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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1901
Page
8
The Paris game between Pillsbury and Lasker followed a Blackmar Gambit flavor after Lasker played P-B8 on move five. Pillsbury, pressed, sacrificed to stay in the fight, and the contest extended to eighty five moves before surrender. The piece sequence recalls Bird's Opening and its attack lines with PKB4.
At the eighteenth annual Scottish Chess Congress in Glasgow, D. T. Mills of Edinburgh and Dr. McDonald of Foyers tied for the championship, with McDonald winning the playoff to claim the title Mills had held for years. Morgan's Chess Digest highlights the Ray Lopez with 1671 variations catalogued.
The Buffalo Whist and Chess Club available its rooms to the New York Chess Association for a summer tournament the first week of August. Uncertain if the Pennsylvania team will join the annual match with New York. Dr Lasker told the Chicago Tribune that true great chess players seek truth and elevate ideas beyond sharpness or trickery.
In Davenport Iowa Dr EB M Sala of Rock Island beats world champion Emanuel Lasker in one of sixteen simultaneous games. The score and notes from the Philadelphia Times accompany the report. The article lists many players and observers alongside the noted victory.
List of letters remaining unclaimed for the week ending Saturday June 29 at the San Antonio Texas post office. Recipients must call advertised letters with one cent fee. Include full address on envelope edge and write name and address plainly for return if undelivered. Notify postmaster of address changes.
The bulletin reports a fair to warm pattern for San Antonio and Eastern Texas through Sunday night. It notes generally normal Gulf air pressure, rain in North Dakota and scattered clouds in the Gulf States, with no major temperature changes and extremes from 54 to 82 degrees. Allen Buell, Observer.
Millville and Southern New Jersey glass plants closed for the season after one of the history’s most successful years. The mills in Millville, the largest in the East, had to run overtime frequently.
Fournier was the first of the automobile racers to reach Berlin arriving at 11 38 this morning and was greeted by a large cheering crowd.
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