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FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 1936.
NO POLITICAL UNIFORMS
An upshot of the recurring elashes between Fascists and Communists in the big town's
rarely played.
All over the country new clubs 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.
The Leagues
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
wonien.
The number of women who spend almost every spare moment playing Contract Bridge must rim into millions,
It is in its appeal to women that there fies the secret of the game's remarkable pro- gress,
And in the train of its phenomenal rise to popularity
-By-
W. F.
there has come an unexpected Young Players
sequel the formation of Con- tract Bridge leagues.
crs.
a CRAZE
Sanderson
Well-Known Bridge Correspondent
4
I have seen women stay up
to
Every part of Scotland has a every mistake is checked, every lengue, and the rivalry between point analysed. COMPETITION on a national Glasgow and Edinburgh is no
scale is not often to be found less fierce than it is in football. until five o'clock in the morn- The game lends itself to team work and is ideal for competi- in a game in which physique In the winter there are league
ing holding such “Inquests.” tion.
plays no part, particularly when games every night, many of the I know one team in the Mid- Thousands of people who have that game has the social attrac- teams travelling as far as 100 lands that will have a match of never before taken part in com- tions offered by Bridge,
miles to play a match.
at least 32 deals on each of five In Yorkshire nearly every nights every week throughout pelitive games have now the opportunity, through these len- Contract appeals not only to city, town, and village has its the winter. Two of its women at Home is the decision of the guca, of experiencing the thrill old people: many of the league league, the leaders of each members are travelling Government to prohibit the 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- wearing of political uniformis. championship.
+ Here again there is championship.
ment! The step is one which should
Women play in mixed teams reversal of the normal condi-
The same applies in Lanca- Open tournaments for fours find general favour, for, the or have their own teams. They tions in competitive sport-if shire, the North-East Coast, and and pairs have been arranged specific outlook of the Fascists diligently practise and study anything, youth in this case is the Midlands, while in the Home all over the country.
The British Bridge League apart, there can be no question. the game and no distance is too not an asset; long experience Counties preparations are being
far for them to travel to play counts.
made for the formation of one will hold its annual congress at for their league.
For the coming winter the gigantic league to cover nearly Burton. 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 readily to this game? Why tournaments especially, does this competitive England, Scotland, Ireland, and 5 a.m. “Inquests” spirit so appeal to them? Wales each has its Contract Gambling certainly is not the Bridge Union for control of the THE entrants for the great tion at Brighton. reason, for no money is at stake
are remurkable.
ing the point that, as Sir John Simon recently expressed iț, this dressing up in uniforms and apeing of military organise tion for political purposes is ropugnant to the civic senti- ment of the British people. It is more than that-it is provocative
properly organised leagues, of trouble. In taking steps to in the league matches, except, game, and each union has its
perhaps, half a crown. ape with a situation which has Women have entered on this Scotland has nearly 400 clubs given rise to considerable-appre- hension of late, the Government new adventure of winning and affiliated-to-its-union, and almost is not taking sides. The Bill it losing because at long last they as many teams in its various five divisións, is introducing will seek to deal have found in it a contest, a leagues. There is a league in effectively with
organisations game where they can compete Glasgow with
each of 12 teams. which permit or cause distur-on even terms with men. bances of the public peace. And
SHIPS MUST ROLL
conted the PHOTOGRAPH published in the Hydraulic machinery Press the other day of a cross-saloon, keeping it upright while the new ship rolled. Some, if not all, of the Channel steamer testing
Northern Counties League will hold its congress at Harrogate and the Home Counties Associa
league competitions range Scotland, Northern Ireland, from workingmen's club teams probably Wales, and certainly to those organised by the great Yorkshire, Lancashire, and De- bridge institutions in the West vonshire will have congresses
-and-championships÷confined-to-
d
Each team has a following of local players. supporters, and the discussions In all these tournaments, and on play and bidding remind one in international matches as well, 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 criticnt review.
at Contract.
it may be taken for granted that the new law will be applied in- discriminately against all indivi- duals or bodies whose actions
At all the big matches a com- So this great new game. tend to stir up trouble. Unques-A tionably, the authorities have a most thankicas task when stabiliser to reduce rolling in heavy hydraulic machinery throughout the plete record of the hands is sweeps on its triumphal way. intervening between fanatical weather recalls one of the most in ship was designed by Brown Brothers kept, showing the bidding and And it will continue to grow in The hands are studied popularity-because it appcals to bodies. However they act, they teresting attempts ever made to con- & constructed the hydraulle by players and spectators alike, women. are almost invariably blamed by struct a ship in which favoured past. Ltd., of Edinburgh, the firm scores.
Unfortunately, Bessemer's ship was bad qualities failure. It had very bad qu 115 a sea boat, and was very un-i manageable. The anti-rolling saloon had no protection against fore-and- oft motion, and was as liable to pitch us any other part of the ship. In- cidentally, it could not counteract any bodily rising and falling of the ship-which in itself produce sen-sickness quite easily.
n
both sides for interfering with sengers could be guaranteed at any steering gear of the Queen Mary.. rate, it was hoped that they would be the people's rights. Only when guaranteed-a comparatively smooth no other course is open do the crossing. police intervene. It is a tradi
conquering sea The problem of tlon that the authorities shall do sickness has existed ever since man nothing which might be construed first went to sea and discovered its discomforts discomforts which are Into the suppression of free equally felt by a good many four- speech, and the whole world footed animals, including the cle- acknowledges that the London phant, which is a very bad sailor.
The difficulty ly that a ship must police know how to mingle yield to some extent to the force of Worse Than Ever indulgence with discretion and the sea if the waves are not to wash firmness. It is useless to overboard or butter the hull to bits. The ship made her Arst trip in look for reason in the de- 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 she twice damaged Fascists and Communists; their idea, in the latter half of last cen- Dover pier (und herself) as the re-
tury, that it might be possible to sult of her bad steering qualities. mouths are full of words which
construct a special inner saloon, It was sold in newspaper reports mean, nothing-the very idea of which would remain more or less that during later lest of the special the saloon was freedom of speech and action is stable while the shilp herself yielded saloon everyone in
sea-alck, because the saloon rolled foreign to them. In these con-
If the idea had been successful the one way while the ship was rolling flicts between extreme political
name of Bessemer would undoubted the other. The sad fact remained, agitators, the duty of the author-ly have been blessed for all time by however, that the ship did not solve ities is obvious that duty is the indifferent sailors.
the problem of sea-sickness. preservation of order for the
to the waves.
Stabilisers may reduce rolling, but it is in the highest degree unlikely that there will ever be on "unroll- able" ship.
benefit of all citizens. If the Two Sets Of Paddles nctions of any organisation,
A ship, to be big enough to with- whatever its political colour, dis- rupts the peace, or threatens to fact that he was himself invariably stand the stress of an Atlantic storm, a vielim of seasickness, Bessemer without rolling and without taking
Encouraged in his efforts by the
do so, the authorities may be cer- formed a company called the Besse in seas, would have to be of a size tain that prompt decision and mer Saloon Ship Company, with a which would make the Queen Mary firm action will command thecade, and a Hull shipbuilding firm required to keep her steady would of a quarter of a million; look like a dwarf; and the gyroscope upproval of the vast majority of I was given the job of constructing the have
to be proxligious. the people. Freedom of speech first saloon ahip.
Consequently, one of the best pre- and assembly, within constitu- In the ship, which was driven by ventives of sea-sickness will prob- tional limits, will not be inter- two sets of paddle wheels-one set ably continue to be the one which la fered with, but it is obvious that stern of the other, and consequently known to sailors-the wearing of a the time has come for taking turning in the water thrown back by
doing very little work, as they were tight belt.
Montaigne remarks in one of his atens against provocative tactics the forward set of paddies there essays that the wearing of a tight by extremista. That is plainly was a central salcon, which could belt was a practice of the sailors of the object which the Government swing from side to side on a pivot at ancient Rome. For all our engineer- has in view, and it can rely on
its centre, and here drst-class pas- ing abilities we are not rently 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. 8.
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
"Ho's just now reading my letter, and oh boy, is he sore!'!'