June 1929
On the Roof of the Hotel La Reine.
Seated (left to right)-Alexander Kevitz, Hartwig Cassel, Victor Spark, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Dr. Norbert L. Lederer, Frank J. Marshall and Abraham Kupchik.
Standing (left to right)-George P. Northrop, I. S. Turover, Rafael Cintron, Herman Steiner, Lajos Steiner, H. Ransom Bigelow, Maurice Fox, Hermann Helms and J. Edmund Lister.
Alexander Alekhine (first row, middle chair) surrounded by the participants and officials of the Bradley Beach tournament in 1929. The World Champion took first place with eight wins and only one draw. Original b/w credits, David Delucia Collection.
The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, June 12, 1929
Alekhine Wins Title.
BRADLEY BEACH, N. J., June 12. Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris Tuesday won the International Chess Masters' Tournament which has been in progress here for the past nine days. Alekhine did not lose a game. Lajos Steiner, of Budapest, won the second prize, losing only to Dr. Alekhine.
July 18 1929
The New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 18, 1929
Hartwig Cassel Dies; Noted Chess Editor
With Staats-Zeitung for 40 Years—Was a World Authority on the Game.
Hartwig Cassel of 610 West 118th Street, for forty years chess editor of The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung and during most of that time a promoter of international, national and State chess activities, died late Tuesday night at the Monmouth Memorial Hospital, Long Branch, N. J.
He had been taken there after a sudden relapse while vacationing at the Hotel La Reine in Bradley Beach, N. J., the scene of the most recent international tournament.
Mr. Cassel was in his seventy-ninth year, having been born in Konitz, Germany, on Nov. 2, 1850. He was one of the leading authorities of the world on chess, and his advice was constantly sought. His activity as chess journalist covered forty-eight years, of which eight were spent in Bradford, England, where he first established a reputation as a chess writer.
In this country he was foremost in organizing tournaments, of which the international congress at Cambridge Springs, Pa., in 1904 was the most conspicuous. He was the first to suggest the international cable matches and helped create the Triangular College Chess League, now the Intercollegiate Chess League, of which he was long the tournament director. From 1904 to 1917 he was one of the publishers of the American Chess Bulletin of this city, which he helped to establish.
Funeral services will take place at 2 P.M. on Sunday at the Meyer Funeral Parlors, 458 West 145th Street. The body will be cremated at Fresh Pond, L. I.
