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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26,
MR. CULBERTON DISLIKES "THAT ENGLISH ACCENT.”
PARTING SHOT IN QUARREL WITH ENGLISH BARONET AT BRIDGE GAME,
U.S. JEALOUSES: VISIT OF. BRITISH TEAM MAY BE CANCELLED.
A furious quarrel, described be low, between Mr. Ely Culbertson and Sir Derrick Wernher, a Bri- tish baronet living in New York, is the hates news from the Ameri- can Contract Bridge battle-from..
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English accout of yours! Ils most outrageous
Mr Culbertson" then sought ou? Mr. Lonz, his opponent, and accus. ed him of bringing sir Derrick Wernher to the hotm
This Mr. Lonz denied, bus 'he added, “Bir Derrick is a friend of As a result of the jealousies be- mine. He is welcome here at uhy tween the rival. American Bridge time. I hereby extend him a "wai-
scherilib in probable that thecome.' projected visit of an English team to the States in the spring will be cancelled:
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Mr. Culbertson refused to con- tinus the game until Sir Derrier Wernher had left the hotel: Sin Derrick, however, did not remain.
privately later.
A vitriolic battle of words between Mr. Ely Culbertson and Sir Dar Mr. Culberton WŁA interview- rick Weraber, who is vice-presidenti ed
deep. of the American Bridge League, ly regreitud the incident,
declined threw a session of the Lenz-Culbert but
retract any. son match into uproar unequalled thing he had said, even though the evon by that caused by Mr. Oswald remarks were made in the heat of Jacoby's recent sensational rotire tempor.
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Despite the fact that. I defini ly announced my retirement from tournament play after the end of the presunt match 1 think I huve received over 800,000 challenges in the last fortnight. If Wornher's bridge guano is half so impressive
The heated argument, probably unprecedented in the history of tournament Bridge, resulted from a discussion between the pair over a Bridge challange which Sir Der- rick claimed he issued last summer. Within the space of a few momratsa his weight it would be ponder- the lie was passed, half a dozen cus indeed. times, interspersed by other hot re- marks, which throw the usually. staid corridors of the Waldorf As- tori into a panic of excitemout.
If the combatants had wanted the argument to become public they could not have chosen a better place, for lobe wrangle (occurred in the Press room, where representatives I newspapers from all over the coun- tay were gathered. Sir Derrick ar rived at the hotel with Mr. George Reith, of the Knickerbocker Whist Club. He was introduced to the men, and shortly afterwards Mr. Culbertson arrived with his wife cn his art.
Sir Derrick immediately demand.
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A MILLIONAIRE'S SON.«.
Bir Derrick Wernher, who is 42, is the eldest son of the late Sir Julius Wornher, the South African millionaire.
In his will Sir Juling left him £15,000 to be controlled by trustees To his younger sons he left a mil lion and a million and a half re spectively, on
Sir Derrick has made his home in the United States for some years, His heir to the baronetcy is his brother, Sir Harold Wernbur, K.C.V.O., who lives in London. Sir Derrick is a member of the best
INTERNATIONAL EFFECT,
ed to know when Mr. Culbertson | card-playing, clubs of New York. would nicct the challenge. Mr. Culbertson denied the challenge hasti ever been made, whereupon Sir Derrick out...of a clear sky called Mr. Culbertson"a"backslider."
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The dealousy and rivalry U.S.A. between the followers of the. Mr. Culbertson, thin and frail by Culbertson and the official ** contrast with the 18-st. English aystems may destroy the recently man, clenched his first and advan-made pinns for an English team to
visit America.
ed.
You 300-lb. piece of English! Mr. Culbertson, in arranging for beefstenk, he exclaimed. I con- the reception In America of an Eng sider you not worth playing ish team next spring is stipulating against. You call me afraid. Well, that they shall play his team and. I'll knock your teeth down your no other. throat for you, you slab-aidia) piena of beefsteak."
TEN LIVELY MINUTES.
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The official system group have also offered to play English team provided they agree not to play the Culbertson side.
It is very probable that in, cen-
The exchange of epithets continu-sequence of this jealousy the Eng- ed almost unabated for ten minutes. lish team will not be sent.
нystem.
Bo ig
Mr. Culbertson offered to het. Mr. Lenz, Mr. Culbertson's prel) anondol. to 2000dol, (at par £1000 sent opponent, is a high exponent to 2400) /' that any team of nowa of the offein! paper men present could beat any Mr. George Reith, of the Knicker. team you could pick."
bocker Whist Club; who arrived at By this time the raised voices the hotel with Sir Derrick Wern- attracted a huge through to the her before the quarrel.
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Press room, and Mrs.. Culbertson, is The recerit telegram to America British team growing more and more nervous suggesting that minute by minute, was nided by should go there was sponsored by Mr. Culbertson's friends in drawing Colonel P. G. Bensley, secretary of her husband out of the room. He Crockford's Club, Mr. Frank Eng delivered a parting shot at Sir land (Bridge correspondent of the Berrick.
"Get on!" he said., Don't come round here again with that
A PAVEMENT ARTIST.
TESTING A NEW... PROFESSION. - AMATEUR'S DISMAL DAY' WITH A DOG,
(BY A LONDON MOBNING POST"
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE. ]
Ara-longa, so they say, and sita brevis. For a pavement artist-o and yes.
Shuling footsteps soon obscure the fruits of his day's labour-but his life, if one may judge tuy the bleakness of a December day of the stcne in Trafalgar square-must more often than not reach an untimely end. After all, there are limits to endurance, even of a pavement artist.
I know, because I have tried."
For more than three loug, weary
dismal hours I sat on the pavement of Trafalgarsquare yesterday, en-i donvouring to call a modest copper; or two as the fruits of the labours of another. The coppers rolled in."
shivered.
Dvening Standard"), Captain J. W. Dalton, Colonel J. D. D. Walshe and Sir Guy Domville.
A Pitch at Last. Jimmy had just completed a wholly original and largely incoro prehensibls square foot or so of scribbling an ideal pitch where t dreary waste of hoarding linke Duncannon-street and the Strand,
For the sum of El ho was glad tc forgo his rights and seek pas zures new, and so for a
I be 'day, came proprider of the Stony a series of racy and ap Times,' propriate comments on the day's nows, dressed in newspaper form
Most of them have slippod my memory, but "The shortest day, we two's of Dec.," chastely set out in soot and yellow chalk, seemed singularly apt
And then I played my ace of trumps. I deposited a further five shillings at an animal dealer's in the neighbourhood and became also
e proprietor of Toto, a fearsome but intelligent apology for a Man chester terrier, who learned in no time to simulate abject dejection coupled with supreme, devotion...
I put down my hat, with three half-pennies as deepy, and Toto and I hegnn in grovel.
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Fields. He has a wife and five; you are, duckie, Twopence tinkled believe in me. children to keep.
Unto the hate
The thore was my insuferable Another woman, elderly, bus tidy rival with the bagpipes, the sweeper There, there, you shouldn't keep who bade me sit still and don't him out in the cold young man worry about me," and the loafer Get some o There's fourponce, and it would" who whispered, be, more if you were kinder to g'om coppers aut, mate; you won't
get no more if they see there's-2--- Diadent Men,
bob or a thore,"
"Well," he said, and what are you going to write about this?" Disillusicament number one,
costume had fooled them. thought my
"You won't make money
that him he went on. Come along,
Credit: Net talking, 48 20.
but "December rolled on and sniffed, BSc, did a few small boy I'll give you, some chalk. Make a So it went on. Never less than For the banefit of would-be-ar- and the crowd collected, for I was fites of that dog," he urged. Why, penny rarely wore then threptists of the stone," here is my hard by a bus stop The omni
But nearly always women, i proft and loss account Simple, really, if you have the
buses camet and went, the crowds some of us would give anything pence.
Debit Hire of pitch, £1; hirs capital or can capitalise your cwn with them, but for a colid half for a dog. The women will fall Only five men efte en me the capabilities. First, find. the "pitch," or else de as I did, buy hour my halfpennies were alone. for him right and left. Pat him whole day and they did en diffi- of Toto, ba biscuits for Toto, 5d. And then came what was for ms and feed him. Here's your chalk, dently timidly threw in their cop somebody else's. This primary effort the saddest moment of the day. and the best of luck,”
pers, ignored Totc, and dashed
"I spoke to the painter again na I set to work with a will. First way
I returned. "You have done ong post me much searching of heart
Wife and Children.
of all a withered but cherry woman ⠀⠀ One woman offered to make a aifcently," he said. and of London Lancastor Gate
A proce |sional, with your dog, could have. appalled me, no money there for He stopped, smiling sadly but who might have stopped from jacket for Teto
I made some friends, too. Thare done, wonders. ******* the purement artist, obviously; 1: benevolently ever a little beard. I" Panch."Ere you are, darling," Xstay where he is Y of Oxford caught his eye, and know him at to Toso, give your master was the supercilious sandwich-man. He turned to his painting
dressed as an imitation" "Captain passed on, and threw my is. Ed., reot was turions when I sought once for a genuine pavement artist, penny." to appropriate his works. So alsoja man whose work used to be talk) There's a good little doggia "Hook," who, cocked an eyebrow into the hat of a shivering collen- Z., of the Embankment; And then od of and now he plies his brusit it was a martand obviously when a passer by gave him a gua who needed it,
Somehow he did for better, now, than I by feandfler ta cull hin Jimmyy on the steps of St. Martin-in-the wealthy woman this time "There cigarette.
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