YALE ALUMNI
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HARVARD CHESS CHAMPION.
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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.
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: 3 Ss PS
Sas D a o ad Te) S “
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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easy chairs. This room, which has
been called the ‘hospitality room,’ is
for the use of all members of the Uni-
versity and visitors. On the other side
of the hall there is a dining room in
which, on occasions of special hospi-
tality, will be served light refreshments;
the size of the kitchen does not admit
of extensive cooking operations.
joining the dining room, and opening
off the hall, is a room for the use of the
Student Volunteer Association, and.an
office for the-same society. 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.
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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.
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