Evening star., 1947-06-22
bridge
By Frank B. Lord

By Fronk B. Lord
Five picked foursomes from the
Federal Bridge League met similar
number of teams representing the
MARYLAND State League last Tuesday
night in Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and
Harvard streets NV, and played an
tntercity team challenge match for
the championship of washington
and Baltimore. .
The visitors from the Monumental
City won by score of 651z to 592.
The local players were under the
direction of George L. Kathan, the
president of the Federal League, and
comprised the following:
Team No. l, Mr.. and Mrs. Kathan,
DR.. w. H. Gorton and DR.. N. j..
McHugh. No. 2, Mrs. M. r. Reddy
and Mrs. Kitty Boyle and Mrs. j. r..
Belt and Mrs. Katherine Norman.
No. 3, Mrs. Dora Schwartz and Col.
n. j. Vandersluis and Leo Kershen-
baum and Col. J. A. Willis. No. 4,
Miller Roberts and Vincent Sheehy
and George L. Dickerman and James
G. Stone. No. 5, j. D. Boyd and
David Murray and Comdr. j. j..
Parish and j. G. Fletcher.
The Baltimoreans, whose leader
was Irwin Fisher, were:
Team No. l, Mr. Fisher and James
Hunter. Miss Margaret Hamilton
and Arthur Schlessinger. No. 2, Mrs.
ira Haygood and Mrs. John Iago,
Mrs. Chaplain Davis and Mrs. j. P.
Dagger. No. 8, Mrs. G. Kirk and Mrs.
Allan Rutherford, Mrs. Eugene Nolan
and Harold Stone. No. 4, Mrs.
Edward Behrends and Joseph Grlns-
fielder and Edward Pierson and Ira
Haygooni. No. S, Mrs. William Mar
riot and Mrs. T. E. Ragland and
Mrs. Stanley Davis and Mrs. Fl. l..
Batten.
Paul E. Golden acted as director
of the play and scorekeeper. 1t IS
expected that a second challenge
match will be arranged for play
several weeks hence and WILL take
place in Baltimore.
While the team match was IN
progress other members of the
league and their guests played a
pair game in two sections with these
results:
Section A, north and south, Mrs.
John Coffee and James Sourells,
first; Miss Paris Keener and Miss
Maize Buie, second, and Fred
Karpen and Mortimer Goldsteen,
third Fast and west. Irving Collen-
berg and Richard Freund, first;
Mrs. June Hodgkens and DR.. Emily
Grewe, second, and Mrs. Florence
Stein and Rush Buckley, third.
Section B, north and south, Mrs.
L. v. Terry and Mrs. P. Peterson,
first: Ben Levene and r. V. Papke,
second, and Mr.. and Mrs. David
Sentner, third. East and west,
Lucelle Burger and Mary Burger,
first; Anna Charest and Julia Sill
sken, second, and o. r. Mathews
and G. P. Graham, third.
The program of events for the
10th annual Annapolis contract
championships at Carvel Hall over
the independence Day week end
has been announced. 1t will be a
master point tournament, con-
Quoted on daylight saving time,
with a schedule of five major events
and special game.
On the first day of the meet, on
July 4, there will be dual match,
one women's pair game and the
other a mems pair game, played
simultaneously.
Last years winners of the wom-
ems pair were Mrs. Harry Click
ard Mrs. Theresa Pestell, and OF
the mems pair L. G. and l.. L..
TubbS. On the evening of the same
day will occur the mixed pair game
In which Mrs. Daisy Mott and LIE
Roy Thurten were the 1916 win
ners.
The feature of the tournament
will be the open pair game in two
sessions Saturday afternoon and
evening. Miss Margaret Hamilton
and Arthur Schlessinger won this
match last year, and like the other
winners will defend their title in
the coming tourney. The first ses-
sion will be a qualifying round, and
those who are eliminated will play
in a special consolation game, while
the second round of the major event
is in progress.
There will be an open team of
four games in two sessions on Sun
day afternoon and evening. All
teams will play throughout in a
board match competition with no
eliminations. Teams will be linn
tied to five players. Master points
will be awarded to winners in all
events and prizes will be awarded
for all who make top scores and to
runnersup.
Winners in the June IL pair game
at the Capitol City Chess Club,
north and south, were Miller Rob-
erts and William Million, first, and
Lewis Tubbs and w. r. Garrett, sec
cnd: east and west, Miss Kathleen
McNutt and Mrs. Howard Camp
bell, first, and John Moore and M.
Ellison, second. In the clubs master
point game on June IA, Comdr. w.
A. Poissant and Miss Kathleen Nc
Mutt were first, and James G. Stone
and Miller Roberts, second; east
and west, Harry Shinnock and
Frank B. Lord, first. and DR.. Emily
Grewe and Mrs. Florence Stein,
second.