Evening star., 1950-06-25
Bridge Players
By Margaret |. Fisher

Series last Tuesday became the
Buckingham Duplicate Club open
pair champions. Runnerup prizes
were awarded to Mrs. Bess Noland
and j. B. Guthrie.
According to Mrs. Edna Evans.
director, Buckingham closes its
194o-1950 season next Tuesday
night. A party for the members
will be held following the game.
Another duplicate club recessing
for the summer months is the
Public Buildings Service Bridge
Club which held its final match
June 6. Winners of that contest
were Mildred Overman-Si Katz
(N-S) and Flora Mordhorst-C. G.
Edwards E-W.
Yielding a .622 average for the
best IL games during the season,
H. K. Chapman obtains custody
of the PBS trophy for the coming
year. Place and show prizes go to
E. r. Koth with GIL percent and
to Mr.. Edwards, 900.
Federal Bridge Leaguers and
their guests competed in an indi-
vidual match last Monday night.
First prize went to Mrs. June
Hodgkins. whose score of 74a
match points won out by half a
point over that of runnerup Mrs.
Edith Drumm. r. c. Tayler was
third with 1914.
Next weekend, local tournament
fans will try their luck in the
Chesapeake Contract Bridge
Championships. While it is billed
as q ''first annual" old-timers
will recall that for a dozen years
this early July bridge fest was
called the Carvel Hall Tourna-
ment. Last year when the scene
shifted to Baltimore's Hotel En-
erson, where the forthcoming SER
les will be held. it was renamed
the Baltimore washington Cham
pionships.
Now under exclusive manage
ment of the Maryland Bridge AS
sociation, a new series is born,
only carryover from the preceding
Journeys being the defending
champions. Washington claims
four of these, Mrs. Marianne
Boschan and Kathleen McNutt
who won the women's pair con-
test year ago. Mrs. Freda Bent
ley and Lew Levenson, mixed pair
champions.
The Chesapeake schedule calls
for mems and women's pair
matches on Friday at 2 pm.
mixed pairs competing in the 81
pm. session. The dual session
opens is set for Saturday at and
8 pm, a single-session special pair
event running concurrent with the
championship round. Teams-of-
four will compete at board-a-
match play through two sessions
on Sunday, starting time advanc-
ing to l pm. Alvin Landy will di-
rect.
Bridge CoIendor
TONIGHT Regency Club. duplicate |
same, members only, 7:45 pm.
TOMORROW Federal Bridge League, |
1900 New HAMPSHIRE; open master |
point, 8 pm. La Sale Studio, 1923 |
Connecticut; open rating point, s pm.
TUESDAY Agriculture Club, 1885 |
Euclid. open rating point, 7:45 pm. |
Andrews Air Force Base Ofhcers' Bridge |
Club, rating point, 1880 pm. Buckingham |
Duplicate Club. 313 N. Glebe, Arlington; |
open rating point. 7:45 pm. Count |
Club, 1914 Seventeenth; open rating |
point, 8 pm.
WEDNESDAY Stephan Studio, 1855
Euclid; open rating point, / pm. |
Washington Bridge League. Hotel |
Roosevelt; hnal session, team-of-four, |
7:45 nm.
THURSDAY -- Chess Club. Hotel Gordon; |
rating point, 7:45 pm. Riverside |
Bridse Club. Arlington Farms; rating |
point, 7:45 pm.
FRIDAY - Stephan Studio. open rating |
point, pm.
SATURDAY Agriculture Club, open
master point. pm. Chess Club rating |
point. 7:45 pm. Walsh Club, Twenty ]
second and p; ratins point, 7:30 p.na.