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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1899.
Price Ten Cents.
HARVARD CHESS CHAMPION.
Columbia Second and Yale Takes
Last Place.
The Seventh Annual Chess Tourna-
ment has come to a close, and the cup
goes back to Harvard. The tourna-
ment was conducted on very much the
same lines as heretofore, and was held
at the Columbia Grammar School, in
the same rooms as before, beginning on
Monday, Dec. 26. No new features
were apparent, but at the same time the
recurrence of some results are giving
a surer knowledge of the ins and outs
of these tournaments.
It is evident that at all times the cup
is likely to go to the team having one
exceptionally strong oplayer. He is
almost certain to get five games or six,
and if he has any sort of reasonable
support, and his assistant can make
three, the resulting nine will securé the
trophy. Thus far the cup has never
been taken by a team where the men
were equally strong, and where each
made an extremely creditable score. In
other words, the contest is too nearly
a one-man affair.
The very unexpected defeat of Colum-
bias champion iever in the Thursday
game, was. the deciding point of the
week. Had Meyer won from Arens-
berg, as everyone expected, Columbia
would almost certainly have tied Har-
vard at the close, even if they had not
won. Cook’s blunder on Thursday was
also the turning point by which Yale
took last place.
HOW THE INDIVIDUALS PLAYED.
Touching the individual players,
Southard was facile princeps. His
actual knowledge of the game is materi-
ally wider and more exhaustive and far-
reaching than any other player. There
is probably no one of the other seven
who could win from him one game in
twenty, and it might fairly be said that
he has never made a blunder in any
intercollegiate game.
His mate Arensberg, played very
steady chess. His game on Thursday
had evidently been prepared with great
caution by himself and Southard. with
the special intention of tangling Meyer
up on an opening which he was not
perhaps very familiar with.
Meyer may be considered all in all
the next strongest player, with a style
decidedly at variance with that of the
cautious Harvard champion. Meyer is
wily, full of traps, very ingenious in de-
fence, and decisive in attack. He plays
a game that is evolved from his inner
consciousness, rather than from tradi-
tion.
Falk appears to be a combination of
caution and dash in rather rare measure,
and bids fair to be the most reliable
player that Columbia has sent into the
field so far. Hymes was an extremely
brilliant and imaginative player, but
risky and erratic. Falk looks like a
mere boy. and being a Freshman is
likely to be heard of, and with great
credit to himself for several years to
come. =
Princeton’s men gave decidedly the
best team work they have yet shown.
Seymour was doubtless a better player
than either of the two Ninety-Eight
players, but he had very inferior sup-
port, and the average play of Weston
and Ely was fully as good if not better
than any Princeton player except Sey-
mour. They were not strong on the
books, but they had a good fair knowl]-
edge of the game, and adapted them-
selves to circumstances.
WHAT IS YALE’S DIFFICULTY?
Just what was the matter with Yale
is difficult to say. Cook clearly lost a
game and a half by blunders, and it
looked a bit as if the strain and the
blunder of the first day had made him
nervous. He can certainly play in the
long run far better chess than he
showed in the tournament. The ex-
planation also was offered that the
teaching of the coach may perhaps
have fitted the men for special attack
ard defence, rather than for a broad
all-round knowledge of the game.
Webb played throughout with cau-
tion, but did not show the brilliancy
and fertility of imagination which one
often finds in Southern players, and
while he played sound chess, he was
in most of the games simply just a trifle
over-matched.
A well-known Yale speaker on a
prominent occasion once said, that if
Yale was whipped three times in suc-
cession, the men ground their teeth,
quoted a few Scriptural phrases, and
went into win, but this being her seventh
defeat in chess, perhaps that rule applies
only to athletics. “Pity ’tis. ’tis true.”
E. A. CASWELL.
Each Day’s Play.
The seventh - Intercollegiate Chess
Tournament held at the Columbia
Grammar School in New York ended
on Saturday, Dec. 30, and for the fifth
consecutive time Harvard has won the
championship by a comfortable mar-
gin. The four colleges . represented,
Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and
Yale, ended in the order named.
Yale’s score of only 2% games won
is the poorest in the seven years she
has been playing in these contests. On
Wednesday when play stopped, Colum-
bia and Harvard were tied for the lead
at 41%4 games each, but Harvard drew
away the next morning and won. The
players who represented the colleges
were: Harvard—Elmer E. ~ Southard
and Charles F. C. Arensberg; Colum-
bia—Kaufman G. Falk and Arthur S.
Meyer; Princeton—John A. Ely and
Alfred S. Weston; Yale—Louis A.
Cook and Arthur M. Webb.
The tournament began at 2 o’clock
on Monday afternoon with the follow-
ing pairing: Falk (C.) vs. Arensberg
(H.); Cook (Y) vs. Ely- (P); Meyer
(C) vs. Weston (P); Webb (Y) vs.
Southard (H.) Cook opened his game
with a queen’s pawn game against Ely,
but on the twenty-fourth move he made
a mistake which lost him the game in
eight more moves. On the fourth table
Webb met the veteran Southard, and
though he began his play in excellent
form he seemed to lose his nerve at the
ninth move and made two bad plays,
giving his opponent an advantage which
lost the game for Yale in thirty-seven
moves.
The second round of the tournament
was marked by the fine play of Falk
and Cook. The men met each other in
this order: Falk (C) vs. Cook (Y);
Meyer (C) vs. Southard (H); Ely (P)
vs. Arensberg (H); Webb (Y) vs.
Weston (P.) Falk by skillful manoeur-
ing obtained an advantage over his
- opponent at the beginning of the game
and though the latter played pluckily to
the end, which was reached in seventy-
one moves, he could not overcome his
youthful adversary. Webb lost his
game to Weston after seventy moves.
He opened with a P— O «a. but lost his
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AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASS'N,
Eleventh Annual Meeting at New
Haven during Christmas Recess.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
American Economic Association was
held in New Haven Dec. 27 to the 20th
inclusive. At the closing session thesé
officers were elected for the ensuing
year:
President—Professor Arthur T. Had-
ley of Yale.
Vice-Presidents—Stuart Wood, Ph.D.,
of Philadelphia, Professor David Kin-
ley of the University of Illinois and
Professor W. Z. Ripley of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Secretary—Professor Walter F. Will-
cox of Cornell University.
Treasurer—Professor Charles H. Hull
of Cornell University. —
Publication Committee—Professor F.
W... Taussig of Harvard University,
Chairman; Davis R. Dewey, Ph.D.;
Willard C. Fisher, A.B.; W. H. Scott,
Ph.D.; Sidney Sherwood, Ph.D., and
F. M. Taylor, Ph.D.
The next meeting will be held at Cor-
nell University in the week following
Christmas, 1899.
President Timothy Dwight made the
address of welcome on Tuesday morn-
ing in Colonial Hall, extending to the
visitors the freedom of Yale. He was
followed by Prof. Arthur T. Hadley,
President of the Association, who de-
livered the annual address, his subject
being “The Relation Between Eco-
nomics and Politics.” In the course of
his remarks Prof. Hadley said:
“Whatever we may think of imperial-
ism as a sentiment or of national ex-
pansion as a policy—and I was one of
those who looked upon them with re-
gret—these are things to which we are
already committed. This policy brings
new problems of administration upon us
as a nation, and renders it more neces-
sary than before to study the art of
national government. And the need of
an efficient army will of itself make it
necessary to give more independence to
the administration and more oppor-
tunity to its expert advisers. The need
for a government of our new colonies
which shall recognize the principle of
trusteeship rather than of spoliation
must conduce yet more strongly toward
the same results.’
In the evening Prof. H. W. Farnam
gave the visiting delegates a reception
at his home on Hillhouse avenue.
At the morning session on Wednes-
day, Prof. R.. Mayo Smith, Chairman of
the Special Committee on the Twelfth
Census, made his report. It was the
opinion of this Committee that some of
the census stibjects should be referred
to bureau and experts and that much
more time should be given to the work.
It should not be rushed through. A
general discussion followed. In the
afternoon the session was given 1p to
the following program:
1. Some Aspects of the United States
Treasury Situation in the Years 1893 to
1897, Professor F. W. Taussig, Harvard
University. 2. Early Canal, Railway
and Banking Enterprises of the States,
in Relation to the Growth of Corpora-
tions in the United States, Dr. G.
S. Callender,’ Harvard University. 3.
Prices and Price Movements in_the
Confederate States during the Civil
War, Professor J. C. Schwab, Yale Uni-
versity. 4. Recent Economic Changes
in the State of Massachusetts, Professor
C. S. Walker, Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College.
In the evening there was a joint ses-
sion with the American Historical As-
sociation, at which Professor George P.
Fisher of Yale, President of that So-
ciety, read an address.
The session was closed with the
- trip of the
evening meeeting' on Thursday. That
day’s program follows: Morning ses-
sion: I. Report of the Special Committee
on Banking and Currency, Professor F.
M. Taylor, Chairman; Professor F. W.
Taussig, J. W. Jenks, Sidney Sherwood,
and David Kinley. 2. Dynamic Stand-
ards of Wages and Interest, Professor
J. B. Clark, Columbia University. 3.
A Fundamental Error of the Classical
Economists, Professor Charles A. Tut-
tle, Wabash College. Afternoon ses-
sion: I. The Present Study of Practical
Labor Problems in France, Dr. W. F.
Willoughby, United States Department
of Labor. 2. Municipal Taxation as a
Means of Public Control of Corpora-
tions.» Mri. ©.: W. Curtis, City. Bank,
New Haven, Conn. 3. The Nature of
Municipal Franchises, Dr. Max West,
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The last meeting was a joint one with
the Historical Association, during which
papers affecting the present foreign
policy of the United States were read.
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Hockey Team Christmas Trip.
The first game of the Christmas
Yale Hockey team was
played at the Clermont avenue rink
in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Monday
night, Dec. 27, with the Brooklyn Skat-
ing Club. Brooklyn won on better all
around playing in the first half.
Towards the end Yale improved sharply
in her play and scored three goals in
rapid succession, but could not over-
come the lead Broklyn had taken in
the first of the game. Barnett, Stod-
dard and Palmer did the best work for
Yale. Brooklyn’s men were much
larger and heavier than their onponents.
In the first half Kennedy got the
puck at the push-off and carried it
along the rink, passing it to Dobby, who
scored a goal after three minutes’ play.
Wall got the puck on a_ pass from
Dobby and scored two minutes later.
Again Wall got the puck and scored in
two minutes. The Brooklyn team con-
tinued scoring and Dobby scored two
goals in three minutes’ play, one of
them being made from the push-off.
At this point of the game the Yale for-
wards started and made a good uphill
fight, Barnett and Palmer each scoring
a goal in less than four minutes.
Easton of Yale scored for his team
seven minutes later, and before time
was called in the half Dobby added
another goal to Brooklyn’s tally, mak-
ing the score at the end of the first half
6 to 3 in Brooklyn’s favor. In the
second half Kennedy scored for Brook-
lyn after three minutes’ play, and two
minutes later Palmer scored a goal for
Yale on a pass from Stoddard. Wall
and Dobby each scored a goal for
Brooklyn on passes from Kennedy and
Drysdale, making the final score 9
goals to 4. The line-up:
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Delsfitit 2 ee Format... 2 _. McKenzie
Stoddard (capt.)...Cover Point __-.------ Drvsdale
oh Sears gage ge erm
Walworth -_.--- __.. Wall (capt.
Barmett. Forwards 5 i. Dobby
Palimef: 63355 eat = we Bae Murray
Referee—G. Post, Brooklyn Skating Club.
THE PENNSYLVANIA GAME.
Yale won a magnificent game from
the team representing the University of
Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night, Dec.
27, at the West Park Ice Palace in
Philadelphia by the score of 4 to 3. It
looked as though Pennsylvania had the
game well in hand when the first half
closed, for Yale had not been able to
score while Pennsvlvania had made
three. Yale, however, went in to win
