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Played in the dining room of the Sheffield Athenaeum Club
on Thursday, 22/01/1885,
over 19 boards,
2 games per board, time permitting.
The number of
boards for this match had originally been fixed as 25, “but only 19 of
the Association team put in an appearance, so the match was played over only
19 boards.
George A. Askham
acted as captain for the Athenaeum side, and while E. Barraclough and H. C.
Twist acted as joint captains for the Association team.
Play began at 7.30
p.m., and went on until 10.30 p.m. at which point unfinished games were
adjudicated by Mr. A. Davy (Athenaeum) and the Rev. E. J. Huntsman
(Association). The result was a win for the Association.
Results as
reported by the Sheffield Daily Telegraph of 24/01/1885 were as
follows:
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Athenaeum
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15½
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17½
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Association
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1
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Arthur Davy
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½‑½
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½‑½
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Rev. E. J. Huntsman
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2
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F. E. Foster
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0-1
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0-1
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J. Lamb
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3
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H. W. Pearson
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0-1
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0-1
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E. Barraclough
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4
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Hy. Davy
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0-1
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T. W. Fisher
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5
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G. A. Askham
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1-0
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0-1
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J. Reoch
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6
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Wm. Shaw
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1-0
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Rev. - Clark
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7
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W.H.Camm
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0-1
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1-0
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W. L. Shaw
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8
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John Chesman
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1-0
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1-0
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- Rowley
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9
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John Chapman
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0-1
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W. H. Pickering
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10
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Hy. Mercer
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1-0
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1-0
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S. Darwin
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11
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Wm. Allott
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½‑½
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- Goodyear
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12
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J. W. Barber
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1-0
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1-0
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Harold Davy
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13
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J. G. Cocker
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0-1
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0-1
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R. Snow
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14
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J. H. Zimmerman
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1-0
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1-0
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H. C. Twist
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15
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G. B. Cocking
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1-0
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1-0
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W. Wood
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16
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G Gidlaw
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0-1
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0-1
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- Huntsman, jun.
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17
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E J Waterfall
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1-0
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0-1
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- Hanlon
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18
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Thomas Marshall
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0-1
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0-1
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J. Barton
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19
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J S Mawson
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0-1
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- Haigh
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The report had clearly
been submitted by an Athenaeum member, perhaps George Askham, as it was
written in tones implying (reasonable) criticism of the S&DCA producing
only 19 players for a 25-board match, and it lacked a number of initials of
Association players (indicated in the report by dashes), though was laudably
well supplied with forenames on the Athenaeum side. The report
seemingly suggested victory might have gone to the Athenaeum had 25 boards
been contested, though in reality it was the Association which looked
slightly stronger in depth.
That the
Association won seems indicative that chess in Sheffield at grass-root level
was strengthening significantly. The first such match (that of 1883) had been won
by the Athenaeum 35½-14½.
The identities of
the players would appear to be as follows:
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Name as Published
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Full(er) Name
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Wm. Allott (Athenaeum)
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William Allott
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G. A. Askham (Athenaeum)
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George Albert Roberts Askham
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J. W. Barber (Athenaeum)
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Jarvis William Barber
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E. Barraclough (Association)
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Edwin Barraclough
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J. Barton (Association)
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J. W. Barton
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W. H. Camm (Athenaeum)
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William
Henry Camm
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John Chapman (Athenaeum)
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John W. Chapman
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John Chesman (Athenaeum)
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John Chesman
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Rev. - Clark (Association)
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Rev. F. Clark
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J. G. Cocker (Athenaeum)
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John Goodwin Cocker
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G. B. Cocking (Athenaeum)
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George
Bailey Cocking
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S. Darwin (Association)
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Sydney Darwin
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Arthur Davy (Athenaeum)
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Arthur
Davy
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Harold Davy (Association)
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Harold Davy
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Hy. Davy (Athenaeum)
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Henry
Davy
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T. W. Fisher (Association)
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Thomas Wormall Fisher
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F. E. Foster (Athenaeum)
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Frederick
Edward Foster
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G. Gidlaw (Athenaeum)
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George Gidlaw
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- Goodyear (Association)
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J. Goodyear of Barnsley
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- Haigh (Association)
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J. Haigh of Barnsley
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- Hanlon (Association)
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J. Hanlon of Barnsley
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Rev. E. J. Huntsman (Association)
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Rev. E. J. Huntsman
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- Huntsman, jun. (Association)
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George Alexander Irvine Huntsman*
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J. [sic] Lamb (Association)
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F. Lamb
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Thomas Marshall (Athenaeum)
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Thomas
Marshall
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J. S. Mawson (Athenaeum)
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Joseph Swan Mawson
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Hy. Mercer (Athenaeum)
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Henry Mercer
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H. W. Pearson (Athenaeum)
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Henry
William Pearson
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W. H. [sic] Pickering (Association)
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Henry Wignall
Pickering
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J. Reoch (Association)
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John Reoch
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- Rowley (Association)
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A. Rowley of Barnsley
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W. L. Shaw (Association)
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Walter Lewis Shaw
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Wm. Shaw (Athenaeum)
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William Shaw
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R. Snow (Association)
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Robert Snow
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H. C. Twist (Association)
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Henry
Clement Twist
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E. J. Waterfall (Athenaeum)
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Edward
Joshua Waterfall
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W. Wood (Association)
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William Wood
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J. H. Zimmerman (Athenaeum)
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Julius Hermann Zimmermann
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* Huntsman junior
will have been one of the Rev. E. J. Huntsman’s three chess-playing
sons;
usually it was
“G. A. Huntsman”, when only one son was playing and named
explicitly,
but this
could conceivably have been Alfred Edmund Francis Fonnereau Huntsman,
or Hugh De Cisspigny
Huntsman.
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