Jose Capablanca, 1907

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March 14 1907

The Morning Journal-Courier, New Haven, Connecticut, Thursday, March 14, 1907

CABLE CHESS MATCH.
That Between American and British Universities Begins March 23.
New York, March 13.—The inter-university cable chess match between representatives of Harvard, Columbia, Yale and Princeton, on the one side, and Oxford and Cambridge university on the other, will be played on Saturday, March 23. There will be six men on each team, and the American colleges will be represented by J. R. Capablanca and I. J. Wolff, of Columbia; O. A. Brackett, and P. W. Bridgman, or G. T. McClure of Harvard, E. B. Burgess of Yale and W. M. Ward of Princeton.
The teams will play for the Isaac M. Rice international trophy, which has been abroad since 1903.

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