Evening star., 1941-04-20
Bridge >. and. Chess
The Games and Their Players; News of Local
Activities in Both Fields
By Frank B. Lord.

Tomorrow at 7:30 pm, at the
Shoreham Hotel, the Washington
Bridge League will gather for its
18th annual meeting and election of
officers. For those who have critic
ism, complaints, Affiliations or per-
sonal aspirations, that will be the
time and the place to bring them
into the limelight. AL members of
the league are strongly urged to be
present. The terms of Thomas
Hamlin, president; DR.. C. C. Nc
Donnell, vice president; Paul Golden,
secretary; D. e. Elliott, treasurer,
and Mrs. D. e. Stephan, Lewis Tubbs
and Perne Henninger, members of
the Executive Committee, are ended,
and new officers must be chosen to
fill their places.
A recapitulation of the Federal
Bridge Leagues seasonal activities
showed the w. p. A. team of Mr..
and Mrs. w. de st. Aubins, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. Palmer, Lewis Tubbs and
John Thornton to be the winners of
Section /; the Vain team, Mrs. Paul
Golden, DR.. Emily Grewe, Miss Doris
Rothwen and Miss Jessie McEnery,
winners of Section 2, and the Presi-
dents Mr.. R. H. Higgins, Mrs. June
Hodgkins,' F. Garner and w. Roth,
winners of Section 3. The open
season for top score hunters started
the 18th of this month and will con-
tinue throughout the summer. The
first section starts promptly at 8 pm.
At the National Press Club, Miss
Jean Henry and Mrs. Dorothy Whit
comb won the Victor Smith Trophy
for open pairs. The runners up were
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Hoyem. Ned
Brooks was the winner of the
Downes Bowl, which is awarded for
individual high score throughout
the year. The tournament continues
tomorrow night, when the clubs top
notch players will compete for the
Ely Culbertson Cup. This is the
team-of-four event, which generally
draws a record attendance. Before
the close of the spring games there
will be a mems pair and women's
pair, after which organized contract
at the club will have an hiatus until
fall.
While the approach Of summer is
causing some of the established
games to declare moratorium until
fall, new duplicate makes its debut.
The Touchdown Club. deserting
pigskins for pasteboards snd end
runs for end plays, is starting a
series of Monday evening games.
James Magner, secretary of the club,
announces that the whistle will blow
at $50 pm. tomorrow at the Touch
downers' home field-the Lafayette
Hotel-and the play will be directed
by Mrs. D. E. Stephan. Attendance
will be limited to members and in
vited guests.
Lewis Tubbs informs us that his
tvo-session "On-to-Virginia- Beach
game will be held on May 10 and will
have a local director.
And speaking of directing, our
hometown impresarios have been
making quite name for themselves
of late. Paul Golden spent the week
end in Baltimore running the Mary
land Bridge Leagues individuals,
A. P. Stockvis and F. H. T1llotson
did the honors at the recent Alex
andria tournament and Roy Astle-
ford has been pinch-hitting at Co
lumbia Country Club.
Mrs. Leo Crane, Walter Bollinger
and Charles Parkman, the La Sale
Studios Tournament Committee,
announce that spring competition
for the top score prize is nearing
the end. Curiously, all three of
them are in the running for the
trophy. Likewise, in the higher
brackets and with only fractional
differences in match point rating,
are Mrs. Katherine Tidban, Mr..
Crane and Col. E. B. Gray. The
La Sale has been the scene of many
bridge upsets recently. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Long produced a 70 per
cent game last week and showed
under all expert defense. Last Mon
day Mrs. Grace Buckler and Miss
Sara Daugherty, laboring under the
handicap of new partnership and
not too much experience, swept the
field of seven tables with practically
no effort.
In order to allow its players to
attend the Bridge League meeting,
Intermittent Duplicate, sponsored
by Louis Newman and william
Cheeks, will not be resumed until
April %. This game will be held
at the Cheeks Studio, 2o10 r street
NV, but thereafter at the Roose-
welt Hotel. The Ambulances-for-
Britain game will be held at the
studio Thursday at S:l5 pm. If
you have any new or used cards
bring them to the game, and they
will be forwarded to the New York
committee.
The personnel at the games is
undergoing change. Many of the
select younger players are becoming
selectees in the Army Paul Neff
has already been mustered in, but
has been assigned to the War De-
partment here. His regular partner,
Carl Itkin, will don the olive drab
May 8. He will be in the vicinity
for at least five weeks, as he has
been ordered to Fort Belvoir.