Evening star., 1953-12-27
Bridge Players
By Margaret [. Fisher

With Christmas festivities In
full swing. bridge in its more
serious form momentarily
takes q back seat, but even
now favorite partnerships are
lining up for their first big
tournament Of 1954-the 17th
annual Northern Virginia
championships.
The series opens January 8
at the Willard Hotel, offering
three days Of top tournament
competition to hundreds of To-
cal fans and many visiting
bridge luminaries.
Included in the Washington
Bridge League-sponsored event
are women's and mems pair
contests Friday afternoon, a
mixed pair game Friday eve
ming, a two-session open pair
match Saturday. Another dou-
BILE session contest, team-of-
four, closes the series on Janu-
ary 10. Special one-session pair
games will be held on Satur-
day and Sunday evenings.
The tournament is sane
toned by the American Con-
tract Bridge League and is
open to all of its members.
A. M. Sobel of New York will
direct, assisted by Paul E.
Golden and j. S. Machlin. To-
cal game directors. Tourna-
ment chairmen are Miss Sue e.
CAN'T and DR.. E. M. Short.
Washington Bridge League
team champions are rating
two chances at their favorite
type of bridge competition this
month. Last Wednesday saw
them locked in their fourth
session of the fourSome series,
next Wednesdays fifth and
final round determining the
winners.
Winning 171a matches out
Of "a Wednesday, the team of
J. D. Boyd. Sam Cohn, Martin
May. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Million edged into the series
lead totaling Sc to date. Sec
ond in the series are Gene
Metz, Wilson Satterf1eld, DR..
Louis Lang, Manfred Sober
helm. Irving Aisenberg, with
$50, while the team of Mrs.
Rose Robins. DR.. Leroy Robins,
Mrs. Agnes Fischer, Fred
George. w. M. Lingley, second
in the December % session,
totaled SIS wins in the series.
In the two concurrent pair
contests Mrs. Betty Cook-J. G.
Fletcher, Herman Moe-Julian
Series, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Ros-
son, Mrs. M. L. Rinker-J. P.
Leary were the winners. In
second spots were Mrs. Eva
Barsis Lloyd Lambert, 1t.
Lewis AnSbacher-H. D. Shei-
telman, Elizabeth Baker-Eva
Goldberg, Mrs. Alma Byrne-
E. r. Prieto.
Credits won in the December
Is WBL match, 18th and last
game in the fall point award
series, Jockeyed several into
the top three prize spots in the
three claSSifications.
DR.. E. M. Short retained
the lead in Glass A (players
holding 100 or more master
points,. He won with % cred
its. William Million, 81 points,
edged out Mrs. j. r. McGhee
and Lewis Levenson, tied
with 20.
In Class B Go to 80 master
points,, A. H. Fribourg won
with Is. j. B. Rintels %. and
David Wilder 1917. Woodrow
j. Halstead and Lindell Shrum.
a constant partnership, shared
top prizes in Glass c (under 10
master points, tying with a
Is credit total. Leonard Plot
kin finished third with %.
A new 12-game award con-
test similar to that just con-
cluded will begin with the, jan
uary 6 WBL game.
Veteran Washington Bridge
Leaguers will have much rea-
son to congratulate John j.
Parish, former WBL member,
when he returns here from
his present home in Centralia,
ILL.,. for the Northern Virginia
meet. Immediately after fin
ishing third in the u. S. Ma
tional Opens at Dallas early
this month, he took the Mexi-
can Nationals in Mexico City
by storm, winning the mems
pair, open pairs and team
contest.
He was paired with Ben
Johnson of Spartansburg, S.
c., former ACBL president, in
D. AL