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Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1881

Page

8

CHECKERS Boston Messages and Correspondence 1881

In Boston on December 21 1881 readers are directed to send checker and chess correspondence to Charles F Barker Cambridgeport Mass. The column lists responses from Theo W Bret Greenford H A Yzg E M H e J D J S t F D h and M H D k with note of position numbers 904 and 905 and a beginner section by A B Ingalls Black.

Charles F. Barker W. Kimley Greenfo

Wyllie Scores In Checkers Across Connecticut Trials

Checker News reports Wyllie lost two to Dimock and Swift at Square Pond and fell to Freeman at Stafford Springs and Rockville, with Freeman pairing best score with Wyllie so far. River Point score tied Freeman and Wyllie, both 1 drawn and 1 each. Turf coverage notes Dr Schaefer of New York beating local players in Port Jervis with multi game trials and a Thanksgiving 36 games run, plus Martins’ dominance at Stablestone with high win rate. A Washington DC club starts with sixty members and James Reed Jr plans eight simultaneous blindfold games in New York en route to Barker championship.

Checker News Wyllie Square Pond Conn Stafford Springs Rockville M. H. Dimock John Swift C. H. Freeman Providence R. I River Point Mr. Wyllie Freeman Schaefer New York Port Jervis Martins Stablestone R. Martins Nesry M*kay Mr. M'Kay Mr. Martins Glasgow Herald Washington, D. C James Reed, Jr C. F. Barker Scotsman

The Grist Mill edited by Comus department note

Communications for this department go to W H Todd at 14 Florence Street Boston Mass Contributions and solutions are solicited from all readers Will No 47 No 601 Mastodon Alcoran scored torus ores vad on n

W. H. Todd Florence Street Boston Mass Will Mastodon Alcoran

Solutions and prize winners in four weeks

A hoard of puzzle results and prizes from the Weekly Globe lists prize winners for Grist Mill and related puzzles. Names include Sphinx Boston Arthur F Holt Charlie Trebor Elmwood Jesse Overlock Myrtle Fox Globe Grinder Little Boy and notices about responses and holiday greetings.

Notion Sphinx Boston Mass Arthur F Holt Charlie Trebor Elmwood Jesse Overlock Myrtle Fox Globe, Grinder Little Boy

Shipwrecked Sailors Vanish After Meeting Passing Vessel

Providence December 19 Captain Bird of the schooner Frank Norton reports a strange encounter at sea. Six shipwrecked men hailed the Norton asking to be taken aboard but disappeared as night gave way to dawn. The boat may have been black, but no trace remained.

Provivence Captain Bird Frank Norton Dutch Island Harbor Agann Rockland Philadelphia Atlantic Thatcher's Island Norton Bird Leeward Werster Prentiss Cincinnati Europe

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