Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-07
Woman Experts Open
Bridge Leagues
Tournament Here
Playing Will Continue
Through Sunday, With
Many Prizes at Stoke

A group of women experts met
today in the big supper room of
the Shoreham Hotel and opened the
10th annual tournament Of the
Washington Bridge League. which is
to decide series of championship
in the District Of Columbia.
The initial number was strictly a
women's game, the womens pair
contest, in which there were par
Elephants not only from Washington,
but also from New York. Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk
and other cities.
The only men attending the meet
were the directors and scorekeepers
and a few scattered kibitZers. The
men will have opportunity to show
their proves later for the tourna-
ment Is to continue throughout the
week and conclude on Sunday when
the team-of-four match is sched-
uled. There is no game exclusively
for men, but hereafter they will play
with women partners in the other
events of the series.
Women's Finals Tomorrow.
The second and final of the wom-
ems pair championship games will
be played tomorrow afternoon. This
feature of the leagues program was
begun several years after it started
holding annual tournaments dec
ade ago. The Columbia trophy is
the prize to be awarded. In the
four years it has been in play no
pair has won it twice, although Mrs.
v. A. Clarke was twice a member
of the winning pair. She is now
in California and is not competi-
tor in the present match.
Temporary title to the trophy is
now held by Mrs. j. A. Folline and
Mrs. A. J. RoSenbloom, both of
Richmond, who won it last year,
and they are today defending it.
There is very spirited effort on
the part of the local contingent in
the event to recapture it. The scores
in the two games will be cumulative
and there will be no Examinations,
all participants playing in the two
sessions.
The first session of the mixed
pair match and the first session Of
the intermediate pair match are
events for tonight at $50 o'clock.
The Capital Cup, which is to be
awarded to the winners of the mixed
pair match, also is held by Mrs. Fol-
line and DR.. Arthur SalaSky. another
Richmond player. Last year was
the only time in the five years it
has been in play that it has been
taken by visiting players, and Wig
orous attempt also is to be made
to bring it back to Washington.
No pair has succeeded in winning
it a second time.
intermediate Event Tonight.
The intermediate event in two
sessions, starting tonight is a pop
ular and heavily backed affair since
experts who have more than one
match point according to the ratings
of the American Contract Bridge
League, are barred from taking part
in it, as are also any pairs that have
previously won it. This opens it for
those who are clasSed as average
players. The prize is the Evening
Star trophy and is now held by
Miss Kathleen McNutt and w. A.
Bollinger. An additional feature in
this contest will be the play for the
Intermediate Plaque special desig-
nation awarded by the league for
one year to the club or other dupli-
cate group whose best three pairs
make the highest score in the two
sessions.
The Agriculture Bridge Club. last
years winner of the plaque, has en-
tered half a dozen pairs who will