The governor of Oklahoma signed a bill, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the country, that outlawed teaching the theory of evolution in public schools.
On June 4th, 35 year old Irish horse trainer and jockey Frank Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack died while riding the horse Sweet Kiss to victory at Belmont Park in New York. His death was not discovered until the horse’s owner and race officials came to congratulate him shortly after the race. It was suggested that the fatal heart attack may have been brought on by hsi extreme efforts to meet the weight requirements. The horse never raced again.
In the United States life expectancy for males was a scant 56.1 years and for females it was 58.5. The famous landmark HOLLYWOOD sign (origianlly it was Hollywood Land) was constructed and it was designed to stand for only 18 months.
Also in 1923, Otto Schnering, founder of Curtiss Candy Company, had Baby Ruth candy bars dropped from airplanes in cities around the country, with tiny parachutes attached to each candy bar.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was NOT named after Babe Ruth. It was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth Cleveland. The company claimed it was named after herto capitalize on the popularity of the president’s daughter. However, some people believe it WAS named after Babe Ruth.
In other news, the first known dance marathon winner was dance instructor Alma Cummings who danced for 27 hours without stopping. That was on March 31est. After she was finished he put her feet into a bowl of cold water. Then she held up her dancing shoes for the photographers and There were holes in both soles.
She accomplished he feat of dancing the waltz at a Manhattan ballroom, wearing out not just her shoes, but six male partners in the process. As it turned out, she was one of those responsible for a phenomenon that swept the United States over the next two decades...dance marathons.
On December 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1923 the Kansas State Chess Association meeting and state championship tournament was held in Wichita
First on the program was a simultaneous display against fourteen opponents by W. W. Livingston of Fort Scott who had held the championship of the State for the past three years. The following morning George S. Barnes of Wichita was elected President and problems were then presented for the consideration of the members.
The championship tournament was won by George S. Barnes after close finish, with former champion Livingston a close second. Barnes was a 10-time winner of the Minnesota State Championship in the 1930s and 1940s.
He was born in Duluth, Minnesota on August 4, 1902. Although he would live most of his adult life in Minnesota, he grew up in Chicago and it was there he learned to play chess from an uncle.
Barnes attended one of the elite high schools in Chicago and his team won the city championship in 1920 and one of his games was published.
After graduating from high school in 1921, he enrolled in the University of Michigan and during his time there he was the college’s best player. In 1924 when Emanuel Lasker visited Ann Arbor, Barnes was his chauffeur during and in Detroit he defeated Lasker in a simul.
After college Barnes worked in advertising for General Mills in Minneapolis, and over the next few decades advanced to increasingly higher-level positions.
Barnes also become a major patron of Minnesota chess for over 40 years. At the same time he was the dominant Minnesota player from the early 1930s until the early 1950s, winning eleven state championships. His record stood until Curt Brasket (1932-2014) came along and won the title 16 titles. 
In the 1930s Barnes had a up a +0 -1 =3 score against Reshevskly in the Western Chess Association Championships and in 1938 he held Kashdan to a draw in the American Federation Championship. He played a lot of games for his club and beginning in the 1930s in the Minneapolis matches against Canada’s Abe Yanofsky. Barnes retired to Arkansas and continued to play actively until his death in 1977.
Here is one of his games from that 1923 Kansas Championship.
[Event "Kansas State Championship, Witchita"]
[Site ""]
[Date "1922.12.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "E.E. Felt"]
[Black "George S. Barnes"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C58"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 15.1"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "1922.??.??"]
[Source "American Chess B"]
{Two Knights Defense} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 {This is more aggressive
than the 3...Bc5 (the Giuoco Piano). It allows an attack on f7 with 4.Ng5
after which the game becomes tactical.} 4. Ng5 {Tarrasch called this a
duffer's move and Soviet opening theorist Vasily Panov called it primitive.
Both were wrong. The theory of the Two Knights and this variation in
particular, was explored extensively in the famous game between Yakov Estrin
and Hans Berliner in the 1965 World Correspondence Championship. If white
wants to play it safe he can choose the solid 4.d3} d5 {This is the only
feasible move. White has little option but to play 5.exd5, since both the B
and e-pawn are attacked.} 5. exd5 Na5 {this is almost always played, nut it's
not the only option.} (5... b5 {This is the Ulvestad Variation names after
American master Olav Ulvestad who introduced it back in 1941, It was played by
Berliner in his famous game.} 6. Bf1 Nd4 7. c3 Nxd5 8. Ne4 Qh4 9. Ng3 Bg4 {
Yakov Estrin-Hans Berliner ICCF 1965}) (5... Nxd5 {has been known to be
extremely risky Doing back to mid-1940s US Master Albert Pinkus unsuccessfully
tried to revive the move.} 6. Nxf7 {It would be a bit safe to play 6.d4, but
also less fun.} Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke8 {is natural, but it loses to} 8. Bxd5 Qf6 9.
Bxc6+ bxc6 10. Qh5+ {with what should amount to a winning position.}) (5... Nd4
) 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 Bd6 (8... h6 {is known to be better.} 9. Nf3
e4 10. Ne5 Qc7 {This is better than the other main option 10...Bd6. After 11.
d4 the chances are eual.}) 9. d3 O-O 10. Ne4 {Excellent. We know this is good
because it's Stockfish's first choice!} (10. Nc3 Nd5 11. Nce4 Be7 12. Nf3 f5
13. Ng3 Nf4 {KrivokapicnM (2418)-Marinc,D (2041) Sunny Beach BUL 2011. Black
did not have evough compensation for his compromised P-formation and out of
play N on a5.}) 10... Nxe4 11. dxe4 Nb7 12. O-O {White has a very solid, if
somewhat passive position.} Nc5 13. f3 Qe7 14. c3 Rd8 15. Qc2 Ne6 16. b4 g5 {
Risky! A move like 16...a5 would have left black slightly better.} 17. h3 {
White would do better to work on his development with 18.Nd2. Instead he has a
plan to set up a hedgehog-like formation in front of his K, but it does not
turn out welL!} Kh8 18. g4 {Note that white has also loaded up the white
squares with Ps to the detriment of his B.} Nf4 19. Kh2 Qe6 20. Rg1 {
Apparently white anticipated the opening up of the K-side and hoped to use his
R on the g-file.} h5 21. Bxf4 {The N was just too well placed to leave there,
bit eliminating it has cost white his good B, but it had little scope anyway.}
gxf4 22. Nd2 hxg4 23. fxg4 ({White should play} 23. hxg4 Kg7 24. Kg2 {and
there is no hope for any action on the h-file by either side. Black would now
have to seek his fortune on the Q-side with 24...a5}) 23... Qh6 24. Bf3 {
As Najdorf once put it, the B is nothing more than a tall Pawn!} Kg7 {[%mdl
1152]} 25. Nc4 Rh8 {It's clear that black has some serious threats on the
K-side and all white can do is give thought to defense.} 26. Qg2 Bc7 {Opening
the path for the R on the d-file.} 27. Rh1 Be6 28. Be2 Qg5 {The threat is ...
Rxh3+} 29. Kg1 (29. Rad1 Rxh3+ 30. Kg1 (30. Qxh3 Rh8 31. Rd3 Rxh3+ 32. Rxh3 {
Engines say that black has a decisive advantage, but would that be the case in
a non-GM game?! In any case, white clearly did not care to find out.}) 30...
Rg3) 29... Rad8 30. Rh2 Bxc4 31. Bxc4 Bb6+ 32. Kh1 Be3 33. Qf3 Rd6 34. Re1 Rhd8
{This move is quite logical, but it gives white an opportunity to equalize.} (
34... Bb6 35. Rf1 Qh4 36. Be2 Rdh6 37. Kg2 Rd6 {keeps up the pressure.}) 35.
Rxe3 {[%mdl 8192] Panic!} (35. h4 {keeps white in the game after} Qg6 36. g5
Rd1 37. Rf1 {and it;s not clear how or even if black can breakthrough.}) 35...
fxe3 ({And not} 35... Rd1+ 36. Kg2 fxe3 37. Qxf7+ Kh8 38. Be2 {with equal
chances.}) 36. Qxf7+ Kh8 {White must now prevent ...Rf6.} 37. Re2 {Which he
does not.} Rd1+ $2 (37... Rf6 {is more efficient.} 38. Qh5+ Qxh5 39. gxh5 Rd1+
40. Kh2 Rd2 41. Kg3 Rxe2 42. Bxe2 Rf2 {Black is better.}) 38. Kg2 Qf4 39. Qh5+
{[%mdl 8192] This loses quickly, but the ending after exchanging Qs is
hopeless.} (39. Qxf4 exf4 40. e5 Kg7 41. Kf3 Rf1+ 42. Ke4 Rd2 43. h4 Rxe2 44.
Bxe2 Rf2 45. Bc4 e2 46. Bxe2 Rxe2+ 47. Kxf4 Rxa2 48. h5 Rc2 49. g5 Rxc3 {
the R will prevail.}) 39... Kg7 40. Qf5 R8d2 {White's K is in grave danger and
the exchange of Qs is no help.} 41. g5 (41. Qxf4 exf4 42. e5 Re1 43. Kf3 Rf1+
44. Ke4 Rxe2 45. Bxe2 Rf2 {etc.}) 41... Rg1+ {[%mdl 512] Exchanging Qs wins,
too, but it makes things a bit more difficult.} 42. Kxg1 Qg3+ 43. Kh1 Rd1+ 44.
Re1 Qxe1+ 45. Kg2 Rd2+ 46. Kf3 Rf2+ 47. Kg4 Rxf5 (47... Qd1+ $142 48. Kh4 Rxf5
49. exf5 e2 50. Bxe2 Qe1+ 51. Kg4 Qxe2+ 52. Kg3 Qe3+ 53. Kg2 e4 54. h4 Qf3+ 55.
Kh2 Qxf5 56. Kg2 e3 57. h5 e2 58. h6+ Kg6 59. h7 e1=Q 60. h8=N+ Kh5 61. Kh2
Qff2+ 62. Kh3 Qxc3#) 48. exf5 Qxc3 (48... Qd1+ 49. Kh4 e2 50. Bxe2 Qe1+ 51. Kg4
Qxe2+ 52. Kg3 e4 53. Kf4 Qf3+ 54. Ke5 e3 55. f6+ Kg6 56. h4 Qd5+ 57. Kf4 e2 58.
Kg4 Qf5+ 59. Kg3 e1=Q+ 60. Kh2 Qef2+ 61. Kh1 Qh3#) 49. Be6 e2 50. h4 e1=Q 51.
f6+ Kf8 52. g6 Qcg3+ {White gets mated next move an so he resigned. Looking
back, it seems as though Felt never had a chance!} 0-1
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