Evening star., 1947-04-27
Bird &c
Bv Fronk 3. Lord

The players Of the Dupont Circle
Bridge Club at 1906 Twentieth street
1will hold q benefit game Thursday
|evening, the proceeds for the relief
lof the Texas City disaster victims.
Admission and play win be free, but
| q collection will be sent to The Eve
ming Star to be turned over to the
Red Cross. The play will be held In
THE rooms OF the Voice Recording
Studio.
The Federal Bridge League played
the first of three sectional playof
games In its current team-o -four
lseries Tuesday night at Pierce Hall.
/ The Mustangs IN section B made
1.-THE best record, winning 18 out OF
i24 boards. The Bloopers in section
A and the Pentas In section G each
won 1915 out OF "a boards.
The April master point pair game
of the league will be played next
Tuesday night and on the following
Tuesday the second of the sectional
tplayoff series.
In the second April game Of tho
Washington Bridge League, the win
Iners in section A, North and South,
were Mrs. E. Gordon and Mrs. G. N.
Poulieff. first, and r. Lenow and
IB. Bendett. second; East and West,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. King, first. and
Mrs. Frederic Eberson and S. j.
GroSSnnan. second. In section B,
North and South, first, tie with
Mrs. Dora Schwartz and Leon Ker-
lchenbaum and Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Hanlin, and Capt. and Mrs. Karl
Itken, second; East and West, DR..
"A. j. Steinberg and DR.. r. Sorton,
first, and Miller Roberts and George
IL. Dickerman, second.
The final match in the second an
nual meeting Of the Potomac Valley
Contract Bridge tournament Is be-:
| ing played today at the George Ma
son Hotel in Alexandria. 1t is a
team of four events in two sessions
| for the william Cheeks Trophy. Last
years winners, who are defending
the cup today, were Miller Roberts,
A. I. Helm, j. d. Boyd and George
| L. Dickerman.
There were 13 tables in the April
master point game played at the
Stephan Studio in Euclid street.
4 North and South leaders were Mrs.
Frederic Eberson and Mrs. Mariana
Boschan, first; Mrs. Amy Ashmead
and Mrs. Alma Byrne, second, and
Miss Kathleen McNutt and Harold
Mayer, third. East and West lead
ers were Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Ros-
san, first: Mrs. r. E. Turner and
Mrs. Helen st. John, second, and
Mrs. j. G. Fletcher and Mrs. j. A.
Gordon, third.
In the preceding Wednesday after
noon Howell game the winners were
Mrs. George L. Kathan and Mrs.
Mary Plum, first; Mrs. T. E. Turner
and Mrs. Alice Wilson, second, and
Mrs. N. A. Olmstead and Arthur E.
Lane, third. In the Howell game in
Friday evening the winners were Mr..
and Mrs. John Darsey, first; Mr..
and Mrs. James Lazard, second. and
Mrs. Dora Schwartz and Joe White,
third
Capital City Chess Club bridge
winners in a 14-table game on April
II were, North and South, Dr. j. G.
Wooley and M. E. Sheedy, and East
and West, j. G. Fletcher and Mrs.
James Lazard. In the 12-table game
on Saturday there was North and
South tie between DR.. j. v. Waits
| and Mrs. G. M. Fisher and James Gs
Stone and Mrs. Frederic Eberson;
East and West winners were Col. H.
]. Vanderlius and Mrs. George L.
Kathan, first, and Mrs. Florence
Stein and Miss Helen Smith, second.
! Winners in the Monday night du-
plicate game at the LaSalle Studio,
conducted by Mrs. Dixie T. Wright,
were Miss Virginia Kinnard and c.
c. Cook of Asheville, N. o., first, and
Francis Drake and Clarence w. Zim-
mer, second. In the previous Fri
day night game the leaders were 1t.
! Col. C. +. Granger, U. S. M. c., and
AIRS. Granger, first, and Miss Kathe-
rine Read and Maj E. G. Rees, U.
S. A., second.