Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1928, yayin da yake kan amarci, Whitaker ya tafi Hague don wakiltar Amurka a gasar zakarun duniya na Amateur
, wani zagaye-robin gasar, da zakarun na 15 sauran al'ummai. Hakanan ana shirya shi a lokaci guda kuma wuri shine 2nd Chess Olympiad don ƙungiyoyin ƙasa da ƙasa. Duk da kasancewa cikin mummunan hatsarin jirgin kasa wanda ya kashe mutane tara kuma ya raunata matarsa sosai, ya gama da kyakkyawan sakamako na 9.5/14 a farkon babban taron kasa da kasa a wajen Amurka; wannan ya daidaita na 4 zuwa na 6, kuma ya lashe kyauta. Gwarzon gasar shi ne Max Euwe, wanda ya zama Gwarzon Chess na Duniya shekaru bakwai bayan haka.