ASeptember 28 1872
The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, Bayonne, New Jersey, Saturday, September 28, 1872
Lady Players.—Among the antagonists at Mr. Blackburne's blindfold feat at the Crystal Palace were two lady players, Mrs. Down and Shedlock. Miss Thorold, daughter of E. Thorold, Esq., the distinguished winner of the first prize in the B. C. A.'s recent Handicap Tourney is a player of much force and spirit. The prowess of Mrs. Lellman, sister of Louis and Wilfried Paulsen, is well known. Herr Loewenthal had several lady antagonists among his twenty-five, simultaneously encountered. It need never be reiterated that ladies can not play chess; for from the days of Dilaram and Abbasiya until now, proof to the contrary has never been wanting.
