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Intercollegiate Chess Matches

The University chess team and W. C. Cogswell '06, coach, will leave tomorrow for New York where it will take part in the seventeenth annual intercollegiate chess tournament at the West Side Republican Club, Broadway and 83d street, The following will represent the University; E. H. Guening 2 M., K. S. Johnson 2 G., W. W. Parshley '09, F. P. Byerly '11, and D. B. Childs '10, substitute. The order of play is as follows: Monday--Harvard vs. Yale, Columbia vs. Princeton; Tuesday--Harvard vs. Columbia, Yale vs. Princeton; Wednesday--Harvard vs. Princeton, Yale vs. Columbia. In order to gain permanent possession of the intercollegiate cup a team must win the championship for ten successive years. Columbia has won the last two matches. Prospects for the University team this year are unusually bright, however, as is shown by last autumn's record.

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