<38th ACF Congress
Chicago, Illinois
August 23-September 4, 1937>

Daily reports in the <New York Times> made it possible to reconstruct crosstables for the qualifying sections.

Preliminary 1

                 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 S S Cohen      * 1 = 1 0 1 1 1 5.5 Championship
2 Herman Steiner 0 * = = 1 1 1 1 5.0 Championship
3 Seymour Osher  = = * 1 1 1 = 0 4.5 Consolation Masters
4 Elias Gordon   0 = 0 * 1 1 1 1 4.5 Consolation Masters
5 Fred S Hazard  1 0 0 0 * 0 1 1 3.0 Class A
6 Edmund Czapski 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 3.0 Consolation Masters
7 Henry M Woods  0 0 = 0 0 0 * 1 1.5 Class B
8 Leo Zalucha    0 0 1 0 0 0 0 * 1.0

Preliminary 2

                          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 George Nelson Treysman* 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 Championship
2 Donald Henry Mugridge   0 * = 1 1 = 1 1 5.0 Championship
3 Wladimir Grigorieff     0 = * = 1 1 1 1 5.0 Championship
4 Walter Bradford Suesman 0 0 = * 0 = 1 1 3.0 Consolation Masters
5 J Edwin Woody           0 0 0 1 * 1 = 0 2.5 Class A
6 Eugene Goldstein        0 = 0 = 0 * = 1 2.5 Class A
7 Robert Coveyou          0 0 0 0 = = * 1 2.0 Class A
8 A B Guild               0 0 0 0 1 0 0 * 1.0 Class B

Preliminary 3

                       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 Charles Jaffe        * = 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.5 Championship
2 Donald MacMurray     = * 1 1 1 1 1 = 6.0 Championshp
3 Martin Charles Stark 0 0 * = 1 1 1 1 4.5 Consolation Masters
4 Malcolm W Patrick    0 0 = * 1 0 1 1 3.5 Consolation Masters
5 Joseph Wasserman     0 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 3.0 Class A
6 F F DeVries          0 0 0 1 0 * = 1 2.5 Class A
7 Albert C Martin      0 0 0 0 0 = * 1 1.5 Class B
8 Byron B Price        0 = 0 0 0 0 0 * 0.5 Class B

Preliminary 4

                           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 Erich Watkinson Marchand * = = 1 1 1 0 1 5.0 Championshp
2 Herman H Hahlbohm        = * = 1 = 1 = 1 5.0 Championship
3 Anthony Santasiere       = = * = 1 0 1 1 4.5 Consolation Masters
4 Arpad Elo                0 0 = * = 1 1 1 4.0 Consolation Masters
5 Walter L Murdock         0 = 0 = * = 1 1 3.5 Conolation Masters
6 George N Pipiringos      0 0 1 0 = * = 1 3.0 Class A
7 Walter Patrick McHale    1 = 0 0 0 = * = 2.5
8 Paul Hugo Litwinsky      0 0 0 0 0 0 = * 0.5 Class B

Preliminary 5

                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 David S Polland        * = 1 1 1 0 1 1 5.5 Championship
2 Harold Morton          = * = 1 1 1 = 1 5.5 Championship
3 Barnie Winkelman       0 = * = 1 = 1 1 4.5
4 John Winter            0 0 = * 1 1 1 1 4.5 Consolation Masters
5 Edmund Nash            0 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 3.0 Class A
6 Julius Partos          1 0 = 0 0 * = = 2.5 Class A
7 Ervin Teplinsky        0 = 0 0 0 = * 1 2.0 Class A
8 Kirk D Holland         0 0 0 0 0 = 0 * 0.5 Class B

Championship

Defending champion Al Horowitz, who had been playing with the Olympiad team in Stockholm until August 14th, was seeded into the Championship final in the expectation that he would return in time to make the trip to Chicago. However, a stormy and delayed arrival made this impossible, so the Championship proceeded with only eleven players.

                            1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
1  David S Polland          X = 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 7.5
2  Herman Steiner           = X 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 6.5
3  Donald MacMurray         0 0 X 1 = = = 1 1 = 1 6.0
4  George Nelson Treysman   0 1 0 X 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 6.0
5  Wladimir Grigorieff      1 0 = 1 X = 1 0 0 = 1 5.5
6  Herman H Hahlbohm        1 0 = 0 = X = = 0 1 1 5.0
7  Charles Jaffe            0 1 = = 0 = X = 1 1 0 5.0
8  Harold Morton            0 1 0 0 1 = = X 1 1 0 5.0
9  Erich Watkinson Marchand 0 0 0 = 1 1 0 0 X 0 1 3.5
10 Donald Henry Mugridge    0 0 = 0 = 0 0 0 1 X 1 3.0
11 S S Cohen                0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 X 2.0

               1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11
1  Polland    1.0 2.0 2.0 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 7.5 7.5
2  Steiner    1.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 5.5 5.5 6.5 6.5
3  MacMurray  0.0 0.5 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.5 2.5 3.5 4.0 5.0 6.0
4  Treysman   1.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.5 5.5 6.0
5  Grigorieff 0.0 0.5 1.5 2.5 2.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 4.0 5.0 5.5
6  Hahlbohm   0.0 0.5 0.5 1.5 2.0 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.0 4.0 5.0
7  Jaffe      1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.5 4.5 5.0
8  Morton     0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 5.0 5.0
9  Marchand   1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.5 2.5 3.5
10 Mugridge   0.0 0.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.0
11 Cohen      0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0

Unfortunately, there is not enough information to present full crosstables for the remaining sections.

Consolation Masters

1  Anthony Santasiere      6.5
2  Martin Charles Stark    6.0
3  Seymour Osher           5.5
4  Arpad Elo               5.0
5  Walter Bradford Suesman 4.0
6  Elias Gordon            4.0
7  John Winter             3.5
8  Walter L Murdock        3.5
9  Edmund Czapski          3.5
10 Walcolm W Patrick       3.5

Class A

1  Julius Partos       8.5
2  F F DeVries         6.0
3  Joseph Wasserman    5.5
4  Fred S Hazard       5.0
5  Edmund Nash         5.0
6  J Edwin Woody       4.5
7  Robert Coveyou      3.5
8  George N Pipiringos 3.0
9  Eugene Goldstein    2.5
10 Ervin Teplinsky     1.5

Class B

1 Albert C Martin       8.5/10
2 Henry M Woods       6.5
3 Paul Hugo Litwinsky 5.5
4 Byron B Price       4.5
5 Kirk D Holland      3.5
6 A B Guild           1.5

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Sources:

Chess Results 1936-1940 / Gino di Felice, p.96-98.

Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1937; September 12, 1937; January 16, 1938'July 25, 1943.

New York Times, Daily reports, August 24-September 5, 1937.

Paul Hugo Little, "The Paul Morphy Centennial Tournament", <Chess Review>, September 1937 p.200-203 and October 1937, p.226-231.

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