Evening star., 1944-07-23
With the Bridge Players
BY Frank B. Lord.

BY Franz
Washington bridge players will be
well represented at the 18th annual
summer session Of the American
Contract Bridge League, where the
competition will be for world and
national championships. The tour
nament is to be held at the Astor
Hotel In New York City, beginning
July 30 and continuing through Au-
gust 6. Many local players have
already registered and the prospects
are for large and successful meet
despite war conditions.
The program embraces seven
major events and In addition sew
eral special master point games. No
games are scheduled for the OPEN
ing day, July 30, but playing will
start on Monday afternoon, July 81,
with the national championship
mixed team-of- -four contest for the
Shepard G. Barclay Trophy. A sec
ond session will be held on the after
noon of the following day.
Fifteen master points will 60 to
the winners and five to the second
pair. The national championship
mems pair game for the Derrick j.
Wernher Trophy will occur in three
sessions, Monday and Tuesday eve
nings and on Wednesday afternoon.
Master point awards range from 30
down to /. At thhe same time the
national championship women's
pairs will play for the Wilbur c.
Whitehead Trophy. In this event the
master points are 18 for winners,
9 for the second pair and for the
third.
The world championship competi-
tions begin with the master pair
event on Thursday afternoon, which
will be In four sessions, continuing
Friday afternoon and Saturday and
Sunday afternoons. 1t is for the
Waldemar Won zedtwitz Gold Cup.
1t will be open only to those players
who have 10 or more master points.
In addition to the gold cup to be
awarded the first pair the master
points to be given range all the way
from u down to /, according to
the position in which the pairs fin
ish. This will be the outstanding
event of the series.
Beginning on Wednesday evening
and continuing in five evening ses-
sions through Sunday, August 6, the
world championship master teams
of-four games will be played for
the Nat B. Spingold Trophy. Three
members of each team must have
at least 10 master points in order
to be eligible to play, the fourth
must have at least one, but a fifth
or alternate member need not have
master points. Seventy master
points will go to the winners, Is
to the second team and 5 to each
the third and fourth. Fifty ma
t!onal rating points, convertible into
master points, will be awarded for
each match won in the first and
second rounds and one extra mas
ter point for reaching quarter final
round.
The presidents cup pair matches
will be played in three sessions Fri
day evening, Saturday afternoon
and Saturday evening. Master
points are 10, and g. The Morgan
Howard trophy will be in compete
ton.
The final event on the program
will be the national championship
amateur teams -four for the Mrs.
Meyer D. Rothschild trophy. 1t will
take place in two sessions on Sum-
day afternoon and evening, August
6. Master points are 10 and 4.
Present titleholders are: World
master pairs, Howard Schenken
and John Crawford.
World master teams, Howard
Schenken, John Crawford, Sidney
Silidor, Charles Goren and Edward
Hymes.
~ National mixed teams, Mrs. A. M.
Sobel, Mrs. Olive Peterson, Charles
H. Goren and Sidney Silodor.
National women's pairs, Mrs. Mae
Rosen and Mrs. E. ]. Seligman; ma
tional mems pairs, Charles Goren
and Charles Solomon; national
amateur teams, Mrs. A. P. Hess,
Mrs. Ruth Rice, Fred Slater and
Harold Frankenheimer.
Presidents cup pairs, Robert Ty-
son and A. j. Mill.
Local bridge players are unwill-
ing to accept at face value the
gossip that is current in military
circles that Gen Dwight D. Eisen-
hover is the best bridge player in
the Army. They are still loyal to
one of their own. Maj. Gen. "Al"
Gruenther, who was for long time
detailed here and at nearby posts
and claims Washington, where his
wife and family live, as his resi-
dence. He also belongs to various
local bridge organizations.
1t. Leo Moore of Los Angeles, a
photographer who is assigned by the
Army Pictorial Service to cover
Gen. Eisenhower, is assiduously cir
culating the statement that the
commanding officer is the best
bridge player in the service. He
plays with him frequently when
there is lull in the fighting, and