The chess team placed third in a three-cornered tournament with Princeton and Columbia at the Marshall Club in New York during vacation. A Yale team, which was scheduled to compete, didn't show up.
In the first match, the Crimson team lost to Princeton 2 1/2 to 1 1/2, but revived in the second to draw with Columbia, 2 to 2. Columbia won the competition in the final match by beating Princeton.
The members of the five-man team were Julian J. Leavitt '49, captain, William H. Watts '50, John F. Hubert '52, John H. Jacobus '52, and D. Broward Craig '50.
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