Evening star., 1932-01-10
CULBERTSON LURES
WORLD TO BRIDGE.
International Championship,
With Simultaneous Play,
to Start April |.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jahuary 9--It is to be
big year for an intellectual pastinle,
one game of which for a month has
received more newspaper space than
any blue ribbon contest involving ply
sical activity.
In retirement from championship
play, Ely CulbertSon, triumphant over
Sidney s. Lenz in a test Of methods of
contract bridge, expects TO arrange
widespread competitions in which
brains, not Drawn, will count.
First there will be an international
match between British and American
teams, Culbertson acting as the nom
playing captain of the American side.
Britons are to visit him next month to
settle upon the details.
1t is CulbertSon's hope that such
match will be of sufficient appeal that
hands and play can be reproduced al
most simultaneously in bridge clubs
through the United States and Great
Britain. Plans have been worked out
for network Of wires connecting elec-
trio switchboards.
Match Starts April 1.
On April there will be an interna-
tional championship under CulbertSon'S
auspices with simultaneous play all over
the world, tyros and superexperts deal
ing with the same selected hands, social
leaders competing on the same basis as
schoolgirls
The hands will be arranged under
CulbertSon's guidance so that there will
be one correct final contract for good
bidding and one correct result with the
best play.
A par will be assigned each hand
and an individual competitors result
will be compared with that. Hands will
be sealed and kept secret until the hour
for starting the tournament. Results
in various cities will be compared by
wire and cable.
Already inquiries have indicated
widespread interest in such far places
as India and China.
1t will be possible for an entrant to
to make a grand slam on a particular
hand, yet score far less than by setting
a rival. Possibly the cards may be
such. that slam should not be bid, or
II the slam should be bid, then perfect
defense would set it. Par for some of
the old hands involved may indeed be
q minus quantity. t'
Plans Short Rest.
The magnate Of bridge is planning
q short vacation before any further
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mates and before reaping any rewards
that may come from his victory. His
bets on the match are going to charity.
He and Mrs. CulbertSon and Fiji and
Frere-the children whose dreams at
the Hotel Chatham the kabitzerS were
warned not to disturb-are leaving for
Havana next Wednesday for weeks
trip.
CulbertSon's rivals still have material
with which to dispute his leadership.
In behalf of the Official system of
bidding, which the match contract said
should be tested in the 150-rubber
series with CulbertSon, it is argued:
/. A lead Of $3.50 points IN 150
rubber match is not decisive.
3 2. With a partner more in his con-
fldence throughout, Lenz might indeed
have won. He was plus with his Sec
ond partner.
8. There is no essential difference i'll
the systems
4. Cards and luck told the-story.
CuIbertsop's Viewpoint.
And Culbertson's viewpoint is
!. The lead could have been much
larger had Culbertson not deliberately
taken five different partners, two OF
them greatly inexperienced, to show
that system, rather than personnel,
was the main factor.
2. Lenz' first partner cost Culbertson
at least 10000 points.
3. Inferior methods prevented Lenz
and partner from getting full value
from their hands.
4. Honor count and no trump count
show the cards were amazingly equal |
Here is the final Standing of partners
In the match:
.Culbertson's Partners. RubberS. Points. !
Mrs. CulbertSon. 80. 88 Plus 365
Waldemar Won Zed-
witz ... Plus 3,205
Theodore A. Lightner Al Plus 13,475
Michael Gottlieb -. 8 Minus 1850
Howard Schenken... Minus 5,405
Lenz' Partners.
Oswald Jacoby. 103 Minus 16,840
Comdr. Winfield. -.
Liggett, jr........... At Plus 1850