Does anyone have an idea when the last regular newspaper column on Anglo-American 8x8 checkers was published?
One opinion I read was round about 1970 but information on this is hard to find. What is your latest recollection of a regular newspaper column?
Last Newspaper Column?
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Richard Pask
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Re: Last Newspaper Column?
The Dorset Echo - only a regional paper of course - ran my draughts column between October 1990 and December 1991.
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liam stephens
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Re: Last Newspaper Column?
I have an extensive collection of newspaper columns, the latest one being John Love’s in the Evening News, covering issues
from 1979 to Jan/Feb 1990.
I believe the longest running draughts column was Hugh Egan’s in the Melbourne Weekly Times.
I don’t have the detail to hand but I think it lasted around 50 years. I have a 7 year run of it from May 1961- 68.
This was sent to me many years ago, from columnist R.J. Smith following his request to Dennis Beadell who kindly forwarded it to me.
Other columns that I acquired over the years, though I would not claim them as complete, were as follows:
Bristol Evening Post 1968-75. Editors – George Smith and Bill Brewer.
Rotherham Advertiser 1960-63. Editor – E. C. Whiting.
Reynold’s News and Sunday Citizen. Editor - Samuel Cohen. Copies are undated but were published during the 1950s and 60s.
Stirling Journal and Advertiser 1954-61. Editor - Alex Hendry.
Some miscellaneous issues: R. J. Smith, A. W. Glasson (Cornwall), C H Ecker (Daily Worker) and others.
In the 1970s, I occasionally visited the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, London, and made a list of Newspapers containing draughts columns. I’m not sure if I have still got it or not, after several changes of address and retiring to Ireland.
I still have about half a dozen boxes of draughts memorabilia in the attic to unpack and sort out.
from 1979 to Jan/Feb 1990.
I believe the longest running draughts column was Hugh Egan’s in the Melbourne Weekly Times.
I don’t have the detail to hand but I think it lasted around 50 years. I have a 7 year run of it from May 1961- 68.
This was sent to me many years ago, from columnist R.J. Smith following his request to Dennis Beadell who kindly forwarded it to me.
Other columns that I acquired over the years, though I would not claim them as complete, were as follows:
Bristol Evening Post 1968-75. Editors – George Smith and Bill Brewer.
Rotherham Advertiser 1960-63. Editor – E. C. Whiting.
Reynold’s News and Sunday Citizen. Editor - Samuel Cohen. Copies are undated but were published during the 1950s and 60s.
Stirling Journal and Advertiser 1954-61. Editor - Alex Hendry.
Some miscellaneous issues: R. J. Smith, A. W. Glasson (Cornwall), C H Ecker (Daily Worker) and others.
In the 1970s, I occasionally visited the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, London, and made a list of Newspapers containing draughts columns. I’m not sure if I have still got it or not, after several changes of address and retiring to Ireland.
I still have about half a dozen boxes of draughts memorabilia in the attic to unpack and sort out.
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George Hay
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Re: Last Newspaper Column?
I remember Grit newspaper having a checkers column, circa 1972.
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Re: Last Newspaper Column?
Thanks for the replies. Sounds like draughts/checkers columns began to peter out in the 60s, although a few seemed to continue with occasional other entries. It seems the last of them ended not quite 30 years ago.