Evening star., 1940-06-30
In Local Bridge Circles
By Frank B. Lord.

Historic old Annapolis is calling
TO washington contract players with
a July 4 weekend contest at bridge
and sightseeing and outdoor recrea-
ton. The registration shows they
are responding in larger numbers
for the third annual Carvel Hall
tournament. Generally, they have
been successful there, but this year
they will have more and stronger
competition than ever before. for
the entrants listed from New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Whining
ton, Richmond and Norfolk are
heavy and include many of the ac-
knowledged experts.
The Carvel Hall event has grown
to such popularity that it is now
rated as the most important tourney
within the Washington bridge area,
outside of the Capital itself, and
ranks next to the national and
State championship games. Among
the famous players will be Baron
Won Zedtwitz, the Austrian noble
man who relinquished his title to
come to the United States where
ne said he could find good bridge.
His partner will be S. G. Churchill,
expert and author, formerly of New
York, now of Washington. William
E. McKenney, secretary of the
American Contract Bridge League.
under whose auspices the tourna-
ment will be held, also will be a
player. Included among those who
will come from Philadelphia are
Charles H. Goren, individual cham
plon; John r. Crawford, Mrs. B. F..
Colder, Mr.. and Mrs. H. F.. Kreider
and Charles j. Solomon, all of them
holding national titles. Representa-
tive Kunkel of Pennsylvania will be
a participant and so will Mai. and
Mrs. c. w. Deitz of Cumberland.
Pa, formerly of Washington. Vir-
glnla will send Dr. Arthur Salasky,
Mrs. j. E. Folline, Mrs. A. j. Rosen-
bloom of Richmond and Herbert
Gerst of Norfolk all we'll known to
local players. From Wilmington.
Del, will come the Misses Frances
and Beatrice Jacoby and there will
be many others who have often dis
played their skill here.
Independence Day will be fea-
tured by two events conducted
simultaneously; in one, women will
be the participants and in the
other, men will play against one
another. The same boards will be
played by both the women and the
men and alternated as they are
played, An opportunity will thus
be afforded to determine which side
is able to make the best scores. A
year ago the women champions we're
Mrs. Jack Bennett and Mrs. j. r.
Belt, while the honors for the men
were won by DR.. E. B. Conolly and
Louis Newman.
There will be two sessions of the
mixed pair game, the first Thursday
evening and the second Friday eve
ming. Friday morning and after
noon will be given over to sightsee-
ing, during which the out-of- town
players will be given an opportunity
to visit the Naval Academy and to
go boating and bathing.
c. M. Hall of Chevy Chase and
P. E. Henninger of Virginia will de-
fend the mixed pair title, which they
won last year.
The outstanding contest will be
the open pair event in two sessions
on Saturday. The first round will
be an elimination one for qualifica-
ton. Those who do not score the
necessary percentage will play in a
special game Saturday evening. Mrs.
w. S. Athey and Tom Flood, both
of Washington, are the open pair
defenders.
The team-of -four event will be In
two sessions on Sunday. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Lemon, Leroy Thurtell
of Washington and Herbert Gerst
of Norfolk were last years winners.
Master points and individual prizes
will be awarded in the major events
and convertible master points in the
junior match. 1t. Comdr. w. A.
Corley and Mrs. Allan Rutherford
of Baltimore are joint Tournament
Executive Committee chairmen, and
Thomas Hanlin, president Of the
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