Chess Players - Read This

Otago University Chess Club has issued a challenge which quite predictably your University has been too terrified to reply to. During the August break we are holding a massive Chess Tournament in Dunedin which will once again prove the natural superiority of Otago University. Prize money of $250 is being offered but this seems a waste of time as no opposition is worthy of Otago's ability. Invitations have been sent to all Universities but not one North Island team has the courage to come down. This seems to be further proof that Otago is the centre of intellect in New Zealand.

We fully understand your chess club's embarassment - the certainty of defeat. Even so, we welcome you to send a team and we will hire out shoulders for them to cry on. Your Student Association should pay the team's fares down but they too may be ashamed of their University (with good reason).

Don't worry about sending a second rate team, after all you are a third rate University. Please try to send a team down. Give them a chance to see real chess players in action.

As we are providing accomodation of a standard which you in Wellington will never understand-we will expect the team to at least try to match some of Otago's social standards, i.e., learn to hold your hard liquor - which for Wellington is one glass of lemonade.

Finally, one last proverb which your team should learn if they are brave enough to come. It's not the losing that counts, it's how you lose.

We call on your university to send a team if it dares! If we don't receive a reply by the last day in July we will know that your inferiority complex has become too great for you.