Evening star., 1942-07-12


Annapolis proved grand and glor-
ious" one for a whole covey OF new
winners. Only one of last years cup
holders repeated his victory-and
ambiguously, while he won, he was
second.
In the curtain raiser the mems
pair, Mrs. William Cheeks Of Wash
ington and Mrs. Nathan Agran OF
Philadelphia, were asked to fill IN to
avoid the necessity of ghost" 1t
was q chance partnership. and there
was no time to decide whether or not
strong no-trumps were to be used or
what slam convention followed.
When the scores were tabulated 1t
was found that the girls had won,
with IT'S, and Defender LA Roy
Thurtell and r. L. Skinny Miles,
IT,, of Norfolk, who was pinch hitting
for Gene Herman, had 81. Joseph
Grinsfelder and DR.. Frank de Paola,
both of Baltimore, were third. Since
the scheduled event was q mems
pair the championship, cup and
second point award went to the
Miles-Thurtell duo. while top. score
prizes and the winners share OF the
points were allotted to Mrs. Cheeks
and Mrs. Agran.
The Atlantic City tournament may
be recalled by those who keep
mental mem index re the wins and
incidents Of duplicate contests, when
Mrs. A. j. Steinberg and Mrs. Q. w.
thinner were asked to play IN the
qualifying round Of the opens to
avoid that bugaboo OF both player
and director-a bye round. They
turned in a scant 72 per cent game,
topping the scores of both sections
by several boards. However. since
they were Just "filler-inners," they
were automatically eliminated and
their dream game" chucked into
the discard! It was q much fairer
division Of spoils to give the Agran-
Cheeks combine their just reward
than to take advantage Of good ma
ture and disadvantage OF an almost
unbeatable carry-over, as In the case
of Mrs. Steinberg and Mrs. thinner.
In the women's pair, which was
conducted concurrently with the
mems. Mrs. Rose Robbins OF Wash
ington and Mrs. Stanley Newman OF
Baltimore we're first with 149. The
tie for second place between Mrs.
Winslow Van Dervanter and Mrs.
James Lemon and Mrs. Royal john
son and Nine. g. M. Pouheh (both
having 1897 was broken with the
former pair emerging victorious.
The mixed was won by DR.. and
Mrs. A. j. Steinberg with 274 match
points. Trailing in second place
with 1853 were Mrs. E. B, Cotter and
Warren Jones, all four from WASH
ington.
Mrs. w. s. Athey Of Washington
and w. e. Fairbanks OF Jackson
vile, Fla. won the opens with a
score Of 227.s. Second place went to
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Evans Of Phila-
delphia, who had 1888. just nosed
out for second place by the pro-
verbal eyelaSh-two-tenths OF one
point, to be exact-were last years
winners, Nathan Agran and Simon
Becker, also from the Quaker City.
The special game on Saturday
evening was won by Mrs. A. j.
Steinberg and Mrs. Dora Schwartz.
Mrs. Wilton Mccarthy Of Annapolis
and william Cheeks were run
ners-up.
The high-powered Philadelphia
foursome Of Joseph Davis, Stanley
Fenkel, Simon Agran and Simon
Becker outranked the intercity
team Of Mrs. Irene Surguy, Gene
Herman and Warren Jones Of Wash
ingtcn and Mrs. Leon Landauer and
Herbert Gerst Of Norfolk by two and
. half boards. In third place with
20 boards were Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lemon, lie Roy Thurtell, localities,
and r. L. Miles, jr. Of Norfolk.
Warren Jones was the individual
star of the tournament with two
place positions and top score (flrst
session team Of -four to his credit.
Junior" is q protege of w. M.
Mcintyre, 'The Little Master" who
is now, by the way, . full-nedged
flyer with Uncle Sam. Mr.. Jones,
with Thomas Flood, was
open pair champ OF Maryland. and
is one Of the team -of-four trophy |
holders Of the Old Dominion. etc.
and In bridge parlancs u gen.
orally conceded to be one Of cur
better younger players"