SHEFFIELD Chess History

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1896: Sheffield Athenaeum C.C. v Rest of Sheffield & D.C.A.

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Played at Sheffield Athenaeum Club,

George Street, Sheffield,

on Thursday, 26/03/1896,

over 15 boards, 1 game per board.

The Sheffield Daily Telegraph and the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, of Friday 27/03/1896, both carried reports, from which the following is table is derived:

	Sheffield Athenaeum	6‑9	Sheffield & DCA
1	T C Chapman	1-0	G H Harrison
2	F E Foster	½‑½	H D Rockett
3	G A Askham	1-0	W Tiptaft
4	T A Peck	½‑½	A E Harrison
5	Arthur Davy	1-0	C T Thomas
6	W H Camm	1-0	J T Dayson
7	E Barraclough	½‑½	J N Smith
8	E E Sibray	0-1	Duncan H Smith
9	J Reoch	0-1	W Sparkes
10	R Snow	0-1	A E Mercer
11	G H Moon	0-1	A Sellers
12	A S Hepworth	0-1	C H Dunton
13	W Feltrup	½‑½	A Lawton
14	S G Edwards	0-1	W L Shaw
15	E C Burnby	0-1	V B Rush

The identities of the layers, in so far as they are discernible, are as follows:

As Reported	Full(er) Name
G A Askham	George Albert Roberts Askham
E Barraclough	Edwin Barraclough
E C [sic] Burnby	Charles Edward Burnby
W H Camm	William Henry Camm
T C Chapman	Thomas Coulson Chapman
Arthur Davy	Arthur (Sheffield) Davy
J T Dayson	James Thomas Dayson
C H Dunton	Charles Hubert Dunton
S G Edwards
W Feltrup	William Feltrup
F E Foster	Frederick Edward Foster
A E Harrison	A E Harrison
G H Harrison	G H Harrison
A S Hepworth	Alfred Skelton Hepworth
A Lawton
A E Mercer
G H Moon	George Henry Moon
T A Peck	Thomas Arthur Peck
J Reoch	John Reoch
H D Rockett	Hildreth Dudley Rockett
V B Rush	Victor Brentnall Rush
A Sellers
W L Shaw	Walter Lewis Shaw
E E Sibray	E E Sibray
Duncan H Smith	Duncan Howden Smith
J N Smith
R Snow	Robert Snow
W Sparkes	William Henry John Sparkes
C T Thomas
W Tiptaft	William Tibetot Tiptaft

Created 24/08/2014

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated 24/08/2014