New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-19
4 CONGRESS OF WHIST PLA YERS
SECOND ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF The
AMERICAN LEAGUE
THE RULES OF THE GAME TO BE REVISED
DELEGATES FROM FoRTY-sEvEN CLUBS
TO COMPETE FOR THE HAMILTON
CLUB TROPHY

CLUE TROPHY.
Around afty baizecovered tables IN the theatre of
the Manhattan Athletic Club ths members OF the
American Whist League will meet today IL he.T
second annual congress The convention will be com
posed OF delegates from forty whist clubs IN III
parts Of the United States. 1t Will revise the rules d
whist and transact other business. The American
Whist League was organized last year IN Milwaukee,
where Il met under the auspices Of the MILWAUKEE,
Whist Club. The members Of the present congress
cana 70 New.York upon the invitation Of the Cherry
Diamond Whist Club, an organization within the Man
haitian Athletic Club The congress Will BE- calleu /"
order at noon to-day, and tonight the contest ioF e
Hamilton Club trophy will begin. -Four delegates iI0
each club will compete and each session VIII a"!oI,"
as soon as twenty four hands have been played IH'
tournament will continue until the number Of com
netting climbs T., reduced to two when the Champion
hip will be decided by such tests as the commute o
in charge NAV suggest. At the same time there WIZ
be games OF duplicate whist going on In another p'r'
Of the building 49,. x,or,
Among the first delegates who reached New io,"
Yesterday was Nicholas b. Trst, OF New-orie"u' ''o
author Of the American lead, and one OF inc ~
known whist players In the country. r. r. fos'c'
the writer OF books on whist, sent word that no wa
detained in London, and Henry jones, known 10 INC
wh,st world As Cavendsh,7 wrote that he could ho
leave England until the congress OF 1913 riS'o'
Ames Theodore Schwarz and other wellkno"n player
arrived last night.
The officers OF the American Whist League are
Engene S. Elliott Milwaukee president, H. ri'O'
Townsend Philadelphia, vlceprcsdent; Iheodo''
schwarz Chicago corresponding secretary waiter II
barney Providence recording secretary {. A. Chapul
Milwaukee, treasurer: A. G.. Stafford, washington
W F. stewart Detroit; 'R. A. Gurley, Denver Civ
r F. Foster New York, directors. The officers OF u'
Cherry Diamond Whist Club are j. f. VAIL pr'sioen,
r. F. Foster secretary and treasurer, and Z. II
Knubel, acting secretary.
Among the clubs represented In the congress are
Milwaukee Whist Club, Cherry Diamond Whist Ciuo
New-York: Chicago Duplicate Whist Club, Albany
Whist Club Denver Whist Club, Englewood CUB
| Chicago ILL.,; ragansett Club, Providence r. l.
CAPITOL Bicycle Club. Washington; Hamilton Club
! PHILADELPHIA: westerly Whist Club. Westerly. II l.
Hillsdale Whist Club, Hillsdale, Mich; ST. Paul o. .
and Whist Club, Carthage Club, Carthage, H. De
trolt Club, Ripon Whist Club, Ripon Wis; Ogfensbure
Whist Club Ogdensburg, y. Y; Ashland Whist Clnb
Chicago H. Jordan Whist Club Jordan ~ u
Park Club Whist Association. Chicago Minneapolis
C. G.. and Whist Club, Wahpanseh Whist Club On
cago: indianapolis Whist Club; Baraboo Whist Club
| Eoraboo Wis Pomiret Club, Easton Penn; Home
Whist Club, Chicago. III; Wausau Whist CUP
vansou wis Chicago Whist Club. Rubdoux Club
Riverside Cal: Occidental Whist Club. Cedar Rapids
! Iowa; Commonwealth Club, Worcester. Mass. SIeVe
/ land Athletic Whist Club. Cleveland, Rochester
Whist Club and the Walla Walla Whist Club, "aii!
| Wala Washington.