Evening star., 1946-05-19
Bridge
By Fronk B. Lord

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,on, whose score was 203.5. Second
and third places were taken, re-
by Capt. J. r. McGhee
and Mrs. F. w. Moorman and 1t.
Col. ]. T. Willis and w. 8. Athey,
both Of Washington. Capt. McGhee
and Mrs. Moorman made q score Of
1876 and Col. Willis and Mr.. Athey,
1892.
The game was an elimination
contest and in section A, where IL
pairs qualified, the leaders in the
opening session were Mrs. w. s..
Athey and E. H. Smith, first; Mrs.
Sybil Newlands and Mrs. Marie
Boschan, second, and j. p. O'Brien
and Max L. Kessler, third. In Sec
ton B, where II qualified, DR.. and
Mrs. A. j. Steinberg were first;
r. w. George and G. c. johnson,
second, and Gene Hermann and
Mrs. Irene Surguy, third. AL were
outdistanced In the finals. The
consolation game played by those
from the finals by rea-
son of failure to qualify, was won
by Mrs. Dora Schwartz and Leon
Kerschenbaum. H. r. King and
A. I. Westrich were second and
Barnard Rossan and ]. A. Long
were tied for third place with c. A.
Lyons and DR.. c. c. Mcdonnell.
The first game on the program
was the women's pair match won
by Mrs. Frederick Eberson and Mrs.
II. G. Campbell with a score Of 100.
Second were Mrs. L. l.. Gibson and
Mrs. Breckenridge Long, score %,
and Miss Kathleen McNutt and MIS-.
Boschan, third, score 96.
The mixed pair game was won
by Mrs. II. C.. White and DR.. W. H.
Gorton with q score of 274. Miss
Maize Buie and Larry Reynolds
were tied for second with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Haygooni Of Baltimore,
each having a score Of 1854. Gene
Hermann and Mrs. Helen Palmer
were fourth with q score Of 263.
The team-of-four classic which
was returned for the first time
since the war was taken by the
foursome Of Miller Roberts and A. /.
Helm and j. D. Boyd and G. L..
Dickerman Of Arlington. They won
1871 boards. e. H. Smith and Mrs.
w. S. Athey and Martin May and
w. H. Mcintyre were second, win
ming 171a boards. and Leroy Thur
tell and r. L. Miles, jr., Of Norfolk
and Mrs. Emily Folline Of Richmond
and I. H. Fisher Of Baltimore were
third with Is boards. In the first
session of the event the Athey-
Smith team was first, the Thurtell-
Miles team second and the Roberts
Helm team third.
The prizes in addition to the
Vosburgh Trophy were the william
Cheeks Cup for the team Of four,
the A. p. Stockvis Cup for the mixed
pair and the Edith Swanson Cup
for women.
The Victory team won in the sec
ond half of the team of four season
series Of the Federal Bridge League
which was concluded on Tuesday
night at the Wardman Park Hotel.
It's totals for the half series were
204h wins and 159h losses against
1876 wins and 155 losses for the Cas-
cades who were second. The Cas-
cades, however, won the first half
of the series and next week will play
against the Victory foursome and a
third team yet to be determined
whose score for the entire series
was third.
In the last of the three sectional
playon games Tuesday night, in the
first section the Cascades won IS
out of "a boards, in the second the
Cheeckakas won 15h out Of "a, and
in the third section, the Splashers
141a out Of ~. The sectional winners
in the playoff games were Victory
in section A, 43h won and 281k lost:
the Army team in section B, ~
games won and "a lost, and in sec
ton G, the Success foursome, 42k
boards won and 29A lost.
Mrs. ]. B. Gregg Gusts and Mrs.
John Evans won the Wednesday
afternoon game at the Stephan stu
dio in Euclid street. At the same
place in the Friday night game the
leaders were Howard Mayer and
Charles Lyons, first; Miss Margret
Mrytle and Mrs. L. Salvatorel were
second and Miss Lucelle Berge- and
Mrs. Hazel Ryman third.
The American Contract Bridge
League reports that 1t now has 10
students at different colleges whose
education is being paid from the
funds Of its War Orphans Scholar
ships, Inc, and that its total assets
aggregate $26,57595. OF this sum
11,H2.45 was contributed by the
ACBL and the remainder In various
amounts. several Of them exceeding
81 900 by other bridge associations
and individuals, and from royalties.
The 1946 National Summer Tour
Of the American Contract
Bridge League will be held at the
st. George Hotel in Brooklyn, Aug
ust 4 to II inclusive. 1t will be one
Of the two big annual events of the
and will be largely at
tended by Washington players.
The Eastern Mixed Pair cham
pionship games are being played to-
day at the Park Central Hotel in
New York.
The registration shows that atl
least 40 Washington players will
take part on the Cavalier tourna-
ment to be held In Norfolk on May
81 to June Z. There will be mixed,
Dpen pair and team games.