Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1908 — Brooksten Checker Phayets B.mptuous Too. [ARTICLE]

Brooksten Checker Phayets B.mptuous Too.

Another noisy lot of checker playing talk is coming out of Bro* kston, and the editor of the Reporter there thinks there are several of the Brookston bunch that can “learn” Mr. McFariand the“gaiser The~ paper says tli ti Brookston can boa*t of six players that can really play the game. Presumably Ed M. Ferguson is one of these, ae he ended up very well in the recent Brookston-Chalmers uiatch, but when Mr. Fergu-on visited Reus selaer last summer he failed to get a. game from eiiher Mei* ar land. Th,omas or Stevens. If these players think they are equal to the task, the invitation is open to meet them in a team match, from sto 8 men on each side, to be played .in Reus selaer, Brookston or Reynolds. Now let these noisy White-county suitors have their checker Cnam pions toe the mark.