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1893: Sheffield Athenaeum CC v Sheffield & District CA

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Played at the Sheffield Athenaeum Club, George Street, Sheffield,

on the evening of Saturday, 02/12/1893,

over 18 boards, 1 game per board.

The first match between the Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club and the (rest of) the Sheffield & District Chess Association was that of 1883. Since then they had, seemingly, been regularly, but there was a gap of three years after 1889 during which the match did not take place.

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent of Monday, 04/12/1893, mentioned that the Athenaeum line-up lacked Alderman E. S. Foster (Mayor of Sheffield at the time), his son F. E. Foster and T. A. Peck, while the rest of the Association missed the Rev. E. J. Huntsman, J. Crossland, W. Tiptaft, F. Lamb and G. A. Huntsman (son of the Rev. E. J.). Result recorded by the Independent were as follows:

	Sheffield Athenaeum	11½‑6½	Sheffield & DCA	(Club)
1	T C Chapman	0-1	G H Harrison	(Sheffield YMCA)
2	G A Askham	1-0	J Wollman	(Rotherham)
3	Henry Davy	½-½	H D Rockett	(Sheffield YMCA)
4	T E Vickers	½-½	A E Harrison	(West End)
5	W H Camm	½-½	E Barraclough	(Arundel)
6	Marriott Oakes	1-0	C Horowitz	(Arundel)
7	H Mercer	1-0	D H Smith	(West End)
8	J Reoch	1-0	A E Godley	(West End)
9	H W Pearson	1-0	A Lawton	(Arundel)
10	Arthur Davy	1-0	G Gaynor	(St. Peter’s)
11	R Snow	½-½	A Sellers	(West End)
12	E E Sibray	1-0	A E Mercer	(Sheffield YMCA)
13	C A Hahn	1-0	W F Bennett	(Sheffield YMCA)
14	F W Littlewood	½-½	J T Bexle	(Walkley)
15	A S Hepworth	1-0	J Gaunt	(Stocksbridge)
16	W F Tasker	0-1	G Longden	(Stocksbridge)
17	J S Salt	0-1	C T Thomas	(St. Peter’s)
18	W Feltrup	0-1	F M Clarke	(West End)

Identities of players would seem to be as follows:

G A Askham	Sheffield Athenaeum	George Albert Roberts Askham
E Barraclough	Arundel	Edwin Barraclough
W F Bennett	Sheffield YMCA
J T Bexle	Walkley
W H Camm	Sheffield Athenaeum	William Henry Camm
T C Chapman	Sheffield Athenaeum
F M Clarke	West End
Arthur Davy	Sheffield Athenaeum	Arthur (Sheffield) Davy
Henry Davy	Sheffield Athenaeum	Arthur (Sheffield) Davy
W Feltrup	Sheffield Athenaeum	William Feltrup
J Gaunt	Stocksbridge
G Gaynor	St. Peter’s
A E Godley	West End
C A Hahn	Sheffield Athenaeum	Carl Augustus Hahn
A E Harrison	West End	Arthur Ernest Harrison
G H Harrison	Sheffield YMCA	George Henry Harrison
A S Hepworth	Sheffield Athenaeum	Alfred Skelton Hepworth
C Horowitz	Arundel
A Lawton	Arundel
F W Littlewood	Sheffield Athenaeum
G Longden	Stocksbridge
A E Mercer	Sheffield YMCA	Arthur Emerson Mercer
H Mercer	Sheffield Athenaeum	Henry Mercer
Marriott Oakes	Sheffield Athenaeum	Marriott Oakes
H W Pearson	Sheffield Athenaeum	Henry William Pearson
J Reoch	Sheffield Athenaeum	John Reoch
H D Rockett	Sheffield YMCA	Hildreth Dudley Rockett
J S Salt	Sheffield Athenaeum
A Sellers	West End
E E Sibray	Sheffield Athenaeum	Ernest Edward Sibray
D H Smith	West End	Duncan H Smith
R Snow	Sheffield Athenaeum	Robert Snow
W F Tasker	Sheffield Athenaeum
C T Thomas	St. Peter’s
T E Vickers	Sheffield Athenaeum	Col Thomas Edward Vickers
J Wollman	Rotherham	Joseph Wollman

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02/06/2014

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated

02/06/2014