Evening star., 1944-10-29

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the Washington Bridge League, held
last week at the Shoreham Hotel,
the local players consider that they
split honors and prizes about evenly
with the large contingent of out
of-tOwn experts who made up prac-
tically one-half of the attendance.
They were there in large numbers
from Richmond, and also from Nor
folk, Lynchburg, Raleigh, Baltimore,
Philadelhia, Pittsburgh and New
York, as well as other places within
the Washington area With a single
exception, it was the largest meet
in the history of the league.
The visitors took the premiere
match, the open-pair championship
for the Woodward Cup. At least,
1t. E. s. Harlow of Richmond,
who Was co-winner last year, was
able to retain 1t. At that time, he
played with 1t. Creston Elicit,
but the latter being now on duty
overseas, the champion induced his
wife to become his bridge partner.
She had never participated previ-
ously In major tournament, but
that fact could not we'll have been
detected from the skill she dis
played. She shared equally with
her husband in the plays which
brought them success. Their score
was 292. A local pair, William
Cheeks and Mrs. Jack Bennett, won
second honors, but not the trophy,
with a score of 286. The third
pair was Claggett Bowie and Ar
thur Schlesinger of Baltimore.
At the last moment, the metro
politan event for The Evening Star
Trophy which was scheduled to be
played in the same two sessions
with the open pair game, was
merged with the open pair. 1t was
won by the pair having the highest
score among those who had orig
inally entered to play in the metro
politan. They were David Murray
and Royal Kiser. 1t. Philip Tatton
and H. Sibel were second.
The consolation match, played by
those who were eliminated from the
finals of the open-pair match, was
won by 1t. q. g. Mary Ruhl and
Mrs. Jacob Crane, playing North
and South, and Mrs. j. P. Tippett
and Ira Haygoni of Baltimore, East
and West.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Lemon,
the former a onetime president of
the American Contract Bridge
League, chalked up a wide margin
in the two-session mixed-pair con-
test, winning by a score of 362
points. They were first in the OPEN
ing round and second in the finals,
but their total score topped the
record of Mrs. G. Livingstone of
York, Pa, and George Powell of
Washington. who were second with
326 points. Mrs. Jack Bennett and
George Kathan, president of the
Federal Bridge League, were third.
In the women's pair game, played
with the mems pair
game, the winners were Mrs. j. E.
Folline of Richmond and Miss Mabel
Tobin Of Washington. Mrs. D. E.
Stephan and Mrs. Ray Richards,
both Of Washington, were the run
nersup in a field of 20 tables. r. H.
King and A. I. Westrich won the
mems pair match. with Ben Johnson
and P. E. Henninger second. There
were also 20 tables In this event.
The Government team continues
to lead in the Federal Bridge
Leagues team series. In Tuesday
nights session the Jeeps won 15h
boards out of "a in section A, the
Gruesome team won i7la out of "a
boards in section B, the Pickups, in
section c, also won l7lk boards cut
Of "a. and in section D the Grey
hounds and the Treasury foursome
each won 151a boards out of "a.
Next Tuesday night the Federal
will play its customary monthly
point game. On the following Tues
day evening the league will not be
In session, the players having voted
to watch election returns instead.
1t will be the first Tuesday night
in several years that the Federal
has had no bridge game.
The hand given herewith. which
was submitted by Charles E. Hood
and printed in this column last
Sunday, caused not a little discus
sion among bridge players. as Mr..
Hood stated it had done when seen
by those to whom he had previously
shown 1t.
The hand: Spades. 7: hearts,
none; diamonds, A-K-Q-J-10-x-x-
xxx; clubs, KS.
After East, who was dealer, had
Mr.. Hood in the South made
a pre-emptive call of five diamonds.
West doubled and South redo,1hled