AThe Province Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Friday, August 23, 1957
World Junior Championship
William Lombardy (U.S.) won the 1957 World Junior Championship, played Aug. 3-Aug. 17 in Toronto, scoring a perfect 11-0. Mathias Gerusel (West Germany) was runner-up with 9-2, and A. K. Jongsma (Holland) came third with 8½-2½. The other scores were V. Selimanov (USSR), 8-3; R. Cardoso (Philippines), 6½-4½; R. Hallerod (Sweden), 5-6; Francois Jobin (Canada-Quebec), 4½-6½; Jorge Aldrete (Mexico), 4-7; T. O. Makelainen (Finland), 3½-7½; B. Rabinowitz (S. Africa), 2½-8½; I. M. Bahgat (Egypt), 2-9; and Peter Bates (Canada-Toronto), 1½-9½.
The first game of the two-game match between Frank R. Anderson of Toronto and Elod Macskasy, City Chess Club, will be played at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1 at the City Chess Club, 833 Hornby, and the second game will be played at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, at the Vancouver Chess Club, 1173 West Broadway.
U.S. Western Open tournament held in Milwaukee with 123 entries, was won by Donald Byrne, who outplayed Larry Evans, the runner-up. Hans Berliner, Samuel Popel and Povilas Tautvaisas tied for third to fifth places, and junior champion Bobby Fischer was sixth.
Jose Joaquin Araiza won the Mexican championship. Javier Quiroz placed second, and the defending title-holder, I. Raul Reza, came sixth. There were 70 entries.
