Evening star., 1942-02-22
In Local Bridge Circles
> By Frank B. Lord :

Announcement has been made
that the American Contract Bridge
Leagues campaign to raise war
funds will be started by the doners
of the four capital trophies of the
big Eastern tournament who will
give their checks in the amounts
they usually spend for these prizes
and the league will itself provide
the trophies this year. The doners
are Julian Goldman, Curt H. Reis-
niger, Mrs. Stuyvesant Wainwright
and Mrs. Herman Liberman.
The Eastern is scheduled to start
on February %, at the Park Central
Hotel in New York and will run
through March 8. Washington
players have been invited to partici-
pate and several of them have ac-
cepted. The Eastern is the oldest
of contract Journeys having started
in 1926 when that form of the game
was in its infancy, and this year
promises to be the most successful
in its long career.
The program will be substantially
the same as that of last year. but
the number of entries are larger.
The events will include open pair,
open team, non-master pair, wom-
ems pair and mixed pair events.
The player making the highest per-
centage scores in all sessions in
which he competeS will be awarded
custody of the Muller Cup. To win,
a player will be required to take
part in three matches. To the club
whose members give sthe best pei
formances of the week will be
awarded the K. w. c. Plaque. S. G..
Churchill is the local member of
the Eastern's tournament Executive
Committee.
Among the top 10 senior masters
who are leading candidates for life
rnastership. the American Contract
Bridge League lists two Washing
tonians, S. Carton Churchill and
Alvin Roth. The former has 210
master points and the latter 206.
Senior masters become life masters
when they have amassed 260
points.
The leagues class recognition of
players is non-master or amateur,
a player who has no master points,
although he may have convertible
points; a Junior master, one who
has one to nine master points;
a national master, one who has 10
to 109 points, and a senior master,
one who has ITO to 259 points.
Once player becomes life mas
ter he retains that classification
In the lower grades, however,
a player may drop to lower class
through the annual deductions.
Those local players most recently
listed with additional master points
are Mrs. James H. Lemon and Mrs
w. B. Van Devanter, each three;
five; H. r. King and A. I. Westrich,
each eight; S. G.. Churchill, eight;
DR.. and Mrs. A. j. Steinberg and
Louis Newman, each three, all won
in the Washington Bridge League
tournament; Mrs. Frederick Eber-
son and Charles A. Lyons, each one.
in the Federal Bridge Leagues
monthly master point game and
Mrs. Irene Surguy and Gene Her
mann, each two, and William
Cheeks and Mrs. Frieda Boyce, each
one, in the Norfolk tournament.
Miss Lillian l.. Reagan of Wash
ington is also listed as new Junior
master.
Syracuse, N. Y, has been selected
by the Executive Committee of the
American Contract Bridge League
as the place for holding the 1912
fall session of the national cham
pionship games. Syracuse is in a
territory which is rapidly becoming
a center of bridge activities. The
date of the tournament has not yet
been determined.
One of the closest contests the
Agriculture Bridge Club has expe-
rienced is being waged for posses
sion of the Mcdonnell Cup. Five of
the leaders in the competition are
only one point and q fraction apart.
The standing after II games, with