Evening star., 1939-05-14


winners OF the team of four contest
for the Ely Culbertson Cup were
c. B. Pennebaker, C. E. Stewart,
John D. Mothershed and w. NJ.
Mylander, who, with 15la boards to
their credit, were one full board
ahead OF the team composed of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Brayman and Mr..
and Mrs. Phelps Adams.
The game for the cup presented
by Col. Marvin H. Mcintyre, one of
the Presidents secretaries and a
member OF the club was won by
c. B. Pennebaker and w. M. Mylan-
der with a score of g. and j. C.
Atchlson and Shipley Brashears, ir.,
were tied for second place with
Harold Brayman and Phelps Adams,
each having a score of 58l2. The
participants were limited to mem
bers OF the club. but at the same
time in another section women
friends of the members enioved q
game of their own in which Mrs
Arthur We'll and Mrs. Sears were
first and Mrs. Louis Rothchild and
Mrs. Oliver Hoyem were second.
tomorrow night the bridge group
OF the club will give their annual
dinner, at which time the major
trophies and the various club prizes
won during the season will be
awarded. The dinner will be in
honor OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Guest.
The former has acted as official
scorer and the latter as director of
the duplicate games. Following the
banquet there will be catch-as-
catch-can game, in which members
and their guests will draw lots for
partners.
The Northern Virginia tourna-
ment held last week end at the
Hotel George Mason in Alexandria
proved such a big success that it
mas been added to the regular series
OF events of the American Contract
Bridge League and will occur each
year hereafter during the first week
IN May. 1t was organized a wear
ago by Lewis Tubbs and has proved
an attractive feature for PLAYERS
from New York, Philadelphia, WASH
lngton, Wilmington and Richmond
as well as for those of nearby Vir-
ginia.
At the pair game of the Federal
League on Tuesday at the Wardman
Park Hotel the winners in section |
were Capt. H. Lazzard and H. G..
Campbell, first, and DR.. C. C. Nc
Donnell and j. L. Wilson, second.
in section 2, Miss Maize Buie and
Carl Kibler, first; Mrs. Rose Robins
and Mrs. Fannie Samuel second.
In the previous game the winners
in section were DR.. F. c. Blanck
and J. L. Wilson, first; Mrs. Paul
Golden and DR.. Emily Grewe, Sec
ond; in section 2, Capt. H. Lazzard
and H. G.. Campbell, first, and
Mrs. Margaret Hobbs and Miss Grace
Eaton, second.
Staggered games which were in
troduced by the players at the Penn
sylvanla Hotel in New York more
than a year ago are proving a sue
cess at the Hotel Roosevelt. Usually
the first section plays under the
Howell movement and the second
section follows the Mitchell method.
In last weeks games the first Sec
ton winners at the Roosevelt were
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Voss, first: Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Kerr, second;
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Gardner, third.
In the second section the winners
were DR.. A. J. Steinberg and DR..
E. B. Conolly, first; Mrs. Mary Good
stein and Miss Thelma Goodstein,
second, and Mrs. E. T. Carter and
Charles Edgerton, third.
The fifth annual Philadelphia
Master Point tournament, in which
several Washington players usually
participate, is scheduled for May 19
to May 81. A. NJ Sobel will be
director. Mrs. E. B. Swanson, re-
tiring president of the Washington
Bridge League, is a local member