Evening star., 1937-12-05
OPEN PAIR GAMES
IN FINALS TODAY
Largest Number in History
of Bridge Tournaments
In Qualifying Rounds.
BY FRANK b. LORD.


ham Hotel were played yesterday
afternoon and last night. There will
be semi-final session at 1880 am.
today and a final session at 5 pm.
This event will bring the tournament
to close.
The game opened yesterday after
noon with 96 pairs entered, the largest
number in the history of national
tournaments, and three more than
played in the record breaking cham
pionships in Chicago last year. The
total listed for all events was 2,6O2,
which exceeds by approximately 500
the largest number of bridge enthusi-
asts ever brought together in one
national gathering. While some of
the events have fallen few pairs
short of the maximums set hereto
fore. IN the aggregate there have
been more players than in any pre-
vious gathering.
About so per cent of the partici-
pants in the open pair championship
which is the classic of the tournament
were eliminated at the end of the
first qualifying session yesterday after
MON, and similar percentage of
those remaining failed to qualify in
the session last night, so that only
abfut IS pairs will be entitled to
tok1 part in the semi-finals and the
fln9is today. The prize for this con-
tsse is the Cavendish Club Trophy,
flow held by Walter Jacobs and Ralph
Kempner of Chicago.
Jacoby's Flare-up.
There were no echoes yesterday of
tho fare-up in the meeting of the
Board Of Directors on Friday, when
Oswald Jacoby. whose pair had been
eliminated In the match point team
ol-four, objected to the plan of the
Nominating Committee to make Elv
Culbertson an honorary member of
the league. MIR. Jacoby's objection was
based upon what he said was the
undesirability of singing out one
bridge player who was, like himself.
commercializing the game, and con-
1err1ng such an honor upon him.
-Wnen 1t was explained that this was
oone because Of Mr.. Culbertson,s
prominent part in forming the Ameri-
can Contract Bridge League by the
merger of the American Bridge Leap,e
ana the United States Bridge Asso-
cation. Mr.. Jacoby withdrew his pro-
test even though not few had shared
MS views. MIR. Jacoby accepted the
actlon without further comment and
Yesterday was playing in slightly bet
Yer form than in the match point
seam-of-four championships. from
vnlcn his team was eliminated in
the finals '
Yesterdays event brought IN tho
tournament nearly twoscore addi-
tional pairs who have not heretofore
attended. Half of these were from
new York and the remainder were
Drought from other cities.
Grand Slam Hand.
The following hand gave several
players who bid a grand slam in
spades, but the greater number
stopped at a small slam and then
1oet the difference between a grand
siam and small slam:
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East and West Vulnerable.
South Dealer.
South opened with spade which
West passed and North bid two dia-
monds and East two hearts. South
then bid three diamonds and West
three hearts. When North overbid
ms adversaries with four hearts.
Souh bid four no-trump and North
olo IN some Instances six spades and
N others seven spades. The kew was
North's four hearts over the three
heart bid Of his adversaries. indi-
eating to his partner that he had
no nearts, or could control the first
!sao OF that suit South's four no.
mump bid had indicated to North
SnA. sc mad fit in his diamonds and
"ofI@ tnereupon went to seven spades.
Hamlin and Conolly Lead.
In the first qualifying round Of tho
open pair championship last night the
washington pair of Tom Hamlin and
F. E. B. Conolly led in Section A
with score of 2451a. Average for
the section was 1875. Next was the
pair consisting OF Fred d. Kaplan of
New York and P. E. Sheardowne of
Toronto, with a score of 239. Charles
Lockridge, New York, and S. G.
Churchill, Great Neck, N. Y, were
third with 2371a.
In Section 2 Of the same match. DR..
Louis Mark and Stanley Schwartz.
both of Columbus, Ohio, were first
with 270; Harry Fishbein and Phil
Abramsohn, New York, second with
1884, and Mrs. A. P. Stockvis and AL
Roth, Washington, were third with
2521a points.
In Section 8, the leaders were E.
Hymes, jr., and Robert McPherran
New York, with 255 points; second
N. g. Wilson, r.. and w. R. Heath,
r.. Norfolk, Va, 244; third, Ralph
Aargolius and Herbert Gerst, Nor
folk, 242.
Oswald Jacoby of Dallas, Texas,
who failed to qualify in the match
point team of four contest Friday,
playing with Henry Chanin, Atlanta,
today scored 214 in the section where
the average was 1875.
Mrs. Faulkner Ill.
Mrs. J. A. Faulkner, wife of the
Canadian minister of health, who was
one of the team of four defending the
Chicago cup, was reported i'll last
night from the effects of too much
bridge. She was placed under the
care Of q physician and ordered to
her bed suffering from a cold and
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