Louis Russell Chauvenet, 1935

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July 11 1935

The Tampa Times, Tampa, Florida, Thursday, July 11, 1935

Hernandez in Tie For Chess Meet Lead
Knoxville, July 11.—(AP)—James Walker of Barnesville, S.C., and Nestor Hernandez, of Tampa, Fla., were leading today in the class A division of the fourteenth annual tournament of the Southern Chess Association.
In class B competition, Russell Chauvenet of Staunton, and H. W. Johnson of Knoxville, were out in front.
New officers of the association elected yesterday are: Charles Roberts of Jacksonville, Fla., president; H. M. Woodbury of Birmingham, Ala., vice president; W. W. Gibbs, of Staunton, Va., second vice president, and Arthur S. Harris, of Savannah, Ga., secretary.
The name of the association also changed from the Southeastern Chess Association to the Southern Chess Association.

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