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+ ~ ) 7 t~ ,; ~ l , ..., . \ () :' 0 J S-:! + I~ (i Ill s :l + I! J .j -1 \/ IU 7 :l :.! .\ I I ~I 7 li 0 5 :1 I J ~~-~ .j + 8:; :1:.! + .\ h: \/ 1\: J H s ti 0 1\: 10 -l + .-\ jill South t·illH' r push e~ himself, u r ;.: L' t' pus lu·d h~ - his partrwr. inln a cnntr;ll ·t .,f Six lit-art s . lin tht· It-ad u f th•· ~ in ;.: ll'lnn trump. can South makt• it ; Sec page l ti . CHAS. BRADB URY Lll\IITED 26 SACKVILLE ST., PICCAD!li.Y LONDON, W.J . 'II Phone REG : 3123<l9'l; LOANS ARRA!\GEi \ With or without S ecu ~ll 'I ..· THE TO CLUB SECRETARJJ:.<...,. EUROPEAN Spread tlze neu·s of your BRIDGE activities. Write and tell tt s of your special events. Items REVIEW of general interest are ah R' fl)'S Annual Subscription Rate: welcome. 30/- post free. per Mr .. Q. A. Goldenberg, The copyright of this magazine is 10 King's Mansions, Lawrence St., vested in Priestley Studios Ltd. London, S.W.3. It is published under the authority Single copies 3/- from Newsagents of the English Bridge Union. The Editorial Board is composed of, and the Editor is appointed by, the English Bridge Union. ,RIVIERA HOTEL CANFORD CLIFFS BOURNEMOUTH I • ' FACES CHINE AND S EA AMID GLORIOUS SURROUNDINGS Quality fare prepared by first class chefs P erfectly appointed b edrooms and suites Cocktail Lounge-T ennis- Golf T elephone : Canford Cliffs 285 B rochur e on Request e You ca11 always rely on a good game of Bridge at The Ralph Evans's Hotel CONT,RACT BRIDGE ·· JOURNAL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION VoLUME 4 APRIL 1950 NUMBER 6 Vale atque Ave · CONTENT S · Page NEXT month, the Co11tract Bridge ottrnal welcomes EDITORIAL .... 2 J back as its Competition Editor E.B.U. SPRING CONGRESS Hm·old Fra11kli11 4 Mr. J. C. H. Marx who created that Department when the REESE ON CRITICISM 8 magazine was founded. CAMROSE CUP CLIMAX "Alibi" .... 10 Edmund Phillips-compelled to THE " SAFE " LEAD relinquish the post owing to his C. R. B. Murray 17 betrothal (we wish him and his THE LONDON FLITCH fiancee all good fortune) and Jl!I. Harriso11-Gray 18 pressure of work-wrote generous­ BELOW THEIR OWN FORM ly on hearing the news and name The Editor 21 of his successor : " I am delighted :fRIENDLY ENCOUNTER 26 to hear Jack' Marx is taking over COMPETITION RESULTS 27 again; after, I hope, an efficient ORDER OF MERIT .. .. 27 regency, it is good to know the IRISH BATTLE King is returning to the Throne." Noel Byme 28 THIS MONTH'S COMPETITION In the name of our readers, and · Edmund Phillips 29 our own, we thank Mr. Phillips for ANSWER TO MARCH a truly Royal regency ; and greet COMPETITION .... 30 the return of a supreme analyst to • • • an arduous task. All Bridge Correspondence to the Editor : • • • GUY RAMSEY, .Mr. A. J. Smith, Bridge Editor 13 Cannon P lace, of The Daily Telegraph, writes to London, N.W.3. endorse whole-heartedly the condemnation of the " Howell A II Correspoudeuct 011 Subscl'iptious or Advertising to Three-Quarter Movement" pub­ Publishers : lished in the l\larch issue of ihe PRIESTLEY STUDIOS Ltd., Journal. Commercial Road, Glou cester. To all Tournament Directors­ verb. sap. l EDITORIAL T HE British Bridge League has, (despite the dropping of one of flinging a bombshell in the them for three matches on process, finally nominated the technical grounds) ; they played Men's and \Vomen's teams for the for Crockford's when that Club International at Brighton :- defeated the Americans. M. Harrison-Gray So-why? A. Meredith One reason is that, deplorably K. W. Konstam in ?ur view (and the B.B.L.'s), a L. W. Dodds spht occurred between the mem­ N. Gardener bers of the Paris team which L. Tarlo resolved what had been an entity into two apparently Mrs. H. H~ Renshaw irreconcilable factions. To put Mrs. F. Gordon into the field a team.at feud with Mrs. ·P. Williams itself was out of the question: for, Mrs. H. R. Evans quite apart from such a proce­ Mrs. A. Crisford dure's putting too much strain Mrs. P. Carr upon the players and reducing The appointment of captains what is intended to be an honour for both teams has been deferred. and an enjoyment both to an Bo~ teams contain surprising irksome duty, it would also be omisstons-not such surprising about the best way to lose the inclusions. twice-gained crown. · The presence of Gardener and The B.B.L. naturally took Tarlo in the · Open is an neither side nor part in this " expected " S)lrprise ; they have lamentable discord. It made its had a successful season ; they decision on the merits of the have impressed in Camrose circumstances with which it was contests; and they were freely faced-a decision to which ·rumoured to be undergoing a various factors contributed. It " grooming" for Brighton. Our had been our intention to congratulations go out to them. elaborate upon these " impon­ The discarding of Edward derables," dotting the i's, and Rayne also was not wholly crossing the t's in our often­ unexpected. The incisiveness criticised fashion ; but in view of which marked him at Copenhagen all the issues involved, we refrain. seemed to have deserted him in We limit ourselves to the Paris ; and bridge no longer seems endorsement of the B.B.L.'s view to engross his attention as much that mere technical supremacy is as it did-he took little part in not, and must never be, the sole practice matches, and is pre­ criterion for national representa­ occupied with business. tion. It is, of course, the dropping of With regard to the Ladies' Terence Reese and Boris Shapiro series, the B.B.L. nominations that is staggering. They were have been justified to the B.B.L.s, hailed at Copenhagen as lite pair satisfaction : Mrs. Gordon. and of the tournament ; they were Mrs. Renshaw played themselves certainly effective in Paris into the team during the first 2 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL series of invitation matches ; apology or even explanation. Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Evans, The current issue of our after a shakier start, have contemporary omits-perhaps developed into a formidable understandably-any record of combination. this item of news. The emergence of a . " pair of Comment would, we feel, be a Provincials "-Mrs. Crisford and work of supererogation. Mrs. Carr-to absolute front-rartk is all for the good of the game. * * • Here, it is fair to say, the quality It is our great pleasure formally of this pair's partnership was to announce that, for the first decisive. in its effect upon the time since 1937, a World Bridge Selectors. They have played Championship is to be staged this together for years ; they are year. · imperturbable ; they have always After nearly two years of been to the fore in all County unflagging preliminary work, events and are known as one of undertaken in the main by the the steadiest and most consistent Chairman of the E.B.U. in Britain pairs in the whole country. and Norman Mudie-Bach, a pre­ This is one major reason why war International now resident they have been preferred above in the U.S.A., the initiative of more Internationally experienced, Sir Noel Mobbs recently visiting and better-known metropolitan America, bas finally clinc~ed the players-and they, too, carry engagement. with our congratulations our warm A triangular contest will be wishes for success. held (provisionally from November 13-20, 1950) in Bermuda, between * * * teams of six from the British We are once again compelled, Commonwealth and Empire, however reluctantly, to criticise Continental Europe and · the our contemporary, The Bridge United States : the winners to Magazine. carry the title of World Champions Late in 1949, this organ pro­ The Bermudan authorities claimed with flourish of verbal are taking a major part in trumpets, through its re-creator, the organisation and a generous publisher and Editor, Mr. Ben share in the financing of a very Cohen, that it offered, gratuitously, considerable project which, more to carry out for the International than any other single stroke, bids Congress at Brighton the whole of fair to give our game its greatest. the printing, scoring arrangements prestige. and cost of the stewards-an offer By an alteration in its Constitu­ estimated as the equivalent of a tion, the B.B.L. will-if the donation of £500 and one which Dominions accept an invitation was accepted very gratefully. already issued- represent at In the middle of March, after bridge the whole group of lands months of procrastination, during that accept the rule of the King. which nothing has been done by Our team for this event this Mr. Cohen and, in reliance upon year- it is to be held either tri­ him, little by anyone else, the offer or quinqui-ennially- will not be has been withdrawn without chosen until after Brighton. 3 E.B ..U. Si>RI~ia ·c oNGREss HARROGATE by HAROLD FRANKLIN HE large number of bridge Leeds players A. Glynne and ' T players-more than · five S. Salinsky who headed their hundred_:_who attended this section with by far the best score year's E.B.U. Spring Congress of the afternoon. at Harrogate, helped to make it It appeared that the destination an unqualified success. If one of the Queen Cup would depend is to judge by the appreciative upon the early match between remarks heard in all directions, Mrs.

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