Yorkshire Chess History

Turning out 80 players per team was a major task, repeating the previous year’s success in this matter. Arranging the teams in order of strength was of course not easy, and the result for the most part very approximate.

Two games were played at each board it time permitted. Two games were managed on 55 boards, and only one games on the remaining 25 boards. Thus the resulting score is not out 80.nor out of 160, but is out of 135, with Lancashire again finishing overwhelming winners, though percentagewise Yorkshire improved over the previous match, managing 35% in 1884 as compared with 32% in 1883.

Lancashire won 74 games, 27 games were drawn, and Yorkshire won 34 games, giving a total of 87½-47½ in Lancashire’s favour.

The method of recording the match used at the time fails to show the order of the two results where two games were played. Also there was no indication of colour or who was first to move.

	Lancashire	87½	47½	Yorkshire (as reported)	Fuller Name
1	A Burn (Liverpool)	1-0	1-0	J W Young (Wakefield)	John William Young
2	Rev J Owen (Liverpool)	1-0		C G Bennett (Harrogate)	Charles George Bennett
3	H Jones (Manchester)	½-½		F F Ayre (Hull)	Frederick Fearnley Ayre
4	J Baddeley (Manchester)	1-0	½-½	E Freeborough (Hull)	Edward Freeborough
5	A Steinkuhler (Manchester)	½-½		Rev Huntsman (Sheffield)	Rev Edmund John Huntsman
6	S Wellington (Liverpool)	1-0		Jas. Rayner (Leeds)	James Rayner
7	R K Leather (Liverpool)	1-0	½-½	R M Macmaster (Bradford)	Robert McCheyne Macmaster
8	W W Rutherford (Liverpool)	0-1	½-½	T Y Stokoe (Leeds)	Thomas Young Stokoe
9	A Hvistendahl (Liverpool)	½-½		E B Hussey (Leeds)	Edward Bishop Hussey
10	T Von Zabern (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	J Parker (Wakefield)
11	S Cohen (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	F E Foster (Sheffield)	Frederick Edward Foster
12	T B Wilson (Manchester)	½-½	½-½	A Howall (Leeds)
13	J Fish (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	G W Farrow (Hull)	George Wright Farrow
14	R C Boyer (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	J Carr Smith (Sheffield)	(see below)
15	G Ferguson (Liverpool)	½-½		H H Waight (Halifax)	Henry Hoyer Waight
16	A Beakbane (Liverpool)	0-1	½-½	S Day (Wakefield)	Samuel Day
17	J S Edgar (Liverpool)	0-1	½-½	W W Hunter (Wakefield)	William Wilks Hunter
18	G Imlach (Liverpool)	1-0	1-0	G E Mallett (Bradford)	George Edmund Mallett
19	H Blanchard (Lancaster)	1-0	0-1	G F Onions (Bradford)	George Frederick Onions
20	E Hall Wood (Bolton)	1-0	½-½	H Cassel (Bradford)	Hartwig Cassel
21	- Bateson Wood (Manchester)	0-1		W Rea (Wakefield)	William Rea
22	J Riddell (Manchester)	0-1	0-1	R H Philip (Hull)	Robert Harris Philip
23	E Chrimes (Manchester)	0-1		H C Padgett (Bradford)	Henry Clarence Padgett
24	Beach (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	C D Knapton (Bradford)	Charles Demain Knapton
25	R B Hardman (Bury)	1-0		S Hudson (Bradford)
26	A M Holland (Liverpool)	½-½	½-½	J Crake (Hull)	James Crake
27	J R Barling (Liverpool)	1-0	½-½	J W Stringer (Leeds)	John William Stringer
28	J R Wilson (Liverpool)	0-1	0-1	F Toothill (Leeds)	Frank Toothill
29	R F Green (Liverpool)	1-0	1-0	S R Meredith (Leeds)	Samuel Redhead Meredith
30	R A Beaver (Liverpool)	1-0		C L Brook (Huddersfield)	Charles Lewis Brook
31	C Brevig (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	W [sic] Rossell (Sheffield)	Henry Augustus Rossell
32	W Jones (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	J Roe (Barnsley)
33	E Mitchell (Manchester)	1-0		Dr Wilson (Penistone)	Dr Arthur Cobden Jordan Wilson
34	W M'Clelland (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	- Sadler (Hull)
35	I G Boulaye (Manchester)	0-1	0-1	T Fieldsend (Bradford)	Thomas Fieldsend
36	T Higginbottom (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	T Spencer (Bradford)
37	J M Pollitt (Manchester)	1-0		C Muller (Bradford)	Charles Augustus Muller
38	G Worrall (Manchester)	½-½		J H Tetley (Bradford)
39	Dr. Blumberg (Southport)	1-0	0-1	A Common (Halifax)	Arthur Common
40	O Hockmeyer (Manchester)	0-1		P Whitley (Halifax)
41	W H Clayton (Manchester)	1-0		Dr Gascoyne (Halifax)
42	Dr Wahltuch (Manchester)	1-0		S M Cockin (Halifax)	Samuel Moulding Cockin
43	H Turner (Leigh)	1-0	½-½	E Hodgson (Halifax)
44	N T Miniati (Manchester)	1-0	½-½	C Ogden (Bradford)	Charles Ogden
45	F Löwenthal (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	W J Egglestone [sic] (Dewsbury)	William John Eggleston
46	James Heap (Manchester)	1-0		J Woodhead (Dewsbury)
47	R O Cooper (Manchester)	0-1	0-1	E Dyson (Huddersfield)	Edwin Dyson
48	F J Hamel (Manchester)	1-0	½-½	T S Yates (Huddersfield)	Thomas Shuttleworth Yates
49	L Glass (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	W Ash (Wakefield)	William Ash
50	R Lewis (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	W R Scholefield (Wakefield)	William Ryder Scholefield
51	E Russell Evans (Manchester)	½-½		C B Ogden (Leeds)	Charles Burdett Ogden
52	W R Keyte (Manchester)	1-0		P T Macaulay (Bradford)	Peter Tarbet Macauley
53	Edward Evans (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	W Clarkson (Bradford)
54	C A Dust (Manchester)	1-0		J A Woollard (Bradford)	Joseph Algernon Woollard
55	Joseph Hodgson (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	E Duckworth (Bradford)
56	L Hanson (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	H Butterfield (Bradford)	Henry Butterfield
57	J Whittaker (Burnley)	1-0	½-½	A P Wilson (Bradford)	Arthur Percy Wilson
58	James Green (Blackburn)	1-0	1-0	Rev E Snowden (Huddersfield)	Rev. Edmund Snowden
59	T Bayne (Burnley)	1-0	0-1	W Jackson (Dewsbury)	William Ewart Jackson
60	J T Palmer (Rochdale)	1-0	0-1	S Robinson (Ilkley)
61	T Greenwood (Burnley)	1-0	1-0	T [sic] Craven (Leeds)	John Craven
62	J E Whitty (Liverpool)	1-0		W Heaton (Leeds)
63	James Lister (Liverpool)	1-0	1-0	G Blythe (Bradford)
64	Rev. Canon Dodd (Liverpool)	1-0	0-1	Rev M Thorold (Dewsbury)	Rev Michael Edward Thorold
65	T Whitehead (Liverpool)	0-1		F C Shepard [sic] (Leeds)	Frederick Crosland Shepherd
66	T L Cater (Liverpool)	1-0	1-0	T Smith (Leeds)
67	A Myers (Liverpool)	½-½	½-½	A C [sic] Cowling (Leeds)	Arthur Goodyear Cowling
68	Rev N S Jeffrey (Blackpool)	1-0	0-1	F H Wright (Wakefield)	Frederick Henry Wright
69	J R Lown (Wigan)	½-½	½-½	G G Hein (Wakefield)	George Gustav Hein
70	J Greenleaves (Manchester)	½-½		G H Bays jun. (Wakefield)	George Henry Bays, jun.
71	Dr Hewitt (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	T Nichols (Wakefield)
72	G Hicks (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	M Rhodes (Dewsbury)
73	M Mensch (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	J W Harland (Leeds)	James Walter Harland
74	Rhodes Marriott (Manchester)	½-½		T W Tate (Leeds)	Thomas William Tate
75	G Blackstock (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	J W Holgate (Dewsbury)
76	C Holmstrom (Manchester)	1-0	1-0	J C Walker (Mirfield)
77	E Armstrong (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	J J Downs (Hull)
78	C G Hulton (Manchester)	1-0	0-1	W Gledhill (Leeds)	(see below)
79	G Backhouse (Manchester)	1-0		W Ives (Leeds)
80	J Greenhalgh (Preston)	0-1	0-1	W Crofts (Wakefield)

“J Carr Smith” playing board 14 for Yorkshire pops up often enough in chess records, especially of local chess in Sheffield, but his identity is elusive (see J Carr Smith).

The “Beach” playing board 24 for Lancashire is here assumed to have been George Beach, father of Rev. George Cope Beach, in turn father of Thomas John (normally “T. J.” or “John”) Beach.

“Dr. Wahltuch” playing board 42 for Lancashire is here assumed to have been Dr. Adolphe Waltuch, father of Victor Leonard Wahltuch and his older brother Julius E. Wahltuch, who both played for Lancashire in later years.

“W. Rossell, Sheffield” playing on board 31 for Yorkshire, as given in some sources, is here assumed to have been Henry Augustus Rossell who was the Rossell active in Sheffield chess at the time.

“T. Craven” playing on board 61 for Yorkshire, as given in some sources, is here assumed to have been John Craven of Leeds.

“W. Gledhill, Leeds” playing on board 78 for Yorkshire may conceivably have been 30-year-old Walter Gledhill who was, however, resident at Burley-in-Wharfedale at the time and not noted as a Leeds player, and meritorious of a higher board, surely. “W. Gledhill” was a common enough name.

Lancashire’s boards 12 and 28 were Thomas Bright Wilson (of chess clock fame) and John Rawson Wilson, who were older brothers of Yorkshire’s board 33, Dr Arthur Cobden Jordan Wilson, under whose name the broader family origins are described.

Created

15/06/2013

Last Updated

15/09/2013