New York, NY, United States (27-29 December 1900)
1 2 3 Score Place Score
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1 Keeler (C) D07 W14 W10 2½ 1st Columbia (C) 8½
2 Sewall (C) D05 W16 W12 2½ 2nd-3rd Harvard (H) 6
3 Falk (C) D06 W15 D11 2 2nd-3rd Yale (Y) 6
4 Schroeder (C) W08 D13 L09 1½ 4th Princeton (P) 3½
5 Rice (H) D02 W12 W16 2½ ——————————————————————————
6 Perry (H) D03 W11 L15 1½
7 Clerk (H) D01 L10 D14 1
8 Fotch (H) L04 W09 L13 1
9 Weston (P) W13 L08 W04 2
10 Ely (P) D14 W07 L01 1½
11 Hunt (P) W15 L06 D03 1½
12 Henley (P) W16 L05 L02 1
13 Adams (Y) L09 D04 W08 1½
14 Roberts (Y) D10 L01 D07 1
15 Sawin (Y) L11 L03 W06 1
16 Russ (Y) L12 L02 L05 0
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Format: Three Round team tournament.
Introduction
The ninth annual intercollegiate chess tournament between Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton for the challenge trophy will be played at the Columbia Grammar School, in Manhattan, on Dec. 27, 28 and 29. This year the tournament is entirely altered, and the results are thereby less likely to be foreseen. In former years each college was represented by two players and each player contested six games. This year there will be four men on each team, and each college will meet each of the other colleges once, making three games for each player and limiting the tournament to three days. Difficulty has been experienced in getting the best players to agree to give up the whole of their Christmas vacation to chess, and it is through that the shortening of the contest to three days will make it easier to obtain teams.
In the eight annual contests so far Columbia has won twice, the first two, and Harvard has won at last six tournaments in succession, a remarkable record. A college must win the trophy ten times in succession to retain it, almost an impossibility.
The officers of the tournament will be the same as in the last two years, L. D. Broughton, Jr., of Brooklyn, being director of the games, with H. Helms and Eugene Delmar as referees.
Edward A. Caswell, who represents Yale in the Board of Managers, has charge of the arrangements as in former years, and to his watchful care the life of the annual tournament is due.
In accordance with the rules, the college chess clubs forwarded yesterday to Mr Caswell the lists of players from which their teams will be selected as follows:
Columbia—Kaufman G. Falk, '01; Frank H. Sewall, '02; Howard A. Keeler, '03; R. C. R. Schroeder, special; Benjamin R. Von Sholly, '03; Richard C. Harrison, '03; Bernard H. Ridder, '03; Maxwell F. Lawton, '04; Samuel A. Tannenbaum, '04.
Harvard—Everett R. Perry, '04; Claude T. Rice, '01; Arthur M (sic). Fotch, '01; William G. Clerk, '01; Waddill Catchings, '01; Charles F. C. Arensberg, '01; Allen R. Campbell, second year; Emerson W. Baker, '04; Phillip S. Estes, '04.
Yale—Edward B. Adams, '01; Arthur Austell, '02; David E. Breinig; '01; Henry E. Colton, '02; Charles A. Roberts, '02; Richard Ely, '02; Julian Pilgram, '02; James B. Hunt, '02; Charles S. Richardson, Jr., '03; Robert B. Read, '03; John H. Harkinson, '03, Leon M. Schoonmaker, '04. (1)
The meeting was formally opened at 1 o'clock by Prof. B. H. Campbell, principal of the Columbia Grammar Sch0ol. No time was lost in getting down to business, the following sixteen players presenting themselves for their respective colleges:
Columbia—Kaufman G. Falk, '01; Frank H. Sewall, '02; Rudolph C. T. Schroeder, '03' Howard A. Keeler, '03.
Yale—James F. Swain (sic; Sawin), '04; Henry C. Russ, '02; Edward B. Adams, '01; C. A. Roberts, '02.
Harvard—Everett R. Perry, '04; Claude T. Rice, '01; Arthur J. Fotch, '01; William G. Clerk, '01.
Princeton—James B. Hunt, '02; John C. Henley, Jr., '02; Alfred S. Weston, '99; Richard Ely, '02.(2)
Preceded by 8th Intercollegiate Cup, New York (1899).
Followed by 10th Intercollegiate Cup, New York (1901).
Sources
(1) Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, 1900.12.11, p9
(2) New York Sun, 1900.12.28, p5
Kibitzing
