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West Riding v North Riding

Leeds, 18/12/1867

On Wednesday 18th December 1867, 4-player teams representing respectively the West and North Ridings of Yorkshire played a match in Leeds. Two games were played at each board where time permitted.

	West Riding			North Riding
1.	M E Werner (Halifax)	1‑0	½‑½	Rev. A B Skipworth (Bilsdale)
2.	John Watkinson (Huddersfield)	0‑1	0‑1	J Wisker (Hull)
3.	John Rhodes (Leeds)	1‑0		Walter Grimshaw (Whitby)
4.	J W Young (Wakefield)	1‑0	1‑0	W Park (West Hartlepool)
	Board score:	3	1
	Game score:	4½	2½

Colours in games are not clear, though presumably where two games were played, colours would be reversed for the second.

A number of onlookers were noted:

	Named in report as:	Identified more specifically as:
Leeds:	Hon. and Rev. P Y Savile	Hon. and Rev. Philip Yorke Savile
	W C Myers	William Collett Myers
	W Winterbottom
	D Parry	David Parry
Bradford:	J A Heselton	John Allison Heselton
	W Fieldsend	William Fieldsend
	Thos. Fieldsend	Thomas Fieldsend
	B Broughton	Benjamin Broughton
	W C Ferrand	William Cole Ferrand
	R Reaney	Richard Reaney
Wakefield:	W H B Tomlinson	William Henry Bedford Tomlinson
	S Day	Samuel Day
	J C Marks	John Capner Marks
Huddersfield	H Finlinson	Joseph Henry Scott Finlinson
	W J Miller	William John Clarke Miller
Sheffield	A Davy	Arthur Davy
Manchester	A Thompson
	W Jones

The company took tea at 6 o’clock, and Hon. and Rev. P Y Savile, presiding, expressed the wish that the two Associations would long flourish, and often meet in similar friendly contests. Little did he realise that the North Yorkshire and Durham Chess Association, which is presumably what the North Riding team represented, would no longer exist in a form limited, within Yorkshire, to the its North Riding, but was to metamorphose into the second “Yorkshire Chess Association”.

This match was reported in the Chess Players’ Quarterly Chronicle of 1868, page 27, wherein the West team was described as that of the “West Riding Chess Association” rather than the “West Yorkshire Chess Association”.

Created

21/04/2013

Last Updated

21/04/2013