Evening star., 1944-04-30

Having completed its 1884 sea-
son series of team-of-four games,
the Federal Bridge League will start
its sectional playoff games at the
Wardman Park Hotel on Tuesday
The various teams will be frozen
in the respective divisions where
their percentage ratings placed them
at the end of the season, and each
will play for prize in its own sec
ton. There will be three sessions
of playoff games, one session each
Tuesday through May Is. The per-
centages made will be added only
to those foursomes which play for
fthe Luther Stewart Major Trophy in
the first section. All teams will
start from scratch.
The contest for the Stewart prize
will involve three teams, the ones
having the top score in the first and
second halves of the season, and a
third team whose average for the
two halves combined was the largest.
The Army team won the first
half and the Westerners the second,
but the score of the third team has
not yet been determined. There
will be two playoff sessions in this
match, one on May % and the other
on May 80. The trophy is one
offered by the Federal Employees
Union and has been in play ever
since the league was organized. 1t
is now held by the Skyrocket team.
Simultaneous. with the last of
these playoff games will be the
master point game for pairs on
May 80.
The leagues summer pair games
will start May %. There is now
proposal pending to play a series
of team games during the summer
months as we'll as the pair games,
which are to be open to the guests
of the league as well as to its men,
bers. The proposal will be voted
upon at the next meeting.
The session last Tuesday night
was a master point game in which
there were 27 tables.
James G. Stone and John Darsey
made what is said to be a duplicate
record for Washington in the last
session of the master point game
of the Washington Bridge League.
They had 78 per cent game with
351 points. A. E. Westrich and H. r.
King were second to them with
percentage game of IS and a total
score of 800 The strength of the
competition was indicated by the
fact that the six leading pairs each
had a percentage of more than so.
The annual play for the five
major bridge trophies of the Ma
tional Press Club is scheduled for
the month of May. The sessions
will be held in the assembly room
of the club on Saturday nights in
stead of Mondays as heretofore.
The first contest will occur on
Saturday and will be team game
for the Ely Culbertson Cup, which
has been in play for 10 years. The
match last May resulted in a tie
between foursomes composed of
C. E. Stewart, Everett G. Watkins,
Frank B. Lord and Miss Dorothy
Schriepel and Mrs. Jean Henry,
Mrs. Dorothy Whitcomb, Mrs. w.
w. Wheeler and Mrs. Helen Golden.
The pair match for the Victor
Smith Cup will be played May 13.
Last years winners were Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Hoyem. The pair game
for the cup presented by the late
Col. Marvin H. Mcintyre, secretary
to the President, will occur on May
20. 1t was won last year by Oliver
Hoyem and Frank B. Lord. The
Mexican Ambassadors Cup will be
in play on May 81. Frank B. Lord
and Mrs. Katherine j. Fenton were
the winners of this trophy last year.
The match for-.-the Mcintyre Cup
S limited to members of the club.
out on the night of the contest
here will be a special game for the
woman guests at which club prizes
will be awarded. There will be a |
fifth game on the first Saturday of |
June for a prize yet to be an
nounced. Heretofore, John H. Ed
wards, former Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury, has offered a spe-
cial prize to be retained perma-
nently by the winners. Last year
Ned Brooks and Mrs. Dorothy Whit
comb were the winners. All other