Yorkshire Chess History

The fourth Scarborough Whit Congress saw the withdrawal of funding for the event by Scarborough council. The event was nevertheless opened by the Mayor of Scarborough, Alderman Matthews, who was himself a chess-player, presumably Edward Henry Matthews (see 1894 Whitby v Scarborough match). The “home” contingent contained a new face in the form of up-and-coming William Winter, who won the event, pushing the 1927 winner, Colle, into second place.

This year, instead of two separate “Major” sections, there were a “Premier Reserve” and a single “Major” section.

The 1926 Premier winner, Alekhine, who was now world champion, put in an appearance, giving a simultaneous display. This was his first appearance in England since becoming world champion.

Premier Tournament

The 10-player Premier tournament was run as a single all-play-all event. Summarised results in the Premier tournament were as follows:

	Player		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Prize
	Player		W	C	M	Y	S	T	B	M	S	W	Total	Prize
1	William Winter	(London?)	X	1	0	1	1	½	1	1	½	1	7	1st
2	Edgar Colle	(Belgium)	0	X	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	6	2nd
3	Reginald Pryce Michell	(London?)	1	½	X	½	1	0	½	0	1	1	5½	3rd
4	Fred Dewhirst Yates	(London)	0	½	½	X	1	1	1	0	0	1	5	4th=
5	Harold Saunders	(London)	0	0	0	0	X	1	1	1	1	1	5	4th=
6	Sir George Alan Thomas	(Godalming)	½	½	1	0	0	X	0	1	1	1	5	4th=
7	Victor Buerger	(London)	0	½	½	0	0	1	X	½	1	1	4½
8	Miss Vera Frantsevna Menchik	(Hastings)	0	0	1	1	0	0	½	X	1	1	4½
9	František Schubert	(Czechoslovakia)	½	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	1	2½
10	Francis Percival Wenman	(Northallerton)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	0

Francis Percival Wenman (usually recorded as merely “P Wenman”), who had finished 1st-4th= in 1927’s Major A, withdrew mid-week, on zero points. The above table doesn’t distinguish between games played and lost, and those defaulted.

Premier Reserve

Place	Player		Total
1st	A J Butcher		6
2nd=	Bernard John Barton‑Eckett *	(Durham)	5½
2nd=	G H Beaty **	(Newcastle‑upon‑Tyne)	5½
4th=	A Eva ***		5
4th=	Philip Norman Wallis	(Bradford)	5
6th	Percy Alfred Ursell ****	(Birmingham)	4½
7th	John Ellis Parry	(Manchester?)	4
8th=	Harold Alexander Hunnam	(Sunderland)	3½
8th=	Solomon Nirenberg *****	(London)	3½
10th	L Vine		2½

* b. 1893, Coleshill, Warks.; d. 1943 (RAF)

** Reported as “G. Beaty” but here assumed to have been G. H. Beaty of Newcastle.

*** Alfred or Arthur of Manchester/Cheshire

**** b. 1873, Pontefract; d. 1942, Liverpool

***** b. 1887; d. 1967, Stoke Newington

Major Tournament

Section A

Place	Player		Total
1st	Charles Williams Fallows *	(Co. Durham)	7½
2nd	Mrs. Edith Martha Holloway	(Bromley)	7
3rd	H H Norman		6
4th	E G Attenborough		4
5th=	George Edward Bingley-Bibb **	(Birmingham)	2½
5th=	Henry Ashwell Cadman	(Gomersal or Scarborough)	2½
5th=	Mrs R F Michell		2½
5th=	Charles Ryshworth Mitchell	(Lancaster)	2½
9th	H Paulet		1½

* b. 09/06/1905, Bolton; d. 27/11/1973, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

** b. 20/10/1898 as George Edward Bingley with surname Bibb; d. 1982

Section B

Place	Player		Total
1st	H (Harry?) Loeffler	(Manchester?)	7
2nd	Climenson Charles Yelverton Dawbarn	(Liverpool)	6½
3rd=	Albert Henry Bardsley	(Manchester)	6
3rd=	C W Hopper		6
5th	J Jackson		5
6th	G Midgley		4
7th	A H Knight	(Huddersfield?)	3½
8th=	A Grey-Wallis		2½
8th=	E Lake		2½
10th	Rev Charles Fenton Bolland		2

There was a play-off between the top two from each section, with C W Fallows beating H Loeffler to resolve 1st and second places, and Mrs Holloway beating C Y C Dawbarn to resolve 3rd and 4th places, resulting in the following placings:

Place	Player
1st	C W Fallows	(Co. Durham)
2nd	H (Harry?) Loeffler	(Manchester?)
3rd	Mrs. Edith Martha Holloway	(Bromley)
4th	Climenson Charles Yelverton Dawbarn	(Liverpool)

Minor Tournament

Place	Player
1st	W Bowden
2nd	Geoffrey Harber Diggle	(London)
3rd‑4th	John Baines Lewis	(Harrogate *)
3rd‑4th	Mark Day Hick	(Scarborough)
5th	S J Osbourne
6th	Moses Sendak **	(London)

* played for Leeds

** aka Morris Sendak

Created

05/04/2015

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated

18/04/2023