Jun-13-19
 | | mifralu: < G. P. Northrop Dies, Authority on Chess Teaneck. N. J., Sept. 20. (AP.) George P. Northrop, 73-years-old chess authority, former reporter and editor and former lawyer, died yesterday at Holy Name Hospital. A one-time associate of Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Germany, world chess champion for many years. Northrop was one of the foremost chess players in America. He coined many of the game's definitions as set forth in modern dictionaries.
Northrop was born in Lancaster, S. C. attended Levis College, Quebec, received his law degree from the University of Maryland and studied post-graduate law at Georgetown. Before entering the newspaper field he practiced law in Virginia, but then went with the Philadelphia Public Ledger as a reporter. He later became foreign editor for the Ledger. At the time of his death, he made his home in Newark and conducted a chess column for the Newark Evening News. He leaves his wife, a daughter and four sons.> Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), 21 September 1938, Page 4 |
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Jun-09-25
 | | GrahamClayton: "“OLD MASTER” TEST’S YOUNG CHESS ENTHUSIAST.—George R. Northrop, chess editor of the “Newark Evening News,” agrees that ten-year-old Robert May, of Jersey City, might properly be called a “boy wonder.” Mr. Northrop, veteran chess player, now in charge of the chess department of the “Newark Evening News,” is an old hand of chess journalism. As far back as 1892 and 1893 he conducted chess news in the “Philadelphia Ledger.” He writes that for the last 30 years he withdrew from “chess” except to play it, but from an “American Chess Bulletin” we learn:—“Harper’s Weekly” and the “New York Herald,” among others, were served by Mr. Northrop as chess correspondent. It is. interesting to notethat he was associate editor for Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Dictionary, and formulated the definitions of all terms pertaining to chess in the edition of 1912. Mr. Northrop takes a modest pride In the fact that throughout his career he has always taught and encouraged young players. From the sketch above, taken from his column in the “Newark Evening News,” it will be seen he still takes pleasure in exercising this amiable trait." Sports Referee (Brisbane, Qld), 8 March 1930, page 15. |
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