a building containing a
hall, a kitchen, a library, and fifty stud-
ies or living rooms, for the accommo-
dation of students and their better disci-
pline and management; for which each
student was charged in his term bill a
fixed sum in addition to the regular
charge for tuition; which building was
named, known and designated as ‘Yale
College.’
“The Governor and Company of the
Colony of Connecticut, in General
Court assembled, on the oth day of May,
1745, did incorporate said trustees as a
body politic and corporate, and charter
the appellant, by the name of The
President and Fellows of Yale College
in New Haven, with authority ‘to
appoint a scribe or registrar, a treas-
urer, tutors, professors, a steward, and
all such other officers and servants
usually appointed in colleges or uni-
versities as they should find necessary
and think fit to appoint for the promot-
ing good literature and the well order-
ing and managing the affairs of said
college.’”
YALE’S STAND AUTHORIZED.
“For a period of over one hundred
and fifty years, from and after the date
of the passage of said last mentioned
act down to the present time, this
appellant, under its said corporate name
of ‘The President and Fellows of Yale
College in New Haven,’ has been and
still is actively engaged in the work of
public education authorized by said acts
of 1701 and 1745, and has from time to
time enlarged and increased its educa-
‘tional facilities and the means used for
carrying into. effect the objects and
purposes of said acts, and to that end
and for that purpose has received from
the Colony, State and divers benevolent
and charitable persons, sundry gifts,
grants, donations and. contributions,
and has applied the same to founding,
endowing and administering an insti-
tution of learning, wherein all such
persons of good moral character as
desire to avail themselves of its advan-
tages, irrespective of nationality, domi-
cile, color, creed or religious belief,
are, at a moderate cost, to the number
of about 2,500 annually, instructed in
the arts and sciences and fitted for the
practice of the learned professions and
for public employment in the State, by
professors, tutors and instructors em-
ployed by this appellant for that pur-
pose, and where all cood literature is
promoted, within the true intent and-
meaning of said acts of incorporation.”
NON-REVENUE HALLS.
“At the session of the General As-
sembly of this State in October, 1791, a
committee was appointed to confer with
the President and Fellows of Yale Col-
lege, to ascertain as to the state and
circumstances of said college, and at
the next May session of the Assembly
said committee made a report which
closed by -enumerating as the most
pressing want of the college, ‘another
building to accommodate and. receive
the students, about one-half of whom
are obliged to furnish themselves with
lodgings in the town from want of
room in the college: this has a ten-
dency to introduce an unsteady, disor-'
derly spirit, takes off the attention of
the student from the proper object of
his pursuit, and leads him to form
unprofitable, idle and vicious connec-
tions.’ Thereupon, by an act of the
General Assembly, passed in May, 1792,
and approved and accepted by this
appellant on June 26, 1792, certain funds
were appropriated to and for the use
and benefit of Yale College in New
Haven. In accordance with the pro-
visions of said act, and to carry into
effect the intention therein expressed,
the funds thus provided were immedi-
ately applied to the erection of another
college building, which was completed
in 1794, then called ‘Union Hall,’ but
commonly distinguished and known as
‘South College,’ and divided into rooms
which were occupied by said students
as study and living rooms, under the
supervision of the appellant’s officers;
for the service and accommodation
afforded by which rooms a_ regular
charge was made to the students occu-
pying the same, in addition to the sum
charged for tuition, as in the case of the
two buildings previously mentioned.
“In the year 1893, with a view to fur-
ther extending its educational facilities
and for the better accommodation of a
large number of students, the building
known as ‘White Hall, being, with
‘Berkeley Hall’ hereinafter mentioned,
one of the items added, by the board of
assessors for the town of New Haven,
to the tax list of your appellant, as
stated in its appeal, and assessed by
said assessors, with said ‘Berkeley
Hall,’ at the gross sum of $147,150 for
both: halls, was erected by your appel-
lant, pursuant to the terms of an agree-
ment with one A. J. White, at a cost in
all of about $167,000. rect
“Said White Hall is a brick building,
four stories high and about 190 feet in
length, and consists of and is divided
into 44 double rooms and 8 single
rooms, affording accommodation for
96 persons, with the necessary en-
trances, stairways and entries affording
access thereto; which rooms, except as
hereinafter stated, are occupied exclu-
sively by students in the academical
department of your appellant as living,
study and sleeping rooms, while pursu-
ing their studies under the care, man-
agement and direction of the college
authorities, and said building 1s used
and occupied in no other way. _
“The only rooms in said White Hall
not occupied by said students are two
which are occupied by college officers,
as proctors, for the purpose of main-
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