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1883: Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club v. Rest of the Sheffield & District CA

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To celebrate the formation of the Sheffield & District Chess Association, the patriarchal Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club played a match against the rest of the Association.

The Weekly Supplement to the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent of Saturday 21st April 1883 carried the following account of a match which took place on Tuesday 17th April 1883:

IMPORTANT CHESS CONTEST IN SHEFFIELD

On Tuesday evening the challenge of the Athenaeum Chess Club, one of the affiliated clubs of the Sheffield & District Chess Association, to play against the whole of the other associated clubs, on the occasion of the inaugural Meeting of the Association, was decided at the Maunche Hotel, in the presence of a large number of players, and the Association, in accepting it decided to send 40 of the best players to do battle on their behalf. These comprised eleven representatives from the Arundel Club, seven from St. George’s, three from Walkley, five from Barnsley, five from Penistone, and nine from Rotherham. Mr. Frederick E. Foster, who is the hon. secretary of the Athenaeum Chess Club, acted in the capacity of captain of the Athenaeum team; and Mr. E. Barraclough, president of the Arundel Chess Club, filled the like position for the Associated clubs, ably assisted by Mr. H. C. Twist, the hon. secretary of the Association. Play commenced at 7 o’clock, and shortly after ten o’clock, the time fixed for the close, the match was announced to have been won by the Athenaeum Club, the score being: - Athenaeum, 35½ games won, 14½ lost; Association,14½ games won, and 35½ lost. The Athenaeum players were present in force, but six of the Association players did not put in an appearance, and thus forfeited there twelve games to the Athenaeum. Mr. F. E. Foster, however, waived his claim to these games, and the appended list shows only the games actually played: -

	Athenaeum				Association
		Won.	Lst.			Won.	Lst.
	Henry Davy	1½	½		Carr Smith (Arundel)	½	1½
	Arthur Davy	2	0		J. Roe (Barnsley)	0	2
	W. Cockayne, Jun.	2	0		J. Shepherd (Rotherham)	0	2
*	E. S. Foster	0	0	*	Dr. Wilson (Penistone)	0	0
	Dr. Law	0	2		G. H. Pullan (St. George’s)	2	0
*	H. W. Pearson	½	½	*	J. Williams (St. George’s)	½	½
*	T. G. Shuttleworth	1	0	*	J. Shearer (St. George’s)	0	1
*	Wm. Shaw	½	½	*	E. Barraclough (Arundel)	½	½
*	H. A.Rossell	1	0	*	J. Reoch (Arundel)	0	1
	G. A. Askham	1½	½		J. Woolman (Rotherham)	½	1½
*	F. E. Foster	1	0	*	W. L. Shaw (Arundel)	0	1
	J. B. Brown	0	2		T. W. Fisher (St. George’s)	2	0
†	W. H. Camm	0	0	†	Wm. Hoyland (Penistone)	0	0
	Smith	½	1½		Rowley (Barnsley)	1½	½
	Robert Eddison	1½	½		A. G. Winnell (Arundel)	½	1½
*	F. G. Dalton	0	1	*	J. R. Shephard (Rotherham)	1	0
	Hy. Mercer	1	1		A. C. Skinner (St. George’s)	1	1
*	Rev. E. Reynolds	1	0		H. Ward (Rotherham)	0	1
	C. J. Leffler	2	0		Hague (Barnsley)	0	2
†	John Chesman	0	0	†	Hutchinson (Walkley)	0	0
	P. Hodges	2	0		S. Scott (Arundel)	0	2
	C. Ingleby	1½	½		J. Widdop (Arundel)	½	1½
	T. E. Shuttleworth	1	1		S. Darwin (Arundel)	1	1
†	Geo. Gidlow	0	0	†	C. Hahn (Arundel)	0	0
	W. G. Allott	1½	½		Rushforth (Rotherham)	½	1½
	Thos. Marshall	1	1		Goodyear (Rotherham)	1	1
*	J. H. Burrows	1	0	*	Thompson (Rotherham)	0	1
*	J. W. Chapman	1	0	*	Wood (St. George’s)	0	1
†	E. J. Waterfall	0	0	†	Josh. Ensor (Penistone)	0	0
	T. S. Algar	2	0		T. Scott (Arundel)	0	2
†	W. H. Stacey	0	0	†	Hill (Penistone)	0	0
†	Cawkell	0	0	†	Yeardley (Rotherham)	0	0
*	H. F. Hall	1	0	*	Macbeth (Walkley)	0	1
	F. H. Zimmerman	2	0		C. Sackville (Penistone)	0	2
	F. Richards	1½	½		Weight (Barnsley)	½	1½
*	J. G. Cocker	0	1	*	Tomlinson (St. George’s)	1	0
*	C. H. Maleham	1	0	*	Bristowe Hunt (Arundel)	0	1
	J. S. Mawson	2	0		Lewis (Walkley)	0	2
		----	----			----	----
		35½	14½			14½	35½

The second games between the, players marked *, were abandoned, being unfinished when time was called. The players marked † were unable to play owing to the absence of the Association representatives.

Most players named are recognisable from records of other chess matches. The following is a list of the names with full or corrected names, where identifiable:

Reported Name	Full or Corrected Name
T. S. Algar	Thomas Stannard Algar
W. G. Allott	William Green Allott
G. A. Askham	George Albert Roberts Askham
E. Barraclough	Edwin Barraclough
J. B. Brown	John Bower Brown
J. H. Burrows	John Henry Burrows
W. H. Camm	William Henry Camm
Cawkell	William Cawkwell (sen?/jun?)
J. W. Chapman
John Chesman	John Chesman
W. Cockayne, Jun.	Wiliam Cockayne jun.
J. G. Cocker	John Goodwin Cocker
F. G. Dalton	Frederick George Dalton junior
S. Darwin	Sydney Darwin
Arthur Davy	Arthur Davy
Henry Davy	Henry Davy (Arthur’s brother)
Robert Eddison	Robert Eddison
Josh. Ensor	Joshua Ensor
T. W. Fisher	Thomas Wormall Fisher
E. S. Foster	Edward Savile Foster
F. E. Foster	Frederick Edward Foster
Geo. Gidlow	George Gidlow
Goodyear
Hague
C. Hahn	Carl August Hahn
H. F. Hall	Henry Foljambe Hall
Hill	William H Hill
P. Hodges	Petronius Hodges
Wm. Hoyland	William Hoyland
Bristowe Hunt	Bristow Hunt
Hutchinson	Walter Thomas Hutchinson
C. Ingleby	Constantine Ingleby
Dr. Law	Dr. Joseph Law
C. J. Leffler	Carl Johan Laurentz Leffler
Lewis
Macbeth
C. H. Maleham	Charles Henry Maleham
Thos. Marshall	Thomas Marshall
J. S. Mawson	Joseph Swan Mawson
Hy. Mercer	Henry Mercer
H. W. Pearson	Henry William Pearson
G. H. Pullan	George Henry Pullen
J. Reoch	John Reoch
Rev. E. Reynolds	Rev E. H. Reynolds
F. Richards	Frank Richards
J. Roe	John Roe
H. A.Rossell	Henry Augustus Rossell
Rowley	A Rowley
Rushforth	John Thomas Rushforth
C. Sackville	Charles Sackville
S. Scott
T. Scott
W. L. Shaw	Walter Lewis Shaw
Wm. Shaw	William Shaw
J. Shearer	James Shearer
J. R. Shephard	Joseph Richard Shephard
J. Shepherd	John Shephard
T. E. Shuttleworth	Thomas Edward Shuttleworth
T. G. Shuttleworth	Thomas George Shuttleworth
A.[sic] C. Skinner	John Crossland Skinner
Carr Smith	J. Carr Smith
Smith	Sydney Smith
W. H. Stacey	William Holland Stacey
Thompson
Tomlinson
H. Ward
E. J. Waterfall	Edward Joshua Waterfall
Weight	Edward Weight
J. Widdop
J. Williams
Dr. Wilson	Dr Arthur Cobden Jordan Wilson
A. G. Winnell [sic]	Alfred Gilbert Winnill
Wood	William Wood
J. Woolman [sic]	Joseph Wollman
Yeardley	Frank Yeardley
F. [sic] H. Zimmerman	Julius Hermann Zimmermann

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14/05/2012

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