International Chess Challenge

The chess clubs of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia universities, have just sent a formal joint challenge to the chess clubs of Oxford and Cambridge, proposing an international cable match to defend the Rice trophy. This match will be held during the spring, and will be the sixth in the series of contests for the possession of the silver shield, valued at $1,200, given by Mr. I. L. Rice of New York. This shield will become the permanent property of the country winning it three years in succession. Of the previous international intercollegiate matches, Great Britain has won three, America one, and one was drawn.