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TO CLUB SECRETARIES Spread the news of your activities. Write aad tell Ul of Y• lpecia) events. Items of general interest are always ,._.. 4 cONTRACT BRIDGE· JOURNAL OFFICIAL MEDIUM FOR ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION NEWS VoLUME 6 A UGUST, 1952 No. 10 Editor-in-Chief : H. ST. JOHN INGRAM Editor of London and Southern Region : TER£NCE RE!SI! Editor of Midland and Northern Region : · ... HAROLD FRANniN Competition Editor : ... J. C. H. MAJUC Manuscripts and nil Bridge Correspondence to : TUB EDITOR, CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL, 3 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, KENT. All Correspondence on Subscriptions nod Advertising to Publishers : CAMDRAY P UBUCATIONS Lm., 3 CAMDRAY, .. CnELTt!NHAM, Gws. Telephone: 55708 CONTENTS Page CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL .6 KILLARNEY 25-26 LoNDO:-~ AND nm Soum . ANY· QUBSTIONS 27-30 by Terence Reese 7- 11 Ct.ua N tGHT- LoNDoN 12 OvER nm BoRDER by C. E. Dickel 31-32 ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION 13- 15 ExPm JuDGEMENT THEME AND VARIATIONS by Gordon H. Hammo11d 33-34 by Paul Masters 16-19 SoME A VOIDANCE PLAYS OULDREN' S OtmNO FUND 35 by George S. Coffin 21-;-22 DowN YouR WAY 36-38 MtDLAN DS AND THE N ORTH by Harold Frattklill 23- 24 COMPETITIONS .,. 39-44 s EDITORIAL · The European Championship ha~dly likely: And if they did not teams have now been selected and patr up successfully, they were at least six men and six women automatically out. Switch j 0 g find no fault with the selection round to find a partnership for committee. · ' individual high class players must Reese, Schapiro, .Dodds, Kon- be done now for 1953 if it is to stam, Franklin and Tarlo should, ' be done at all. with any sort of ordinary luck, · The women's. trials also leave a come through the strenuous ten little to pe desired The cham­ days play in Dublin, with flying pionship team were given games colours and we shall be surprised . against Mrs. Lester, Mrs. Gard­ if they do not win the champion- · ener and Miss Shanahan, who ship. It is a good first class . have .had a highly successful workmanlike team. L o o k i n g season- four first class players backward~. this is probably the ; from Birmingham, and a couple six who would have been chosen from Wales. A' team from Scot­ had there been no trials. land was invited to the trials but The B.B.L. have decided to rely were unable to attend. on the same women's team that The three named ladies fully won at Venice last year and no deserved their chance of going to doubt finally came to the con- Dublin but if the others were elusion that it would not be a entitled to a crack at beating the sound policy to interfere with a champions, what about Mrs. winning ·side. Perhaps they are Rumer and Mrs. Cooper who had wise but we feel that the team such excellent results in last year$ could be improved on by the trials and who missed Venice by · dropping of one or two of the a hair's breadth. Surely they players for others who have should have had a further oppor­ recently shown consistently good tunity, particularly as they bad form. • Here again the team finished far in advance of some of selected is undoubtedly the one those who did play. Why were which would have been chosen they not included in the trials? without the trials. In many respects 'these trials Here are the two teams in full : have been far from satisfactory Open event : Major G. FeU. and to pair up players as late as non-playing captain ; Mr. L. J_une and July is just a waste of Dodds, Mr. H. Franklin, Mr. K. hme. You can't make Inter­ Konstam, Mr. T. Reese, Mr. B. n~tional Partnerships in five Schapiro, Mr. L. Tarlo. mt~~tes and some of the men's Ladies' event: Capt. E. Kemp­ pamngs were impossible from the son, non-playing captain ; L:ady outset. Suppose one of the scratch Rhodes, Mrs. A. P. Evans, Mn. couples had had a brilliant 32 A. L. Fleming, Mrs. F. Gord~~ · board or even 96 board match Mrs. R. Markus, Mrs. P. £Y•· ~o~ld t~e selectors' have felt JUSttfied m putting them in the Williams. team as the result of this trial- Good luck to both teams. 6 London and the· South' · hy TERENCE REESE . The international trials h~ve are not worse than 2- 1. The held the centre of the stage dur~ng details of the actual play ar~ the past month. Although title obscure, but Mrs. Gordon did not holders, the ladies have. not been manage it quite right and was one . allowed to rest on tbe1r l~urels . down. Nevertheless, her team They have played a senes of gained, for the opponents played matches and have been hard put in six no-trumps doubled and lost to it to hold their own against to the two aces.