Evening star., 1940-12-29
BRIDGE
The Game and
Its Players
By Frank B. Lord.

dlAo VIC ACSOA Ao oAPEOAe sAASsA S~s~SS
ment that the year ending Tuesday
night will have been the most sue
cessful in the history of the game.
1t presented an almost entirely new
/ set of champions holding the i'm
portant bridge trophies and a new
attendance for national tourna-
ments.
By virtue of two worlds titles,
three other championships and the
highest point rating Of the year in
the American Contract Bridge
Leagues ranking system, Morris
Ellis clinched the title Of the years
outstanding individual champion.
The outstanding woman player was
Mrs. A. M. Sobel Of New York, who
was closely crowded for honors by
Mrs. Benjamin Colder Of Phila-
delphia.
Three Washington players are re-
corded in the years list Of cham
pions. Two Of them were Al Roth
and o. J. Brotman, who, with
Betram Lebhar of New York and
Sam Katz of Maplewood, N. j., won
the 1910 worlds championship. The
other local player to gain national
championship honors was Louis
Newman, whose teammate was jeff
Click of Miami. With ther part
ners. Morris J. Click and Harry
Feinberg of Cleveland. they won the
board Ia match contest which gave
them the national championship.
Other world champions were: In
dividual, Morris Ellis; pairs, Mr.. Ellis
and Harry j. Fishbein, both of New
York. The national championship
winners were, for pairs, Mrs. A. M.
Sobe! of New York and Charles H.
Goren of Philadelphia; knockout
team (for Vanderbilt Cup, Harold
S. Vanderbilt Ctrophy donor Walde-
mar Won Zedtwitz, Edward Hymes,
jr.: Charles S. Lockridge and Rob-
ert A. McPherran, alternate, all OF
New York; mixed pairs, Mrs. Ralph
C. Young and Sidney Silodor, Phila-
delphia; mems pairs, M. D. Maier
and Robert A. McPherran: womens
pairs, Mrs. John Waidlich, Short
Hills, N. j., and Mrs. Edith w. At
kinson, Wayne, Pa; mixed team,
Mrs. Olive Peterson, Philadelphia,
and Henry Chanin, Atlanta, and
Mrs. Marie Black and Waldemar Won
Zedtwitz; women's team, Mrs. Ade-
laide Neuwirth and Mrs. Lottie
zetosch, New York; Mrs. Helen
Levy, Jersey City, and Mrs. Hum
phrey Wagar, Atlanta.
With the close of the fall sea-
son of national championships in
December, the 1910 bridge season
saw new attendance records set at
all three national tournaments as
well as in various regional, State
and local events. In the December
national alone, three events out OF
five saw new entry records and in
fourth previous record was tied.
The year 1941 will start of locally
with the fourth annual Northern
Virginia tournament at the George
Mason Hotel in Alexandria, Va,
next Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
1t will be the first major tourna-
ment Of the year to be held any,
where in the country. Its sched-
uled events begin with a women's
pair match in one session on FRI
day afternoon. the opening day. The
winners last year who will defend
their title are Mrs. Ralph Wood
side, Arlington. and Mrs. Charles
Kavanaugh, Washington. The
mixed pair contest will be held Fri
day evening. Last years winners
were c. B. Pennebaker and Mrs.
Chaplin Davis. Because of his re-
moval to Cleveland, Mr.. Pennebaker
is not expected to be present to
defend his title The open pair
game will take place in two sessions,
the first on Saturday afternoon
and the final on the evening of
the same day. Winners last year
were Al Roth and LIE Roy Thurtell.
The team-of-four match will be held
in two sessions on Sunday. The
successful team last year comprised
Mrs. w. S. Athey, DR.. E. B. Conolly,
James G. Stone and E. A. Perkins.
There will be special pair game
on Saturday evening for those who
are eliminated in the first session of
the open pair match, and any
others. In one session on Sunday
will occur the Northern Virginia In
termediate game for the trophy pre-
sented by the Alexandra Gazette.
1t will be open to those who have
no master points. Convertible points
and individual prizes will be awarded
to the winners. This game has been
modelled after the intermediate
match of the Washington Bridge
League, for which The Evening Star
Trophy is the prize for the win
nerS.
Master points, convertible points
and rating points will be awarded
to winners, runnersup and the third
pairs in all events.
The tournament director will be
Mrs. c. F. Waltman, whose late hus-