Evening star., 1931-12-18
CUlBERTSON WINS
TO INCREASE LEAD
lightner Aids in Taking Five
of Six Rubbers for 4,965-
Point Advantage.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 18-The
greatest swing of any session of tho
contract bridge world series left Ell
Culbertson and his new partner-Thea-
dore A. Lightner a SCintillating star
Of his system-4,965 points ahead of
Sidney S. LEM and Oswald Jacoby
today
In the eighth session the Culbertson
side won five of six rubber5 and gained
4.555 for its greatest lead in points. 1t
also went into the lead in rubbers won
Tor the first time, having taken %,
compared with Is for the representa-
tives of the Official" system.
Lightner is substituting for Mrs Gull
bertson so that she can prepare for
Christmas. He will be Culbertscn's
partner again tonight and at the ses-
sions next week-Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday nights and Saturday after
noon.
He had. good run of cards and
usually ms e the most of them His
technique, especially in plays aroused
the open admiration of his opponents.
Lenz and Jacoby' suffered damaging
sets. They went down Is times. once
on a grand slam effort doubled and
once on a bid of one doubled on which
they lost 1000 points alone. The 1000
point loss was due to a strategic pass
by Culbertson after Lightner had
doubled in order for CulbertSon to Of
fer his best suit Culbertson's strength
vss mainly in suit bid by Jacoby
physically.
LEM and Jacoby Disagree.
Lightner's strategy was wrong once
He doubled a three no trump Offering
of Jacoby's and Jacoby jumped to four
clubs, being set one undoubled. Had
Lightner passed the no trump bid he
and Culbertson could have taken the
first 10 tricks with the enemy vulnera
BILE. Jacoby would have cost his side
1,100 points. AS it was he lost only 100
LenZ and Jacoby disagreed openly
with each other. They went into a
private conference once because of Os
sizes sets.
Bickering between opposing sides was
negligible during play, but before the
eoooioiA siieie was 4IedVy NeIudl CdlllloH-
aiding.
1t started with an interview given by
F. D. Courtenay, president of Bridge
Headquarters. Ind, sponsor of the of
flcial' system, who insisted that the
match was not a test of the CulbertSon
and Official systems. At first he was
understood to say Lenz was not playing
the official" He withdrew that state
ment.
Culbertson jumped at the opportunity
to say that an alibi for coming defeat
was being prepared by his opponents
and that Courtenay was trying to de-
stroy the idol of the Official" system.
No Little Slams Made.
No little slams were made during the
session. Each side tried one Lenz
went down three, Lightner down one
Llghtner took six tricks over book three
times on bids of game or better, but re-
garded the slams as unbiddable in those
cases.
Lenz's slam effort was regarded by
Mrs. CulbertSon as due primarily to the
opening intermediary two bid of the
official system. Here is hand No BOG:
LEM (NORTH).
SIX J85
H.-A K 10
D.-A K 8
C.-87
CULBERTsoN L1GHTNER
fWEST-DEALER) EAST,
So 10 9 6 2 S.-74
H-9 s S 80 H.-4
DIS Do ] lO6
ca CA 10 3
JACOBY (SOUTH.
S.-A 3
H-Q J8
D.-9 3 2
C.-K @ 2
The bidding-West pass: North two
hearts; East, pass; South, three clubs
West, pass; North, three no trump;
East, pass; South, four hearts; West,
pass; North, four no trump; East, pass;
South, six hearts. With the North and
South cards the Culbertson team prob
ably would have stopped at three no
trump. The opening lead was the queen
of diamonds.
Lightner regarded the failure of his
slam effort as due to distribution
Hand 313:
LEM (NORTH).
So 6 3
HI 3 2
DIX
CO 9 5 4
CULBERTSON LIGHTNER
(WEST. (EAST-DEALER)
SIX 754 S.-J
H.-A j H-1O
Do 10 30 D.-A 9 8 4
C.-6 CA K 3
JACOBY (SOUTH.
S.-A @ 10 8 2
H.-K @
D.-None
C.-J 10 8
The bidding-East, one diamond;
South, double; West, five diamonds;
North, pass; East, six diamonds South
led the heart king.
TYPICAL BOY AND DOG
PRESENTED TO HOOVER
Winner of National Competition
Interests President, Who Asks
Him Questions.
Accompanied by his sled dog. Lau-
renee Orne, 13 years old of Melrose
Highlands, Mass. winner of the Chapel
Kennel Foundations competition for
Americas Most Typical Bov and
Dog" was presented to President Hoo
yer at the White House yesterday.
Representative Buckbee of Illinois
presented this interesting boy with his