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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD J Congolitiuced with Coweta Advertiser September. 1836. I
Established 1366. I Consolidated with Newnan News January. 1915. I
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 18, 1916.
Vol. 51—No 47.
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Runabout
Touring Car
Coupelet .
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Sedan . .
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Open Until Midnight
The Checker Tournament.
W. C. Woodall, in Columbus Enqulror-Sun.
Other matters of leas import must
now wait and be patient white pausing
on the sidetrack until the true facta
relating to the annual session of the
Georgia Checkers Association are in
corporated into the printed record and
thus become history.
This association, over which a Fair-
burn broker presided until recently, but
which is now headed by the principal of
one of the Columbus public schools,
met Wednesday at Newnan, and for
two days a great battle raged; a battle
bloodless, it is true, but possessing all
theilntensity of the great conflict at
Verdun.
*rt\e checkers spirit is high at New
nan, but the hospitality of the sprightly
Coweta county capital is still greater,
and, thanks to this agreeable combina
tion* the State Association of Checker
Players has held its two last sessions
there.
The tournament this year was well
attended, and there were some royal
congests between Georgia experts.
Only a dozen players took part in the
contest, but each game had its crowd
of spectators, who watched with ab
sorbed interest the innumerable battles
between “General White” and his
faithful supporters and “General Black”
and hfa loyal adherents.
Checkers, (or draughts, if you prefer
that.name,) must not be held in light
regard by the unthinking proletariat.
The Arne is one of the most scientific
of A\ games having a mathematical
basia, and with its somewhat fanciful
cousin, chess, has engaged the attention
of experts throughout the civilized
world, and been a source of keen inter
est and delight to the intellectually-in
clined of the leading nations.
Checkers has engaged the thought
and attention and sometimes a life of
almost slavish devotion on the part of
innumerable mathematical experts.
A great many books have been Writ
ten on the subject, and some of these
works are in their tenth edition. The
original books seem to have been writ
ten principally by Scotchmen, checkers
having been a great game in Scotland
for centuries; but in recent years some
of the keen-witted American writers
have been turning out books that are
saici Jo be the last word on the subject.
However, something new is constantly
turning up in the game, and it will be a
long time before the checkers library
is ever complete, if it ever will be.
Players of checkers are divided
roughly divided into two classes—“nat
ural” players and “book” players.
The best rounded player is a combina
tion of the two, although it is said that
in moments of great stress, when ab
solute thinking is necessary, the “nat
ural” player, being in the habit of de
pending upon his own resources and in
tuition, has a shade the better of it. A
fine example of a natural player is Mr.
John Y. Irvin, of Columbus. Mr. Irvin,
it is quite possible, never saw the in
side of a book on draughts, and yet in his
prime he could have made it extremely
interesting, not to say hot, for the au
thors of some these aforesaid books.
Mr. Irvin is now well advanced in the
’seventies, but keenly enjoys the game.
His friend, Mr. Joe Phipps, is well
along in the ’eighties; yet these two
veterans still have their regular bouts.
But we are getting a long way from
the annual meeting of the Georgia
Checkers Association. The players
straggled in, on different trains, on
Wednesday morning and were met by
the local committee. There proceeded
to the scene from Columbus Prof. Fuller
Mynatt, principal of Rose Hill school,
Mr. Jos. W. Marshall, postmaster of
Girard, and the writer. Atlanta was
represented by several strong players.
The champion for the past year was
Walter T. Newman, formerly of Colum
bus.
It was a very remarkable coincidence
that not one of the players—that is,
those that were to take part in the
tournament—had any satisfactory rest
the night before. One man had been
disturbed by a dance next door and
didn’t go to sleep until 2 o’clock in the
morning; another had to stay up to
meet a late train; others had “slight
headaches,” from this cause and that,
and not one was in good condition. The
Newnan hosts and committeemen, wise
in their day and generation, smiled
sympathetically but knowingly at these
melancholy reports; they had heard
checker players talk before.
The gameB were played in the large
court-room of the handsome county
court-house—a really beautiful building
erected by local builders, R. D. Cole
Mfg. Co.—whose work, by the way, is
represented in Columbus in the form of
various towers and tanks for industrial
plants. Playing began Wednesday at
noon, and thelast game was not fin
ished until after 10 o’clock Thursday
night.
Entries in the tournament were as
follows: O. A. LaFoy, Monroe; Walter
T. Newman, Atlanta; C. E. Sewell,
Yatesville; Joseph Sprigs Hall, Atlan
ta; W. C. Woodall, Columbus; J. W.
Marshall, Girard; J. H. Carr, Stone
Mountain; Fuller Mynatt, Columbus;
E. W. Estes, Gainesville; Jack Linch,
Senoia; Dennis Thurman, Senoia; C. J.
Barron, Newnan.
T. J. Thurman was on hand in his of
ficial capacity as secretary and treasu
rer of the Georgia association, and also
in the personal capacity of host, and
he and L. E. Snead, the courteous and
capable scorer, conducted the tourna
ment in a very efficient and successful
manner. Other Newnan citizens and
checker playeVs were present, and the
welcome they extended to this beauti
ful and progressive little Georgia city
was cordial in the extreme.
At noon on the second day a barbecue
was served, the local checker players
being the hosts—and such a barbecue!
Beef, pork and mutton, all barbecued
to an exquisite brownness and retaining
all the original meat juices, with even
added virtue and flavor; and served in
such bountiful quantities that more was
left over than was consumed. Such
hospitality calls for more; and the Geor
gia draught players, although they
have agreed to stay away from New
nan for one year, have reserved the
privilege of meeting again in that city
in 1918; in fact, have already invited
themselves to meet there and have ac
cepted the invitation. The 1917 con
vention was invited to Atlanta, and the
invitation was accepted.
Each participant in the tournament
played 44 games. Winning a game
gave a player a credit of two points;
drawing a game gave each player one
point. Thus a perfect score would have
been 88 points. Quite a number of un
usually strong players were in attend
ance upon the meet, however, and it
was regarded from the beginning that
no player would make an unusual re
cord. Out of a possible 88 points the
players scored as follows, in the order
named: Hall, 59; Newman, 59; LaFoy,
56; Mynatt, 55; Carr, 48; Marshall, 43;
Barron, 43; EBtes, 40 . Woodall, 38; Sew
ell, 34; Thurman, 34; Linch, 19.
Newman and Hall having made the
same score, it was necessary to play
off the tie. Hall won three straight
games, and with them the champion
ship of Georgia.
New officers of the Georgia Checkers
Association were elected as follows:
President, Fuller Mynatt, of Columbus;
vice-president, L. D. Sewell, of Luther
ville; secretary and treasurer, T. J.
Thurman, of Newnan.
Men can’t understand why women
worry over trifles and women can't un
derstand why men do not.
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