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East of Scotland v West of Scotland 1925
Saturday, 28 November, 1925
Albyn Rooms, Edinburgh
The proceedings were officially opened at 3:45 p.m. by Mr W.Tait Watson, K.C., a former president of the Scottish Chess Association. The East captain lost the toss, so the West players had the white pieces on the odd-numbered boards. There were 93 players on each team.
Play stopped at 8 p.m. with the West leading by several games, and only requiring a point or two from several adjudicated games for victory.
The players on boards 9, Mr JG Thomson and Mr J. Young, met each other by special request, to allow them to reminisce about earlier times. They had both played in the 1881 match in this series, 44 years past.
The East were missing several strong players. D. Simpson was ill, and CB Heath and H. Jackson had moved to London.
Sixteen ladies participated - seven for the East and nine for the West. Two of the East ladies won their games; Miss Florence Hutchison Stirling, who had won the Scottish Ladies Championship five times, had a good win against A. Murray on board 6, and Mrs Coast won on board 27. Five of the West ladies won their games, on boards 36, 54, 82, 89 and 92.
On the first 30 boards the West scored 18½ to 11½; on the second 30 the scores were even, 15 each, and on the final 33 boards the West scored 17½ to 15½. Final score: 51-42 for the West.
1 G Page W. Gibson 2 HJM Thoms JA McKee 3 RTR Sergeant J. Gilchrist 4 HL Forbes J. Marshall 5 HA Turriff C. Wardhaugh 6 Miss F. Hutchison Stirling A. Murray 7 AA Foster FG Harris 8 W. Clark JR Draper 9 JG. Thomson J. Young 10 WW Smith F. Lacaille 11 Mrs Ritchie A. Martin 12 GW Hives HNJ Walsworth 13 DW Robertson JM Nichol 14 W. Mitchell JH Whyte 15 Prof. Barger J. Mc Grouther 16 EC Jack WR Hill 17 Miss Heard MN Davies 18 E. Schackl ? Miss Gilchrist 19 HH Watts AJ Neilson 20 J. Fisher Wm. Scott 21 P. Nisbet RC Borland 22 D. Spankie WR Pitt 23 WG Coast Peter Fyfe 24 GG Hawkins A. Smith 25 GY Henderson SC Weir 26 J. Smith WH Jones 27 Mrs Coast P. Lyon 28 WRD McNaughton AF Cariss 29 Col. Fleming PD Walker 30 E. Shanks HW Tennant 31 W. Bryce D. Campbell 32 JAC Craigie AE Dodd 33 J. Davie CG Kirke 34 W. Stewart GE Kerr 35 JG Laing E. Stiller 36 WL Thomson Mrs Brockett 37 JD Todd C. Ogilvie 38 Miss Malcolm Nar[endra] Singh 39 G. Owen Miss Wardhaugh 40 A. Calder WT Logan 41 WR Aitken A. M'Cracken 42 JS Finlayson S. Whiteley 43 W. Pearson HH Robb 44 G. Dodson JS Franks 45 DS Graham RWB Roy 46 RD Vasishta WE Moodie 47 F. Crombie AR Bryden 48 F. Sullivan J. Harris 49 CST Calder AM Scott 50 D. Wright JW Hastie 51 WC M'Murtrie A. Whyte 52 G. Guthrie J. Crabbe 53 Rev. JA Shannon B. Shenkin 54 Rev. K. Edward Mrs Reid 55 HR Baxter WM Inverarity 56 A. M'Callum Wm Milne 57 Wm Drummond Peter Henderson 58 RP Steele JR M'Intyre 59 JJ Logan DG Nicolson 60 WW Macrae J. Whitaker 61 WM Morrison Jas. Dickson 62 G. Barclay Miss Edington 63 RK Martindale J. Wilson 64 W. Graham JE Tough 65 A. Nisbet JM Hunter 66 T. Guthrie JS Gavin 67 J. Morrison Jas. Davidson 68 D. M'Lachlan H. Gerrard 69 F. Whiteley R. Fergie 70 WL Gourlay TS Stevenson 71 JM Milne GB Nicol 72 A. Wilson RW Falla 73 LW Facon G. Woodburn 74 WR Baxendine Wm Galbraith 75 AJ Heatly Wm Frost 76 W. Annal WR Bull 77 FJ Dean T. Pratt 78 Alexander MacLean FG White 79 P. Johnston JHW Cook 80 WF Bonney A. Buick 81 I. Hamilton MC Hale 82 HG Macintosh Mrs Chambers 83 D. Balfour Mrs JF Thomson 84 W. Murphy WS Smith 85 LJ Hooley JR Hughes 86 PL Macdonald T. Sunter 87 Miss Kessen AF Campbell 88 GV Kynch WA Main 89 Miss Hope Robertson Mrs Sunter 90 L. Kidd JS Kippen 91 JM Harris JS Findley 92 ET Macfarlane Mrs McChlery 93 RD Dykes R. Jackson
Source
The Scotsman, Monday, 30 November, 1925, p. 10.
Glasgow Herald, Monday, 30 November, 1935, p. 15.
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