Harry Nelson Pillsbury defeated Saint Louis champion Max Judd 4–0 in a scheduled four-game match during Pillsbury's western tour. The games were played at three local chess venues over the final week of 1898.
Four scheduled games, four wins
Contemporary reports call the opener the first of a series of four and the last score the fourth and final game. Pillsbury won at the Saint Louis Chess Club, the Office Men's Club and the Mercantile Club.
Judd also won an offhand game that week, and some accounts count it to make a 4–1 total. It wasn't part of the match, whose four games all survive.
Cross table
1 win · ½ draw · 0 loss — click a game number to replay it.