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- Game, James Cross vs. Leonard Frankenstein, California State Championship, 1959.
Leonard Irving Frankenstein
December 28, 1936 - January 23, 1961
1952
1954
March 28 1954
The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, Sunday, March 28, 1954
Chess Champion at 17
Leonard Frankenstein Wins City Title For 1954.
Philip W. Morrell Takes Second and L. E. Graham Places Third in Event Sponsored by “Y” Club.
Leonard Frankenstein, 17-year-old Central high school senior, 3047 Wabash avenue, became the 1954 chess champion of Greater Kansas City at the Y.M.C.A. Chess club yesterday by defeating J. R. Beitling, 3533 Genesee street, in the seventh and final round of the annual championship tournament. Frankenstein's final score was six wins, one draw and no losses.
For five weeks he had been in a deadlock for the title with Philip W. Morrell, 820 Roswell avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, but Morrell was defeated yesterday by L. E. Graham, 5330 Euclid avenue, in an upset, and dropped into second place in the final results.
Morrell's score was five wins, one draw and one loss. He drew with Frankenstein in the second round.
Graham's win over Morrell placed him third with a game score of five wins and two losses.
The Beitling - Frankenstein match yesterday carried a note of humor in that the teacher was defeated by his pupil. Beitling taught the game to the youth about two and one-half years ago.
The final standings of the remaining twenty-four players in the tournament will not be known until late this week when all contestants have completed their games. The deadline for completion of all matches is noon next Friday.
Officials of the club announced that trophies would be awarded at the club next Saturday, and that the Greater Kansas City lightning chess championship tourney would be run off at the club Saturday afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock. In this event the players must move every ten seconds.
January 24 1961
The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, Tuesday, January 24, 1961
UC Students In Crash, One Dead
Buellton, Jan. 23.—A University of California graduate student was killed today when a car driven by another Berkeley student turned over on Highway 101 45 miles north of here.
The victim, Leonard Irving Frankenstein, 24, of 2315 Dwight Way, Berkeley, was sleeping in the back seat of the car driven by Larry Marks, 18, of 2115 Haste St., Berkeley. California Highway Patrol officers theorize that Marks fell asleep at the wheel and the car drifted into the highway's center divider and overturned.
Frankenstein was a mathematics student. Marks, a freshman letters and science student, was unhurt.
