Evening star., 1941-10-20
Evening Star Trophy
Is Won by Mrs. Long
And Mrs. PouIeif
Federal League Takes
Plaque os Bridge
Tournament Ends

Mrs. Breckenridge Long and Mrs.
G. N Pouleif won The Evening Star
Trophy in the Metropolitan pair
game played in two Saturday ses-
sions of the 18th annual tourna-
ment of the Washington Bridge
League, which closed yesterday at
the Hotel Shoreham. They were
leaders in both sessions and their
final score was 4l0. The runners-up
were DR.. N. B. Eddy and J. G..
Wooley who had a score of 1893.
Third in the contest were Miss
Thelma Goodstein and Mrs. Violet
Zimmer, score 800. George l..
Kathan and H. Robert Young were
fourth with 384 and r. H. Higgins
and Mrs. M. E Myers we're fifth
with a total of 38012 The winners
will be permitted to hold The Eve
ming Star Trophy for one year.
The match was regarded as the
most popular one of the series by
reason of the fact that the rules
governing it excluded all those
players who held more than four
master points in the ratings of the
American Contract Bridge League,
and left the contest open to average
players.
Helped Win Plaque.
The Metropolitan Plaque which
was another prize in this competi-
ton went to the Federal Bridge
League as the bridge organization
whose best three pairs made the
highest aggregate score. Mrs Long
and her partner were entered as
Federal bridge players and their top
score helped materially to win the
plaque for that group.
The open pair championship
which was the classic event OF the
| tournament was won by A. l. West
rich and H. r. King with a total
score Of 1852 Second were Repre-
sentative John c. Kunkel of Har-
risburg, Pa. and C. E. Head Of New
York, whose score was 2724. Mr.
and Mrs. James H. Lemon were
third with 270.3 and L. G. Tubbs
and Mrs. Claire DIST. Aubin were
tied for fourth place with Mrs. Ed
ward Behrend and Edward Pierson
of Baltimore. Each had a score OF
| 2702.
The game was played in two ses-
/ sions. The first was a qualifying
round in which 80 pairs we're elimi-
mated because their scores were low
Mr.. Westrich and Mr.. King had TOP
score in the initial session anC
maintained their lead throughout
the second.
Consolation Winners.
Those pairs who were eliminated
in the first session PLAYED a special
/ consolation game in which the win
ners north and south were Mrs
Rose Robins and T. D. Harrison
first, score l76; George L. Living
ston and z. H. Hartzell, second
score 1851: east and west winners
were Miss Helen Landauer of New
York and T. L. Ryan. first. score
1874; N. E. Lynch and E. B. Krepps
second. score 1913. and Wallace Jones
and John r. Chapel, Jr., third
score 184lz.
The tournament closed last night
with the play of the second session
of the team-of -four match lr
which there we're l8 teams engaged
In the first session the leader,
we're Representative j. C. Kunkel
c. E. Head, Waldemar Won ZedtWitz
and S. G. Churchill, first; DR.. ano
Mrs. A. j. Steinberg, Louis Newman
and Simon Becker, second. and Mrs
Edward Behrend, Edward Pierson
E. w. Hyers, Irs Haygooni and Dr.
Frank Di Pauls, a flve-man team
third.
In the finals the first and second
teams held their respective posi-
tlons. the former with 1912 boards
and the latter with 3ll2 boards. In
third place were Al Roth and L. r
Watson and Mr.. and Mrs. James H
Lemon with 81 boards. l.. G.. Tubbs
Mrs. Claire DIST. Augin. James G.
Stone and DR.. E. B. Conolly we're
fourth with 80.