AJune 29 1959
Press of Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Monday, June 29, 1959
Junior Chess Champ—The N. J. junior chess champion, Robin Ault, 17, of Cranford and other top players were congratulated by E. F. Daigle, right, director, at the close of a three-day tournament at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel. The young lad in front is Jeffrey Harris of 51 N. Windsor Ave., who was awarded the tournament's “Brilliancy Prize.” Others, from left, are Ault, first runner-up Roger Pitasky, 16, of Trenton, and third place winner Leslie Ault, 18, the champion's brother. Press photo.
Cranford Boy Wins Tourney Here To Become State Chess Champion
Seventeen-year-old Robin Ault of Cranford became New Jersey's junior chess champion yesterday at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel.
Ault defeated Glenn Reitze, 16, of Jersey City in the championship match to end the three-day State Junior Chess Tournament here. His record was four wins and one draw.
Reitz and five other competitors came through the tournament with three wins, one draw and one loss. Their places were determined by a tie-breaking system based on how they played their matches, with these results:
Second place went to Roger Pitasky, 16, Trenton; third to Leslie Ault, the winner's 18-year-old brother; fourth to Reitze; fifth to William Lukowiak, 16, Belleville, and sixth to Jerome Finkelstein, 17, Long Branch.
The first six placers were awarded trophies. Pitasky also won a trophy for accumulating the highest score of any competitor under 17.
Jeffrey Harris of 51 N. Windsor Ave. was awarded the tournament's “Brilliancy Prize” for his first-round victory Friday evening over John Yehl, 19, of Hamonton.
Yesterday's competition opened with the two Aults, Pitasky and Reitze tied with two wins and one draw each. In the morning's fourth tournament round, Robin Ault beat Pitasky and Reitze defeated Leslie Ault.
Reitze lost to Robin Ault in the fifth and final round, while Pitasky and Leslie Ault were recording wins over other opponents.
December 31 1959
Republican and Herald, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Thursday, December 31, 1959
Leslie H. Ault Wins Chess Title
University Park, Pa. (UPI)—Leslie H. Ault, a Columbia University sophomore, won the national intercollegiate chess championship Wednesday at Pennsylvania State University.
Ault, of Cranford, N.J., finished the three-day tournament with five out of a possible six points when he drew in the final round with Sanford Greene, Elmsford, N.Y., a student at City College of New York. One point was awarded for a win and a half-point for a draw.
Greene, finishing with four points, tied for second place with J.T. Higginbotham, Westwood, N.J., Case Institute of Technology: George Baylor, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Tech, and Carl E. Warner, Toms River, N. J., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Defending champion Charles Kalme, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, did not compete this year.
