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TERENCE REESE Player, Teacher, CHAS. BRADBURY 'ACHILLE LI MITED 26 SACKVILLE ST., PICCADILLY:· SERRE LONDON , WI. Phone Reg. 3/23-3995 ~a~fP~and LOANS ARRANGED With. or without Security. :: 0j~ ~~ ~ p&dlhtt- Ari annual subscription · (30/-) forwarded to the Pub DEEBOlD lishers will ensure regular monthly delivery of the Contract Bridge Joumal. The copyright "of this magazine is vested in Priestley Studios Ltd. It is published under the authority of the English ·Bri<:lge Union. uk for leJOct 3t your The Editorial Board is composed of, loal bnnch or Agent and the Editor is appointed by, the ,English Bridge Union. B~ANCHU AND AGENTS IP.~ PIUNCIPAL ClUU[S . RIVIERA .DOTE·L ..J CANFORD CLIFFS BOURNEMOUTH FACES CHINE AND SEA AMID GLORIOUS SURROUNDINGS Quality fare prepared by first class chefs Perfectly appoint'ed bedrooms. and suites Cocktail Lounge-Tennis-Golf Telephone : Canford Cliffs 285 Brochure on Request e You catz always rely on a good game of Bridge at The Ralph Evans's Hotel CONTRACT BRIDGE .. , JO-URNAL OFFICIAL . ORGAN OF THE ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION VoLUMB -3 DECEMBER, 1948 NUMBER 2 I NTE.RNATIONAL .CONTENTS • Pag~ INTERNATIONAL 1 EDITORIAL ' . 2 If YOU aspire to Intern ~t i on a l OUR MATCH AGAINST honours-and why should you not ? BRITA:IN-H. W. Filarski 4 write before December 13th to OuT oF THE MouTHs· Major George E. Gray, S. Tupper Bigelow .. Secretary, B.B.L., BOURNEMOUTH TOURNAMENT "Alibi" .. 11 23, Clydesdale Gardens, · PREPARED FUTILITY Richmond, Surrey. 14 Major Sturges g1vmg either your name and that of FRIENDLY CONGRESS your partner or the names of your The Tournament Director 15 team of 4, 5 or 6 players. .. PREl\IIUl\1 ON TOPS 16 If you. enter n team, it will cost you HAVEN .AT LAST '. £5 per player ; · if as n pair, £5 only. A. G. Figgi11s 18 Cheques should accompany entnes. '' .RE£sE ., 20 Entrants will. have to play in a . ' GRAND SLAM MANQUE preliminary contest-pairs. being made S.J. Simon . 21 up into • teams by the Selectiort SCIENCE FOR THE AVERAGE · Committee-in January. From this, · PLAYER-:-Norman Squire . 22 some four teams will be chosen to SERPENT- SUBTLE piny 64~bonrd contests against nlf Derrick Hirsch . • 24 others. ARENA 26 . If you have entered ns a pair, and NoRTH WESTERN · TRIUMPH 28 survive to piny in a team, you will be asked to pay nn additional £5 between ' GoLD CuP RESULTS 28 you. · - DECEMBER Co!IIPETITION 29 The two lending teams in the ANSWERS TO .NOVE!I!DER 64-board series will face each other CO!IIPETITION . ; 30 over 200 boards, the winner of which· will have to face . yet another 200 "' * *; board match from The Rest. All ~o;.;.esp o-~dei1 ce to the J!ditor : Only -. after this exhaustive test will. the International Team for Paris be GUY RAMSEY, finally decided upon. • · 13, Camloo ~lace, . Londooj· N.W.J.· If you are in: any doubt,· or want more detailed information, w~t~ NO\V to Major Gray. I · --- ·EDITORIAL Ring out the old, ring in the new . Entries will go to him direct, for he holds that only the Setter The mas§ of work carried out of a problem can handle adequately hitherto by Secretary H. D. King both the answers and the queries. has nO\V been taken on, in, ':Ve Mr. Phillips has announced his may- say, an almost . hon~~ary intention of reverting to the capacity, by three pubhc-spmted problems of "pure" bridge rather members of the E.B.U. · than those based, to some extent,. • The headaches and heart-breaks upon the personal style of play, of Tournament organisation ·are in system, or bidding theories of any the hands of Major Geoffrey Fell, single individual. whose swift decision and habit of * * * * * command are no less known to In a recent issue, we ourselves regulilr tournament players tha!l reviewed the new edition of his breezy personality and· h1s Thorne's Complete Co11tract Bridge booming voice. which has been written (rather The weary drudgery of sub • than· re-written) by Hubert Phillips. scriptions, ~ddresses, records has As readers may note from the been voluntarily a5sumed by the cover of the current issue, the Registrar Mr. Hugh Collins, one redoubtable Hubert and the no of the fe~v synonyms for' efficiency less distinguished Terence Reese in the bridge world. have revised and brought to the ' The day-to-day handling of pitch of modernity The Elements E.B.U. business and Committee of Co11tract : that peak of pre-\\·ar work goes with the title of Secretary text-books which \vill be reYiewed to Mrs. Louisa Stern : for long, next month. by her own wish, . a support~r; We have no hesitation in suggest now in her own nght a maJOr ing meanwhile that, if anyoiie.wants figu;e in Contract circles . We beg to give a bridge-player a bridge leave to welcome Mrs: Stern's book for Christmas, they could go appointment and to congratulate very much further and fare the E.B. U. on the generosity of infinitely worse than picking one its members no less than : on· the or the other of these volumes for selective ability of the Council. the gift. * * * * * * ' * * * * The last week-end in January We should like to draw the consists of four consecuth·e red I attention of our . readers to the letter days for card-players : the Competition page. The 'Jormral E.B. U. Congress at Harrogate runs has appointed Mr . Edmund from Friday, January 28, to I Phillips a distinguished analyst Monday, January 31, inclusive. and a 'permanent figure in the A. new style of organisation I. upper brackets of the monthly which. should give · every competitions organised by our co~petitor a chance to play transatlantic contemporary, The agamst the giants and is designed Bridge TVorld, as our permanent to avoid clashing events- has been Competition Editor: evolved. 2 ,, CONTRACT ~ . RIDGE JqURN AL The township of Harrogate, the Hydro Hotel where ·some of the events will be held, and the Grand Contract Bridge Association Hotel have gone " flat out " in of Ireland their co-operation with the E.B. U. to inake this . event 'one which - ~ should mark an Everest among SOUTHERN OPEN bridge events. The various1 authorities have -also evolved a scheme whereby BRIDGE · CONGRESS the longer you stay and the more AT " BEAUTY'S HOME," events for which you enter, the KILLARNEY less (proportionately) it will cost. SATURDAY, JUNE lith, 1949, to And the organisatiC?n is such that SUNDAY, JULY 19th, inclusive husban~s and wives, going together, will not only be able to compete Nine days of Bridie, Ga l( (New /8-Ho/e Champion ship Course), Siiht-seeinr, Boatinr, Fishinz, etc., separately but also to play together concludini with Coniress Ball. (if they so desire !) in certain events'. IMMEDIATE BOOKING is neccesury to We take the opportunity to avoid disappointment. wish all those who ear-mark this Patrons kindly note that the Killarney week-end for a bridge-cum-pleas_ure Bridge Conz:ress dates have been per manently fixed for the 3rd week in •• orgy " great success ; and we june, a.s. from this year. beg to wish all our readers- and, Special illustrated Prozramme Booklet. zivinc in ·fact, all· who· play across the full details, available shortly, on application, green baize- the compliments of from the Han. Secretaries :- tlie season and a New Year m . Dr. EAMON N . M. O 'SULLIVAN which all finesses are· right. KEVIN O'FARRELL, Esq. E.B.U. COMPETITION RESULTS CllOCKFOllD'S CUP llou11d 2 to be completed bu 23·1-40. lsi ltound (31-10·~8). Mrs. M. Hesketh beat Mrs. F. 11. Jnn·l.s J. Colin beat A. Oldschool by 1 0 1.~1.1'. 4 ~nd llonnd (12·12-48). Mrs. bh. £:~SeFo~d beat )Irs. ll. Uowley 0. ll. llammond bent A. J. Smith by by 1,430 pts. · 14 I.M.l'. ' lii. Wolnch bent A. Stockton by 1 i !.M.P. AJo'FILIATED CLUJJ5 CUl' 1~. Farrington bent T. E. Oonlm1 by 1st Jlound (14-11-48). 7 I .M.1'. Lyndhurst (L. llnron) bent Darelnys Dunk by 1,050 11ts. illound 3 to be completed bv 30·1-40. Gloucester (Mrs. McDougall) bent ltoe- • U. E. Clark bent 0. H. llnmmond by hampton by &,300 pts. 21 I .M.P. Lederer's bent Gloucester (Mrs. Williams) llnroncss Knoop bent ll. }'. It. 1'hlllips by 000 pts. by 40 1.!1.1'. Hamilton bent Lyndhurst (A. EIUott) by ~ 1 400 )ItS. .1'.-\CITAHO CUI' Civil Service C.ll ...\. beat Tunbridge Well.s 1st ltound (28-11-48). (ll) by !!10 Jlls. 0. ]<'. Sllll&hett bent E. Seldon by 1,110 pta. Wnnborough Mnnor beat \\'elwyn Garden :!!nd ltdund (to be completed by 1 0-1·40). City by 810 11ts. W. Terry bent 1'. J . C. Coleman by Tunbridge Wells· (A) beat Sldcup by 000 . 2,770 pta. ]liB. - Worthing bent De\·onshirc, Enstbournc Wlli'£ELAW CUI' by 1,810 pta. lst ltound (to bo completed by &·12·48). Oxford University bent ·lllnningham llaroness Knoop bent Mrs. JJ. Fletcher by llllSlness Houses by 1,300 pts. 3 0 1 ' Orlmsby bent Aysgnrth, Lt.-ed.s by &SO pts. lr.:S. 6~ ~t~ ~iimisou bcn.t :\rrs. 0: Troccy Oa•nbrldge University ll.C. W.O. Leicester hy 3,000 ills. - · Jewish by 1,300 pts. · :.Urs: Dobson bent :'>lrs: :.u; Cole by " l,O~O )Its. llouud' 2 to be compltted bv ·1-ll-!D, 3 . - OUR MATCH -AGAINST BRITAIN AT COPENHAGEN . bt H.