April 22 1929
Form Checker Club Tonight 22 Apr 1929, Mon The Times (Munster, Indiana) Newspapers.com
FORM CHECKER CLUB TONIGHT
Prominent Hammond citizens, interested in chess and checkers, will meet tonight in the rooms of the Rooster club in the First Trust building to form a chess and checker club. The meeting will be held at 8 p. m.
Folk who are devotees to these two games are asked to attend the meeting and join the organization to be founded.
Among those who are interested in the movement to found a society in Hammond are: Attorneys Jenkines, Brown and Fall, and Drs. Chevigney and Hoffman. Walter Sanderson of the First Trust is also ready to help form an organization to promote interest in Hammond among those who love to play chess and checkers.
August 31 1929
Group of Chess Notables Competing in Tourney Here 31 Aug 1929, Sat St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com
Group of Chess Notables Competing in Tourney Here
Standing, left to right—John Winter, Detroit; V. Sournin, Washington, D. C. champion; H. Hahlbohm, Chicago, Illinois University champion; Samuel D. Factor, Chicago, Western Chess Association champion and member of the Olympic Chess Team; G. H. Perrine, Centralia, III.; Eugene J. Roesch, 1927 St. Louis champion; J. A. Anderson, present city champion; L. T. Maenner, St. Louis, newly-elected president of Western Chess Congress; B. C. Jenkins, Hammond, Ind.; R. S. Scrivener, Memphis, Tenn.
Seated Herman Steiner, New York champion and member of Olympic Chess Team; Dr. A. E. West, Kalamazoo, Mich., referee; Norman T. Whittaker, Washington, D. C, and National Chess Federation champion of 1927.
