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victory was achieved by defeating t
Mrs. N. T. N. Robinson, Paul Kibler
and Mrs. w. 8. Athey.
The Kunkel team will be matched
next against . quartet consisting Of
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Lemon, Mrs.
w. Van Devanter and Lewis r. Wat
son who won the right to challenge
the cup holders by defeating, In the
priority matches, the team of Col.
Edward Clifford, donor Of the cup;
o. l.. Veerho1. G. w. Stark and p.
w. Shepard. The game will be
played on Wednesday night.
In the other contests for priority
rights. Louis Newman, DR.. A. ].
Eteinberg, Tom Flood and w. M.
Mcintyre defeated Mrs. M. r.
Reddy, Mrs. Tom HamNn, Mrs. Irene
surguy and Mrs. Rose Robins, while
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Hall, John Dom
nelly and Karle Turner were sue
cessful against DR.. G. G. Mcdonnell,
Mrs. Roy Hackett, D. G. Elliott and
F. M. Lake. The Newman and the
Hall teams also will have their play
of Wednesday.
In the regular team of four games
Of the league, winners In the first
section, where there were nine tables,
were Mrs. Eva Milligan, John Klein,
Mrs. Alma Byrne and G. A. Lyons,
first: DR.. Emily Grewe, Mrs. M.
Hobbs, Miss Charlotte Worcester
and r. E. Wenzel. second: Mrs. John
M. Evans, Mrs. Pat McCarran and
DR.. and Mrs. G. F. Kendall, third.
In the second section, where there
were 13 tables the winners were Mr..
and Mrs. Wilfred de st. Aubin, Lewis
Tubbs and Mrs. G. r. Kavanaugh,
hrst; Tom Hamlin, w H. Evans,
Miss Mabel Tobin and j. w. Hussey,
tied with Mrs. A. J. steinberg, H. R.
King, A. I. Westrich and Joe Grang-
er for second place.
The York Pa.) tournament last
week yielded little to Washington
players except the delicious lunch.
con provided by the management.
The nearest any one of the local
contingent came to being recorded
with the leaders was when Mrs.
Frieda Boyce and James Hunter
finished third in the mixed-pair
game. Most of the. winners and
runners-up were from Pennsylvania
towns.
The Eastern, New York's bridge
classic, has been on at the Park
Central Hotel throughout the last
week and will be concluded today.
In addition to offering an exhibition
Of skillful bridge playing 1t also af-
forded an opportunity for the dis
play of what the fashionably
dressed women will wear this spring
for several Of the sessions, notably
the women's pair matches, were
social events where kibitzers not
only looked upon end plays and
illnesses but also upon fine feminine
attire.
Several Washington players par
ticipated. and Mr.. and Mrs. James
H. Lemon contested in the first
two sessions Of the mixed pair event
but were eliminated in the semi
finals. John D. Mothershed and
Mrs. N. T. N. Robinson also played.
S. G. Churchill of Washington, who
was a member of the foursome which
won the Curt H. Reisinger Cup
last year, did not play this year,
but two of his teammates, Sam
Fry, jr, and Charles S. Lockridge,
were members of other teams.
The Goldman pair champion
ship was won by Charles Lock-
ridge and M. D. Maier. The runners
up were Baron Robert Won Engel,
who was a member of the victorious
Austrian team, now disbanded, and
Erich thinner Of Brooklyn.
1t is seldom that a grand slam
vulnerable contract is doubled and
redoubled. but just that circum-
stance happened on deal sub
mitted by A. A. Walters of the
Rural Electrification Administra-
ton. The players were Maj. L. M.
jerks, South; Miss Naomi Moulton,
West; Richard Dell, East, and Mr..
Walters, North. The distribution
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