Evening star., 1931-12-22
MISTAKE BY LEM
AIDS CULbERTSON
Baron Won Zedtwitz Also
Plays MasterfuIIy to Boost
Lead to 11,120.
~ the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 22.-HeaVy
sets and climatic little slam, involv-
ing brilliant elimination and end play,
were largely responsible for Ely Culbert-
sons side being 1l,l2O points ahead to-
day in its l5J-rubber contract bridge
match with Sidney S. Lenz and Oswald
Jacoby.
CulbertSon and his partner of night
Waldemar Won Zedtwitz, added 1925
points to Culbertson's plus, winning
four of the six rubbers of the tenth
session and making the rubbers stand
SO for Culbertson's side to 81 for the
opposition.
The lead exceeds by 4,09O points the
largest plus Lenz and Jacoby ever had
In their test OF the LEM system against
Culbertsons. That plus was 1000 and
1t came after the first hand of rub
Der %.
Six rubbers short of the halfway
mark of the match, Culbel tSon. with
three different partners, has accumu-
lated total Of g. $50 points, as COM
pared with 5l,Z60 for Lenz and Jacoby
Never was CulbertSon so enthusiastic
about the merits of his system. With
the exception of two failures to essay
little slam, one of them being question
able because Of part score, he and the
baron. as Won Zedtwitz is known to the
bridge world despite his renunciation
of the title when he was naturahzed
usually bid ali possible.
LEM Makes Mistake.
Lenz had little comment to make on
the session except to point out that he
had suffered heavily by mistake of
his own, though saving points through
mistakes Of his opponents. referring
to two failures to contract for slams.)
BY his own mistake he meant his
first psychic bid of the match which
caused him to be set five doubled and
vulnerable and lose 1900 points. Such
loss is quite exceptional among high
ranking players in tournaments. 1t
came in rubber IS, the second of the
session. in which four sets cost LenZ
and Jacoby a total of 1900 points
CulbertSon and the baron won the
rubber and passed the 10000 mark right
there. The gain. $3.50 points, was the
largest for one rubber recalled by eX-
perts for an outstanding match when
it is considered that there was only
a 500 bonus for rubber and no slam
premiums were involved.
Waldy Makes Slam.
"Oi, OF, Waldy," broadcast Culbert-
son once when the baron failed to raise
him to slam, but there came great
praise when on the last hand of the
session Won Zedtwitz added ,450 points
to the score of CulbertSon's side in one
lump.
successful little slam when vulner-
able and 700 rubber all at once were
due to the baron's skill. 1t was the
first elimination play Of the match and
q masters touch.
The play was handled so that on the
last three tricks Jacoby held only the
king and eight spades and the nine of
hearts. Culbertson the ace and seven Of
spades and the three of hearts, LenZ
the knave and ten of spades and the
five of clubs. the baron the queen and
four Of spades and the four of hearts.
The baron led the four of hearts.
Jacoby had to take it. He could do
nothing but lead away from his spade
king so that Won ZedwitZ took a trick
with the queen and dummy with the
ace. finesse would have failed be-
cause Of Lenz's holding of the king and
ten.
Hard Slam to Play.
This was Culbertson's communique:
"a hard slam to play. Waldy cracks
his car in evident agitation, announces
as he touches the dummys cards, Ar
ranging You mean caressing inter-
jects E. c. Laughter. Then the baron
makes a brilliant end play and gets his
slam Here is the hand No. 420