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Match: Midland Counties v City of London CC
Venue: Royal George Hotel, Rugby • Date: 23 May 1903 • Download PGN • updated
Tuesday April 25, 2023 1:53 PM
Midland Counties v City of London CC, 23 May 1903, at the Royal George Hotel, Rugby
Match report: Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 25 May 1903, page 10
| Board | Midland Counties | 12-9 | City of London CC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1b | Henry Ernest Atkins (Leicester) | ½-½ | Thomas Francis Lawrence |
| 2w | George Edward H Bellingham (Dudley) | 1-0 | William Ward |
| 3b | Fred Brown (Dudley) | 1-0 | Thomas Bolton Girdlestone |
| 4w | Arthur John Mackenzie (Birmingham) | 1-0 | Arthur John Curnock |
| 5b | John Ellis Parry (Shrewsbury) | 1-0 | Frederick Law Anspach3 |
| 6w | Bernard Dinwoody Wilmot (Birmingham) | 1-0 | Charles Joseph Woon |
| 7b | Edward Heath Collier1 (Leicester) | 0-1 | Cecil Alfred Lucas Bull |
| 8w | P McCarthy (Birmingham) | 1-0 | James Frederick Allcock |
| 9b | Frank Scuse Smith (Oxford) | 1-0 | Francis Edward Hamond |
| 10w | John Brearley (Derby) | 0-1 | Frederick William Boff |
| 11b | Thomas Henry Billington (Birmingham) | 1-0 | Cecil Perfect Hammond |
| 12w | John William Morling (Northampton) | 0-1 | Dr Robert Dunstan |
| 13b | F[rank] Draycott (Leicester) | 0-1 | W T Marshall |
| 14w | William Bernard Alldritt (Birmingham) | 0-1 | (Timothy) Theodore Robert Harley |
| 15b | Henry Balson (Derby) | 0-1 | Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram |
| 16w | John Henry Dunford (Nottingham) | 0-1 | Frederick William Flear |
| 17b | Joseph Sturge Burlingham (Peterborough) | 0-1 | Harold John Snowden |
| 18w | John Robert Wright2 (Derby) | 1-0 | S Wood |
| 19b | Hubert Ernest Price (Birmingham) | 1-0 | Herbert George Scantlebury |
| 20w | J[ohn?] P[atrick?] Savage (Birmingham) | 1-0 | Thomas Physick |
| 21b | Arthur Charles Garratt (Leicester) | ½-½* | B W Hamilton |
| 12-9 |
* adjudicated by Joseph Blackburne
1 Edward Heath Collier (1858-1928) was the father of Philip Edward Collier (1894-1966), himself a notable Midlands chess player. Re E H Collier: "The great value to Leicestershire of E. H. Collier, a strong player himself, lay in his keenness to bring along the less experienced members. He took endless pains with them, and it is related that after a county match he would get every Leicester player to put on some crucial position from his game, so that he and Atkins could analyse and give advice." (Leicester Daily Mercury - Friday 10 December 1937 - n.b. this quotation is from an article by Donn Gould which is an invaluable source of information about the history of Leicestershire chess)
2 John Robert Wright (1862-1948) wrote articles on chess, mostly for the Derby Daily Telegraph. He worked as a railway clerk. (Ref. Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 03 December 1929, page 1)
3 Frederick Law Anspach (1874-1925) later changed his name to Frederick Law Armstrong. See note at chessgames.com.
File Updated
| Date | Notes |
|---|---|
| 25 April 2023 | First upload. As ten game scores from this match were available, I thought it worth posting at BritBase. My thanks to Gerard Killoran and Brian Denman for help with the game scores. |