Northwestern Amateur Championship. West Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., November and December, Messrs. Logan, Huyck, and Campbell tieing, playing off, and winning the first three prizes in that order. Thayer made the best run (50), and Thayer, Logan, and Fremont tied on the best winning average (7.14). Liverman, Stephenson, and Risden were the other competitors. The game was 14:2, 200 up, on a 4½ × 9 table.
1905.
Maurice Daly’s Class B Amateur Championship. Begun January 23d, N. Y. City, and won by H. A. Coleman.—In playing off tie for second and third, February 3d, Wm. Gershel averaged 11.11, defeating Albert Lewenberg by 300 to 119. Other contestants were Chas. E. White, Louis A. Servatius, and James Vantine. Games were 14:2, 300 up.
Fifth Annual Gold Cup Championship Tourney. Held in Chicago January 30th to February 11th, under the auspices and at the clubhouse of the Chicago Athletic Association. Known as the “Diamond Tournament.” Games, 300 points, 14:2. The day before play began, H. A. Wright, of San Francisco, was summoned home, his father having been mortally stricken by paralysis; after playing one game, defeating Edward Rein, of Chicago, J. Ferdinand Poggenburg was called to New York by the death of his mother; and Rein, having won from Ed. W. Gardner and lost to Chas. S. Schmitt and Wilson H. Sigourney, was forced by illness to forfeit to Chas. F. Conklin, Chas. S. Norris, Byron Stark, and Charles Threshie. The C. A. A. threw out the games of Poggenburg and Rein, but the subjoined table retains them, inclusive of the 51 to 1 score by Conklin and Rein as a factor in their general averages, as well as Poggenburg’s run of 79, which was actually the highest of the tournament, although Conklin’s 78 was awarded the special prize in consequence of the canceling of games.
| W. | H. R. | Av. | G. A. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conklin | 7 | 78 | 11.11 | 7.76 |
| Sigourney | 7 | 61 | 10.34 | 7.49 |
| Gardner | 5 | 76 | 11.11 | 8.17 |
| Norris | 5 | 66 | 8.82 | 6.28 |
| Threshie | 5 | 45 | 7.89 | 6.02 |
| Schmitt | 3 | 49 | 8.11 | 5.31 |
| Stark | 2 | 52 | 5.51 | |
| Rein | 1 | 41 | 6.82 | 4.73 |
| Poggenburg | 1 | 79 | 6.97 |
Stark has no winning average because the two games credited to him were won by forfeiture only, and Poggenburg lacks a general average because of having played but one game.
Averaging 8.33, Norris won the play-off for fourth and fifth prizes by 300 to 256. The championship tie was won by 300 to 231, Conklin averaging 6.52; and Conklin averaged 9.09 in winning from Gardner, by 300 to 263, the special prize for high single average.