Evening star., 1940-12-08
By Frank B. Lord.

vertible points, and under certain
conditions even master point tour
naments may be held by member
clubs of the league. Local du-
plicate clubs will no longer be
charged for rating point books, so
there will be no excuse for club
not issuing rating points. Duplicate
clubs will file application for men,
bership in the club division of the
A. c. B. L., but such club member
ship will not make the individual
members of the club members of
the league. 1t will simply make the
club to which they belong a member
of the club division of the league.
The club will be empowered to issue
rating points at all of its duplicate
games.
The new plan is a bit more COM
plicated in explanation than the
old method, but it is believed that
it will work out with far greater
satisfaction.
A player with from one to nine
master points will be known as a
Junior master; one with 10 or more
master points will be national
master. and the number of master
points player must have to be-
come senior master will be de-
termired later. Any woman player
with ITO or more master points will
become a life master.
The 18th annual national cham
| plonshlp tournament, which has
been in progress in Philadelphia
during the past week and which
concludes today, is said to have been
a banner event in the history of
contract bridge. In the opening
match, which was the womens
team-of-four championship, there
were 49 teams, while the largest
number previously in attendance
was % at the Cleveland tournament
two years ago. From that time on
nearly every record was broken.
Oswald Jacoby of the famous Four
Aces, player and holder of score
or more national titles. made a
spectacular arrival in an airplane.
flying from his home in Dallas
to play in the miXed-pair cham
pionShip with Mrs. Stuvvesant
Wainwright of New York. Another
feature noted by the galleries was
the appearance of Harold Wander
bit, playing for the first time in
many years in tournament outside
of New York.
Washington players were repre-
sented by a delegation headed by
Q. j. Brotman and Al Roth, CO.
winners Of the world championship
team-of-four match at Asbury Park.
N. j., last summer.
Both the Army and the Stays
teams of the Federal Bridge League
jumped from the second to the first
division in the play at the Ward
man Park Hotel Tuesday night. but
the Four Jacks retained their lead
by margin of nine boards. gaining
one over the previous session. The
Justice team, which has been doing
well for the past month, moved into
second place, while the Allies
dropped to third. The Jackaces.
leaders of the league during the
opening weeks of the series, fell to
the second division.
w. P. A, in the first section, won
l5l2 out of "a boards. The North
and South and the East and West
pairs of their team, w. de ST Aubin
and Mrs. B. Palmer, and Mr. Palmer
and j. Thornton, were high, the
former with 80 match points, the
latter with 65.
In the second section, the Army
team won 17l2 boards out of "a.
H. Wensel and w. Brombacher of
the Stays were high pair North and
South with II match points. and
j, R. Van Fossen and Mr.. Dembits
OF the Army were high East and
West with 80 points.
In section three, Interior Ladies
won 16l2 boards out of "a. Mrs. M.
Selbel and Mrs. F. Mordhurst were
high pair North and South with
6912 points, and Mrs. L. Moffett anG
Mrs. E. Glenn, also of Interior. werr.
high East and West with 1872 points.
The team standings follow: