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MAU Manuscripts and aJI Bridge Correspondence to : Tnn EDITOR, CoNTRACT BRIDGE JouRNAL. --3 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, ~NT. All Correspondence on Subscriptions and Advertising to Publishers : CAMDRAY PUBLICATIONS LTD., 3 CAMDRAY, 01ELTENHAM. GLOS. Telephone : 55708 CONTENTS Page coNTENTS Pag~ 28 EorroRIAL 6 B eST HAND ... EXPERT JUDGEMENT Ctuo N t ~UT - NOTTI NGIIAM 7-9 29-32 - by Pmtl Masters loNDoN AND TilE 33- 34 Sotmr C IIILDREN'S F u N • ... by Terence Reese to-14 -· A UGUST CoMrETJTION 35 METROI'OLITAN COUNTY FINA L 15 WlN"ffiRS 36 ANY Q UI!STJ0:-.15 16-20 BooK Rnvrew 37-39 E'IGusu BRIDGE U NtoN 22- 23 Ast::JNO Bros ... MrouNo s AND nm NoRnr D owN YouR WAY hy Harold Franklin 24- 25 CoMrETITION PAoi!S Ovi!R TilE B o RDER by C. E. Dickel .. , ... 26 27 DIARY ANI? SToP PltESS .5 .. ·- ·EDITORIAL Geoffrey Butler, Chairman of of first class and brilliant players the B.B.L., writes regarding our who had been asked to pair up Editorial of Augu~t :- . with a regular partner long before " Dear Editor, Cllristmas. They had not done so Your criticisms are, I hope, and therefore should not hav~ always kindly taken by the B.B.L. been considered for selection but I wonder how many of your however good they may be. readers know the difficulty facing The B.B.L. made an excellent the Selectors this year. You refer move when they -asked these to the pairing up of certain players to pair up but if the said players as late as June and July players were unable to do this for as being valueless. one reason or another, that should At the beginning of last season, h'ave been the .end of the matter long before Christmas, the Selec as far as they were concerned. tors asked players to pair up as When a first class pair break they wished and we announced up, until each player finds an· that we would regard the partner equally good partner, they should ships in the Master Pairs Contest stand. down. It is the same in as an indication of personal other games and sports, such .as wishes. tennis. · A world champion at In the result what happened ? singles may not get his place in By the time the Trials were being the Davis Cup in the doubles. announced the following players Ewart Kempson in the Bridge. were without regular partners: N. Magazine suggests that the Gardener, lain Macleod, A. winning team in a national event Meredith. J. "Pavlides, E. Rayne. such as the Gold Cup should be At least some of the above would the representatives in the Cham be on anybody's "short list." pionships. This was the pro Gardener and Macleod agreed cedure for two or three years to play and the latter immediately pre-war but it was not altoge~er had to withdraw as he became satisfactory. Agreed, you I~ Minister of Health ; the former variably had a good team and It then paired with Pavlides, and automatically did away with any Meredith with Rayne. In the question of favouritism in selec upshot none of these five was tion, but it did not always produce selected, but what sort. of com the best team and for a European ment would have been made if Championship, you must IT!a~e none had been given. a chance ? every endeavour to see that It IS Yours 'sincerely, the best and only the best (Sgd.) Geoffrey Butler, It is more than likely bow~ver Chairinan." that the suggestion, if put mto Mr. -Butler to a great extent practice,' would result in plarers confirms our contention " that for teaming up as stronger combma· players to pair up in June and tions than they are inclined to ~t July for the European Champion the moment Furthermore, It ships plaxed in September, was should give a big incentive to valueless. He names a number teams to enter for the Gold Cup. 6 I • Club N.ight - .· Nott i ngh~m . ·.· · j~: by our Travelling Correspondent I , How old is the oldest Bridge work at Chartered Accountant's Club? The Nottingham Club is fees (his profession), to-day he certainly one of the oldest, being would be a much richer man, but in full swing in 1929. The years Competitive Bridge is built up by before the war saw Nottingham these professional "men who give · players standing out with almost so freely of their skill to Oubs monotonous regularity in· the and Associations all, over the Competition world. Mrs. Bell and Country. Mrs. Newton, Daphne Kleuser Harold Denman, Mrs. Burns, and Doreen Hopewell, Dennis Mrs. Holland, Harold and Mrs. Bland, Bob Frith, and Arthur Marshall, and last but not least Bearn, some of them still holdinl! the Club's genial, and ·generous their own, some alas now only a President, Cyril Cullen, whose memory.