AThe Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, January 15, 1909 - Page 24 — F.J. Marshall Against Thirty-Two At Chess — Frank J. Marshall, Brooklyn's famous chess master, who arrived back home after an absence of twenty months in Europe, a week ago today, filled his first engagement at the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club, in the Carnegie Building. Seventh avenue and Fifty-sixth street, Manhattan, last night. The headquarters of the big organization across the river were crowded to their utmost capacity and no less than thirty-two players faced America's leading master-player and now the only representative of this country in the big tournaments abroad, at as many boards.
Marshall, who was suffering from a severe cold and looked none too well physically, gave a brilliant exhibition of rapid chess play finishing the performance in the record time of two hours and a half. In most instances he made his moves at sight and in consequence of his hasty and oft times ill considered maneuvers he made quite a few costly blunders. Nevertheless, he won the majority of the games and finished with a score of 18 wins, 8 losses and 6 drawn games.
B.H. Ritter of Brooklyn was one of the first to win his game, other Brooklynites who did well being A.B. Foye, secretary of the Interscholastic Chess League, and P. Desvernine. Both the latter drew. Other winners were J.W. Klauss, F. Morgan, R.W. Mayer, L. Bechtold, Dr. W.G. Douglas, L. Kunen and H. Limburg. Drawn games were also credited to Dr. Whitman, W. Sachs, H. Cathcart and J. Daeche. The defeated included G. Tucker, Lawrence Stern, R.T. Smith, D. Emery, J.O. Fritsch, J. Rubin, W.D. de Normandie, G. Paulowitsch, Noodeman, P. Lee, G. Mac Jones, Thursen, J. Jimenis, Lichling, Bowman, Dreyfus, V.E. Harris and J. Coote.
At the conclusion of his exhibition Marshall was heartily applauded and later had a business session with Charles Jaffe, who proposes to play Marshall a series of ten games at the rooms of the Rice Chess Club for a purse of $200. Marshall expressed himself as quite willing, health and other engagements permitting, and will prefer to start on February 1, playing every day thereafter, excepting Sundays, under a time limit of 30 moves in the first two hours and 15 moves an hour thereafter.
This evening Marshall will play simultaneously against all-comers at the New York Athletic Club. Central Park South, Manhattan. He expects to spend the most of next week in Philadelphia, and will then be ready for his encounter with Jaffe.
At Troy, N.Y., Jose R. Capablanca, the Cuban chess wonder, en route to the West and South, swept all before him, winning twenty-five games straight. It was the greatest performance ever witnessed by players up the state against Irving J. Sheffer, the secretary of the Troy Chess Club, Capablanca sacrificed his queen, getting pawn, rook and bishop in return.”
F.J. Marshall Against Thirty-Two At Chess 15 Jan 1909, Fri The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
