Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — MONTICELLO WON THE CHECKER TOURNAMENT [ARTICLE]

MONTICELLO WON THE CHECKER TOURNAMENT

Rensselaer Best by Half a Game in Glass A, While Visitors Ran Away ixx Glass B. Monticello, ten strong, came to Rensselaer Friday evening and defeated the Rensselaer checker players <by the score of 113 to 87. la order to try to play two games around two classes were established, A and B, the best men playing in Class A and the others in Class B. Rensselaer won the first class by the narrow margin of a half a game, the score being 49 to 51. Some games were not completed and these were all declared draws. In the second class Rensselaer made a very poor showing and Monfcicello won 64 to 36. The scores follow: CLASS A. Monticello Rensselaer Sprague ...... 14 Stevens 12 Raub 10 Thomas 12 Schroder 9 Scott H McQuaig 8 Halleck 10 Smith 8 ‘Hill ? Total ........49 Total 51 CLASS B. Monticello Rensselaer Sill ..18 Mo lon y ......14 Wigmore .....13 Parks ..10 MCBeth 12 Collins 6 Pingry ....... 11 Haskell 5 Gable 10 Swartzell .... 1 Total 64 Total ....36 Rensselaer was weakened in the first class by the absence of McFarland from the line-up, although Soott, the colored man, who substituted for him, played a strong game. Hill started out badly, suffering two defeats from Raulb and two from Sprague. Thomas started with three wins as also did Raub, of the visitors. Sill led with the high score of 18 points, having won nine games and lost but one, Molony winning that. Swartzell could not get the hang of things and lost ndne games and got only a draw in the other. The match proved very interesting and there were quite a numlber of spectators.