AThe Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee Sunday, January 29, 1961 - Page 14 (2),(3)
“While Jerry Sullivan was recognized as state champion in the statewide matches held here last September, the sweepstakes winner was a young teenager, Robert Jacobs, of Louisville, Ky., recognized Louisville city champion, Kentucky state champion, and a ranking contender in Indiana and Missouri organized play.
Tennessee state organization rules, however, do not recognize a non-resident as state champion.
Don Duplantier, an engineer and former professor at Vanderbilt University, holds the highest national rating of any member of the Nashville club.
Proof that the game is not a preserve of the aged is the fact that the current national champion is 17-year-old Bobby Fischer, of Brooklyn, N.Y. who recently successfully defended his title for the third successive year, having won it originally at the age of 14.
Runners-up to Fischer in the national championships were William Lombardy, 23, and Raymond Weinstein, 19”
