Evening star., 1939-07-16

which Mr.. Needham has sponsored
for the past 13 years in good stand
ing with the A. G. B. L. and entitle
its winners to the master point
awards the same as if nothing had
happened. This tournament will be
held on July 10 to % and promises
to be bigger and better than ever
before, and that is saying a great
deal, for it has always been one of
the most enjoyable and popular
events on the bridge calendar so far
as the Eastern section of the country
Is concerned. Washington players
delight to attend it not only because
of the good bridge which it invites
but also because of the pleasant sur
roundings for play. They will at
tend this year In representative
numbers and expect to bring home
prizes, as they have done before.
This year there are to be some
slight changes in the program. Two
new events will be inaugurated, the
non-masters pair championship and
the masters individual contest.
The morning sessions will be omitted.
The first two days of the tourna-
ment will be devoted to five minor
championships and special feature
games. They will be more or less
social affairs. The four major cham
pionships or trophy events, each to
be played in two sessions, will be
held on Friday, Saturday and Sum
day. There will also be a consola-
ton game of bridge frolic on Satur-
day night.
In the trophy matches the masters
pair championship is for the John
Perry Clark Trophy, the non-ams-
ters' pair championship for the JEFF
Sobel Trophy. the open pair cham
pionship for the Grace Krantz
Trophy and the team of four cham
pionship for the Conneaut Lake Cup.
The special feature games will be
the mixed pair contest, the mixed
team of four match, the women s
and mems pair games and the new
partner game played in one session
on Thursday night. In this match
each player must have as a partner
some one with whom he or she has
not played in a duplicate or rubber
bridge game since the last Conneaut
tournament. Mr.. Needham will be
chairman Of the Tournament Com
mittee and Russell j. Baldwin of
Cleveland and Ben Katzen of Pitts
burgh, directors.
1t does not frequently happen that
when the dealer holds hand war
ranting him in making legitimate
standardized opening bid of two in
suit, that the adverSaries will make
doubled game contract with an ex-
ira trick, but that is just what oc-
Cured at recent rubber game at
the National Press Club. The deal
was
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West &C. B. Pennebaker) was
dealer, and both sides were vulner-
able. Counting five and one-half
honor tricks, plus two jacks and a
blank suit, he opened the bidding
with two hearts. Dick Jones, who sat
North, put in nuisance bid of two
spades. East, although he had no
high card values, but held seven
card diamond suit, informed his
partner of his holding by calling
three diamonds. South bid three
spades, West four diamonds, North
four spades. and when the bidding
again reached West, he doubled.
North and East passed and South re-
doubled.
East led the 10 of hearts, which
the North declarer trumped in
dummy and led a diamond. which
was trumped in the closed hand. He
then proceeded to cross-ruff dia-
monds and hearts, even after East
was out of hearts, for two of dunn
mys trumps were higher than those