Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-12
bridge
By Frank b. Lord.

Deen issued Tor the seventh Annual
Northern Bridge Tournament, which,
instead of being held in Alexandria,
where 1t was organized, will occur
at the Wardman Park Hotel. 1t
was moved here last year because
of war conditions and similar cir
cumstances make it necessary to
conduct it here again. The dates
set are March II, Is and 10. 1t will
be an American Contract Bridge
League event sponsored by the
Washington Bridge League. Col.
Robert j. Gill of Baltimore and P. E.
Henninger of Arlington are to be
co-chairmen of the Executive Com
mittee and Mrs. Allan Rutherford,
also of Baltimore, and Paul E.
Golden Of Washington, co-chairmen
of the Tournament Committee. Will
liam Cheeks will be manager for the
league and Capt. Russell j. Baldwin,
tournament director.
The st. Patrick's Day opening of
the meet will be a double headed
event of women and men playing
separately and will be open to all
players. Last years winners of the
women's pair game were Mrs. R. H.
Skinner and Mrs. H. c. White, who
Will defend their title this year. The
mems pair contest was won in 1943
by Charles H. Goren of Philadelphia
and Sidney Pierce, attached to a
Canadian government agency here.
Mr.. Goren and Mr.. Pierce were
college mates at McGill University,
in Montreal, where both learned to
play bridge. They will play together
again at the coming tournament in
an effort to retain the trophy.
The mixed-pair match will occur
on Saturday in one session. Mrs.
Daisy H. Mott and Vincent D. Mich
olson were last years winners, but
they are not expected to play to-
gether again this year. The team
of-four game has been eliminated
and on Sunday there will be an
open-pair match in two sessions
with Examinations. Those who fail
to qualify in the first round will
play in a special consolation game
Sunday evening. George Rapee of
New York and DR.. Arthur j. Sa-
lasky of Richmond were the sue
cessful contenders in this event last
year. This year Mr.. Rapee will not
be able to compete as he is in the
military service and DR.. Salasky
will have a different partner.
A. G. B. L. master points will be
awarded in all the major events
and convertible points in the spe-
cial game. Winners will receive
victory certificates and the money
usually spent on trophies will be
contributed to the War Orphans
Scholarship Fund, war activity
of organized bridge players.
A stable delegation of Washing
ton players went to Richmond last
week to take part in the popular
city tournament Of the Virginia cap
ital. Two of them, James G. Stone
and Isaac H. York, won high honors
by capturing the hotly contested
open pair championship by a COM
manding score. The event was in
two sessions. In the first, the Stone
York pair led by 80 points, and in
the second, they were only points
behind so that the aggregate gave
them top score.
Other Washingtonians attending
the meet were Capt. r. H. Skinner,
president of the American Contract
League, who played with Miss Fran
ces Jacoby of Wilmington, Del, as
his partner: Gene Smith, co-winner
OF the recent Eastern tournaments
open pair match; Mrs. Katherine
Mooreman, Charles johnson and
Henry Stearman; 1t. j. j. Parish,
who played with a Richmond part
ner; Mrs. Frederick Eberson and
Mrs. Lucille Gibson; DR.. w. H. Cor
ton and DR.. N. j. McHugh, and
Gene Hermann and Mrs. Irene Sur
guy. Several of them played in the
team Of four game which was won
by the Folline foursome of Rich
mond. Sixteen teams took part in
the contest and there were 50 pairs
in the open-pair games which estab-
lished a near record for games of
this character in Richmond.
The open team of four event of
the Eastern tournament last week
was won by the foursome of Valdez
man Won zedtwitZ, Harry j. Fish
bein, Lee Hazen and Charles Lock-
ridge, with Pvt. Tobias Stone as
alternate. They played "a boards
and had heavy top score of TAO
points. The runners-up were Mrs.
A. M. Sobel, Peter Leventritt, Robert
Won Engle, Bertram Lebhar and Sam
Katz, alternate. All of the winning
team are life masters with the ex-
ception of Mr.. Stone.
The womens pair championship
Of the same tournament was won
by Mrs. A. M. Sobel and Miss Ruth
Sherman, who repeated their victory
Of last year with a score of 1859
points in two sessions. Thirty pairs
participated.