January 03 1926
The Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, January 03, 1926
Chess
E. D. Bogoljubov won the Moscow tournament. Dr. Lasker and Jose R. Capablanca rating second and third. At Buffalo, Herman Helms won the New York State title. In college chess Columbia won the N. Y. Chess League tournament for the tenth time in succession, thereby getting permanent possession of the trophy placed in competition thirty-two years ago. Harvard, Yale and Princeton thereupon withdrew from the league and a new coalition, including the United States Military Academy at West Point, resulted in the formation of the “H. Y. P. W.” Chess League. The twenty-sixth annual tournament of the Inter-collegiate Chess League, formally known a the Triangular College Chess League, was won for the first time by New York University, with City College second, Pennsylvania third, Buffalo fourth and Cornell fifth. Rutgers has since been admitted and Columbia will play in the next tournament by invitation.
The championship of the Metropolitan Chess league was again won by the Stuyvesant Chess Club. The Manhattan Chess Club won the Intercity match with Philadelphia, 10½ to 5½.
