SCHWAB PLAYS CHECKERS

SCHWAB PLAYS CHECKERS.

Speedily Vanquishes the Champion of Pennsylvania.

"Do you mind playing a game?" asked one of a group of spectators at the chess and checker games in a pier reading room of George H. Kearns, the champion checker expert of Pennsylvania, says the Atlantic City correspondent of the New York Herald.

Kerns assented, and the couple were quickly seated. The stranger took the first game easily. "Have another?" he suggested. Kearns was willing, and the second game was fought out. Again Kearns was vanquished. In the third he rallied and carried off the honors.

"That's enough," said his opponent. "You're on to my play."

The man handed a twenty dollar bill to the attendant, waved away a proffer of change and strolled out.

"That was Charles M. Schwab," said some one who recognized him to Kearns.

"He's a good player," replied Kearns. "Judging from what I have read of him his checker playing furnished a true indication of his characteristics. His game was marked by a blending of natural skill, audacity, and venturesomeness, but he never neglected to leave a loophole through which to retire when he pressed too hard. He set the rules of the game at defiance and by this audacity beat me before I measured him accurately."