"Credit Given Where Credit is Due"--answer

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Mr. Checkers
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"Credit Given Where Credit is Due"--answer

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Checker Trivia question of the Day". What famous player credited 10 year old Newell Banks with first discovering "Strickland's Draw"? (Cont.)
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Newell W. Banks 1887 - 1977, so the year would have been 1897 but I didn't have any luck in finding the answer.

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I am sorry Pal--I must have overlooked this one or early senility must be setting in. The answer to this is--"Asa Long". (Cont.)
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