Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

kept on playing.  Bill had won three straight from him then tied two + then lost one.  Of course King was after his blood and naturally Bill would not back down.  But the rest of us had long ago lost our aspirations in that line (I always hated the game and do yet) and so we made life hard for the contestants.  This we did buy all sorts of confusing remarks and hints, hitting the backs of their chairs, thus jarring the checkers, and Day capped it all off by sweeping the checkers off the board with a glass cane.

It was then about one o’clock and amid Bud’s half-hearted remark “You don’t need to hurry off fellows,” we winded our way he homeward. Newspaper article