Evening star., 1931-12-15
CULBERTSONS CUT
OPPONENTS LEAD
Were Ahead at One Time by
845 Points, but Finish
Is Behind.
By :he Associated Press.

BY :he Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 15.-Just
past the quarter pole in their l50-rub-
Der contract bridge match with Sidney
S. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ely Culbertson were only IS
points behind today
Victory in six of seven rubbers PLAYED
In the sixth session of the match re-
duCed the CulbertSOnS deficit by 4825
points They were ahead one time by
S45 points.
OF 40 rubbers played in the series
1en2 and Jacoby have won 81 and the
Culb2rtsonS 10.
After the third hand in the series
had been played a week ago the Gull
bertSOnS led by 80 points Never did
they lead again till 2l7 hands had been
dealt. In the 2l7th hand they found
game and the thirty-ninth rubber and
went ahead by 745 points, lead wiped
out in the fortieth rubber the only one
of the sixth session won by Lenz and
Jacoby.
Triumph for System.
Culbertson regarded the sudden
change in the status Of the great test
of rival methods of bidding as a
triumph for his system and felt GER
tam that he and partner would be we'll
il the lead if he had not pulled few
CT IS usual bOnerS, as he expressed it.
The cards We're running with the
CulbertsonS. They admitted it them
selves and they pressed their luck n
bit with doubles. and the net result
was loss. Thy were set twice when
doubled. They doubled the enemy
four times. On one such double LenZ,
The master. went down five, with a
iy1 nF fNr T,,1k
sons. On three doubles Lenz and
Jacoby fulfilled their contracts, once
being doubled into game on a three
spade bid.
Possibly indicating that the Culbert-
sons dld not get full value out of their
cards was the fact that in l3 hands
they took more tricks than bid
They essayed two little slams, Mrs.
Culbertson playing each time. Once
she was set one undOubled and the
second time she went down two dou-
bled.
Gamble for Big Score.
The first effort was great gamble
for big score. 1t was in rubber So
The CulbertSons had game; the
enemy had nGne. In addition Lenz
had just gone down 1000 points Had
the slam succeeded the Culbertsons
NOu4u nave dGCuIlluIdltu llOle lIldll
1.450 points right there AS 1t was,
they won the rubber by point total. al
though Lenz and JaCoby received the
bonus. The second slam try was a
deliberate sacrifice.
Mrs. CulbertSon was much of the
business end of the partnership in the
sessions scoring. She played every
hand Of q four-handed rubber herself
No So. With 100 honors she was set
one at five clubs, then made six no
trump on bid of three. six more on
bid Of two and then five spades on
Did of four.
In the belief that the representatives
ST the official" system were using his
approach methods of bidding. especially
oy bidding one OF suit on a balanced
1and instead of no trump as preferred
n the official" system, Culbertson
called conference of players and ref
sreeS before the session started. He de-
scribed the discussion as friendly with
out argument or protest. He cited let
ters to him from friends who had
thought from published hands that
Ienz and Jacoby were not aohering to
.he!r systems methods as stipulated in
the agreement for the match.