Surrey v Lancashire

English County Chess Championship Final, Wyvern Hotel, Leicester, December 1911

Source: Leicester Evening Mail, Monday 11 December 1911.

Surrey defeated Lancashire in Leicester to win the English Counties Championship for the first time. The contest was closely fought, with several games decided near the time limit. Surrey ultimately prevailed by 11½–10½, with three unfinished games still to be adjudicated at the close of play.

BoardSurreyScoreLancashireScore
1T. F. LawrenceRichmond½Percy F. BlakeLiverpool½
2C. E. Cecil TattersallUnattached0Victor L. WahltuchManchester1
3Frederick L. AnspachUnattached0Rev. Wilfred C. PalmerManchester1
4Henry B. UberSouth Norwood1Dr. Harry HolmesLiverpool0
5Arthur E. TeitjenClapham0Philip R. EnglandLiverpool1
6Leonard P. ReesRedhill1Charles H. WallworkManchester0
7Henry S. BarlowSutton1Carl LobellN. Manchester0
8George A. FelceBrixton0G. Mills-PalmerManchester1
9Edmund MacdonaldClapham1Daniel PowellLiverpool0
10Bernard H. N. StronachThornton Heath1Samuel KeirLiverpool0
11Arthur J. MaasSouth Norwood0W. TurnerManchester1
12Percy J. AllinghamRedhill1C. Y. Charles DawbarnLiverpool0
13P. J. HellisSouth Norwood0S. CaplanN. Manchester1
14E. AngerUnattached1H. A. JamesLiverpool0
15E. B. OsbornRichmond0S. BriggsManchester1
16T. R. HarleyUnattached1Robert S. CorlettLiverpool0
17S. WoodSouth Norwood0R. W. HoughtonN. Manchester1
18Henry C. GriffithsClapham1J. S. WilleyN. Manchester0
19W. H. DickinsonClapham0Arthur RutherfordLiverpool1
20H. W. PierceyClapham1J. S. MeikleLiverpool0
21John ButlandKennington0William R. ThomasWaterloo1
22Thomas H. GeorgeSydenham & Forest Hill1A. BellinghamBurnley0
Surrey total11½Lancashire total10½

Note: This version now shows club affiliations beneath each player name. That is probably the neatest way to add team names without making the table too wide. I have also normalised J. Butland to Kennington, even though one clipping appears to read Kingston.