Evening star., 1938-05-22
In Local Bridge Circles
Mr.. and Mrs. Adams Win Bridge Trophy.


passed. and South redoubled.
As the count usually goes he had
only tyNo primary tricks, the K-Q Of
spades and the K-Q Of diamonds.
West led the heart king, which de-
clarer trumped. He led small dia-
mond, upon which West dropped the
jack and dummy won with the six OF
trumps. A small club was led from
dummy, and trumped by South, and
the queen fell from Vests hand. An
other small diamond was led, and West
was forced to play his ace, and the
trick was won by dummy's second
trump: another club. led from dummy.
was trumped by South, and West was
obliged to play his ace Of clubs. De-
clarer then laid down his king Of
trumps, which West won with his ace
and had his ace Of hearts trumped
with q small spade in declarer's hand.
Another lead Of spades clared all the
adversely held trumps. DR.. Castillo
then held nothing but trumps and good
diamonds, and claimed q small slam
in spades doubled and redoYbled.
THE second and final session Of the
big May game of the Washing
ton Bridge League was played at the
Hotel Shoreham on Wednesday eve
ming and resulted in a victory for the
team composed of Mr.. and Mrs. James
H. Lemon, Mrs. M. r. West and Lewis
r. Watson, jr., whose total score was
40 boards. In the final session, how
ever, this team was third in the eve
ning's play, but the big lead which
they had in the initial session played
two weeks before was more than rival
teams could overcome.
The Lemon team scored 22l2 boards
in the first session and 17lz last We'd
nesday night. Second in the finals
was the team of DR.. E. B. Conolly, E.
A. Perkins, Tom Hamlin and w. H.
Mcintyre, whose score was 1912 boards
on last Wednesday night ond 17l3
two weeks before. making their total
81 boards. This team was first in the
Ralph Woodside. Mrs. Charles Kava-
naugh, Lewis TubbS and Lester D.
johnson was third in the finals with
total of 32l2 boards, 18 won in the
second session and l4Is in the first.
The standing of the teams in the sec
ond session was the Conolly team first.
the Woodside team second and the
Lemon team third The winners will
receive the scheduled number OF mas
ter points awarded by the American
Contract Bridge League
In the second section. were "a boards
were played last Wednesday night. the
winners OF the two sessions comprised
the team OF Mrs. Elizabeth Hum
Brown, P w. Sheppard. Mrs. Alma
Byrne and Rudolph Aukshum. with
total Of 27 boards in the two nights of
play. Second was the team of Miss
M. Tobin, W. E. Kelly. Mrs. X. J,
Fenton and Miss E. Myers. with Is and
ll% boards. respectively. for total of
262. boards Rush Buckley. Mrs.
Mattye May Mckenzie and Mr.. and
Mrs Warren Gardner were third with
IA and l2l4 boards respectively, for
the two sessions Of play.
In the second session game last
Wednesday night the leaders were
Mr. and Mrs B. Rosson, A. NJ. Shep-
pard and Mrs. Name Barry, first;
Mrs. T. D. Sheldon. Mrs. Robert Du
Bois, Mrs. Pat McCarran and Mrs
John H. Evans. second. and Rusk
Buckley, Mrs Mattye May Mckenzie
and Mr. and Mrs Warren Gardner.
third. The last-named team held its
place in the finals and ended in third
place, but neither of the other teams
was able to reach the leaders in the
final score.
In the open-air pair game played at
the same time at the Shoreham the
winners North and South were Mrs.
Eugene Nolan and j w Hussey. first.
IS points: Mrs John Coffee and James
Sourilas, second, 70 points: Miss Emily
Grewe and Miss Jessie S. Jones. third.
"a points. East and West. Mrs. A. j.
Steinberg and Max Kraus, first. sc
points; Mr.. and Mrs E. B. Swanson,
second. 79 points: Mrs. Ralph Werner
and Mrs. r. V. Snow, third, ia
points.
WASHINGTON bridge players have
been invited to attend the over
Memorial Day week end championship
matches of the Cavalier tournament
to be held from Saturday to Monday.
inclusive, at Virginia Beach. Three