Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-02
THE WHIST TROPHY.
A Celebration of the Capital Bicycle clu8's
Signal Success.


The Capital Bicycle Club had quite a celebra-
ton last evening in their comfortable club
house on 18th street. The occasion was the
presentation to the club of the handsome
trophy won by the clubs whist team in the re-
cent whist congress in New York and gem
eral interchange of congratulations on the
clubs signal SUCCESS. The vice president. Mr..
Irving Williamson:made Representation, with a
few happy remarks. The trophy is hand
some silver vase, exceedingly rich in design
and workmanship. 1t was presented to the
Whist League by the Hamilton Club of Phia-
delphia, and was contested for at the recent
congress for the first time. Interesting Incl
dents of the congress were related by the men,
bers of the team, which consisted of Messrs.
Wooten, Bingham, Eakins and Low. A NAM
moth bowl Of punch, with sandwich attach
ments, added to the enjoyment of the evening.
THE WHIST CONGRESS.
Comparatively few people realize what a
victory it was that the Capital Clubs team
gained in the congress. The club has been
known all over the country for many years as
leading wheeling organization, but the whist
world was ignorant Of its existence. So when
its team appeared among the entries for the
whist tournament, where they would be pitted
against the most scientific PLAYERS in the
at all. Everybody supposed that the contest
would be between the Hamilton Club of Phila-
delphis and the Milwaukee Club. The rules Of
the congress required a team to drop out
after two defeats The Capital team re-
ceived black eye in the very first round being
beaten by the University team Of Chicago By
one point. When Friday night came the only
competitors remaining in the field were the
Hamilton, Capital and Milwaukee teams. The
first two had each sustained one defeat, while
the Milwaukee players had o clean score. When
the Harniltons and Capitals met Friday evening
they were told that the winning team would
play the Milwaukses the next morning, and the
Hamiltons were told to be on hand promptly ct
IL o'clock. The Capitals were not taken into
consideration at all. But they administered a
crushing defeat to the Philadelphia toaul, and
were promptly on hand to compete with the
crack Milwaukee players.
A STUBBORN CONTEST.
The first round of twenty-four hands (dupli-
cate) resulted in a tie. The next round of six
teen hands was also tie, and when the eight
hands that followed had been played the Capital
boys were winners by single point. The two
teams were exactly even; each had been beaten
once by one point. Saturdays contest between
these teams had lasted from II O'Clock in the
morning until 7:S0 in the evening, with half
hours intermission for lunch.
The Milwaukee players we're pretty well tired
out and wanted the deciding round postponed
until Monday. The Washington men were
eager to finish the contest that night as two of
their team were obliged to be back in Washing
ton Monday morning. So the matter was COM
promised by intrustiug the trophy to the Capt.
tai Club for six months and to the Milwaukee
Club for the remainder Of the year.
The accompanying score shows just what was
done by each club. The Capital team, although
tied with Milwaukee for first place, made de-
cidedly the best score, having plus SO to their
credit.