May 04 1904
The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, May 04, 1904
Caption: Dr. Emanuel Lasker.
World's Chess Champion, Defeated by Harry N. Pillsbury Yesterday.
Pillsbury Waited Long.
Defeated Champion Lasker in Chess Tournament by Surprise He had Nursed Since 1896.
The sixth of the 16 rounds in the International chess masters' tournament was played yesterday at Cambridge Springs, Penn., and so far most of the honors have come to Janowski, who has won five matches with one draw, Marshall won five, lost one.
Dr. Lasker, the world's champion, was defeated by Harry N. Pillsbury of Somerville, who nursed a variation in the queen's gambit declined for the champion ever since the St. Petersburg tournament of 1896, and yesterday sprung it. Pillsbury now has won 3½ matches and has lost 2½.
John Barry of Boston won yesterday from Meises, who otherwise would now be tied with Janowski in first position. The latter had decided to draw his game with Showalter.
Much enthusiasm is being manifested at the hotel where the matches are played. At each victory the national flag of the player winning is flown from the flagstaff, and when the American colors are thrown out the townspeople receive them with great enthusiasm and the band plays.
Pillsbury is likely to improve his position this week, as his hardest matches are over, and his form against Lasker showed him at his best.
