AJune 26 1961
Press of Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Monday, June 26, 1961
Chess Winners—Robin Ault of Cranford is presented a trophy as winner of the New Jersey State Junior Chess Championship Sunday in the Penn-Atlantic Hotel. From left are Raymond Fasano of Red Bank, second place winner; Gladys Nan Pollock of Passaic, state girls champion; Leslie Ault of Cranford, third place winner; Robin Ault, and E. F. Daigle, tournament director. (Press Photo).
Cranford Boy, Robin Ault, Wins State Chess Tourney 3rd Time
Robin Ault, 19, of Cranford, won the New Jersey State Junior Chess Championship for the third year in a row Sunday by topping 25 other contestants in the tournament played at the Penn-Atlantic Hotel.
He won four and drew one in five matches conducted during the three-day tourney.
Runner-up was Raymond Fasano, 15, of Red Bank and third was Leslie Ault, 20, brother of the champion.
Gladys Nan Pollock, 15, of Passaic, was crowned New Jersey State Girls Junior Chess Champion. She was the lone girl entered in the tournament, which is open to state boys and girls under 21. She won a single match and was automatically recognized as champion.
Peter Irwin, 17, of Summit, placed fourth and won the brilliancy prize.
Robin Ault, Fasano and Irwin won trophies and were given $50 in cash each with the understanding they use the money as bus fare to the United States Junior Chess championships, to be held from July 31 to Aug. 5 in Dayton, Ohio.
Alan Spielman, 18, of Margate, placed fifth and won the prize awarded to the winner of the shortest game. Other prize winners were:
John Xenakis, 17, of Eatontown, sixth; John Greevy, 17, of West New York, seventh; Donald McCoy, 17, of Montclair, eighth; Leonard Karabell, 13, of Margate, ninth; Percy Whiting, 17, of Upper Montclair, tenth; Kenneth Orbach, 13, of Cedar Grove, eleventh, and James Goldman, 16, of East Paterson, twelfth.
Prizes were awarded by E. F. Daigle, director of the tournament. The tournament was co-sponsored by the resort Optimist Club and the New Jersey State Chess Federation.
