Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1909 — Denvir’s Comment On His Visit With Our Checker Players. [ARTICLE]

Denvir’s Comment On His Visit With Our Checker Players.

John T. Denvir, the checker editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, had the following account in the Sunday Inter-Ocean of his recent visit here: “The editor’s visit to Rensselaer proved quite a success, and gave the game an impetus in that section. The local players, headed by the president of the club, James A. McFarland, secured the Armory for the exhibition. The editor delivered a lecture of about thirty minutes, in which time he succeeded in convincing those present that the game of checkers broadened the intellect, developed the “gray” matter and started the brain working along intelligent lines. At the conclusion of the talk the editor played seventeen boards at one time, in which he won sixteen, one game drawn. The second simultaneous performance proved quite interesting, as the editor won twelve, the remaining games being drawn. “One of the games looked somewhat bad for the Chicago player at one stage, but by nursing the pieces toward the end of the game we succeeded in placing a win to our credit. The last day of our visit we played a-out sixty games of checkers, coming u way with a clean score.” The reliable Monsoon flour, better than ever, 91.40 at the G. E. Murray Co.