Evening star., 1952-01-13
Bridge
By Margaret [. Fisher .

Washington Bridge Lacquer.
took the lions share Of top honori
last week end in their first sec
tional clash this year, winning
four Of five major title events IL
the 18th annual Northern Virgins
championships at the Willart
Hotel.
First to star in the three-da.
series were Mrs. Gregg Gusts ane
Mrs. Bess holland, who capturee
the women's pair title. finishing
a full board ahead of runnersuI
Mrs. j. G. Fletcher and Mrs. r. H
Skinner. Mrs. Agnes Fischer-Mrs
Harry Kaplan tied with Mrs. j. r
Nc cGhee-M Margaret L. Fishel
for show honors.
Concurrently, John c. Kunke
and Alvin Roth won the men,
title by scant half point ovel
Israel Cohen Robert Jordan
Third among the 80 duos wer'
David Murray-Larry Reynolds.
Sole event lost to visiting player
was the mixed pair match. Rutl
Sherman Of New York and Barr!
Cohen. Detroit, topped 66 pair
to win. Washingtonians took tn.
remainder of honor positions: Mrs
Jean Ellis-Henry Rau, second
Mrs. Terry Haas w. M. Lingley
third: Mrs. Freda Bentley-Lev
Levenson, fourth; Kathleen Nc
Nut George Robertson. fifth; Mrs
Edna Evans-Michael Myers, sixth
and the j. D. Boyds, seventh.
On Saturday Mrs. Freda Bentley
and Lew Levenson gave another
sterling performance in winning
the open title. They topped ar
original 74-pair field, after two
sessions of play, with 2131a mattel
points. leading runnersup r. A
Ashton-E. G. Harris, jr.. by two
points. The Tubbs brothers, Levi
and Lloyd, ended in show plac'
with 206. Tied for fourth with {
point less were Mrs. j. G. Fletcher
Mrs. Roy Hackett and Charlie
Lovenberg- Richard Freeman. 1t
Col. John Geddes-Paul Neff wer.
sixth: James G Stone-Dr. A. j
Steinberg. seventh; while 1t. Col
and Mrs. r. H. Skinner, qualifying
round leaders, ended in eigh'
place, last of the master poin1
awarded positions.
The hard-fought team match OF
Sunday spelled another predomi
nantly Washington victory. Davi,
Murray. Larry Reynolds. Jane
Sourilas Joined with William Wood
son of Sellars, N. c., to gross 33H
wins in So matches and rate tn
title. The champions tied for top il
the afternoon session with Charlie
Lovenberg. Lewis Tubbs. 1t. Col
and Mrs. r. H. Skinner, the latte
foursome ending in a triple tie fol
overall runnerup honors with tn
defending champions, Fred Kar
pin fWashington), Irwin Fisher
Joseph Grinsfelder Baltimore
and A. M. Sobel CNew York;, ant
the all-Baltimore fourSome O
Gen. Robert Gill, Ed. Pierson, 1r.
Haygooni and William McDevitt
The runnerup teams clocket
I2912 wins each. Two more loca
teams shared fifth awards will
20 wins to their credit. They wer
Sam Cohn, DR.. Leroy Robins, w
M. Lingley, Mrs. Terry Hass, Phi
Stockvis, and the fivesome tina
netted evening session top, Mrs
E. P. Cotter, Richard Freeman
Paul Kibler, Robert Reynolds an,
Harry Siegel. Excluding the win
nerS and the team finishing las
of the q foursomes entered, tn
scores of Is teams were so event,
matched that only five board
separated the tied runnersup an,
the next-to-last foursome.
Increasing popularity Of tn
one-session special pair games wa
evidenced by 48 duos participatin
in the Saturday match, "a il
the Sunday game. Mrs. Jenn
Bryant-Vic Zeve, Kenison-Col. :
G. Seabourne topped the giganti
Mitchell on Saturday. Mrs. Aim
lByrne-W. Crosby, second; Mrs. .
r. McGhee-Mrs. M. L. Fisher tie,
with Mrs. Mary GoldStein- Mrs
Howard Surkin for third, and Mrs
j. A. Dearing-Mrs Ann Scruggs
fourth, were other Localities ratin,
master point awards in this event
Kenison-Seabourne Jared wei
again in the Sunday pair match
finishing in back of Mrs. Aim;
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