Evening star., 1945-09-02
bridge
By Frank b. Lord

III GllS lIltCIuu UCtWCCll tAAC CAAAAaS
of the summer games and the be-
ginning OF the fall-winter series OF
the Washington Bridge League and
the Federal Bridge League, this
Wednesday and the following Tues
day, respectively, there was a gen.
eral cessation from bridge among
the organized players of Washing
ton. The Federal Bridge League,
however, conducted its monthly
master point pair game at the
Wardman Park Hotel, as usual on
Tuesday night.
Owing to the death of his father
in Scranton, Pa, the director, Paul
E. Golden, was unable to be present,
and the game was conducted by
Mai. Russell j. Baldwin, former di-
rector of the A. c. B. L. tournament
championship games, who has been
stationed in Washington since early
in the war. It was the first time
that Mr.. Golden has broken his
record of continuous attendance
since he became director 10 years
ago
The results at the games were as
follows:
Section A-North and South. pr. n J
McHugh and A T. Helm, first. 1856; Louis
Tubbs and Matt Stone, second, 159. East
isfm isd Wssa Mrs r3wh a Lons an and Mrs.. Violet
zimn1er, second, i54.
Section BGNorth and South, tie be-
shenbaum and Mrs. Irene surggy and G.
Doris yosbursn and Mrs tsr " MO- Russ
Bulkley. second, 152h.
With the Cumberland Valley an
nual tournament to be held at the
Wardman Park Hotel during the
second week end of September
bridge activities in the Capital will
be in full swing this month.
In the Saturday night game oi
the Capital City Chess Club, the
North and South winners were Ar
thur Lane and Mrs. Marian Barre
Mrs. w, S. Athey and 1t. j. j
Parish won East and West.
Miss Maize Buie will resume heI
Friday night pair game at Cathe-
dral Mansions, South, this week. Il
was suspended during the early part
of this year. With the Saturday
holiday re-established, however, hel
players desire another game during
the week which will not overta1
their energies for the next day. Tht
Sunday night game will be con-
tinued, as usual.
AL Roth, Washington champion
and winner of several national ant
international championships, wht
returned from Army service in Ger.
many just in time to take part ir
the summer nationals in Brooklyn
has been assigned to Camp Dix, N
j., where he hopes to remain unit
discharged. His partner and CO.
winner in many contests, Oscar
Brotman, stationed in Burma, was
unable to get his 45-day furlougf
in time for the tournament. He
arrived in New York 10 days toe
late.
Notwithstanding the midsummer
bridge lull, there were several pair.
who succeeded in bidding and max
ing grand slams. Among them were
James G. Stone, partner John Oar.
sey, at the Federal Bridge League
seven hearts; Mrs. c. J. Carlstrand
partner c. J. Carlstrand, sever
hearts, Falkland Apartments; Mrs
Florence Roberts, partner Mrs
Eleanor Stack, seven diamonds, ir
vacation play at Ocean City, Md.
Mrs. j. C. Woodruff, partner j. H
Watkins, seven no-trump, in a pri.
vate game.
Areader asks that we describe the
Vienna Coup in bridge and indicate
the character of hands to which II
is applicable. The Vienna Coup Is
play developed by the experts
and it requires the skill of an expert
to determine when and how il
should be employed. An unskillee
kibitzer, seeing it made, is likely tc
regard it as certain to bring defeat
but it is the only play whereby the
declarer can fulfill his contract.
An excellent illustration of its USE
is afforded in the play of hand by
Tom Hamlin in a recent game at the
Capital City Chess Club. The dis.
tribution of the cards was:
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