Evening star., 1938-03-13
By Frank B. Lord.
RIDGE POINTER recomm

n RIDGE POINTER recommend
* ed by Charges H. Goren.
When you have q choice he
tween giving your partner one
raise in q major suit, and naming
some other suit. you should FIRST de-
eide whether your hand Is worth one
or more bids. II 1t Is worth only one
bid, then you should make the bid
that is Of greatest interest to your
partner; obviously, that Is a raise in
his suit. However, II your hand Is
worth more than one bid, then you
should name your suit first and raise
your partners bid later. II partner
has opened with q minor, usually pre-
fer a takeout to q simple raise.
AS GRANT took Richmond, way
back there in the spring of '65,
SO the conquering army Of Washing
ton contract players captured the
Virginia city last week in the bridge
championships held by the Richmond
Bridge League under the auspices of
the American Contract Bridge League.
1t was the initial tournament of this
character conducted by the Richmond
organization and Washington con-
tract fans advanced upon it in full
force and came away with bag OF
trophies.
The games were played at the John
Marshall Hotel. There was a wom-
ems pair championship on Friday aft
ernoon, mixed pair championship on
Friday night, an open pair champion
ship in two sessions on Saturday and
a team Of four championship in two
sessions on Sunday. Twenty-one pairs
participated in the first named event,
SO pairs in the mixed match, 66 pairs
in the open pair contest and IS teams
in the teams of four championship.
The women's pair match went to Mrs.
r. c. Bayless and Mrs w. R. Chappell
Of Richmond by narrow margin over
Mrs. Eugene Nolan and Mrs. M. r.
West of Washington, while Mrs.
Clarence thinner and Mrs. Harold
Young, also of Washington, were third.
In the mixed pair championship Col.
E. B. Gray and Mrs. Clarence thinner
of Washington were first, Mr. and
Mrs. g. Hall of Richmond, second,
and Mark Lake and Mrs. Ruth Kava-
naugh of Washington, third.
In the open pair event which was
the big number in the series, the WASH
ington players made a clean sweep of
all prizes. Mrs. Eugene Nolan and
Mrs. NJ. r. West were first, with John
D. Mothershed and James Stone sec
ond. and DR.. E, B. Conolly and E. A.
Perkins third. The team of four cham
pionship was won by Harry Pincus and
Mrs. Frank Harrison Of Portsmouth,
Va. and Mr.. and Mrs. G. Hall, with
Harry Feibel. alternate, all of Nor
folk, Va. Second were Morris and
jeff Click OF Cleveland and w. R.
Chappell and Arthur Salasky of Rich
mond. A feature Of this game was the
fact that one complete team was made
up Of women players Mrs. West and
Mrs Nolan of Washington. Mrs. W. E.
McKenney of New York and Mrs.
Allen Rutherford of Baltimore, They
finished fourth.
The attendance Was large despite the
fact that the Eastern, one of the clas-
sizes OF the game. was in play in
New York at the same time and pre-
vented many players from that metrop-
oils, Philadelphia and other cities,
from participating in the Richmond
games. The Eastern has heretofore
been played as an individual entity,
but is now conducted under the au-
spices OF the American Contract Bridge
League. A confusion in preparing the
schedule of events which it sponsors
resulted in the two tournaments being
held on the same dates.
Among those from Washington who
attended the Eastern tournament in
New York were Mr.. and Mrs. James
H. Lemon and Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. |
Stockvis
IN DUPLICATE playing whether
pair gets top or merely average
on a board is sometimes determined
by the fact that the game contract
Is IN no-trump or a major suit or
vice versa. 1t frequently happens that
declarer by skillful playing will make
a three no-trump contract and think
he has won victory with a Hotpoint
score. only to discover that four
spades or four hearts could have been
made for point score of 12O, and
that the latter is top, while the three
no-trump contract is merely average.