Evening star., 1950-05-28
Bridge
BY Morqoret l. Fisher

BY Moreoret L. Fisher
The danger of swapping horses
in midstream has little analogy in
bridge partnerships. as John r.
Moore will attest, Mr.. Moore en-
tered the Washington Bridge
Leagues open-pair title on May II
paired with David Murray. the duo
holding runnerup position at the
halfway mark. In the final ses-
sion last Wednesday. DR.. w. 9.
Benedict substituted for Mr.. Muir
ray and their combined efforts
enabled o trio to win an open
pair championship.
The Moore Murray Benedict
team netted a combined score of
448.9 against 44l.s for Mrs. r. H.
Skinner and Lewis G. Tubbs. Mrs.
Agnes Fischer and Mrs. Irene
Surguy. 435. earned show awards.
Simon Gerber and Vic Zeve. who
topped the field in the initial
round. dropped to fourth position
overall with 1894.
High score for the final session
went to Mrs. Jean Ellis and w. NJ.
Lingley. netting them fifth place
with 432 combined match points.
The 81 pairs in the championship
tilt qualified by maintaining bet
ter than q .5048 average in five or
more WBL matches since last
September.
In a special dual session pair
contest for members who did not
meet those qualifications, Col. and
Mrs. D. D. Brodie outclassed by
46la points the second-best duo,
Mrs. j. G. Seabourne and H. j.
Horn. The Brodies yielded 467
points for the two rounds. against
420.5 for the runnersup.
Mrs. Paul Golden has been Sc
lected to head the Women's Auxil-
iary for the coming year. Other
officers elected last Saturday at
the final luncheon meeting were:
Mrs. Z. A. st. John. first vice
president; Mrs. Charles Richter,
second vice president; Frieda
Kenyon, secretary. and Mrs. How
ard Surkin, treasurer. Mrs. j. r..
McGhee. Mrs. William Poissant
and Mrs. Henry Walker were
named to the Board Of Directors,
together with Mrs. H. G. Camp
bell, retiring president.
Top scores in the duplicate
matinee for members only, added
another master point to the record
OF the following: Virginia Kim
nard-Mrs. E. A. St. John (the
sixth straight master point victory
with variety of partners in 10
days for the latter and Mrs.
James Adler-Mrs. Harry Kaplan,
section A; Mrs. Rose Robins-Mrs
A. j. Steinberg and Mrs. Gregg
Custis-MrS. Betty Myer, section
B. Runnersup were Mrs. F. p.
Dormady-Mrs. John Seward, Mrs.
w. ]. Allen-Mrs. Lester Gibson,
Mrs. George Kathan-Mrs. w. r.
Plum and Mrs. Ruth Broadfoot-
Mrs. James Lyon.
The Federal Bridge Leagues
spring am-of-four series con-
cluded last Monday, with the
I"Gimlets" CMrs. M. Whumore. T.
Hollcroft. M. s. L. Burnett and
w. A. Wright) edging into the
series lead by. one-haK a board
over the Blue and Gray" four.
some paris Keener, Mrs. Mar
garet Rucker. Ralph Grant, Eric
Morgan. These two teams, who
shared the fall series lead, will
compete June S and IL with the
th1rd-ranking Mixed Party" four
some Or. Emily Grewe, r. C.
Taylor, Mrs. Louis Stein, Rush
Buckley in a two session playoff
for the Luther c. Steward trophy.
Master point matches at the
Chess Club and the Stephan Stu
dio. regularly held on the second
Friday and Saturday nights of
each month. are being advanced
on June 2 and 3, respectively. to
avoid conflict with the fifth an
nual Potomac Valley champion
ships.
Sponsored by the WASHINGTON
Bridge League, participation in
the five major events of the COM
ing tournament will be open to
any member of the ACBL or one
OF its recognized units. James g.
Stone is tourney chairman, A. M.
Sobel Of New York, assisted by
Paul Golden, refereeing the play.
DR. w. H. Gorton heads the tour
nament Executive Committee
aided by DR.. A. j. Steinberg and
the following out of towners: !:
Mrs. r. c. Bayliss and George BAH
OF Richmond. Herbert Gerst of
norfolk, Louis Rosenfeld, Balti-
more. and David Warner, Phila-
delphia.