Evening star., 1939-12-03

will endeavor to capture one or
more of the championships in the
major events, together with the
coveted trophies that 60 with them.
They will measure skill at the
game with experts from New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore. Richmond,
Cleveland, indianapolis and Chi
cago, as we'll as from the Southern
bridge centers of Atlanta, Birming-
ham and New Orleans. Oswald
Jacoby, who maintains residence in
Dallas, Tex, as we'll as In New York,
also will be there; but, otherwise,
the Middle West, the Southwest and
the Far West are not likely to be
represented, for the reason that the
sunset States have a bridge organ
ization of their own, known as the
Pacific Coast League, which ranks
second to the Eastern body. There
is never any tournament rivalry be-
tween the two leagues, and it is
seldom that the members Of either
have an opportunity to play against
each other in any of the big events.
The Smoky City is expected to put
on a grand show for the visitors
under the slogan, Hold Hands In
Pittsburgh" The support of the
Mayor has been enlisted, as we'll as
that of members of various business
organizations. The William Penn
Hotel has turned over its entire 17th
floor to the tournament. with
separate bathrooms for the different
events. Tomorrow evening will be
Pittsburgh's hospitality night" and
the city wants everybody to have a
good time. No games are scheduled
until Tuesday. The hosts will be
the Pittsburgh Bridge Association
and the Women's Auxiliary, the
Pittsburgh units of the American
Contract Bridge League. Various
duplicate clubs and organizations
have arranged to provide their own
entertainment for the opening eve-
ming.
The program provides for the
womens team-o -of-four championship
contest in two sessions on Tuesday
and Wednesday afternoons for the
Charles E. Coffin Trophy and 10
master points to the winners and 4
to the runners-up. The match-point
team of -four event for the Chicago
Trophy will be held in three sessions,
Thursday evening, Friday afternoon
and Friday night. For this, there
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to the winners and Is to the men,
bers of the second team.
The mixed pair championships in
three sessions are fixed for Tuesday
evening, Wednesday evening and
Thursday afternoon. The prize is
the Olga j. Hilliard Trophy, and 20
and 9 master points are to go, re-
spectively, to the winners and run
ners-up. The open-pair champion
ship, which is to be the outstanding
event of the tournament, will be
played in four sessions, two qualify
ing sessions and one semi-fnal and
one final event. The play occurs on
Saturday afternoon, Saturday eve
ming and Sunday morning and after
noon.
In addition, there will be an am
ateur pair championship in two ses-
sions on Sunday and such special
contests as the Charity Bridge
games, the junior pair champion
ship, the non-masters' individual,
the tri-State night game and the
intercollegiate pair championship
which are to be played simultane-
ously with the major championship
events. There will also be four Spe-
cial practice games. on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Altogether, there will be no lack of
opportunity to play for contenders
of varying degrees Of skill and ex-
perience.
At some time during the week, not
yet specified, there will be busi-
ness session for the election of Of
ficers for the ensuing year and the
designation of a city where the
next winter tournament will be held.
AS the league follows the practice
of rotation in Office, President Le-
mon will not be candidate to
succeed himself. Several cities will