National Amateur Championship at 14:2. Instituted March 12 to 21, 1906 (see that year), this was continued in March, 1907, at the rooms of the German Liederkranz Society, N. Y. City, with the results in the table first appended, and concluded at the rooms of the Chicago, Ill., Athletic Association, March 14–23, 1908, as set forth in the second table.

W.H. R.W. A.G. A.
Calvin Demarest511527.2714.85
C. F. Conklin36812.009.18
E. W. Gardner310110.719.32
J. Ferd. Poggenburg210121.4311.55
Dr. L. L. Mial29414.299.51
T. M. S. Rolls096 8.10

Conklin and Poggenburg defeated Gardner and Mial in the extra or play-off games, Poggenburg running 115 and averaging 42.86. Neither the average nor the run counts against the figures in the table. Nevertheless, the 42.86 was the highest of record for a player of Poggenburg’s class.

The regular games, 300 points up, were fifteen. In Chicago they numbered the same, but were 400 points up.

Demarest’s victory in Chicago closed the series by making him owner of the emblem, with 202 (in his tie game with H. A. Wright) and 57.14 (in his regular-schedule game with E. W. Gardner) as the highest record run and single average of his class at 14:2. The same is true of his general average of 21.22, which, could his two tie games be computed with it, would be transformed into 23.19.

W.H. R.W. A.G. A.
Calvin Demarest[[13]]417057.1421.22
H. A. Wright413330.0816.14
C. F. Conklin414115.3912.11
E. W. Gardner27513.8011.01
J. F. Poggenburg111621.0511.29
Clarence Jackson056 10.85

[13]. Lost to Wright by 133 (average and high run 16.67 and 83 for winner, and 11.13 and 66 for loser), which caused a tie among himself, Wright, and Conklin.

American Debut of Firmin Cassignol of France.—March 2, Geo. F. Slosson’s Rooms, N. Y. City, beginning a series of 18:2 exhibition games with the proprietor.