Combining Business with Pleasure

This ad appears in the 1906 American Chess Bulletin. The ACB often featured games by Finn.  He came to NY as a poor immigrant from Poland and worked his way up both financially and in chess - he was the NY state champion 3 times and a well-known blindfold specialist.  It's interesting to see that he used his chess to promote his business.
However, here is a game where a Very Good (Finn) collides with Great (Lasker) in a King's Gambit.  Very Good, of course, loses.

Nice game, anybody knows if someone analyzed it?

I doubt it.  It seems to have been an offhand game.

Another interesting chess culture tid-bit.

Is there any more on his blindfold record?

Olimpiu G. Urcan wrote the newly published book, Living the American Dream: Julius Finn.  He also gave a taste of it at chesscafe.

He gives a couple examples of Finn's blindfold play - here's one:

Independent of what Urcan wrote, I found:

Literary Digest 1900
Another American Blindfold Player.
Mr. Julius Finn, of New York City, recently played eight games of Chess simultaneously, sans voir, winning six games and drawing two. Finn made 238 moves in two hours and forty-five minutes.

New Era Magazine 1904
"...but not least, Julius Finn, New York's gifted young blindfold player."

Chess News 1916
"Julius Finn, Manhattan's blindfold expert, gave a simultaneous exhibition at the Yorkville C. C, which meets at the Labor Temple in East Eighty-fourth st. Thursday evenings."

The Jewish Encyclopedia 1912:
Finn, Julius
Russian - American chess-player; born April 28, 1871, at Vladislavovo, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland; emigrated to the United States in 1887. At a tournament played in the city of New York November, 1895, he won twenty-three games, losing two and drawing one. In 1901 he won the championship of New York state.
Finn is perhaps the most successful Jewish blind-fold player; he engages in twelve simultaneous games with facility.

United States Jewry 1776-1985. 1989
The Russian Julius Finn, learned the game while living on the East Side (of NYC). A early as 1901 he was the New York State champion.  He was recognized as the world's champion blindfold chess player. Finn found time as a commuanl votary to devote himself to hospital work.

Thanks. 8 or 12 games at once is nothing to sneeze at.

He must have been quite a solid master.

Here's something more about Finn's non-chess profession:

The Insurance Press, 1915
A Steady Producer Julius Finn of the Exchange agency, New York, entered the service of the Equitable in 1900 and can claim the remarkable record of having produced at least one application every week since then. In referring to Mr. Finn the company's publication remarks:
     "In July, the first month of the 1916 Agency Club year, he qualified for the
     Century Club, and is well on his way toward a Quarter-Million Club
     membership. He is aiming to be the first member to qualify for the
     Half-Million Corps this year. Mr. Finn does not excel in life underwriting
     alone. He has a national reputation as a chess player, having won the
     New York State championship several times."

Business or pleasure ?

A bit of a loaded q in certain contexts.

ACM 1898.

Chess With Living Pieces.
A game of chess on a board that covered the stage, with living pieces, was played at the Windsor Theatre. New York, on October 20, under the management of the Cosmopolitan Chess Club. The players were Julius Finn and Max Ginsberg, experts of the Cosmopolitan Chess Club. Dr. Siff, president of the club, was referee, and Gustav Koehler, State champion, acted as umpire. Mr. Ginsberg had first move and his opponent played a French defense. The game was played slowly, occupying about an hour. It ended in a draw after thirty moves.

That's known as a hook.

A "Simultaneous" Novelty.

The palm for novelty in the matter of entertainment must of a surety be awarded to the entertainment  committee of the Franklin Chess Club, of Philadelphia, of which James F. Magee is the chairman and  president Walter Penn Shipley, the willing and conniving spirit. The good chess brethren of Philadelphia  may be quite independent of masters, champions and the like, when at the behest of their guardian  angels, the ghost of Benjamin Franklin can, nolens volens, be called up and made to do service as a  peripatetic performer. To cut a long story short, this was the announcement made to the members of the  Franklin C. C. in connection with their regular entertainment scheduled for the evening of November 17:

"A great unknown chess player, disguised, will play simultaneously all comers. The stronger his  opponents, the greater will be his pleasure, and he will present a box of cigars to each member winning  from him."

The rooms were well crowded at 8 o'clock, when the unknown, in the garb of Benjamin Franklin, and  accompanied by the president of the club, made his appearance. Chairman Magee explained to the  assembled members that they had the pleasure of entertaining the spirit of the great American  statesman, who would illustrate how chess was played in the olden times. The air was thick with mystery,  which vied with the pall of smoke to make the surroundings duly impressive. More than one of the players  was seen to fidget nervously on beholding the uncanny apparition, and none but the two responsible for  the innovation, could truly be said to be wholly at ease.

It was announced that Herman G. Voigt, of international fame, would play at the first board, but when he  failed to appear many thought the mystery solved. Shortly afterward, however, the jolly German-American  came in and goodnaturedy took his place in the row. Other strong players like J. Elson, J. F. Roeske, P.  B. Driver, J. F. Magee Jr. and S. T. Sharp were included in the brave array. To complicate the situation a  bit, ex-champion C. S. Martinez had confidingly circulated a quiet tip that it was he who was to be asked  to impersonate the great Franklin.  A trusting friend bit greedily at the information and, believing he was  betting on a certainty, laid a small wager on the strength of it. It took some time to bring the victim around  to appreciating the point of Martinez's little joke. Until president Shipley led the unknown into the room, a  considerable number felt certain that he was billed to foist himself off as the only Benjamin. Accordingly,  he was continually approached for an explanation during the course of the play. He replied that he had  heard from excellent authority that it was himself; that it had never been proved to him that it was impossible for a man to have a dual existence and, the more he watched the unknown's play, the more  confident he felt it was his second self who was conducting the games and that the members were right  when they believed him to be the unknown.

Still another prominent player who had been under suspicion was S. Warren Bampton. When the latter  entered the room, some one remarked, "Why, there he is now."

The president further increased the consternation by declaring him to be Mr. Bampton's brother, adding  that it was curious for him to be present that particular evening as he had not been there oftener than  once before. This was stated so quietly and positively that for a few seconds even those who knew Mr.  Bampton most intimately, were dazed and hardly believed their eyes. Upon shaking hands with him,  however, they felt reassured and were finally convinced he was not the unknown.

The unknown played magnificent chess and was aided not a little perhaps by the secrecy with which his identity had been surrounded. Some, like Voigt, thought a joke was being perpetrated and that the  distinguished visitor was being impersonated by a "duffer"; others, again, trembled in their shoes at the thought of being pitted against a champion of world wide renown. After two hours of play, when the fate  of most of the games had been decided, the unmasking occurred, being forced upon the star by the  suffocating atmosphere. It proved to be no other than Julius Finn, of New York, justly celebrated as a  blindfold artist, and now enjoying a reputation as simultaneous player inferior to that of few. Finn was  enthusiastically greeted and heartily congratulated upon his performance and the success of his  disguise. The single player won 10 games, drew 9 and lost one! Those who were beaten were Messrs.  Voigt, Doerr, Sharp, Driver, Fitzsimmons, Dr. Leser, Baker, Thomas, Lochner and Barrett; those who  drew were Messrs. Roeske, Magee, Dittman, Elson, Benjamin, Barclay, Rafferty, Jacobus and  Whittaker. Mr. Guyer alone conquered the unknown. The latter conducted the final portion of his  exhibition as plain Julius Finn.

American Chess Bulletin 1906

Indeedy.

The way Lasker lost his 1st rook makes me wonder. Sacrifice or mistake?

A mistake is hard to believe, since the black Q's position was so obvious. OTOH, I can't see the strategic value of such sacrifice. Although he did win the game in the end.

Very interesting. Good research. Do you know how the Julius Finn story ended? I found this on wikipedia, but nohing about his later life.

Mr. Finn acted as referee at the World Chess Championship 1921 which was played between Emanuel Lasker and José Raúl Capablanca in Havana. He was one of the organizers of the New York 1924 chess tournament and the president of the 1927 New York Tournament. He also served as adjudicator for the college chess league with which Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton were affiliated. He had been a member of the Manhattan Chess Club and Rutgers Club for many years.^[4]

All I know is that he died on Dec.6, 1931.  I haven't been able to locate an obit, so I guess I'll have to buy the book to find out how.

Well, well... I found a great review by Jeremy Silman and he supplies the "rest of the story":
"Sadly the last few years of Finn’s life were not happy ones. The start of the Great Depression soon put Finn’s considerable wealth in peril. His shares in the Bank of the United States and the Municipal Financial Corporation would soon be devastated. He died on December 6, 1931, after a six-week illness leaving a widow and four children. "

Read the review

correction: the review is on Mr. Silman's site but it's by John Donaldson

Sad circumstances indeed.

Liked the Lasker game.  Just finished reading the article where Lasker won NY tournament while considerably older than the other participants like Alekhine and Capablanca.  Then to play through this game and see someone like Finn make a game of it, makes you think about the times when you might knock off a champion (or even the computer).  He had some good attacks and material advantages until the Lasker magic took over.