Evening star., 1943-06-06

while East and West held all the
| spades and all the diamonds. Of
course, East and West won the con-
tract and scored seven-odd.
This was the deal:
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| When this remarkable set of
hands was taken from the board.
DR.. N. j. McHough of the Yankee
Clippers was dealer in the south.
| Without hesitation he made pre-
emptive bid of four hearts. James
G. Stone of the Jay Wees team, in
the west and not vulnerable, over
called with four spades. He figured
that in the event of double he had
an escape of five diamonds, but that
if his partner could support the
| spades, a four contract in that suit
/ would score more than five dia-
monds.
DR.. w. H. Gorton, in the north
with six Of his partners suit. no
spades and no diamonds but long
suit of clubs, promptly jumped to
seven hearts. Then the bidding was
up to Mrs. Violet thinner in the
west. She had eight of her part
ner's bid suit, including the ace. king
and jack She thought that if Jim
Stone could call four spades with
out those cards that he must have
another strong suit on the side. She
knew he was a very skillful player
and without hesitation she went to
seven spades. Dr. McHugh, in the
south, who had opened with four
heart bid, could go no further and
passed.
Not so, however, with his partner;
he promptly doubled and led the
ace of clubs When dummy went
down Mr. Stone spread his hand.
There was no play. With dummy
he had all the spades and all the
diamonds and neither had hearts
or clubs.
The result was a grand slam in
spades doubled and four very much
astonished players. On its face the
deal looked like frame-up, but no
such charge was made and could not
be for the players themselves had
shuff1ed the cards before they were
placed in the board. 1t was just one
Of the remarkable things that can
happen in game of bridge
Col. E. B. Gray and Mrs. Catherine
Tidball the other half of the
Yankee Clipper team who played the
spade hand at another table were
not doubled and consequently the
board was accredited to the Jay
Wees.
While the playoff contest OF the
team of four was in progress other
members of the league played an in
dividual or roundrobin game in
which each player was matched for
one board against every other player
1t was the first time that the league
had tried the experiment of such
game and it proved much to their
liking. The players were divided
into two sections, one of five tables
and one of seven. In the first Sec
ton there was tie for first place
between Mrs. Myrtle Mcmahon and
Mrs. B. E. Palmer Mrs Katherine
j. Fenton was third. In the sec
ond section the winner was Mrs. L.
Salvatore and A. Davis and Mrs. S.
Kramer were tied for second place
The National Press Club players
last week completed their series of
five duplicate games for the clubs
maj jor prizes. The Mexican Ambas-
sadors Cup was won by Frank B.
Lord and Mrs. Katherine Fenton.
J. P. Snyder and Mrs. Ida Terrant
were runners-up. In the match for
the John H. Edwards permanent
trophy the winners we're Ned Brooks
and Mrs. Dorothy Whitcomb. Mrs.
Richards and Mrs. Merrill were Sec
ond and DR.. A. F. O'Donneu and
Mrs. Jack Bettett were third.
The following players lead the
cumulative average score in the
Capital City Chess Club: Mrs. Mary
Plum, .543S; Mrs. T. D. Sheldon,
.5415; Mrs. A. Grimes. $3.50; Mr..
Phelps, .6365; c. w. Stark, 1882.
Leaders for the clubs season plaque
are Mr.. Lane, Mr.. Parkman. c. w.
Stark and Mr.. Shepard, each three
wins. Among the women the lead
ers are Mrs. Grimes, nine wins; Mrs.
Shepard, eight wins; Mrs. Plum,
seven wins; Mrs. Belt, five wins, and
Mrs. Wright. five wins.
In the clubs pair game on Thurs
day night the north and south win
ners were Mr. and Mrs. John Dom
nelly f1rSt. Mrs Richar rdS and Mrs