1908.
Final Match of Professional Championship Series. For Hueston-Keogh contest, see under 1907.
Last Fifth Avenue Hotel Annual. Held in closing week of February.—Contestants, Geo. A. Roff, Franklin Bien, F. B. Colton, Gillman Collamore, Putnam, and Andrews. The last and decisive game was won by Roff from Bien, 100 to 99. The famous hotel is slated for other uses. Roff has its loving cups for the last three years. This February’s tournament was the fourth.
N. Y. A. C. Championship for 1908. Tournament held in February and March. The chief winners were W. A. Tilt, J. M. Heatherton, and E. F. Crowe, in the order here given. Heatherton and Crowe tied for second and third, and the former won the play-off.
New World’s Championship Series. Tournament held in Recital Hall, Chicago, April 6th to 17th, for a championship emblem given by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., and money prizes. Won by Frank Sherman, of Washington, D. C., whose tally of games won and lost was 6—1; Charles Weston, 5—2; Alfredo De Oro, Thomas Hueston, and Edmund Pelletier tied for third money on 4—3; Benj. Allen, 3—4; H. B. Lean, 2—5; and Martin Fey, 0—7. De Oro, Allen, and Hueston promptly challenged, the first being first to do so; and he and Sherman played the first match of the new series in Allinger’s Academy, Philadelphia, May 18, 19, 20. Frank Sherman, 597; Alfredo De Oro, 600.
The money-stake in this series is $250 a side.