Queensland Chess 1972 (includes Singer Cup)
The following set of articles appeared in Chess in Australia (October 1972, page 249).
SINGER CUP INTER-CLUB COMPETITION
The Singer Cup competition between clubs in the metropolitan and near area was won by The Prison chess club.
The press announced that one of Queensland’s trophies had been “Sentenced to a year inside Brisbane Jail”.
It was a notable achievement for the Prison Club.
At a ceremony inside the jail the Cup was presented and the captain said that three men playing on the ‘A’ grade team had learnt the game in jail.
No one would doubt that the game has a healing quality both for mind and spirit, it is encouraged in prison, and also in fact is the only game allowed in the precincts of the House of Commons.
Division A
B.P.C.C. 18½; The Gap ‘A’ 18; Brisbane ‘A’ 17½; Ipswich 14; Waterloo 12.
Division B
Redcliffe 25½; QIT ‘A’ 19; Brisbane ‘B’ 14; Inala 12; Windsor Y.M.C.A. 8½.
Division C
Q.I.T ‘B’ 23; Mt Gravatt 16; B.P.C.C. ‘B’ 15½; Ipswich 13; The Gap ‘B’ 12½.