Evening star., 1946-09-01
Bridge
By Fronk B. Lord

its final game at the Wardman Park
Hotel last Tuesday night. 1t was
the monthly master point pair game
with the following results: Section
A, north and south, w. S. Benedict
and r. Piper, first, score 1881; Mr..
and Mrs. Bernard Rossan, second,
score IT'S, and j. G. Fletcher and
Comdr. j. J. Parish, third, score,
171R; east and west, Mrs. Florence
Stein and Rush Buckley, first, score
1854; Mrs. Violet thinner and Mrs.
F. Bentley, second, score 1852, and
William Cheeks and A. I. Helm,
third, score 100. Section B, north
and south, Lewis Tubbs and DR..
w. H. Gorton, first, score 1872; Mrs.
Sybil Newlands and j. G. Stone,
second, score 178, and Mr.. William
Allen and Mrs. j. r. Belt, third,
score, 1T; east and west, DR.. N. j..
McHugh and J. D. Boyd, first, score
1991z; 1t. Col. and Mrs. j. T. Willis,
second, score 1873, and Mrs. M. F.
Ruffner and Miss Jenny Bryant,
third, score 1877. Sessions of the
league have been held at the Ward
man Park Hotel every Tuesday eve
ming, holidays excepted, for the past
seven years.
Next Tuesday evening the league
will play the last of its 1916 summer
pair games at its new headquar-
tiers in the recreation hall of the
Unitarian Church, Sixteenth and
Harvard streets NV.
Beginning on September 10 the
league will start the first half of
it's team of four series with prac-
tically the same restrictions as to
the number of players to constitute
a foursome and the limitation of
master point players on the several
teams as has heretofore prevailed.
The players will be divided into
three or four sections according
to the number registered and will
play in 13 sessions as follows: Sep
tember 10, September IT, September
"a, October l, October 8, october IS,
October %, November 5, November
IL, November 10, December 3, De-
cember 10 and December 49, Sep
tember "a, October % and Novem-
ber 26 (these dates being the last
Tuesday of the months in which
they occur will be devoted to
master point pair matches. Any
player regardless of membership in
the legaue will be eligible to take
part in these contests. This pro-
gram will take the league up to
Christmas eve which, also falling on
the last Tuesday of the month,
would be a master-point game date,
but there will be a suspension of
regular activities during the holi-
days.
The first 10 games of the regular
session will be qualifying matches
in which players will be assigned
to their respective divisions accord
ing to the percentage ratings they
make. They will then be frozen
in these positions for three sectional
playof games Tor sectional prizes
of which there will be three in the
first and second sections and two
in the others. The scores made in
these matches will be added to the
general pair standing which will
be added to the general pair stand
ing which will determine the con-
testants for the grand season prize,
the Luther C. Stewart Cup.
The Washington Bridge League
has announced the program for its
forthcoming annual tournament. 1t
will be held at the Hotel Shoreham
starting on Thanksgiving Day.
There will be no afternoon game
that day, but the first session of
the mixed pair game will be played
on Thanksgiving evening, and its
second session on the evening of
the following day. On Friday after
noon there will be women's and
mems pair games played stimuli
taneously and on Saturday the open
pair game will be played in after
noon and evening sessions.
The team of four match in two
sessions is scheduled for Sunday. At
the same time there will be a re-
vival of the popular Metropolitan
game for the Evening Star Cup.
This game was deleted from the
program of last year because of
lack OF time, and is to be revived
in response to the urgent request
of the league players. 1t will be
for players who held less than 80
master p0intS