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&resses and sixteen times In matches Iho
| out affair like the Hamilton and twelve teams
entered. The result OF the preliminaries was
az follows;
pps..o,; WS,i Ecsa,:;s; q VIII. $S, ..:
Acacia OF Buffalo. ..,.." buffalo Whist ........,
ks%en ws. R;IsnSoSf 81 s.isS. SsliaS
Baltimore Whist Club -, Oaks Of Austin. III. .."...i
Ths Knickerbocker team in this match was
q. 3. Adams. J. II. Buchanon r.. l" Robinson
and G. y. Church. The best they could do 10
Ss nss was to G the on
cans Of Boston and the Detroit Whist Club.
Boston winning. The teams were
Americana OF Boston: n. H. Ward c. s. Becker.
l. M. Bouve and ". $. Fenolloca
De.roi! E. A. Bunin,on. J W. stiser. F. g. Aus
THE MINNEAPOLIS PAIRS.
There were twenty entries for this
cup, which represents the par championship.
Each round was played on the ordinary, com;
as a match. giving two points for a. win. or
above the average, and one point for tie.
The absurdity Of this system Of scoring has
II should be persisted In. II seems absurd to
ask player to so to a congress TO decide o
championship on system OF Play with which
he has never had any practice, and cannot
possibly get any, as there Is not a game In the
country in which the scores are made up that
way II would be Just ns absurd to ask person
TO enter revolver match in which bullaeyes
did not count anything and the only, scores
were for inners and cutters. When one IL play
ING for matches and not for tricks it is Just
the bu,sye xtso%t M n2T httns G'H itu it. Gun '"'
From the ,twenty-eisht entered the eight
who made the highest scores IN the prelim-
h ihares were selected to play the finale IN which
stu scored matches. These survivors and
thelr scores We're as follows:
,, W, A. Potter and l. s. wilcox Of Providence. i23
y, G wallace and + A; Hinicrmis'e., Scranton ,n
l. n. Mclean and II, NJ. wheeock, Fergus Falls,
MINI. no. J. b, Porter ana J. H. Lieb. Hamilton
Austin IiaS ill., iis btarHsse BE- s and H. "2 beardsse %
Cleveland is; c. 5. Warehouse and NJ. l.. Messer.
Boston. III:
The pair from Fergus Falls, Mclean and
Wilcox, won the finals. and are therefore the
champions for 1890.
THE OPEN EVENTS.
In the scrambles. as they were generally
called the play was Of higher order than at
button was generally entitled to IT, There
were games for mixed pairs, men and women
playing together as partners, and for men only.
and sometimes both these played the same
hands in the same section, separate prizes be.
ing given to the winners In each class. The
following Is a list OF the winners, classified nc
cordins to the towns they were from:
Albany E. l. Smith and c. +. Snow.
Allegheny, Pa - Mis- o, u. Thompson.
Baltimore Mrs. Nelson Perrin Miss Goldsborough,
A. IL. McCay and A. h, Gather.
:, Boston-Mrs c. S. Warehouse and Mrs NJ. /.
:, Broohlyn M and Mrs c. f. Heald and Miss
IBnnfipaM B"iIaio"M Shire, H A. Walker and NJ. E. An.
derson
Chicago. c. Howard, r. R, Richards. H. !.
Mrs Mundy
We. cinfinnsaMJ oa h:,S;n and + BsrEdss. Suss
Waits. g J. MeDisrmld and G p. johnson.
nhs;ss r0gs snf Eaton Gofsss'a S ausn H. Roger,
J, c, Rothery. F. A. Osborne. Mrs j. T. Shaw and
Fergus F.l st y. Mclean and H. NJ wheehock,
o.. M!nneapolis-J. McMichasi, p. D. Bou,elle and
Nashville. Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. e. p. Cooper.
IiQues, r. F. Foster, William Thomson, C. S. Cole.
hSse:on fnd BSi4.9 ss1ns1 and W. Mep..
Racine Wi. a Dietrich W. & Palmer and n i.
Rock Rapids. Iowa-B L. Richards
ST. Paul-M. 8, Hay and II. /. Countryman.
Scran,on..F. A Iiint-rmls,er, r. H. Dale and
y ~ syIasSse%Mis; R. p, Dickinson, Dc Miss BESSIE
~, NJ JGsps hts NJ M sSS
HGSsd T@l.do aa 8T M and II MS rs Lloyd Mrs c.ne.
bTSn MRS kS Il fs and h.ax1S M1Gn
Washington, D. tHMrs. George W alis.
As will be seen from this list. Syracuse came
out ahead with nine winners, Cincinnati being
next with eight, New York, Chicago and De
nSk, there there was @ naI match match for or the h' cRam
sseeon ne bss Tff and joRnsos
oT A. cnRs tsmpSs aS and Dr. IN the s tsd rc Ss S.w N3
York.
The new board Of officers elected for the
nS j. Ps1SapSo SGYs DT
+. Mitchell, Chicago; Recording Secretary.
F. B. Cooper. Nashville, Tenn directors, Slsr-
fn'f fiGSS kSSsn tSaf St. Ious st. acS0S c%he0 s0
Although no definite action has yet been
ssss to BE- 10 favor Of hs @ he snnua
congress in Milwaukee, where the first one was
held ten years ago,
was done except to adopt some laws for dupli-
cate whist, the only important change being
that the penalty for the first revoke should
be two tricks and for each subseQuuent revoke
one trick only.
SYSTEMS OF PLAY.
With regard to systems Of play, it would
seem that those who had any such conycn-
tons as calling through the honor showing
number in truInps by irregular leads, rotary
or dont-force-me discards, were decidedly
In the minority, so much SO that they were
almost ashamcd 10 ackn Wedge that they had
TO use such lodges IN order TO play whist.
Those who were TO play with strange partners
in the open events seemed 10 agree very gen
orally upon a system which closely resembles
the so-called New York game. which II un-
doubtedly the best all-round system for gen
eral purposes on account Of Its simplicity,
and 1t was undoubtedly the most, popular at
the congress and every one who played 1t got
n prize with IT,
This system consists IN great freedom in
opening short or weak suits when there Is no
long suit IN the hand worth playing for. Plain
suits are always opened from the top or bottom,
no number showing leads being used except In
trumps Fourth-best IL led In trumps and the
echo Il with three The queen is led from all
one The discard II from weakness unless the
adversaries start the hand by leading trumps.
Short and weak suits are avoided when the
hand contains four or more trumps, unless there
Is no long suit In the hand. Trumps arc led
from split hands. four trumps and three Of
being desirable ones TO OPEN With the ex-
cep'ion Of the queen 10 show three honors. this
Is about the system used by tho Americans of
Boston, who won the A. ". J., trophy.
"; r. Talcott Of Cleveland, who won four
straight frsts in the open events, plays straight
long-suit game, showing number In plain suits
and avoiding short-suit openings az much as
possible Miss Campbell and Dr Cole, who
won the mixed pair championship, play the
New York system straight and open n great
Sl'S representative asked quite number Of old
and experienced players whom they thought
the two best players NJ the congress md they
pretty we'll agreed on Miss Campbell OF the
Ladies' New York Club as the leader among the
women and DR., r. Eliot Jr. |. Of the knickcr-
hockar Whist (lub Of New York among the