Evening star., 1933-11-10
ATLANTA BRIDGE
TEAM SURPRISES
Eliminates Defending Cham
pionS in Vanderbilt Cup
Tournament.


NEW YORK, November 10.-The de-
Tending champions have fallen from
the Vanderbilt Cup contract bridge
throne-depoSed last night in the first
round knockout play by an unseeded
foursome from, Atlanta.
1t was the greatest upset contract
bridge has seen in years. The AtlantanS
had plus of 1890 for Sc boards.
The ousted champions we're Harold
S. Vanderbilt himself, donor Of the cup;
p Hal Sims, once captain of the famed
-four horsemen"; Baron Waldemar Won
ZedtwitZ, considered one of the great
est psychologists in bridge, and Edward
Hymes. jr. All except Hymes are vet
Grams of many championships.
Pitted against them were William
Barrett of Augusta, who is only 2l;
Whitner L. Cary. bridge editor of the
Atlanta Constitution: Don Daniel, Is,
and his mother, Mrs. j. T, Daniel, an
Atlanta bridge teacher,
Face Feminine Team.
The Atlanta four next face a fine
feminine team comprising Miss Elinor
Murdock whose home town is Birming-
ham; Mrs R. B. Fuller Mrs Mary
Clement and Miss Helen Bonwit. This
team eliminated last night a Wilkes
Barre, Pa quartet-H. H. Foster, Jack
Simons, c. NJ Epstein and K. D. Mac
Millan-With a plus of 2,42O for the SO
boards.
David Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby,
Howard Schenken and Michael Gott-
lieb, co-favoriteS from the start, easily
eliminated another New York team,
and the CulbertSons (Mr and Mrs.) :,
with Theodore Lightner and Albert H.
Morehead, had equally smooth sled
ding.
Chicago Team Eliminated.
A Chicago team, M S. Reilly, A. B.
Brown, Daniel Smith and Ben Fain,
bowed to Frank Rendon, Benjamin
Feuer, Sidney Rusinow and Phil Abram-
son, by the smallest margin of the night
"a scant 230.
The second bracket today include
these teams: L. H Watson, A. NJ.
Barnes, Richard Frey and Sam Fry, jr;
and H. j. Dinkelspiel, w. NJ Lichten-
stein, B. RabinoWitz and Lou Jaeger.
The winner here will face the winner
of the Barrett-Murdock team match in
the semi-finals tomorrow.
The lower brackets place the Culbert-
son team against H. S. Frankenheimer,
Ira Strasser, B. H. Cone and Leo Bach
rach, and the Burnstine team against
the Rendon team.
11CLC ID OIlC VI
layoutS that helped decide the Georgia
victory:
S., @
H., K 6
D., A 987
c., A K 9 8 So
West East
(von zedtwist). (vanderbilt).
s., 10 6542 S.,KJ7
H, 104 H, AJ72
D., QJ63 D., K42
c., @ c., J75
South (Don DanieD.
S., AIS
H., @ 9853
D., 10
c., 10 4 3
Barrett opened a club; East passed;
South said heart; West a weak spade,
and North went to three clubs, which
is forcing under their system. But
South Barrett called it "inspired") re-
fused to be forced and passed They
made four clubs, which is all that is
in the hand, while a bid from South
would have Sent them almost surely to
an impossible game contract. They
scored 100. while Sims and Hymes were
going down 500 on game bid in no
trurnps at the other table. The net
swing was $50 plus for the Georgians.
The Chicagoans lost despite an i'm
pressive plus on the following:
North (Fain).
S., A KJ8
H, K
D., K Q 1913
c., "A K4
West (Rendon). East (Feuer).
S., @ 9 5 s., 7 80
H, @ Q43 H, J872
D., 4 81 D., .,J9
c., @ 10 96 c., 1872
South (Smith).
s., 10 4
H, A 10 9 65
D., A 765
c., 8
The bidding: Cast and West always
pass.) North, / no trump South, 3
hearts; North, no trump; South,
diamonds; North, Z diamonds. 1t was
one Of the few grand slams bid and
was an easy make for 2,140 plus. At the
other table, Rusinow and Abramson
reached only six diamonds against
Reilly and Brown, and their plus was
1880, giving Chicago net plus of 750
on the board.