CHESS LIFE

(VOLUME 1, NUMBER 9, JANUARY 5, 1947)

TEAM TOURNAMENT ORGANIZING FOR LOS ANGELES

On December 12 representatives of the Santa Monica, Inglewood, Hollywood, Sawtelle Veterans (W. L. A.), Los Angeles Athletic Club, Bureau of Light and Power and Los Feliz chess clubs met at the Hollywood Chess Group to organize a ten team tournament or league to award the team championship of Los Angeles. A final organizational meeting will be held December 28 at which delegates are expected from Pasadena, Los Angeles Chess, Southgate, Long Beach, Northrup Aircraft, Van Nuys, Lockheed Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, South Pasadena, Hawthorne, Beverly Hills, Birmingham, Veterans Hospital (Van Nuys) and the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Region Office chess clubs. Dr. R. H. Kuhns, USCF director for California, director in California State Chess Ass'n and chess commissioner of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, has been instrumental in bringing the organization of this league into being.