The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-07
NEW JERSEY FORESTERS' LEAGUE
INTER.oLuB WHIST MATOH.
First SERIES of the Tournament
Opened at the Jersey city Club.

The Inter Club whist tournament
which was i~naugurated Saturday night at
the Jersey City Club on the hill. proved
the greatest team tournament ever played
in this vicinity. The four best players OF
each prominent whist clubs of New Jer-
sey,. New York, Brooklyn and Staten
Island came together in the first series,
which will be continued in New York
and Brooklyn during the next three or
four weeks. In the games Saturday one
hundred men paired and it was a very
interesting sight. An innovation was in
troduced by the committee in charge.
This consisted of the players that paired
north and south remaining standing while
those that played east and west moved
around, pairing with every other north
| and south team in the match. The hands
were also exchanged, the cards played
north and south were dealt at the next
table east and west. Thus W every
team an equal advantage and depended
entirely on the skill of the leader to win
suits.
If the pair from the New York team
makes eight tricks. N and S, on the
original play, it will be necessary for the
E and w pair to get five tricks on the
everyday in order to secure a total of
thirteen tricks on the deal. If the New
York team fails to make a total of
thirteen on the combined scores of the N
and S and E and w hands, Brooklyn will,
of course, get more, and that will count a
match for Brooklyn as against New York.
II the New York team gets more than
thirteen Brooklyn will lose; but IT both
teams get thirteen. the match will be a
tie. In this manne every team plays
a match of one deal against every other,
and the score for matches won and lost
decides the contest. In addition to the
match score there is an individual score
for tricks, which is decided by counting
up the total tricks taken, N and S or E
and w, by each of the pairs on every
team. The results of the first round fol-
low
Matches-First team New Jersey Whist
Club of Newark, T. E. Otis, E. E. Leth-
bridge, F. F. Eagles and H. F. Aymar,
first, with 16 out of a possible "a and u
tricks plus; first team Whist Club of New
York, H. B. Newman, j. E. Faber, j. -.
Elwell and w. Mcbride. second, with 15R
and 10 tricks plus; second team Knicker-s
booker Whist Club R. F.. Foster, E. T.
Baker, Is. y. bdclllidI LII -. 0' Soicy
third, with 141a and II tricks plus; N. j.
A. c., with Az and 6 tricks; Passaic Whist
Club. with 141a and 4 tricks; Brooklyn
Whist Club, with 1879 and II tricks; second
New York team, with 1879 and 4 tricks.
Best Team Score for Tricks-First team
New Jersey Whist Club, Otis, Lethbridge.
Aymar and Eagles, S37. IL above the aver
age; second team Knickerbocker Whist
Club, Foster, Baker, Bachman and Cole,
and the first team Brooklyn Whist Club,
Taylor, Hatch, Josephson and La Vie,
1886; first team New York Club, Newman,
Faber, Elwe1l and Mcbride. 1874.
Best Individual Trick Score on the N
and S Hands-H. B. Newman and ]. E.
Faber, 111as plus; R. F, Foster and E. 7.
Baker, second, ~.
Best Score on the E and W Hands-A.
e. Taylor and Cito Hatch and Fl. F.. Ay-
mar and F. f. Eagles. ~ plus.
Curling on Poor Ice.
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