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TO COMPETE FOR CHESS HONORS

University Team Will Play in Intercollegiates During Vacation.

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The twenty-second annual intercollegiate chess tournament between Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton will be held at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, on December 22, 23, and 24. There will be a team of four men from each university, Harvard being represented by B. Winkelman '15, F. M. Currier '16, D. M. Beers '15, and W. M. Washburn '15. J. R. Morton, 1L., and C. H. Fabens, 1L., will go as substitutes.

Of the twenty-one championship matches played so far, Columbia has won nine, Harvard nine, and Yale and Princeton both one, while there was one draw between Yale and Harvard. This year's University team has been undefeated in its matches with Brown, Yale, Technology, and the Maugus Club of Wellesley Hills. The Yale team defeated Princeton but was tied by Brown. The members of the Columbia combination, although new to college chess, have been prominent in the game in scholastic circles. Play begins on Monday and Tuesbay at 9 'oclock in the evening, and on Wednesday at 12 o'clock noon.

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