Evening star., 1946-12-08
Bridge
By Frank ,. Lord

The THANKSGIVING week end
tournament Of the Washington
Bridge League, its 18th annual,
played at the Hotel Shoreham, ex-
cesded AL previous records Of the
organization In attendance at all
sessions Of It's seven major events.
In the cpen-pair game, which was
the classic Of the meet and played
In two sessions last Sunday, there
were so pairs which was close to
record participation for this event
in 1 national tournament Of the
American Contract Bridge League.
The tournament opened Thanks-
giving night with women's and
mems pair games played sirnulta-
neously. In the first Of these, Bal
timoreans reached their flrst VIC
tory, Mrs. I. Haygooni and Mrs.
william Marriott scoring 169ia.
Mrs. r. w. Moorman and Mrs. Doris
Vosburg OF Washington we're Sec
oi1d with 1861 and Mrs. J. =. Fol-
line OF Richmond and Mrs. L. Lam
dauer Of Norfolk were third. In
the mems pair, Capt. ]. r. McGhee
and w. r. Million were the leaders.
witha score of 1771z. Vic Zeye
and Martin May, with 1853, were
second, and David Murray and Leo
Kershenbaum. with 1921, were
third.
In the first session Of the mixed
pair game the leaders were Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Newman, first, 2061a. Mrs
Landauer and Roy Thurtell, second,
1891. and Mrs. Folline and r. J..
Miles OF Norfolk, third, 1884,.
In the second round Of the same
game Mrs. Frederic Eberson and
Charles johnson led with 1875. Gene
Hermann and Mrs. Irene Surguy
were second with 1877 and Raymond
Burns of Pittsburgh and Ralph
Webber were third with 1914. In
the finals Mrs. Eberson and Mr..
johnson were first with cumula-
tive score OF 378, L. Landauer and
Mrs. Folline, second, 377Ia. and Mr..
and Mrs. Newman, third, 3721a.
The three leading pairs in the
open-pair game, all from Baltimore,
were Mr.. Haygonni and j. H. Pier
son, first, 351; Mrs. Amy Behrends
and Joseph Grinsfelder, second. 312,
and Mrs. g.. Whitfield and Preston
Ellett, third, 31l.
This was an elimination game
and those who did not qualify for
the finals played in consolation
games. Consolation A was won by
Raymond Burns and Isaac York
and Capt. McGhee and Joe White.
Consolation was won by Mrs. T. E.
Turner and Mrs. Mary Fisher and
Miss Jenny Bryant and T. B. West
man.
Twenty -four boards were played
in each of the two sessions of the
team-of-four game In the first
the leaders were A. Stedinan. Robert
Thurrell, Lewis and Lloyd Tubbs
with Is boards, first: Mr.. Thurten,
Mr.. Miles, Irwin Fisher, Mrs. Fol-
line and Wallace Jones, alternate,
l4h boards, second, and Mrs. Mari
anna Boschan, Miller Roberts, J. @.
Stone and Comdr. j. j. Parish, l3
boards, third. In the second ses-
ison the team of Thurtell. Miles,
Fisher, Jones and Mrs. Folline, all
ternate, 17la, was first; DR.. and
Mrs. A. j. Steinberg, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernard Rossan and A. !. Westrich,
alternate, II, second and Mrs. BoS-
chan, Mr.. Roberts, Mr.. Stone and
Comdr. Parish, Is, third.
The Metropolitan event for The
Evening Star Cup was the find
game Of the turnament. tt was
played In two sessions. the winners
of the first being Miss Paris Keenerl
and MRS. Mabel Du Bois, first. l0F;;s
DR.. A. b. Marks and Mrs. Daisy
LOVE-, second, 1O5. and Col Karl
Itken and r. M. Lake. third, 50. In
the second session Mr.. Kershen-
baum and 1t. Col. D. II. Willis were
hrst, 1l8h; Mrs. Duffy and Con,dr.
w. A. Poissant, second, 115lz, and
Miss Mazie and Larry Reynolds,
third, l0S. The final winners were
Mrs. Rebecca Crane and Miss Mary
Ruhl, first; Mrs. Duffy and Comdr.
Poissant, second, and Mr.. Kershen-
baum and Col. Willis, third.
The Atomics who have held first
place in the team-of-four season
series of the Federal Bridge League
lost that position as a result of the
play last Tuesday night. They were
succeeded by the Spartans who have
been strong contenders since the
series began last September The
Bloopers, who have been close to
the top, are now In second place, one
game behind the leaders.
In the first section the Victory
team won 171s boards out Of a.
The buckets won 1871 out of "a
boards in the second section and
the Dy-Ry-Kems had 14,a boards
out of "A in the third division.
The first of three playoff games
for sectional prizes viii be played
Tuesday evening. All teams will
be frozen in their respective sec
tions and the scores they make will
be added to their general average
In ftss contest for the 1ea p,Ie's GRAND