Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1912 — Checker Tournament to Be Played by Mail. [ARTICLE]

Checker Tournament to Be Played by Mail.

J. A. McFarland and Sain Stevens have been chosen as two of ten Indiana checker players to engage in a series of games with ten Ohio players, the games to be played by mail. Each player keeps his boards spread with the games he on hand, when a move is made a postal card is sent to the opponent and when he makes a move he replies. The moves are all conferred to the opponents by numbers, corresponding to numbers on the boards and with which all scientific checker players are acquainted. It is planned that each player shall play four games with each of his ten opponents, keeping two games going at a time. It will probably take two months to complete the series.