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YALE ALUMNI —— HARVARD CHESS CHAMPION. [Continued from r17th page.]} aggressive tactics in the fifth move, and Weston got the upper hand and held it till Webb was forced to resign. Columbia overtook the leader, Har- yard, on Wednesday by the winning of both her representatives, and a loss by Arensberg to Cook, which gave Yale her first point. The scores now were: Harvard and Columbia 4% points each; Princeton 3; Yale 1. each other as follows: walk (C) vs. Ely (P); Cook (Y) vs. Arensberg (H); Meyer (C) vs. Webb (Y); Wes- ton (P) vs. Southard (H). Cook’s vic- tory over Arensberg was the feature of the day. He again selected the P—Q 4 opening with 2. Kt.—Q. 2 variation, which Lasker, in his match against Showalter in 1892, adopted with success. His adversary, Arensberg, did not seem to understand the treatment of the open- ing and gave Cook a chance to prepare a fine attack. In order to repel the same, Arensberg had to <acrifice one piece, later on another, and after twenty- one moves Cook won. Webb played a good up-hill game against Meyer, but his chances were gone after twenty moves. Meyer won handily in forty-seven moves. In the same round Southard drew with Wes- ton. On Thursday, Columbia lost both games to Harvard, which put the latter College again in the lead. The pairing was as follows: Southard (H) vs. Falk (C); Arensberg (H) vs. Meyer (C); Weston (P) vs. Cook (Y); Ely (P) vs. Webb (Y). Cook had his game with Weston well in hand, but in the twenty- ninth move made a bad blunder by which he lost his queen. Four moves later Weston forced him to quit. In his match with Ely, Webb won in forty- seven moves, after a long drawn out and timidly-played game. This gave Yale two points, one made by Cook and one by Webb. The hope was now to avoid the tail-end position, as all hope of win- ning was abandoned. On Friday Webb lost to Falk in sixty-five moves; Arensberg won from Weston in the same number of moves; Cook by a blunder lost the game to Meyer in the twelfth move and Southard had no trouble in winning from Ely in the thirty-eighth move. The final round of the tournament was played on Saturday, Southard, Meyer and Falk winning over Cook, Ely and Wes- ton respectively, while Webb and Arens- berg drew on twenty-nine moves. The individual records of the tourna- ment follows: ‘Colum- | Har- | Prince- | bia. vard. | Yale. ton. ee ate : 3 Ss PS Sas D a o ad Te) S “ 4ip| & 2/5) a ° n =| Bo Su st eerie heen ee ie bi je pet bar O = ea = e ieee iat es Wel hd I 1 | 4% Meee a ae es ee ee Arensberg | 34} 1 sere pie Fs: yl 1 | 2 4 Meer ek eee ke tee | 6 Cook ..... o | o I re) oe Ores KO ae Webb o |-6 ee eee fr TO | 1% eae Oo hevis oreo So co ae Weston ...| 0 © fe) O- far 4 2 Lost ..:.| 16) 2-12 Peds tae 5 4 |24 The games won by each University in the seven tournaments are: Ha- Colum- Prince- vard. bia. Yale. ty, RR a 1% 9 5 2% _. SERPs 7 8% 5 314 SERPS EES &: 9 3% 6 6 ee 814 8 3% 4 a: eck hadt 10:35 4% 4 5% Nee 10 6% sy ee eee 8% 2% 8 —_——__+9—__—_—_ A Yale Man in the Klondike. Fred. H. Hamlin, ’95, has recently returned to his home in East Bloom- field, N. Y., after having spent six months in the Klondike searching for gold. He set out from his home early in January, and with his five companions, all of whom were Canadians of con- siderable experience in mining, took passage at Victoria on the “Danube,” bound for skaguay.’ The steamer was terribly overcrowded and the multitude of animals on board contributed to the general discomfort. They arrived at Skaguay in the mid- die of March, and finding that town too wild and unpleasant a place to stay in, they at once started up the White Pass towards Lake Bennett. This is one of the most dangerous passes in the Klon- The players faced dike. When about half way to their destination, Hamlin was suddenly taken ill with typhoid fever, and would have died there but for the faithfulness of his companions, who dragged him back to Skaguay on a sledge, a distance of twenty miles. pital about two months, and on his re- covery he hastened inland to Lake Ben- nett. ) He was at that place May 24, the Queen’s Birthday, which was considera- bly celebrated. “We had a ball game in the morning,” so he wrote to a friend, “between the Yukon Hotel boys and the Mounted Police. Capt. Jack Crawford, the ‘poet scout,’ was umpire and the Yukon boys won. In the afternoon, there were athletic sports of all kinds, pony and. canoe races, while the day wound up with a prize fight.” They built their boat there, which was named the “Yale,” and which was faster than most of the boats on the river, includ- ing the ‘“‘Cornell.” The expedition sailed up the Pelly and MacMillan rivers, shooting the rapids safely, but found no gold. While in that region they came across Ward, 798, who was engaged in placer min- ing. He was the only Yale man met with during the trip. Later they pros- pected in the Black Hills country with no success, thence going to Dawson City and Fort Selkirk, from which lat- ter place they set out on.a weary travel of four hundred miles on foot back to okaguay and the coast. | Hamlin soon started on his return journey, coming by the overland route, and reached his home early in October. sre te nn te Death of P. M. Jaffray. Percy Malcolm Jaffray of the Senior Class at Harvard, who played center against Cutten in the Yale game on Yale Field last November, died at his room in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Dec. 22, from acute septicaemia. On the day before his death he first complained of feeling unwell, and on Thursday morn- ing a doctor was call.d who treated him for influenza. His condition grew rapidly worse and he died unconscious at half past three in the afternoon. In order to defeat the possibility of stories being circulated that death was due to football injuries, two prominent physi- cians made an autopsy hursday after- noon and drew up an official report which is given below: “The post-mortem examination on the body of P. M. Jaffray showed as the cause of death an acute general septicaemia. This condition was the result of an acute infectious inflamma- tion of the lungs, which was followed by general infection of the blood. There was no injury which could in any way have had an influence in produc- ing the condition. WiLu1AM D. Strone, M.D. W. T. Councitman, M.D.” Jaffray entered the Lawrence Scien- tific School in the Fall of 1895, as a student in Electrical Engineering. He prepared for College at the West- minister School at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., He played right guard on the Univer- sity Eleven during a part of the 1895 season. Jaffray was said to be the tallest man ever seen on an American college team, his height being 6 feet 5%4 inches. In the Yale game he weighed 225 pounds. He was 21 years old. Jaffray was a member of the Institute, DD. K. E., Zeta Psi, > Hasty Pudding Club and the Porceltian Club. At the Senior elections he was chosen Chair- man of the Ninety-Nine Class Com- mittee. cp le The Phillips Brooks House. The Phillips Brooks House at Har- vard, which corresponds in some degree to the Dwight Hall of Yale, is nearing completion and will be dedicated before College closes in the Spring. In spite of the disadvantages of its site, the architect has been able to produce a very harmonious effect. The Harvard Bulletin describes the house as follows: “The entrance, from the street is into a large hallway, in which will be placed two memorial tablets, one to Phillips Brooks and the other to William Bel- den Noble. On the one side of this hallway is the large parlor, or lounging room, which will be finished in oak, with beams across the ceiling, and will be fitted with deep window seats and He was sick at the hos-. 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The second floor, reached by a broad oak staircase, is divided into two class rooms, two society rooms, a library, and a commit- tee room with a retiring room attached. On the third floor are two more society rooms, a bed-room for the use of visi- tors, and a large hall seating about 240 persons. From this hall a small, fire- proof, spiral staircase leads to the ground floor, -affording an erergency exit in case of fire. ‘Lhe foi. society rooms are for the use of the Christian Association, the St. Paul’s Society, the Religious Union, and the Catholic Union. In the cellar there is a small kitchen, besides coat-rooms, lavatories, store-rooms and a heating room. One of the store rooms will be used for bicycles. The building will be lighted by both gas and electricity, and will be heated by both direct and indirect steam heat, supplied from University Hall.” The original plan was to have a build- ing costing $300,000, which was to be made the social center of the whole College, but funds were not forthcom- ing, $50,000 being the best the building committee could raise. —___+#—__--- Christmas Football. The Georgetown University football eleven defeated the All-Washington eleven in a _ well-contested game at Georgetown on Monday, Dee. 26th, by the score of 5 to o. Individually the All-Washington’s otitclassed their op- ponents, but because of poor team work they lost the game. Their plays were slow in starting and their clever ends were unable to do anything on account of the muddy and _ slippery field the game was played on. De Sil- ver of the U. of P., Smith of Brown, Parsons and McGowan of Columbia, did the best work for the team of stars. Ad-. CHAs. ADAMS. ALEX. MCNEILL. Wm. 8S. BRIGHAM. 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