The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-02-26

Westport and J. Bradford Ward
well of Stamford. In previous COM
petition, the New Haveners had no.
Jared well either against Hartford
teams. Yet. not only did a Whitney
Bridge club four take the trophies,
hut a second New Haven team.
that of Mr. and Mrs c. X. Gordy.
Kenneth Wayland and ]. d. Nc
Mutt, tied for second place at rs
points with the Hartwell- Paine
Wardwell team.
All three Hartford entrants went
down in the debacle, although 1t
seemed, when the evening session
started, that decentralization of
John r. Larus, Jr, Mrs Larus, c..
M. Petersen and Lewis w. Hannum
might top the field, inasmuch as
they were leading at the time with
is points. A similar fine score in
the evening would have meant VIC
tory. but the team stumbled badly
IN the second session and were
beaten out of fourth place by a
Waterbury team.
This Waterbury team played a
nice game throughout. Its members
were David Scully, Thomas Ed
wards, Walter Geraghty and Jos.
eph Sullivan. Their score for the
day was % 1-2.
The most amazing feature of the
play was the record match point
score amassed by Professor Edger-
ton and Mr. Sweeney, who played
the East-West cards. They had in
the evening session a total of 146
IL match points out of possible
00O This erau 80 -
IL per cent, an unheard of total in
such strong championship compe-
tition.
Edgerton and Sweeney led all the
pairs for the event, their tota,
match point score being 261. Mr.
and Mrs Gordy, another East West
pair, toof 224 1-2 points in both
sessions to tie for second place
with Paine and Wardwell, who
were playing North-South. The
Scully- Edwards pair was next with
PIC 1-2, while Hannum and Peter
sen, who had the best record of
any Of the Hartford pairs, fol-
lowed with ZIG.
Mrs Frank G. Bush and M.
Bradford Alfred of Hartford nosed
out by one point the team of Soul
ly and Edwards to win the North
South cups in the evening session.
Their score for that session was
i15. The Laruses won second place
North and South in the afternoon
while their teammates, Petersen
and Hannum, were tied for top in
the other division with a relatively
big score, 1913 points.
Rev. Ivan Fl. Benedict of Hart
fodr, son of E. E. Benedict, will
speak on the life of George Wash
ington at the meeting of Town
send lodge Of Odd Fellows this
evening at Odd Fellows hall.
Mr.. Benedict is pastor of the
Blue Hills church of Hartford and
trustee Of Suffield institute. He
has lectured locally as well as
throughout the state on various
subjects. He was graduated from
Crosby high school and Colgate.
At one time he served as chaplain
and lecturer at the Connecticut
Paulist conference while in
session at the Connecticut State
college. During the war he did Y.
M. G. A. war work.
A home baked bean supper will
be served at 6:45 o'clock. After
a short business meeting
will be held and will be followed
by program which will include
the talk by Mr.. Benedict, vocal
and instrumental selections and
juvenile acts.
The committee in charge Of ar
includes the chairman
William j. Nation, Ernest Burdett,
Edwin Hoyt, John Anderson, Will
liam ]. Davis, Thomas Morgan
and Clarence Folwell. The local
grand officers have been invited
to attend. -
Miss Martha Holcomb. daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs Frederick w. Hol-
comb of Prospect street spent the
week end with her sister, Mrs Pier
re DUPONT, Sd, and Mr. DUPONT in
Del. Mr. and Mrs du-
Pont entertained at dinner in
Miss Holcomb's honor Saturday
evening.