Evening star., 1936-08-05
BRIDGE TITLE WON
| BY HALF A POINT.
McPherran Team So to
Rivals 35l2 in Mixed
Championship Play.
BY the Associated Press.

by TIE Associated ffeSS.
ASBURY PARK, N. j., August S.
by a half-match point the Robert Nc
Pherran team took the mixed-team of
four championship of the American
Bridge Leagues tournament here last
night.
First check of the scores had indi-
Gated a tie, but the final score was SO
to 35R.
McPherran, with Louis J. Haddad,
Mrs. Eliot Evans and Miss Elizabeth
Whitney Of Chicago, scored 19 points
in the final session and nosed out How
ard Schenken, Miss Helen Bonwit Of
New York and B. Jay Becker and Mrs.
Sally Young of Philadelphia, who
scored 1917 matches. Monday the
teams tied for second place with IT
matches. Mondays leaders, Irving
Epstein, Mrs. Estelle Drescher, Morrie
Ellis, New York, and Mrs. Cecile Guth-
rie Of Columbus, Ohio, slipped rapidly
behind yesterday, ending up In a quad
ruple tie for seventh.
Trophy Is Captured.
The half-point margin gave the Nc
Pherran team custody of the Shepard
G. Barclay Trophy.
Louis j. Haddad Is a leading Chicago
player and Mrs. Eliot Evans distin-
gulshed herself in 1929 when she won
the American Bridge Leagues national
open pairs with Mrs. Sidney Lowell.
With Miss Elizabeth Whitney she took
first place IN selected competition
for the best players in Chicago and
won a free entry to the Asbury Park
events, as we'll as master points,
which. with the 10 she won yesterday,
helped give her total of "a.
Miss Elizabeth Whitney and Nc
Pherran were strangers to each other
and entered the event with Haddad
and Mrs. Evans at the suggestion Of
William E. McKenney, secretary of
the league, after Oswald Jacoby had
made two dates to play, one with Mrs.
Evans and Haddad and the other
with Mr.. and Mrs T. A. Lightner and
Mrs. Marie j. Black. The Jacoby-
Lightner combination finished sixth.
| Howard Schenken and Miss Bonwit
were members of last years winning
team, with B. Jay Becker and Mrs.
Sally Young of Philadelphia.
In third place, we'll behind the lead
ers. with total of 33 matches were
M. D. Maier, Mrs. Emory Clement,
Edward Hymes, jr., and Mrs. Louis
Beals.
Washington Team Fourth.
A Washington, D. c., team was
fourth with 81 matches. This four
some included William M. Mcintyre.
Mrs. Betty Kelsey, Leroy Thurtell and
Mrs. Agnes West.
A half a point behind in fifth posi-
ton were E. Melvin Goddard and
Mrs. H. A. Steiner of New Jersey
plaving with Sir Derrick Wernher,
also of New Jersey, and Mrs. Ann
Rosenfeld of Cleveland. Ohio. They
! totaled 30l2 matches.
| The mems and women's nationa
pair championships continued with J
H. Rapp and Robert Chatkin OF New
York leading the men and Mrs. Court
land Smith and Mrs. Ernestine Winter
of Montclair, N. j.. jointly heading thi
women with Mrs. Gussie Rosenbaun
and Anne Leary of Newark, N. j.
Second place in the mems was hell
by Irving Epstine and Robert L. Apple
yard of New York with tie for thirt
between DR.. Richard Ecker and Fret
D. Kaplan and Sam Fry. jr.. and A
Mitchell Barnes.
Clustered together in fifth place
were three master teams, OSWALD
Jacoby and David Burnstine of New
York, Clarence Strauss and John H
Sherman of Los Angeles and Jacf
Dreyfus and Baron Waldemar Vor
zedwitz of New York. Dreyfus ant
Kaplan before the tournament begar
tossed a coin to see who would pla,
with the baron, the former Alabama
boy won. He just claimed his firs'
championship in the Southern New
England team-of-four contests, whict
he won with Miss Ruth Chase of Bos-
ton, Sam Fry, jr.. and Edward Hymes
jr., Of New York.