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1893: Sheffield & DCA v Derbyshire

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Played at the Clarence Hotel, High Street, Sheffield,

on Saturday, 09/12/1893,

over 11 boards, 2 games per board (time permitting).

In a similar match in 1892, Derbyshire had been the victors. It’s a little surprising that the math was played over so few boards, given that both sides could, surely, raise a much larger number of players.

Results as reported in the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent of Monday 11/12/1893 were as follows:

	Sheffield & DCA	8½‑4½	Derbyshire
1	T C Chapman	1½-½	F E Phillips
2	T E Vickers	½-½	J Brearley
3	G H Harrison	½@½	E Toon
4	T E Shuttleworth	½-½	J R Wright
5	W H Camm	0-1	W H Clarke
6	A E Harrison	0-1	G W Whyman
7	D H Smith	2-0	J Sayers
8	A E Godley	½@½	E Dale
9	A E Mercer	1-0	W Bennett
10	F W Pearson	1-0	W N Toft
11	J Reoch	1-0	J Sargeant

Derbyshire’s board 8 was very probably Edward Dale, civil engineer, who moved to Rotherham around 1902, but was resident in Staveley, Derbyshire, in 1891.

Identities of the Sheffield players, where identifiable, would seem to be as follows:

Name as Reported	Fuller Name
T C Chapman	Thomas Coulson Chapman
T E Vickers	Col. Thomas Edward Vickers
G H Harrison	George Henry Harrison
T E Shuttleworth	Thomas Ernest Shuttleworth
W H Camm	William Henry Camm
A E Harrison	Arthur Ernest Harrison
D H Smith	D H Smith
A E Godley	A E Godley
A E Mercer	Arthur Emerson Mercer
F W Pearson	F W Pearson
J Reoch	John Reoch

Created

28/05/2014

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated

14/01/2015