At the time, the U.S. Navy was patrolling at least 2,000 miles off the coast and within 1,500 miles of western British ports for the purpose of spotting Axis surface ships, submarines and aircraft. The Navy's orders was to report their location and maintain contact until British forces arrived. The Navy was under strict order not to fire unless it was necessary in order to avoid getting sunk.
In other news, back on February 2, 1941, 24-year-old Patsy Lasasso and his partner, Michael Gurlo robbed Louis Ozinsky, a laundry collector; they got 7 cents. They told Ozinsky that they thought he had a lot more money on him. He replied, "Not today. I make my next collection on March 8th. See you then; same time and place."
The brainless bandits kept the appointment and detectives concealed nearby as the result of Ozinsky's report of the first hold-up arrested them.
It turned out that after the Ozinsky incident the two thieves had also robbed Frank Purpura, a barber, on February 8th. For his crimes, on May 3rd, 1941, Lasasso was sentenced to 15-30 years in Sing-Sing prison; his partner was still awaiting sentencing.
Buried on the back page of the Eagle was a story about how the previous year four Brooklyn police detectives were returning by train from Auburn prison with a prisoner who they wanted to question concerning the shooting of two police officers.
When the train pulled into Yonkers, the prisoner tried to escape and according to the article, the prisoner "was pumped full of .38 calibre bullets, one of which would be enough to rip a horse." The prisoner later died in the hospital and the four detectives were commended in a Brooklyn Police Department bulletin for foiling the escape.
About that Met league championship...it was determined in 1941, as usual, by the match in the final round between the Manhattan CC and the Marshall CC. Playing 18 boards, the Marshall team emerged victorious with a final score of 9.5-8.5.
Having drawn one of their earlier matches (with North Jersey), the Marshall team had to beat the Manhattan team to win back the title. A drawn match would give the championship to the Manhattan team which was undefeated.
The upset of the match was Albert Pinkus' victory over Reuben Fine in what was the first game Fine had lost for a long time and after he had just scored an impressive win in the Marshall club championship.
At the conclusion of four hours of play the Marshall team was one point ahead but the games at boards 2, 6 and 11 were unfinished.
Frank Marshall at board 2, fought a grueling battle with Arnold Denker and emerged with a Rook and Bishop against Denker's Rook, Bishop and Pawn. Although Denker was a Pawn up the game was a sure draw.
On board 6, Herbert Seidman had blundered away a whole piece early in his game against State Champion Robert Willman, but fought back and reached a Rook and Pawn ending only a Pawn down. The two didn't adjourn and played on until Seidman
finally succeeded in establishing a drawn position.
The remaining unfinished game between Irving Heitner and Geoffrey Mott-Smith was a different story. After he sacrificed the exchange, Mott-Smith failed to find the winning continuation and by adjournment even his drawing chances were in jeopardy and Heitner had excellent winning chances.
That meant the result of the match depended upon this game. For Marshall to win the match and the championship Mott-Smith needed to salvage a draw.
The game was resumed eight days later and on May 11th after 40 more moves Mott-Smith managed to salvage the draw the game and so win the match for Marshall.
Here is Albert Pinkus' win by very precise play over Reuben Fine. As sometimes happened to Fine in domestic tournaments, he made a gross blunder in an even position. Over confidence maybe?
Reuben Fine (Marshall)–Albert Pinkus (Manhattan)0–1E02Metropolitan League Match, New YorkNew York Marshall CC-Manhattan1941Stockfish 15
Open Catalan 1.d4 f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 The Catalan is a combination of
the Queen's Gambit and Reti. White's play will be on the Q-side. Black has two
main approaches: the Open Catalan where he plays ...dxc4 and either try to
hold on to the pawn with ...b5 or give it back to gain time to free his game.
In the Closed Catalan, black does not capture on c4 which can lead to a
somewhat cramped position, but one that is quite solid. 4.g2 dxc4 Pinkus
was an attacker so he goes for the Open Catalan. 5.a4+ Black does very
slightly better against this than he does against 5.Nf3 d7 6.xc4 c6 7.f3 d5 8.d3 c6 8...c5 9.c3 c6 10.0-0 cxd4 11.xd4 xg2 12.xg2 bd7 13.d1 e7 14.e4 0-0 equals. Nogueiras,J (2560)-Korchnoi,V
(2655) Clermont Ferrand 1989 9.0-0 9.c3 b4 10.d1 xf3 11.xf3 xd4 12.xd4 c2+ 13.f1 xd4 14.xb7 equals. Petrovs,V-Mikenas,V Rosario 1939
1-0 (59) 9...e4 10.d1 10.b3 keeps more tension in the position. xf3 11.xf3 xd4 12.xb7 xf3+ 13.exf3 d5 14.xc7 xf3 15.e3 White is
slightly better. 10...e7 11.c3 d5 12.xd5 exd5 13.e5 0-0 14.f4 d6 15.c1 e7 16.g5 e4 17.f4 c6 18.f3 f6 19.e4 e8 20.f2 f5 Risky!
20...dxe4 21.fxe4 xe5 22.dxe5 g6 is completely equal. 21.d3 xf4 22.xf4 c7 23.b3 g5 24.d3 b8 25.d1 h8 26.exf5 xf5 27.e5 d6
28.c3! be8 29.f4 gxf4! 30.xf4 Black must now prevent
Rdf1. e6 But this is not the best way to o it. 30...b5 31.e1 g8 32.g4+ g7 33.d2 xd4 Black is better. 31.f2 g8 Guarding the R so that
now ...Nexd4 would win. 31...exd4 32.xd4 xe5 33.df4 xc3 34.bxc3 e1+ 35.f1 wins the N on f5 32.h3 32.g4 was more accurate. h8 33.df1 fxd4 34.h6 xf2 35.xf2 with equal chances. 32...exd4 This position
is equal, but black would have a slight advantage after taking with the other
N because it would have avoided the annoying pin on the N on f5. Fine's next
move is a miscalculation that costs him the game. That said, the best move is
hard to find. 32...fxd4 33.xf8+ xf8 34.xd4 xe5 and black is better. 33.xd4 A losing blunder in a position that offered equal
chances. 33.xf5 favors black after xf5 34.e1 f6 Oddly, there is no
way for white to take advantage of the pinned N. 35.f4 35.g4 g7 36.h3 d6 35...h5 33.d7 This surprising move keeps things equal. e2+ 34.xe2 xe2 35.xf8 h6 35...xf8 36.f1 wins the N. 36.d3 e3+ 37.xe3 xe3 38.f1 xb2 39.e1 c2 40.e8 f7 41.b8 The complications are
enormous. In Shootouts five games were drawn. 33...xd4 The correct reply.
Black now has a won game. 33...xe5 This move only results in equality. 34.xf5 xf5 And not 35.g4+ g5 36.e2 xc3 37.xg5+ f7 38.f5+ g7 39.xe8 c1+ 40.f1 c5+ In this position the chances are even. 33...xe5 is just plain bad. 34.df4 e6 35.f3 e1+ 36.g2 e3 37.g4+ h8 38.xf5 34.xf8+ xf8 35.d7+ Now it's too late for this to do any good,
but there was nothing better. 35.xd4 xe5 36.xa7 xb2 Black is winning. 35...xd7 36.xd7 e2+ 37.f1 xc3 38.xe8 xa2 The ending is won for black, but the K+P ending after 39...Kxe8
would have been even easier. 39.d7 b4 The ending still requires some
finesse on the part of Pinkus. 40.e2 e7 41.f5 h6 42.g4 f6 43.h4 c5 44.f3 d4 45.e4 45.e4 and here, too, white is hopelessly lost. d3 46.e3 c4 47.e4 b5 48.d2 e5 49.h1 f4 50.g5 hxg5 51.h5 f5 52.e4+ f6 53.h6 g4 54.h7 g7 55.e1 a5 45...c4 46.xb7 c3 47.bxc3 dxc3 48.e3 a5 49.e4 e5 50.g5 h5 51.g6 a4 White resigned. 51...a4 52.xh5 d5+ 53.f2 c2 54.g6 f6 55.f3 c1 0–1
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