Showalter-Worrall

I tried to give a summary of the famous match for the 1st American Ladies' Championship between Nellie Showalter, the immensely talented wife of Jackson Whipps Showalter, then the US chess champion, and Harriet Jona Worrall, the widow of Thomas Worrall, the one-time "Mexican Champion" and frequent opponent of Paul Morphy (at knight odds).  Mrs. Worrall herself played Morphy a couple games at Rook odds and was able to draw one.  However, Mrs. Showalter had played a match against Em. Lasker, then the World Champion, at knight odds, and beat him.

The match was to have been the best out of seven with draws not counting. After five games, the match ended prematurely with Mrs. Showalter's illness. It was never resumed. There were no stakes as the match was for glory only. At that time five games had been played. Mrs. Showalter had won 3 and Mrs. Worrall had won one. One game was drawn.  Mrs. Showalter clearly demonstrated her dominance. But I had only been able to locate 4 of the 5 games played with Game #4 maddenly eluding me.  A friend of mine discovered the game in the NY Sun and gave it to me. 

About the game, the paper had this to say:
          The fourth game in the ladies' championship chess match
          between Mrs. J. W. Showalter and Mrs. Harriet Worrall was
          played at 468 West Twenty-third street yesterday.  The latter
          tried her skill at a Sicilian defence in which she made the initial
          mistake of bringing out her queen too soon.  She then took a          
          pawn, got her queen imprisoned, and had finally to give up that          
          piece for a rook.  The way Mrs. Showalter spun her net around
          the adversary's queen was a little cabinet piece of art, and even
          her husband, the distinguished chess player, could not help but          
          congratulate his wife upon her clever work.  After Mrs. Worrall
          had made her thirty-first move,  Mrs. Showalter sealed her move,
          and the game was adjourned, to be resumed to-day.

Mrs. Worrall resigned.

A separate article said this about the match:
          Widespread interest is taken in the match now in progress between
          Mrs. Showalter and Mrs. Worrell.  The games have been favorably
          commented on in local chess circles, and the contest is a popular one
          as far as New-York and Brooklyn are concerned.  M. Taubenhaus, who
          returned to the city from a professional tour last week, said that the
          contest is exciting more interest in the cities he has visited, especially
          Baltimore, than the Lasker-Steinitz encounter.

It's a very lovely game indeed. For anyone who read the posting but didn't view that particular game, it may be worth another look -----> HERE