Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

his week IildIkS d SUI VI u1FlOlIAs
line for Washington bridge players
before the opening of the fall-winter
series. Most local units have been
we'll patronized in the summer and
many players attended the national
tournament In Brooklyn and region
al meets at Alexandria and Anna
polls.
The fall-winter season begins
next month. DR.. w. H. Gorton,
president of the Washington Bridge
League, which numbers some $50,
has called a meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee for Wednesday. He
is contemplating interesting events
for the first half Of the season and
the agenda for the tournament in
October may be determined.
League meetings will be held reg
ularly on the 3. first and third
Wednesdays in the Burlington Hotel.
The Public Buildings Administra-
don Bridge League will be the first
to start the seasons playing. Its
members will play on Monday, Sep
TENDER 7. and weekly thereafter,
competing for the PBA bridge
trophy. Twenty playing dates are
scheduled, some of them open
games, not counted In the trophy
contest. For the present sessions
will be held in the Interior Depart
ment penthouse.
The Federal Bridge League is or
ganizing for its season team-of -four
series. the first half of which will
start with the game on September
20 and continue until the holidays,
meeting every Tuesday night at
Pierce Hall. Fifteenth and Harvard
streets. Team registrations are now
being made and George L. Kathan.
president. expects to enroll about 80
foursomes.
The leagues meeting Tuesday
night will be a master point pair
game which will leave the last of the
regular weekly summer events to be
played September 2. 1t has only one
other extra program event which
will be the third and final of the
challenge team contests against the
players of the Maryland Bridge
League. 1t will be held in Baltimore
on date yet to be determined. The
series is now tied at one win each.
Other events on the seasons bridge
calendar are the South Cathedral
Mansions game on Sunday evenings
and the games at the La Sale Studio
on Mondays and Thursdays of each
week. One of these games each
month will be master point game
Tuesday evening, organized games
will be given over almost exclusively
to the Federal Bridge League.
The Agriculture Bridge Club has
arranged to alternate with the
Washington Bridge League, holding
it's sessions on the second and fourth
Wednesdays. 1t will play at the
Stephan Studio in Euclid street.
There will be other open games at
the Stephan Studio on Wednesday
afternoons and on Friday. night.
Master point games will also be
played there by the Agriculture Club
on the first Saturday of each month,
by the Stephan group on the sec
ond Saturday and by the Women S
Auxiliary of the Washington Bridge
League on the fourth Saturday. On
Friday night of each week the Ar
lington Bridge Club will alternate
with the Potomac Park Bridge
League in play at the Potomac Park
Recreation Hall. The latter organ
ization is composed largely Of Gov
eminent workers. but will extend
invitations to play to those who are
not employed by the Government
The Capital City Chess Club will
continue its Thursday and Saturday
night games as heretofore. One
game each month will be a master
point game and there will also be a
monthly individual game.
Tho Columbia Country Club,
which will conduct a series of
games throughout the coming sea-
son under the direction of DR.. j.
Waits, has not yet announced its
schedule. Neither have the Press
Club duplicate players. Their series
will start about October l.
LaSalle Studio winners last Mon
day night were r. B. Hannings and
M. Siegel. first. and Mrs. Ella Welker
and Col. j. G. Seabourne, second.