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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: Brooklyn Club Handicap Tournament - Play-off |
| Place: New York |
| Start date: 23 May 1874 |
| End date: June 1874 |
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| Notes: |
| This was the play-off of a handicap tournament with 16 players divided into 2 sections. Barnett and Delmar each won a section. The play-off was to have consisted of 3 games, but van Winsen says in his biography of Mason (p.291) that Barnett gave up after losing the first game. The Watertown Re-Union of 11 Jun. 1874 and the Meriden Daily Republican of 12 Jun. 1874 say that Delmar won +2-1. Then the Meriden Daily Republican of 19 Jun. 1874 says that Barnett has 'resigned' to Delmar, which suggests an early end to the match, but the Meriden Daily Republican of 3 Jul. 1874 gives the second game. In volume VII of Mackenzie, Mason and Co. (p.30), van Winsen says that just two games were played. |
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| References |
| Books |
| van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 291 |
| van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. VII, page 29 |
| Periodicals |
| [BrR], 5 Apr. 1874 |
| [MDR], 12 June 1874 |
| [MDR], 19 June 1874 |
| [MDR], 3 July 1874 |
| [SoT], 18 Apr. 1874 |
| [WR], 11 June 1874 |
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