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Only ten years old-so far as the British Empire is concerned Contract Bridge has already nearly killed "Auction": while which-unless there be the lure of big cash prizes-is rarely played.
All over the country new chubs have been formed solely for Contract, and the women players outnumber the men by three to one. From luncheon until after midnight there are games in progress.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 1936.
NO POLITICAL UNIFORMS
An upshot of the recurring clashes between Fascists and
NOT only have most of these,
clubs been developed into vast successful organisations as the result of the support of women members, but they were' started and are controlled by women.
The number of women who spend almost every spare moment playing Contract Bridge must run into millions,
It is in its appeal to women that there lies the secret of The game's remarkable pro- gress.
And in the train of its phenomenal rise to popularity there has come an unexpected
sequel--the formation of Con
tract Bridge leagues.
The game lends itself to team work and is ideal for competi- tion..
-By-
a CRAZE
W. F. Sanderson
Young Players
Well-Known Bridge.
Correspondent
Every part of Scotland has a every mistake is checked, every league, and the rivalry between point analysed. Communists in the big towns
COMPETITION on a national Glasgow and Edinburgh is no I have seen women stay up at Home Is the decision of the
in a game in which physique In the winter there are league
scale is not often to be found less fierce than it is in football. until five o'clock in the morn- Government to prohibit the
ing holding such "Inquests." plays no part, particularly when games every night, many of the wearing of political uniforms. Thousands of people who have that game has the social attrac- teams travelling as far as 100 lands that will have a match of I know one team in the Mid- The step is one which should never before taken part in com- tions offered by Bridge. miles to play a match,
ut least 32 deals on each of five find
general favour, for. the petitive games have now the
In Yorkshire nearly every nights every week throughout Contract appeals not only to opportunity, through these len- specific outlook of the Fascists gucs, of experiencing the thrill old people: many of the league city, town, and village has its the winter. Two of its women apart, there can be no question-of fighting for points to win a teams have in them young play meeting to decide the county Vienna to take part in a tourna- league, the lenders of each members Are travelling to ing the point that, as Sir John championship.
CTR. Here again there is n Skmon recently expressed it,
ment! Women play in mixed teams reversal of the normal condi- championship. this dressing up in uniforms or have their own teams. They tions in competitive sport shire, the North-East Coast, and and pairs have been arranged The same applies in Lanca- Open tournaments for fours. diligently practise and study anything, youth in this case is and apeing of military organise the game and no distance is too not an asset; long experience the Midlands, while in the Home all over the country. tion for political purposes is far for them to travel to play counts.
Counties preparations are being The British Bridge League ropugnant to the civic senti-for their league.
made for the formation of one will hold its annual congress at For the coming winter the gigantic league to cover nearly Burton. ment of the British people. It is
At that there will be Why have they taken so plans for national Bridge the whole of Southern England. more than 4,000 players. The more than that-it is provocative readily to this game? Why, tournaments. are remarkable.
Northern Counties League will of trouble. In taking steps to especially, does this competitive England, Scotland, Ireland, and 5 a.m. “Inquests" hold its congress at Harrogate' cope with a situation which has spirit so appeal to them? Wales each has its Contruct
and the Home Counties Associa- given rise to considerable appre-reason, for no money is at stake game, and each union has its
Gambling certainly is not the Bridge Union for control of the THE entrants for the great tion at Brighton.
league competitions range hension of late, the Government in the league matches, except, properly organised leagues.
Scotland, Northern Ireland, from workingmen's club teams probably Wales, and certainly is not taking sides. The Bill it perhaps, half a crown.
to those organised by the great Yorkshire. Lancashire, and..De is introducing will seek to deal Women have entered on this Scotland has nearly 100-clubs bridge institutions in the West vonshire will have congresses effectively with
organisations new adventure of winning and affiliated to its union, and almost End. which permit or cause distur. losing because at long last they as many teams in its various bances of the public peace,
have found in it a contest, a leagues. There is a league in
on even terms with men.
And
and championships confined to Each team has a following of local players. supporters, and the discussions In all these tournaments, and
it may be taken for granted that Kame where they can compete Glasgow with, five divisions on play and bidding remind one in international matches as well,
the new law will be applied in- discriminately against all indivi- iduals or bodies whose. actions. tend to stir up trouble. Unques- tionably, the authorities have a
both
each of 12 teams.
SHIPS MUST ROLL
produce
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
of the familiar conversations of women will play against all. the golf club. Just as golf comers. If they are opposed by enthusiasts tell of what they men, there will be no allowances did or should have done at a for them, no handicap for the certain hole, so Contract players men. There is no need for such pass the play of the cards in distinctions between the sexes canted the critical review, PHOTOGRAPH published in the Hydraulic machinery
nt Contract. most thankless task when A Press the other day of a cross-saloon, keeping it upright while the
At all the big matches a com- So this great new game intervening between fanatical Channel steamer testing Д new ship rolled. Some, if not all, of the bodies. However they act, they stabiliser to resume of the most in- ship was designed by Brown Brothers kept, showing the bidding and And it will continue to grow in stabiliser to reduce rolling in heavy hydraulic machinery throughout the plete record of the hands is sweeps on its triumphal way. are almost invariably blamed by teresting attempts ever made to con- & Co., Lid,
of Edinburgh, the
the firm
scores. The hands are studied popularity-because it appeals to which constructed the hydraulic
by players and spectators alike, women... sides for interfering with struct a ship in which favoured pas
sengers could be guaranteed-at any steering gear Bessemer's ship was}
of the Queen Mary. the people's rights. Only when rate, it was hoped that they would be
Unfortunately, i failure.
It had very bad qualities no other course is open do the guaranteed-a comparatively smooth
boat, 06 a sea Crossing
and was
un- un- Very police intervene. It is a 'tradi-
manageable. The anti-rolling saloon The problem of tion that the authorities shall do sickness has existed ever since man aft motion, and was as ilable to pitch |
conquering sen had no protection against fore-and- | nothing which might be construed Arst went to sea and discovered its as any other part of the ship. In- into the suppression of free equally felt by a good many four any bodily rising and falling of the
discomforts discomforts which are cidentally, it could not counteract! speech, and the whole world footed animals, Including the cle- acknowledges that the London phant, which is a very bad sailor. |ship-which in itself can
sen-sickness quite easily. police know how to mingle yield to some extent to the force of Worse Than Ever
The difficulty is that a ship must indulgence with discretion and
the If the waves are not to wach firmness, It is useless to overboard or batter the hull to bits. look for reason in the de-
The ship made her first trip in Sir Henry Bessemer, the inventor 1875, in calm weather, and in sub- clarations made by the of the Bessemer steel process, had an sequent trips the twice damaged Fascists and Communists; their idea, in the latter half of last cen- Dover pler (and herself) as the re- mouths are full of words which tury, that it might be possible to sult of her bad steering qualities,
construct a special inner saloon, mean nothing-the very idea of which would remain
It was aald in newspaper reports more or less that during a Inter test of the special freedom of speech and action is stable while the ship herself yielded saloon everyone in the saloon was foreign to them. In these.con- to the waves:
scu-sick because the saloon rolled flicts between extreme political If the idea had been successful the one way while the ship was rolling agitators, the duty of the author-name of Bessemer would undoubted the other. The sad fact remained. itics is obvious-that duty is the indifferent, sailors.
ly have been blessed for all time by however, that the ship did not solve
the problem of sea-sickness. preservation of order for the
Stabilisers may reduce rolling, but benefit of all citizens. If the Two Sets Of Paddles
it is in the highest degree that there will ever be un "unroll- unlikely nctions of any organisation, whatever its political colour, dis- Encouraged In his efforia by the
able" ship. A chip,
be big enough to with- rupts the peace, or threatens to
fact that he was himself invariably stand the stress of an Atiantle storm, a vletim of seasickness, Bessemer without rolling and without taking do so, the authorities may be cer-formed a company called the Besse in seas, would have to be of a size Lain that prompt decision and mer Saloon Ship Company, with a which would make the Queen Mary firm action will command the capital of a quarter of n. million look like a dwarf; and the gyroscope approval of the vast majority of was given the job of constructing the have to be prodigious.
pounds, and a Hull shipbuilding firm required to keep her steady would the people. Freedom of speech arst saloon ship. and assembly, within constitu-
Consequently, one of the best pre- tional limits, will not be inter- two sets of paddle wheels one set ably continue to be the one which is
In the ship, which was driven by ventives of sen sickness will prob fered with, but it is obvious that astern of the other, and consequently known to sailors-the wearing.of n the time has come for taking doing very little work, as they were tight ball.
steps against provocative tactics the forward set of paddles-there essays that the wearing of a tight turning in the water thrown back by Montaigne remarks in one of his by extremists. That is plainly was a central saloon, which could belt was a practice of the sailors of the object which the Government swing from side to sido on a pivot at ancient Rome. For all our engineer- has in view, and it can rely on its centre, and here first-clasa pas- | ing abilities we are not really very general endorsement of its re-feeling that they were in a calm even were when it comes to dealing with sengers were to have the pleasure of much better off, than the Romans solve.
when the ship was rolling.
the sea,
P. A. S.
"He's just now reading my letter, and oh boy, is he sore!