Hawks were creating problems in Brooklyn. A ten year old boy was hospitalized when he climbed a ladder carrying a .22 caliber rifle and accidentally shot himself in the foot; his nine year old brother on the ladder behind him was uninjured. The boys were going up onto the roof of their home to shoot hawks that had been killing pigeons on the roof. In another hawk related incident, a 22-year-old was given a suspended sentence for firing gun in the city. He had shot at a hawk that had been killing his father's chickens.
Frank D. March, the city's Salvage Director, announced that 1,185
women had responded to the waste fats day the previous week at Playland in Rockaway Beach, admission to which was a pound of fat. During World War II, the US government urged Americans to save excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the Army to produce explosives.
It was also announced that the Brooklyn Navy Yard and factories producing war related products would be ignoring the upcoming Monday Labor Day holiday and workers would not be given the day off.
There was plenty of work available in the city, mostly because of the war. The Pickwick Company in Brooklyn ran the following ad:
BOYS OR MEN
Essential war industry: 60 cents per hour
plus plenty of overtime at time and a half.
Apply Tuesday between 10 and 4 ready for work.
Pickwick Co, 585 Dean St., Brooklyn.
I don't know what the company produced or the nature of the work, but 60 cents per was worth $9.97 today. Another ad asking for boys and men age 17-45 to perform light factory work was only paying 45 cents per hour, but they promised rapid advancement. Also, as long as she was not over 35 years old an experienced female file clerk could make 58 cents an hour. They did not have any equal opportunity laws in those days!
At the home of L. Walter Stephens on that Sunday, U.S. Champ Samuel Reshevsky won the Metropolitan Speed Championship ahead of a galaxy of stars. Playing with poise and equanimity, only Weaver Adams, Isaac Kashdan and Al Horowitz were able to nick him for draws.
The event was a double round robin and the moves were played at the sound of a gong which was struck every ten seconds. Play began at two o'clock in the afternoon and continued until the intermission at 7 p.m.; at eight o'clock play resumed and at midnight Reshevsky pocketed the $40 first prize which amounts to the princely sum of $664.75 in today's dollars. Prizes were also awarded to Kashdan, Horowitz, Shainswit and Adams.
Because the war was going on some entrants were in the Army: PFC George Shainswit, Sgt. Jack Soudakoff and PFC Stanley Weinstein.
Tartakower was right when he wrote that victory goes to the player making the next to last mistake. In the following see-saw battle Adams got swindled. At the time Al Horowitz was the National Open title holder and the New York State Champion.
Weaver W. Adams–I.A. Horowitz0–1A00Metropolitan Speed Champ, New York City05.09.1943Stockfish 15
Vienna Game 1.e4 e5 2.c3 In 1939, Adams wrote White to Play and Win in
which he advocated the Bishop’s Opening, but later gave up it and advocated
the Vienna instead. Adams always played his published analysis which gave his
opponents the advantage of knowing what he was going to play. f6 3.c4 c6 3...xe4 4.h5 d6 5.b3 c6 6.d4 is the Adams Gambit. The idea was to
sacrifice another P for open lines and quick development. 4.d3 a5 5.f3 xc4 6.dxc4 c6 6...d6 7.ge2 g4 8.g3 xe2 9.xe2 e7 10.d1 0-0
is equal. Rogers,I (2575)-Beliavsky,A (2620) Polanica Zdroj 1996 7.ge2 d6 8.h3 e6 9.b3 d5 This turns out to be premature. 9...e7 remains equal. 10.0-0 h5 11.d1 d7 12.g3 g6 13.f5 c5 14.a3 gxf5 15.xc5 f4
Rogers,I (2576) -Howell,D (2416) England 2005 9...a6 10.a4 e7 11.0-0 0-0 12.d1 b5 13.axb5 axb5 14.xa8 xa8 15.cxb5 cxb5 equals. Rogers, I (2569)
-Hector,J (2570) Wijk aan Zee 2003 9...d7 10.0-0 f6 11.d1 c7 12.a4 e7 13.g3 0-0 White is slightly better. Jackson,S (2108)-Okhai,S (2090) St
Clement Bay JCI 2018 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.g5 11.exd5 stays on course. xd5 12.0-0 xc3 13.xc3 and white is slightly better. 11...dxe4 11...d4
gaining space was better. 12.d1 h6 13.d2 d7 14.c3 14.0-0 is a
mistake. c6 attacking two Ps 14...d3 15.c1 e7 16.xd3 d8 17.1b2 c6 and black is better. 12.xe4 e7 12...a5+ 13.d2 d5 with equal
chances. 13.xf6 gxf6 Black has two Bs and probably hoped to use the
g-file to his advantage, but white's position is preferable. 14.4g3
Adams wants to play a N to f5, but this is the wrong one! 14.2g3 keeps
the pressure on. a5+ 15.c3 0-0-0 16.f5 with a slight advantage. 14...a5+ 15.c3 0-0-0 15...xb3 16.0-0 d5 17.g4 with equal
chances mainly due to black's exposed K. 16.0-0 16.f5 a3 17.h6 17.0-0 e4 18.e3 xf5 and wins. 17...e4 18.xf6 a6 19.g4 b2 20.b1 d3 21.0-0 xe2 Black is clearly better. 16...hg8 16...d5
was better. After 17.h5 d3 18.c4 a3 19.ad1 c2 20.c1 f5 Black is
clearly better. 17.f5 This gains white enough time to equalize. f8 18.c4 This is a blunder because it leaves the N undefended after 18..
.e4, but Horowitz missed it. 18.eg3 keeps the chances even after d5 19.xd5 xd5 20.fd1 18...c5 Correct was 18...e4 attacking the Q and exposes
the N on f5 to a double attack. 19.fg3 d4 After the quiet 19...Kb8 the
position would have been equal. Now it's white who gets the advantage. 20.xd4 xd4 21.xf6 c5 Black is practically losing after this! But, at 10
seconds a move it's tricky. 21...g6 put up a tougher defense. 22.f3 d8 23.ae1 f6 22.ae1 Here black's e-Pawn is doomed after which white would
be left with a winning position. Horowitz' next move is a try at a swindle
that should not have been successful. xg3 23.xe5 The refutation of
black's attack. 23.fxg3 f4+ 24.h2 xf6 25.xf6 and black should win. 23...b6 Unfortunately for Adams the refutation of Horowitz' attack
initiated by 23.Rxe5 has only one continuation that doesn't lose and Adams
missed it! 24.c5 What a tragedy for Adams, but a triumph for
Horowitz! 24.fxg3 xc4+ 24...f4+ fails to win the Q because of the
riposte 25.c5 xf6 26.cxb6 xf1+ 27.xf1 axb6 and white has a won ending. 25.h2 c2 26.h8+ d8 27.xh7 Here, too, white should be able to win
the ending. 24...xg2+ Any other move leaves black with a lost
game. 25.h1 c6 26.f3 dd2 27.h8+ c7 A see-saw battle. 27...d7 28.g8 xg8 29.h4 h3 30.g5 xg5 31.hxg5 xf1 32.g1 xc5+ 33.h1 xg5 34.b4 g2# 0–1
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