The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-01
INTERSTATE WHIST.
An Error Discovered In the Count
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An Error Discovered In the Count
NAV Change Victory TO q Tie Game
The championship whist match, Satur-
day night, at the Jersey City Clubhouse,
between the Atlantic Whist Association
and the New Jersey Whist Association,
for the Brooklyn Cup, held by New Jer-
sey, attracted a wide interest, as the cup
was originally won from New York by
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Delaware
md Maryland sent their best players to
compel for it. A close battle was fought
with the cards, and at the end Of the
game, in which 1880 tricks a been
played, it was announced that the visit
ors had won by 8 points. Gilbert Arrow
smith of this city, in reviewing the scores,
yesterday morning, found an error in the
count, which changed the result to a tie.
The New Jersey Association has pro-
tested the match in order to get this
point decided. each association presented
forty players, and, as forty hands would
make the match too long, while twenty
would be too short a test, the contest
ants were wide into two sections of ten
tables each, playing thirty hands in each
section.
In section A, Atlantic gained ten tricks,
in section B New Jersey gained
one, leaving Atlantic nine to the good.
In section A the best score N and S was
made by Neff and Mcbride of the Phila-
delphias Whist Club and e and w by
Newman and Schuyler of the N. j. A.
C. The best New Jersey score on the N
and S hands was made by Wyckoff and
Downs of the Jersey City Club, and the
best e and w score for Atlantic by An
drews and Andrews Of the Philadelphia
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Juniors. IN section s. d me pest score y
smith of the Pomfret Club of Easton,
n e and w by Reed and Matthews
of Plainfield. The best n and s score
for New Jersey was made by Foster and
Wallis of the Orange Whist Club and the
best e and w score for Atlantic by Woo
ten and Walls, the noted sport suffers
Tn forty players from the Atlantic As
ISOLATION were made up as follows:-Ham-
ilton, Juniors, Philadelphia, and Engle-
side of Philadelphia, 20; Baltimore Whist
Club Of Easton, Pa. 4; Columbia A. G.
of Washington, q; Scranton Whist Club,
2. The forty. players representing New
Club, Orange Whist Club, North End
Club of Newark, New Jersey Whist Club,
Roseville Al. c., Ridgewood Club, New
Jersey A. c., Elizabeth Chess and Whist
Club of Plainfield.
The next match for the. trophy will
probably be between the Atlantic and the
New England Associations, and will be
played at Philadelphia ON time in No
vember. An effort will be made to get
at least fifty players on each Side.
Tonorrow,s Game al Orange.
The excellent showing that the Eliza
beth Athletic Club made against the
Princeton University team has greatly en-
couraged the coachers. advisors and the
players themselves of the E. A. G. team,
and the fine form displayed by them has
caused their followers to come out with
lots Of the long green as they now in
tend to back their favorites strongly in
the championship game with the Orange
Athletic Club tomorrow at Orange. The
management OF the Orange team fully
realizes, as do the players that they have
a hard proposition on their hands in the
shape Of their great rivals. The dofngs
Of the Orange team hare up to the pres