Evening star., 1938-12-18
In Local Bridge Circles
Challenge Cup to Be Permanently Awarded

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for the presentation. Twenty hands,
all Of them played by experts at
Cleveland, are presented in the first
installment, and others will follow
monthly, each taken from tourna-
ment games as they are held from
time to time in different parts of
the country. The device affords the
first and most advantageous oppor-
tunity the bridge playing public has
had accurately to observe and fol-
low the methods of those who are
regarded as the premier players
Of the game and to profit by doing
so.
The residents Of Colonial Village
found happy method last week of
completing their Community Chest
quota. They organized a duplicate
bridge game which was held in the
community hall and was literally
patronized.
The promoters of the undertaking
were P. E. Henninger and j. T. Onley.
Mrs. D. E. Stephan, who directs the
regular weekly bridge series for the
villagers supervised the chest bridge
play. The winners were, North and
South, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Onley,
first; Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Bono, Sec
ond; Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Grigsby,
third; East and West, Mrs. w. H.
Owens and Mrs. E. S. Coffman, first;
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Baker, jr., Sec
ond; Bernice Kleeblatt and Oscar
Baum, jr., third.
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The Ranger team came from be-
hind in the concluding first half of
the Federal Bridge Leagues series
OF season games last Tuesday night
and. won top score in section A.
Throughout the greater part of the
series the Rangers had Jagged in
the second section, but they jumped
up two weeks ago to win against the
Allies and the Arlington teams who
had respectively held the lead at
the beginning of the series. The first
10 games Of the series were held to
determine the section in which the
several teams should qualify to play
In the semi-finals, by reason of their
percentages made in the weekly
events.
The 18th and 18th games deter
mined the section winners. OF these
the Rangers won liz boards. and
the Substitutes, another team which
came up from far down the list, was
second with 1917 boards. The SUBJ
stitutes started toward the top from
the third section late in the series
and steadily advanced, while the
Arlington team, which had previ-
ously occupied first place, dropped
to the last position in the finals.
The Rangers comprise Messrs. Cor
ley. Mcdonnell. March and Wilson,
and the Substitutes, Messrs. Blanck.
Munchmeyer, Hallauer, Bergfeld and
Hollingshead, alternate.
In section B the winners of the
semi-finals were the G's team. COM
prising Mr.. and Mrs. Gardner and
Messrs. Garner and Garner, %
boards, while the Justice team,
Messrs. Greene and Darby and Mr..
and Mrs. Campbell, were second
with 81 boards. Section c winners
were Messrs. Hill, Gibson. Fewell
and Shackle. composing the Stays,
with rs boards, while the Red Skins,
Messrs. Fruitman, Kessler, Roster
and Liverman, were second with 241a
boards.
For the next three weeks the Fed
eral League will hold a pair game
each Tuesday night at the Wardman
Park Hotel to which all players, re-
gardless Of whether they are or are
not members Of the league, will be
admitted to play. The leagues team
of-four games, constituting the Sec
ond half Of the series, will start on
January 10.
The American Legion decided last
week to cancel its scheduled team
Of four match which was to have
occurred last night as the con-
cluding event of its four weeks tour
nament. The reason assigned for
the eliminating Of this match was
the proximity of the Christmas
holidays. The tournament, which
was held at weekly intervals be-
ginning November 26, at the War
Mothers Home in New Hampshire
avenue, nevertheless was so much
Of q success that its promoters are
already considering the matter Of
repeating it at future date.
OF the three major events held,
the open-pair match was won by
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Hamlin with 1a6