Evening star., 1939-01-15
By Frank B. Lord.

Washington bridge players went
to Harrisburg, Pa, In force last
week to attend the Central Penn
sylvania tournament and won two
Of the four major contests. The ac-
claimed heroine of the meet was
Mrs. w. de st. Aubin, who was
member of the pair capturing the
Women's match and also the mixed
pair event.
Playing with Mrs. Daisy H. Mott,
also of Washington, Mrs. st. Aubin
won the women's pair game by the
narrow margin of one-third of
point. It was in the mixed pair
match, however, that Mrs. st. Aubin
gained her laurels. Playing with her
husband, she won this event by
margin of 133 points over one of
the most skillful pairs in the list
of contract players, Charles H.
Goren and Mrs. Sallie Young, both
of Philadelphia. The bridge handi-
cappers last year set Mr.. Goren
down as the best individual player
on the Eastern seaboard, which in
cludes all of the principal tourna-
ments of that section, while in the
past two years there has scarcely
been tournament within the same
region where Mrs. Young has not
been among the winners. She now
has enough trophies to make heavy
hauling for commodious truck. 1t
was. therefore, something especially
noteworthy for the Washington pair
to defeat them.
The st. AubinS are young couple
who came here from Indiana sew
eral months ago and have been sue
cessful in the various local duplicate
games in which they have played,
as we'll as in the regional tourna-
ments. The meet at Harrisburg,
however, resulted in their most pro-
nounced victory.
The open pair match at Harris
burg was won by the Mitchell
Ellenbogen pair of Pittsburgh, with
Goren of Philadelphia and Quier OF
Reading taking second place.
In the first session of this event
Mr.. Mothershed and Mr.. Roth. both
of Washington, were first, but fell
to fifth place in the finals, while Mr..
Perkins and Mrs. Mott were seventh
and Mr. and Mrs. Lemon eighth.
The team-o Of -four prize went to
Philadelphia team composed OF
Charles Solomon, Mrs. Ben Colder,
Joseph Davis and S. Vessel with
score of SO boards. Just one point
behind them, with 35 boards to their
credit, was the Washington team of
John D. Mothershed, Al Roth, O..
Brotman and Louis Newman. Only
one notch further below with "a
boards was the Washington team
of Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Lemon,
Lewis Watson, jr.. and Leroy
Thurtell, and one board still lower
was another Washington team COM
posed of E. A. Perkins, Mrs. Daisy
H. Mott, Mrs. Ruth Kavanaugh and
Lewis Tubbs, with 33 boards.
The tournament was under the
direction of Russell J. Baldwin, as
sisted by C. F. Waltman OF Reading.
Nearly 100 players participated IN
the opening game of the second half
of the Washington Bridge Leagues
season series at the Hotel Shoreham.
There were 20 tables divided into
three sections. In the first section
of nine tables the North and South
winners were F. E. Byres and R.
w. Byrnes, first; Mrs. Robert Du
Bois and Mrs. T. D. Sheldon. Sec
ond; Charles Lyons and Roger
Payne, third; East and West, Miss
L. A. Ehringer and G.. M. Richards
tied with Mr.. and Mrs. Martin May
for first place, while Mrs. Marian
Barre and DR.. C. C. Mcdonnell were
third
In the second section, also of nine
tables, the North and South winners
were NJ. E. Myers and l.. F. Smith,
first; DR.. w. H. Gorton and Thomas
Wallace, second; Mrs. Eva Milligan
and P. w. Shepard, third: East and
West, Mrs. G. G. Bradley and Mrs.
Roy Hackett. first; Mrs. T. M. Boyle
and Mrs. D. E. Stephan, second;
Mrs. Katherine Fenton and M.
Kurts, third.
In the third section of II tables
the North and South winners we're
A. I. Westrich and j. G.. Stone. first;
Mrs. Catharine Tidball and Col. E.
B. Gray, second; Mrs Rose Robins
and William Cheeks, third; East and
West. E. A. Perkins and Miss Edith
Cooper, first; r. E. Marsh and Dr.