1942: Contract Bridge

No changes, either in leading systems or in the official laws, took place during 1942. Perhaps for that reason bridge continued to enjoy first favor among card-players, with both duplicate and tournament bridge maintaining their high attendance records, despite the war. The only war casualty so far as bridge was concerned was the World Bridge Olympic — an international contest which had previously been held simultaneously in every country of the world.

The results in the three most important tournaments conducted by the American Contract Bridge League, the organization controlling almost all tournament bridge played in the United States, were as follows:

EASTERN STATES TOURNAMENT

New York, N. Y., Feb. 28-Mar. 8, 1942.

Open Pairs. Won by: Richard L. Frey and A. Moyse, Jr., New York.

Open Teams-of-Four. Won by: Harry J. Fishbein, Tobias Stone, George Rapee, and B. Jay Becker, New York, and Simon Becker, Philadelphia.

Women's Pairs. Won by: Mrs. Barbara Collyer and Mrs. Erwin Seligman, New York.

Mixed Pairs. Won by: Mrs. A. M. Sobel and Edward Hymes, New York.

Non-Master Pairs. Won by: Jules Acceves and Joseph O'Connor, New York.

SUMMER NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

New York, N. Y., Aug. 3-Aug. 9, 1942.

Masters' Pair Championship. Won by: Mrs. A. M. Sobel, New York, and Charles H. Goren, Philadelphia.

Masters' Team-of-Four Championship. Won by: Richard L. Frey, Sam Stayman, Sigmund Dornbusch, Murray Seiler, and Lee Hazen, New York.

National Men's Pair Championship. Won by: Robert von Engel, New York, and Aaron Goodman, Montreal, Canada.

National Women's Pair Championship. Won by: Mrs. Erwin Seligman and Mrs. Mae P. Rosen, New York.

Mixed Team-of-Four Championship. Won by: Waldemar von Zedwitz, New York, Mrs. Olive Peterson and John Crawford, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Wilkinson Wagar, Atlanta.

Non-Master Pairs Championship. Won by: F. P. Begley and Dr. Kalman Apfel, New York.

Amateur Team of Four Championship. Won by: Mrs. C. Van Slochem, Mrs. Julius Daub, Arthur Jarmel and Morris Strauss, New York.

WINTER NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 1942.

Open Pairs. Won by: Tobias Stone, New York, and Alvin Roth, Washington.

Women's Team-of-Four. Won by: Mrs. Benjamin M. Golder and Mrs. Olive A. Peterson, Philadelphia, and Miss Ruth Sherman and Mrs. Olga J. Hilliard, New York.

Mixed Pairs. Won by: Miss Ruth Sherman and Harry J. Fishbein, New York.

Open Teams-of-Four. Won by: Charles H. Goren, John R. Crawford, Sidney Silidor, and B. Jay Becker, Philadelphia.

Amateur Pairs. Won by: Kenneth Cadawallader, Syracuse, and Arthur Waterbury, Euclid, N. Y.