East of Scotland v West of Scotland 1938

Saturday, 12 March 1938

Mackie's Tearooms, Princes Street, Edinburgh

	EAST		WEST
1	G. Page	1-0	N. Singh
2	D. Simpson	½	C.E. Simom
3	A. Goldberg	1-0	P.B. Anderson
4	Miss Gilchrist	½	J. Macdonald
5	R.T.R. Serjeant	1-0	J.S. Macmartin
6	I. Hamilton	½	J.W. Hastie
7	H.A. Turriff	1-0	J. Aitchison
8	S. Dawson	0-1	A.J. Birchenough
9	D. Wright	1-0	Mrs Brockett
10	R. Gibson	1-0	J. Wilson
11	T. Dean	0-1	H.D. Gemmell
12	W.A. Smith	0-1	A.A. Marshall
13	R. Giffen	0-1	J. Welsby
14	Miss Henderson	0-1	Mrs Sunter
15	G.R. Granger	1-0	W.E. Jones
16	T. Moore	0-1	R. Findlay
17	J.I. Logan	1-0	W.E. Wyse
18	N. Calder	½	Mrs Reid
19	C.T.S. Calder	1-0	W. Higgins
20	J. Taylor	0-1	G. McNeill
21	W. Hall	1-0	P. Henderson
22	R. Morrison	1-0	W.J. Barnett
23	W.F. Richardson	1-0	J.W. Brackenbury
24	T.C. Henderson	0-1	Miss Hogarth
25	J.B. Fraser	0-1	A. McBain
26	Major Aitken	½	Mrs Lyon
27	G. Miller	1-0	H. Jones
28	J.J. Bunney	1-0	A.S. Brown
29	Rev J.J. Forbes	0-1	W. King
30	Mrs Prenter	0-1	J. Steele
31	G. Nisbet	1-0	J. Paterson
32	P. Smith	1-0	T.C. Henderson
33	Col Morrison	0-1	S. Dracup
34	N.J. MacIntosh	0-1	D. Gibson
35	A. Wells	0-1	A.J. Smith
36	E. Dodson	1-0	F. Young
37	G. McMichen	0-1	M. Anderson
38	Miss Wright	1-0	V. Hope
39	J. Ross	0-1	C. Hall
	20½		18½

Glasgow Herald, 14 March 1938, p19

And from the Glasgow Herald, Saturday, March 19, 1938:

The match between East and West played in Edinburgh last Saturday was a narrow win for East by 20½ games to 18½, as reported in detail in our columns on Monday. Several prominent players were missing on both sides, and several prominent Western clubs were not represented as they might have been, so that the teams were only of 39. Various causes have been suggested for the decline in popularity of this fixture, of which perhaps the most cogent is the change of date from November or December to March.

Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland

updated 29/11/2022