PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8 -- At the Mercantile Library in this city Champion Lasker gave a simultaneous ... many turned to chess to occupy their minds. And the game has only grown more popular since.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9 -- The rooms of the Franklin Chess Club in this city were ... of the club. Lasker won fifteen games, lost one to Bampton, and drew with Livingstone, Newman, Voigt, Reid ...