Evening star., 1941-01-05
Washington Players
Share Honors in
Bridge Tourney
District and Baltimore
Experts Win Events
At Alexandria

Baltimore divided honors with
Washington in the opening games
of the fourth annual Northern Vir-
ginia Contract Bridge Tournament
at the George Mason Hotel in Alex
andria last night.
Mrs. Allan Rutherford and Mrs.
J. P. Dagger of Baltimore captured
the women's pair event by score
of 130, closely followed by Mrs.
H. G. Campbell and Mrs. Frederick
Eberson of Washington, whose score
was 1882. Twenty pairs from Vir-
ginia, Washington and Baltimore
competed.
In the second event for mixed
pairs DR.. and Mrs. A. J. Steinberg
of Washington won with a score
of 30312. Isaac H. York of Arling-
ton, playing with Mrs. Jack Ben
nett, had 1921, and Mrs. L. D. john
son of Arlington, with DR.. N. j. Nc
Hugh as her partner, scored 284l2 to
tie with Mrs. Rutherford and Rus
sell J. Baldwin of Cleveland Mrs
A. deV. Woodward and Ed Reison
of Virginia scored 277l2. In the
absence of C. B. Pennebaker, who
with Mrs. Chaplin Davis won the
cup last year. Mrs. Davis chose as
her partner DR.. w. H. Gorton and
came in seventeenth with a score of
23l. Thirty-nine pairs participated.
Open Pair Play Divided.
Tho r,ootph rybiph
the most important contest of the
tourney, was played in two sessions
yesterday afternoon and evening.
In the first round II of the 81 pairs
in play were eliminated
In the first section of the qualify
ing round Al Roth and Leroy Thur
tell of Washington had a compara-
lively easy victory with score of
991a points over Mr.. and Mrs. James
H. Lemon, also of Washington, who
registered 941s points. w. R. Gar
rett and DR.. c. c. Mcdonnell were
third with 81 points, and Repre-
sentative j. c. Kunkel and S. G..
Churchill were fourth with "a.
Following in order were E. A. Per-
kins and w. G. Jones, jr.; Rush
Buckley and DR.. N. j. McHugh. Mrs.
A. J. Rosenbloom and George F.
Bailey of Richmond, j. P. and j. M.
Snyder and Mrs. Jack Long and Mrs.
Rose Robbins.
In the second section those who
qualified were c. L. Head and Clagett
Bowie of Baltimore, 104: Mrs. L. D.
johnson of Arlington and Mrs. R.
S. Dubois, 1922; Louis Newman and
DR.. A. J. Steiberg, 93l2; DR.. w. H,
Gorton and Tom Wallace, SO; DR..
J. V. Watts and M. C. Stark, 9012,
and the following: Mrs. w. S. Athey
and DR.. E. B. Conolly, Max Kessler
and Leo Joel, Mrs. Irene Surguy and
Gene Hermann, Henry E. Goldberg
and M. M. Kasler, and Isaac J. York
and Mrs. Jack Bennett.
Final Round Delayed.
The final round of the open-palr
match was delayed last night. but
owing to the lateness of the hour
the score was not Immediately COM
puted and will not be announced
until today.
A surprise OF the open pair
matches was the fact that several
expert pairs from Baltimore and
Washington did not qualify for the
finals. These with others who had
not taken part in the match played
a consolation game last night.
The tournament will be concluded
today with the team -four match
in two sessions. At the same time
the intermediate match will be held,
in which players having master
points will not be eligible to partic-
ipate. This game promises to be
a popular one because of the fact
that it will include only the So
called average players. The trophy
is the silver cup presented by the