The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-14
AROUND THE WHIST TABLE.
CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS WON BY
AMERICAN PLAYERS.

AMERICAN PLAYERS.
whist Tournament of the Toronto Club
Difference in Play for Making n Match
Score and n Trick score-How Com
mon-Senso Players Get in Long Suits.
After the eighth congress of the American
Whist League had passed into history our
cousins across the border held their annual
Canadian championships in the rooms Of the
Toronto Athletic Club and brought OF the most
successful meeting ever hold In tho Dominion.
for the particulars Of which The SUN is indebt
ed to its correspondent and champion problein
solver. c. II. Fuller OF Toronto, who was Cap
tain Of the team picked to play the Americans
for the Anglo-American championship.
When time was called for the first round.
eighteen clubs were found to be represented.
and they put twenty-seven teams into the ring
for the three days struggle. The principal
event among the Canadians themselves was the
contest for the championship Of teams of four.
One American team was entered. playing under
the name OF the San Francisco Club. 1t was
made up Of J. Tormey Of San Francisco, L. q.
Parker OF Toledo. and Mr.. and Mrs. Z. B..
Cooper OF Nashville. Pitted against them in
the first round was the Athen@um Club team:
c.. H. Fuller. E. Corlett. II. ]. Coleman. and T.
D. Richardson. The Canadians won by the
score Of 800 to 304, or 8 tricks net.
In the second round Moses Shire OF Buffalo
took the place OF Mrs. Cooper. and the Ameri-
cans defeated the Lindsay Club team. w. H.
Simpson. H. OLeary. G.. H. Hopkins and J. B..
Knowlson. by 9 points. In the third round the
Americans played a tie match with the Wood
stock team, j. NJ. Cole. John Hall. J. ]. Higgins
and ]. NJ. Mcdonald. In the fourth round the
Americans lost to the Victoria Club team, H..
Gault. A. H. Baines. G.. C. Biggar and V. Arm
strong. by the score Of 1913 to 21S.
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found that the AthenRum and the Victoria
clubs had both won every match played. and
they therefore played of for the Canadian
championship. the Victoria team winning by
sixteen tricks. This is the third time in sue
cession that II has won the championship.
In the Anglo-American championship match.
which was played before the finals Of the
Canadian championship were decided. Canada
was represented by the AthenRum team,
Fuller. Coleman. Richardson and Corlett;
while the American team was: NJ. shire and B.
Shire OF Buffalo. L. G. Parker of Toledo. and +.
b. Cooper Of Nashville. Thirty-six deals were
played. changing after every six hands. and tho
Americans finally won by the score of 237 to
234. which is certainly an achievement to BIO
proud Of when it is considered that the team
had never p~ractioed together before.
Not satisfied with winning the A~nglo-Ameri-
can championship. the Americans entered two
teams for the pair championship also. L. b.
Cooper and NJ. Shire playing for Buffalo and ?.
J.Tormey and L.G. Parker for San Francisco. In
the first round Buffalo beat Coilingwood6 tricks.
but San Francisco lost to the AthenRum by 3
tricks. In the second round Buffalo beat Athe-
naum IA tricks and San Francisco beat Victo-
ria IL tricks In the third round Buffalo lost
to Victoria by 4 tricks. n. 7. Horr OF Cleve-
land took Tormey's place with Parker and beat
AthenGum by two tricks.
This left Buffalo, Victoria and AthenFeum in
for the semi-tlGals, the players being: NJ. Shire
and Z, j. Cooper for buffalo. A. H. Baines and
MunnisoS for AtheHGSm'. Buffalo won the;
Tictorria -. President W. Head eongratulated
seemed to regret that there were not a few
more ShampiopshiPs for them to carry on Mr..
championship. the only American, entry being
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper from Nashville.
certainly be quite a number OF friendly con-
tests between the two countries in future. and
fs f bsld hs s3m a@es1Sahi IN C tns late w regi SSr'a Il ~
probable that quite a number of Canadian play
ers vii Ell enter p: -. and a 1t that The he, next next Canadian
can pay them another visit and defend the
trophies they won at Toronto,
were very similar to those which are familiar
to players in this, country, all the matches tor
Canadians introduced q decided novelty in the
pair championships. all OF which were, played
on IHE SUNS system OF trallSpOSlnR the SUITS
for the everyday. and making each match n
single-table duplicate affair, pair against pair.
This is the first time that The SUN's system
has been tried on so large a scale. and the re-
suit was so satisfactory to every one concerned
that it will probably be used exclusively in
future.
TRICK Oh MATCH SCORE?
The difference in the style Of game that was
more likely to succeed in playing for Il trick
score or a match score was brought out pretty
strongly at the Boston congress. The steady,
conservative players were the ones who got the
best Of il in the open events in which the match
scores counted, and also in the majority of the
trick score games, while those who had been
accustomed TO the get there" methods Of our
large compass games did not seem 50 fortunate.
AS pointed out by Bouve. scoring by matches is
not conducive 10 the success Of the shot play
ers," but puts a premium on the careful. steady
game. Whether or not such whist is the best or
the more brilliant, however. Is an open question.
There were quite Il number of hands at Bos-
ton that looked like tempting e shots" There
was one in particular. in the open pairs on FRI
day night, on which quite q number OF PLAYERS
take a gamble on it being too strong for most
Of them. 1t was No. II. and Il dealt and turned
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