Evening star., 1933-12-10
C|NC|NNAnANS WIN
BRIDGE TOURNEY.
Hall and WiIdberg Score 325
Points for National Open
Championship.
BY the Associated Press


CINCINNATI. December 9.@Scoring
325 match points on the days play.
Charles @. Hall and r. M. Wildberg of
Cincinnati tonight won the national
open pair contract championship of the
American Bridge League.
To win, the two residents of Cincin-
natl jumped from the fourth-place
ranking they held last night at the close
OF the Semi-final round. They went to
the top over the heads of such pairs as
Waldemar Zedtwitz and Sam Fry, jr., of
New York, and L. j. Haddad and p. D.
PARCELS of Chicago, co-favorites to take
the title, a major championship Of the
week-long competition
The mixed team-of champion
ship still is to be determined
Neither member of the winning pair
has known national championship hon
ors before, though Hall has won often
in regional tournaments. He is the orig
inator of system Of bidding, modi-
fed Sims method. Wildberg is a
devotee of weak no-trump openings that
had been troublesome to visiting experts
throughout tournament play.
Sims Unfortunate.
p Hal Sims, outstanding of all those
entered, continued as unfortunate as
ever in the event, though he and his
partner, B. j. Becker of Philadelphia,
managed to score 2S9 points on the day
to rise from seventeenth in the SEMI
finals to fifteenth in the final ranking.
Oswald Jacoby of New York, his CO.
exponent of the psychic bid. and his
partner, Ed Hymes, jr. also of New
York, advanced not at all. Eleventh in
the semi finals the pair finished elev-
enth in the finals. as well. For the
most part, the relative rankings as
against the semi-final round remained
the same after 80 hands of play. Ex-
ceptions were A. Glatt and C. w. Killing
OF Chicago, who rose from thirteenth
to seventh.
Helping hold back Jacoby and Hymes
was one hand in which the champion
of psychic bids was beaten at his own
game by Cincinnati pair Of David H.
Spritz and Jack Litwin.
Trickcd by Clean Bidding.
Jacoby in South position. and Hymes,
playing North, were tricked into an un-
makable contract by the clever bidding
of Spritz and Litwin, playing East and
West respectively.
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North and South were vulnerable;
South was dealer.
South and West passing, Hymes with
six plus tricks and void suit opened
with two hearts. a game forcing bid.
East. fearing a possible spade contract
by opponents. bid two spades. a suit In
which he was void. South, with five
spades to the jack, doubled, which was
passed by both West and North. East
was then forced to show his escape
suit by calling three clubs. South and
West passing, North bid three dia-
monds, East further confused the bid
ding by overcalling with three no
trump. South passed, West passed. and
North bid four clubs to show a blank
suit. East passing South showed his
suit preference by calling four hearts.
West passed, and North bid four spades.
Bids Six Clubs.
East bid four no trump. South
passed, West passed and North bid five
clubs. forcing his partner again. East.
knowing that the opponents were not
in accordance on suit and willing to
take set for sacrifice, for he did
not think the oppOnertS could be set
at slam contract, bid six clubs. South
and West passing. North overcalled
seven clubs, to let his partner show
preference for any other suit. South
went seven diamonds. the final contract.
The play-Knowing their opponents
reputation for psychic bidding, East
thought Hymes' original bid of two
hearts might have been a lead pre-
venting opening. East opened the two
of hearts. North could find no entries
to South's hand and was forced to
lose two spades and diamond, being
set IS points.