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Sceye PDF-File TABLE UP AT THE SOUTH~ORT B.C. .. • I I :. f • .. · · -~) . ) No. ·a 6 JUNE, 1952 • 118 IIRIll t,'D II ·IGJ!E THE "CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL" . CIRCULATES IN THE BRITISH ISLES EIRE SOUTH AFRICA IRAN AUSTRALIA MALAYA ITALY CANADA BELGIUM NORWAY CEYLON . DENMARK SWEDEN ·INDIA EGYPT SPAIN NEW ZEALAND FINLAND SWITZERLAND PAKISI'AN HOLLAND TURKEY aDd the U.S.A. .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Australia A£1/18/0 Belgium Frs. 218 Italy Lire 2624.25 Canada $4.60 Denmark Kr. 30 Norway Kr. 31 Ceylo~ Rs. 20 Egypt E£1.50 Sweden Kr. 22.50 India Rs. 20 Eire £1/ lOiO Spain Ps. 46 NewZealand £1/10/0 Finland Mks. 970 Switzerland Frs. 19 · Pakistan Rs. 13 France Frs. 1520 Turkey T£12 South Africa £1/10/0 Holland Fls. 16.50 u.s:A. .· - $4.50 Malaya Rs. 14 Iran Rials 135 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 30/- POST FREE The Copyright of this Magazine is vested in Cambray Publications Limited. Reprinting of contents without permission is prohibited. It is published under the authority of the English Bridge Union. • Please cut om and attach to Competition Emry CONTRACT BRIDGE. JOURNAL COMPETITION VOUCHER JUNE, 1952 CONlllACT DRIDGE JOURNAL BRIDGE The Officlal. Bulletia of the THE BELGIUM BRIDGE EUROPEAN FEDERATION BRIDGE REVIEW • • ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Annual Subscription Rate : (10 issues) 30/- post free 10/­ polt free 1 • European Bridge Review Enskede, Sweden • Age/It in Great Britain : MR. G. C. H. Fox Circulation Dept. : 42 Greencroft Gardens, Rue Phillipe-le-Boa, 20 London, N.W.6. Brussels Belgium Single copies 3/- from Newsagents 2 COI'ITRACI' BRIDGB JOURNAL CHAMPION BRIDGE BOOKS THE FOUR ACES SYSTEM OF CONfRACI' BRIDGE by world champions Oswald Jacoby, David Bumstine, Miclzae/ T . Gottlieb, Howard Schenken and Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. Introduction by Harold S. Vanderbilt. · . · This all-American bidding system, based on the oh-so-easy 3-2-1 point count, has beaten every known system. Not the writings or pet theories of one player, but a harmonious system as practised by the world's top masters, as they bid it, as they play it, as they win by it. The 332 pages of this jumbo book lucidly cover every phase of winning bids, made easy in simple lan­ guage fo r average players. Profusely illustrated with type hands and bidding sequences. An one-guinea value for only 15/- post free . EXPERT BIDDING by Samuel M. Stayman, world champion player. Stayman•s new 4!-2-3-1 count is making a stir in American Bridge circles. 16/- poet paid mE 4 CLUB BID by John Gerber, the Texas Star, saves a round over Blackwood and just as easy. Paper, 6/- post paid Mail cheque or money order to British Sales Agents :- Cambrny Publicatimw Ud., 3 Cambray,. Olelteoham Allow about six weeks for delivery, since these bool·a are shipped only on order from U.S.A. 3 English Bridge Union (Chair man : L. T ARLO, EsQ.) SEASON 1951-52 Bon. Secretary & Treasurer H . CoLLtNS, EsQ., A.C.A., cfo Messrs. Leaver Cole & Co., 30 Budge Row, Cannon Stree~ London, E.C.4. (Phone: City 4887). Hon. Tournament Secretary MAJOR GEOPFRBY FELL, Craven Lead Works Skipton, Yorkshire. (Phone: Skipton 32). ' Hon. Registrars M.essRs. LEAVER, CoLE & Co. The Council of the English Bridge Union .is made ·up of Delegates from County and Area Associations, whose Secretanes are as follows:- DERBYSHJRE S. C. Bate, Esq., 83 Willowcroft Road, Spondon, Derby. DEVONSHIRE G. Graham Wilson, Esq., 8 Georgian Court, Babbacombe Road, Torquay. ESSEX ... F. M. Fletcher, Esq., ·22 Fontayne Avenue, Chigwell. GLOUCESI'ERSHIRE W. N. Morgan·Brpwn, Escj., Battledown Uwn, - 123 Hales Road, Cheltenham. HERTFORDSIURE C. G. Grenside, Esq., 1 Cloisters, Grange Coun Road, Harpenden, Herts. KENT Mrs. R. H. Corbett, West Kent Club, Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells. LEICF..STERSHlRE ... L. G . Cayless, Esq., Farm Edge, Leicester Road Thurcaston. LINCOLNSHIRE Mrs. S. N. Dean, 2, Westlands Avenue, Grimsby. LONDON Mrs. E. I· Gray, 23 Clydesdale Gardens, Richmond, Surrev. MIDDLESEX ... Mrs. I. Freeman, The Nook, Lyndhurst Terrace N.W.3. NORFOLK R. Mallinson, Esq., Shibden, Lower Hellesdon · Norwich. NORTH EASTERN H. Esther, 33 Kenton Road, Gosfonh, Newcastle. NORTH \rESTE~N F. Farrington, Esq., Thornfield, Withins Lane, Bolton. NOTIINGHAMSHIRE D. G. F. Bland, Esq., 57 Friar Lane, Nottingham. OXFORDSHIRE Mrs. R. G. Beck, 1 Blenheim Drive, Oxford. SOUTHERN COUNTIF..S Miss D. Haslam, 1175a Christchurch Road, !ford. Hants. STAFFORDSHIRE P. Hartill, Wcsthplm, Wood Road, Codscll, Wolvcrhampton. SURREY R. F. R. Phillips, Esq., 110 B1nstead Ro3d South, Sutton. SUSSEX G. F. Spashett, Esq., 31 St. George's Road, Worthing . .• WARWICKSHIRE F. 0 . Bingham, Esq., 64a Greenhill Road, Birm ing:1am, 13. • WORCESTERSHIRE R. D. Allen, Esq., 28 Britannia Square. Worcester. YOR:,KSHIRE R. H. Chope, Esq., 26 Riverdale Road. Sheffield, 10. TO CLUB SECRETARIES Spread the news of your activities. Write and tell us of your special events. Items of general interest are always welcome. 4 CONTRAC.T, aRIDC.E.. JOURNAL OFFICIAL MEDIUM FOR ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION VoLUME 6 JUNE, 1952 Editor-in-Chief : H. ST. JOHN" INGRAM Editor of London and Southern Region : TERENCE REESB Editor of 1\lldlnnd llDd Northern Region : HAROLD fRANKUN Competition Editor : ... 1. C. H. MARX Manuscripts and all Bridge Correspondence to : T HE EDITOR, . CoNTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL, I . 3 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, K ENT. All CorTespondence on Subscriptions and Advertlsloa to Publishers : CAMDRAY P UDUCATIONS LTD., 3 CAMDRAY, CHELTENHAM, GLOs. Telephone : 55708 C ONTENTS Page- CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL ... 6 N ATJOSAL PAIRS •. I 26 Cwo NIGHT 7 by C. E. Pllillips lo'IDO!Il AND n re S o urn MIDLANDS AND TIIB NORTII 28 by Terence Reese 9 by Harold Franklin ... I NEXI'ERT JUDGM8{1' . THE VICAR'S PSYOIIC by C. H . M. Swrges 31 by Gordon H. Hammond 14 33 - Ar-.'Y QUESTIONS 16 E URO-PEAN CIIAMPIONSIIIl'S . 34' Boo._ R EVIEW 21 PoST BAa BE!>T H AND 21 V OIDS AND BLACKWOOD Guilford 37 ExPERT JUDGEMENT by C. H. by Paul Masters 22 D owN YouR WAY ... 39 OveR n JE BORDER CoMPETITION PAOES by C. E. Dickel 25 by J. C. H. Marx -- s . ·, • ·EDITORIAL Twelve months ago, we :ather promotes a. feeling of satisfaction strongly criticised the run~mg of ~o com~etltors and ensures an some congresses, deprecatmg the mcrease an attendance the follow. lack of organisation, the great ing year. Nothing is lost, rather annoyance to many players at the the reverse but a parsimonious late starts, and the bugbear_ of so policy could result in killing the ' many players sitting down m the goose. North-South positions all over the room leaving the East-West prac­ The London Congress also had tically vacant. a short prize list but in this case circumstances were rather differ­ Since then every congress has ent as the expense for the hire of shown a very great improvement the hall is colossal. It does not and top marks were secured at seem right, however, that with the Y.C.B.A. Annual Meeting at well over 200 players sitting down Scarborough last month. We have to a pairs event, only the first and never seen a congress better run second in the whole room receive and congratulate all concerned. prizes. Surely it would be possi­ Yorkshire is undoubtedly the ble to give all section winners a leading Association of the E.B.U. small memento. It hardly seems . as far as the number of members equitable that the winners of an is"concerned and few counties can aggregate paits event are awarded be as duplicate-minded. On this a prize but the winners of a sec· latter score the Midlands are tion of a match pointed event probably on a par. receive nothing. One innovation at Scarboro' Perhaps the E.B.U. and others which met with approval was will consider this question before that those who won prizes in pairs next season. events were invited to the Con­ gress Office as soon as they had been announced as winners and THANKS were shown a large selection of The C.B.J. has great pleasu!'C goods from which to choose their in publishing this letter from latn own prize. There were probably Macleod, Minister of Health. twenty different items on view addressed to the Editor. and the idea was undoubtedly popular: My dear Harry, Whilst on the subject of prizes I've given up hope of answering we suggest to the E.B.U. that all the letters and telegrams­ th~y might have given more over 1 000-1 have had. So many pnzes at Southport. In their Bridge' friends have written th~ notes last month they announced perhaps you'd be good enou_ that a profit of approximately to print this letter in the C.B.J. £250 had been made on the Spring as my thanks to them all. I am Congress and this strikes us as a most grateful. very high proportion of the· total recei~ts. :ro given good number Yours ever, of pnzes as a sound policy as it lain. 6 Night - Southport by our Travelling Correspondent The Southport Bridge Club has The Club's President is Mr. been in existence almost from the James· Yates, the T~urnament moment when Contract Bridge .·Director of the North Western started to be played generally in Contract Bridge Association, and, this country, and for many years as may be supposed, it has been has ocupied commodious premises the scene of countless duplicate in the centre of the town's famous contests directed by its President "Lord Street" Most of such contests are in It commenced life as one of the nature of the usual Howell those ran; entities-a company and Mitchell match-pointed .
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