AJanuary 23 1911
The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Monday, January 23, 1911
BIG CHESS TOURNEY
BEST PLAYERS IN THE COUNTRY START IN FIRST ROUND.
New York, Jan. 22.—Play in the national chess tournament, in which are entered the best metropolitan experts and representatives of Boston and Chicago, in addition to F. J. Marshall, United States champion, and J. R. Capablanca, Cuban champion, began in New York shortly before noon to-day. Capablanca, who will arrive from Cuba in time to start in the second round to-morrow, was the only absentee and was given his bye in the opening round.
The winners of the opening round were F. Marshall, R. T. Black, champion of the Brooklyn Chess Club; Charles Jaffe, Paul Johner and Oscar Chajes of Chicago, the Illinois State champion. Only one drawn game was recorded and this was credited to A. F. Kreymberg of this city against Albert B. Hodges, the Staten Island player. The players were paired as follows:
Morris vs. Johner,
Jaffa vs. Baird,
Black vs. Smith,
Marshall vs. Walcott,
Hodges vs. Kreymberg,
Chajes vs. Tenennulzel,
Capablanca, a bye.
Chief interest centres around Marshall and Walcott, the new England champion. The contest was unexpectedly short, lasting only thirty-four movies, when it was scored to Marshall's credit as a result of Walcott's overstepping the time limit.
