AAugust 11 1920
Local Players In Chess Match 11 Aug 1920, Wed Logansport Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, Indiana) Newspapers.com
LOCAL PLAYERS IN CHESS MATCH
WINNER WILL CHALLENGE WORLD'S CHAMPION CHESS STRATEGIST.
It is understood that Dr. J. W. Steward and Attorney B. C. Jenkines, of this city, are now in a chess match with the understanding that the winner will challenge the winner of the Lasker-Capablanca match, and a series of games will be played at the Logansport Country club in the summer or early fall of 1922.
Something like twenty years ago Dr. Lasker, the world's champion, visited Logansport and played some fine exhibition games. Should he return in 1922 and by his venture, leave the world's championship in the hands of the medical or legal profession of Logansport, our city will thereby win renown, and our local players—an unexpected glory.
Stewart says Lasker is sure to win the forthcoming match, while Jenkines is equally certain that Capablanca, with whom he has played, will be the victor. Time, patience and endurance will tell which of these two gentlemen properly diagnosed the case. We put our money on the doctor.
