tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post5085592031133782221..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: War Game 6Tom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-41520903376792473152015-05-22T14:57:05.377+01:002015-05-22T14:57:05.377+01:00Thanks Roger. You are right, there is a lot there ...Thanks Roger. You are right, there is a lot there on Forum, and in the CN's, on the whole business. Martin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616856982265044441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-40253689435744341502015-05-22T13:43:10.942+01:002015-05-22T13:43:10.942+01:00Stammwitz was jailed for bigamy and Ritson Morry f...Stammwitz was jailed for bigamy and Ritson Morry for fraud/ misuse of client money. These are known facts, but that they were BCF officials at the time of their imprisonment may well be an exaggeration. <br /><br />http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4617<br /><br />RdCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-85569098636962827992015-05-22T12:04:47.172+01:002015-05-22T12:04:47.172+01:00Jack - sounds entirely plausible that it's the...Jack - sounds entirely plausible that it's the same Meek. Maybe Keverel Chess can confirm.<br /> <br />Roger - Winter's Chess History Archive piece on William Winter gives a Bill Hartston discovery of an Evening News story from 1921 regarding his unsuccessful appeal against a sedition conviction. There is a fuller account in E. Winter's "Chess in the Courts". I wonder if it is likely that several of the BCF's Officers might really have been in jail during WW2 without it surfacing in the chess press.Martin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616856982265044441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-34064630334199312162015-05-22T10:47:13.753+01:002015-05-22T10:47:13.753+01:00There's the old story that the reason the BCF ...There's the old story that the reason the BCF didn't do anything was that several of its officers were in jail. I doubt it was ever that bad. You have already mentioned one of the jailbirds in passing, although I think it was established to have been at the end of the war and afterwards.<br /><br />RdCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-87395401424656930992015-05-22T09:46:26.079+01:002015-05-22T09:46:26.079+01:00The WECU county teams play for a trophy called the...The WECU county teams play for a trophy called the Harold Meek Cup. Would that be the same H.Meek as in this post?Jack Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17433574267085964238noreply@blogger.com