Evening star., 1955-06-12
AROUND THE BRIDGE TABLE
Potomac Valley Titles
At Stake This Week
BY MARGARET L. FISHER

ny MAhOAhEl II. rAoHCh
The tenth annual Potomac
Valley championships next
week end at the Sheraton
Park Hotel offers Washington
bridge fans a variety of COM
petition. Pair events, team
play and a newly added indi-
vidual contest will be featured
In the three day sectional
tournament sponsored by the
Washington Bridge League.
Mems and women's pair
contests open the series at
AIS pm, Friday. Mixed pairs
compete at $3.50 pm. The
open pair event, Saturday,
comprises qualifying rounds at
2p.m. and at $3.50 pm. A spe-
cial open-pair game will be
Saturday evening, concurrent
with the championship match,
for non-qualif1ers and others.
Teams will have their inning
Sunday. all foursomes contest
ing at board-a-match through
the two sessions at 1890 and
at Z pm.
Sharing the Sunday spot
light will be the individual
event, which promises to at
tract many young stars as well
as duplicate veterans. In order
to facilitate arrangements for
the proper movement, partici-
pants in the individual match
are urged to register soon with
Mrs. Glynn Skipper Federal
3-3622) or Arthur H. Fribourg
emerson 2-7884), contest
chairmen.
Defending Titlists
Area players predominant on
the panel of defending titlists.
Mrs. Virginia Dye-Mrs. Jean
Ellis hold the Edith Swanson
trophy and the women'S pair
title. Henry Rau-Miller Rob-
erts are co-defenders with
Jules Chodak of Baltimore and
E. M. Panossian of Richmond
in the mems pair champion
ships.
Mrs. Michael Michaels- Rob-
ert Bierly will seek to retain
the Stockvis trophy which they
won last year in the mixed
pair event. Miller Roberts will
defend for the second time
in the series, paired with
George Dickerman in the open
event. The Vosburgh trophy is
up for contest in the opens.
Israel Cohen, Paul Kibler, to-
gether with Mrs. Salley Nicely
of Warwick, Va, and Mrs.
Margaret Alcorn Of Hampton,
Va, currently hold the team
title.
DR.. Edwin M. Short and
Mortimer D. Goldstein, tour
ney chairmen, announce that
participation in the Potomac
Valley contests is open to any
member of the American Con-
tract Bridge League, under
whose sanction the meet is
held. Alvin Landy of New York
will direct, assisted by Paul
Golden, j. S. Machlin and
Richard Freeman, local direc-
tors.
WBL's Monthly Winners
The monthly winners
contest, featured last Wednes-
day at the Washington Bridge
League, provided double mas
ter point awards for the top
pairs in the two-section Nit
chell play. Results:
Sector, a: 1-Kathleen MeNutt-
Dr. Leroy Robins. 2--Mrs Catherine
McGhee-Dr. Gilbert Rude. Robert 8.
Boyer-Capt. j. H. Moller
Section B: Mrs Agnes Fischer
W. NJ. Lingley, Mrs. Edna Evans
Mrs. Harry Siegel. Mrs. J. A. Dear
ing Mrs, Roy Haekett, J. P. Leary-
Burt OSbourne.
In the non-winners' Mitchell con-
test held concurrently, NJ. R. Browne
A. Southerland and Media Cain-M Mary
Beebe rated high scores, seconds going
to Don Beardon Whitley Thorn, Mrs.
Rose Robins-Col. Edward Clifford.
Next major attraction on
the Washington Bridge League
calendar is the first annual
competition for the mixed pair
championship. The contest will
be held in two sessions, June
% and 90, at the Sheraton
Park. starting time 7:45 pm.
All WBL members are eligible.
According to w. M. Lingley,
contest ch ir m n, highest
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