Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1931, Page 4

A4 w2 BRIDGE MARATHON REDPENS TONGAT Lenz Plays Chess and Con- tract, While Culbertson Lectures During Rest. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—After & night watchman's holiday proponents of rival systems of contract bridge will | resume their marathon challenge match tonight. Sidney 8. Lenz, ace of the “official” system, card handler extraordinary, | golfer, bowler and whatnot, trained for | renewal of hostilities by playing came- lot and chess with Jose Capablanca and then some contract at the Knicker- bocker Whist Club. His young partner. Oswald Jacoby,| former Columbia foot ball player, de- | voted some thought to the offensive | defense that he and Foxy Grandpa | Lenz bave been displaying brilliantly | They don't hesitate to be set on hand after hand in the hope of winning & rubber eventually. And Jacoby is usually the boy who does the heavy backfield work in such situations. It is as if he let a foot ball team be pe- | nalized to the limit by failing to com- | plete forward passes only to get away | with one for a touchdown on the last attempt. Four Lecture Engagements. Culbertson had engagements for at least four lectures on his specialty be- tween the conclusior of the tenth ru ber of the 150-rubber match early Wednesday morning and the beginning of the eleventh rubber with the sixtieth deal tonight. | Mrs. Culbertson devoted all her spare time to Joyce and “Jump-bid” Cul- bertson, the children. Lenz and Jacoby are 2,075 points in the lead, an adventage over which the Culbertsons profess not to worry in the least. In fact the trailers in a nine- teenth-hole contract match after a golf foursome hardly would be perturbed over a 2,000-point disadvantage if the night were young and nobody came from a telephone saying “This is the missus calling.” A couple of planola | hands can offset such a lead in no time at all Experts See No Contrasts. “Officialities” and some neutrals have seen no fundamental contrasts in ef- fectiveness of bidding systems, but the Culbertson camp has. It cites deal 55, the second hand of the tenth rubber, in which Jacoby contracted for four hearts and made seven. Through the honor trick valuation of the Culbertson sys- tem, say his followers, a mere tyro in the system would have bid a little slam. THE HAND— LENZ (NORTH). S8—-AK93 H—Q 2 D-QJ C—A Q6 412 CULBERTSON MRS. CJLBERT- (WEST) DEALER. SON (EAST). 8—J712 B—108 8 4 H—8 4 D-7684312 C~17 8, The bidding: West, pass; North, one the king from East and it was a lay-down for seyen tricks. The slam ghould not have been bid, success depended on a finesse. Here is how Culbertson would have bid the North and South cards: North, | one club; South, two hearts; North, two spades; South, three hearts; North, five hearts; South, six hearts. The bidding ‘would have indicated a combined honor. Such bidding necessarily indicates the combined strength of the hands is | &t least seven honor tricks, which Cul- | berson calculates is in the slam | zone. ‘The main fault in the bidding of 1‘ thic hand in the match lay with Lenz, | say Culbersonites, because he failed to indicate that his hand was much | stronger than the minimum require- | ments for an original bid of one. | SLAYING HOLDS STEPSON | Bheriff Says Colorado Youth Con- fessed in Family Tragedy. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Decem- ber 10 (#).—Sheriff Charles Lumley announced Raymond Haynor, 20, had confessed shooting and killing his step- father, Prank Buniger, 44, in a family quarrel yesterday. ‘The sheriff said the youth related he fired only after Buniger had aimed a rifie at his wife, the youth's mother. Sclentific methods of han- dling the finest re- frigeration equipment strict standards of cleanli- ness and sanitation that Washington's are features wuish new market as the most mod- ern and distin- complete estab- Mahment of its kind in this section of the country, For convemience N CENTER 5th St., K to L N | associates in the assembly hall of the | |club and was attended by the distin- | ber for half a century. 5 Washington's “grand old man” of | science was honored yesterday after- noon when an oil portrait of Dr Charles .E. Munroe, internationally famed chemist and chief of the ex- plosives division of the Bureau of Mines, was presented to the Cosmos Club, of which he is & former presi- dent and one of its beloved members. The presentation took place before a large gathering of friends and fellow guished 82-year-old scientist as well as | by members of his family in Washing- | ton, including his grandchildren. Fol- lowing personal tributes paid to Dr. | Munroe as seientist and member of the Cosmos Club for the last 49 years, the | formal presentation of the portrait was | made to Dr. William C. White, presi- | dent. | ‘The portrait was presented on behelf of a committee of club members and associates, by Dr. Henry G. Knight, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the Department of Agriculture. Dr. White, who expressed his keen ap- preciation of the gift on behalf of the club, then turned the portrait over Ln} the custody of Dr, Lyman J. Briggs, chairman of the Arts Committee. “It gives me great pleasure to ac-| t the custody of this portrait of our beloved club member,” said Dr. Briggs, in congratulating the artist, Hermann Ludden of Takome Park, Md, on catching so admirably with his brush “what all will agree is a characteristic attitude and expression of Dr. Munroe.” Tells Friends of Gratitude. The sclentist himself, before the| actual presentation was made, ad- dressed a few remarks to his many friends. He spoke feelingly of his 49 | years in the Cosmos Club, which he‘ sald he “loved more than any other, and thanked his friends for the tribute | they had paid him. Dr. Munroe re-| ferred briefly to his associations with | George Washington University, where he is dean emeritus of the graduate school and for many years was pro- | fessor of chemistry; to the Bureau al‘ Mines, with which he has been con- | nected since its founding; the Wash- ington Chemical Society and other scientific bodies to which he belongs. The meeting was opened by Dr. White, who presented Dr. Knight as| the presiding officer. The latter invited | Dr. Marcus Benjamin to speak of the | honor guest as a member of the club. | “Dr. Munroe is & descendant,” he said, | “of Willlam Munroe, who came over in | 1695 and settled near Lexington and | Concord in Massachusetts. If any of you ever go to Concord and look upon the battle monument there, you will be | overwhelmed by the nemes of the Mun- roes upon it he siid. “There are nearly two dozen of them.” Dr. Benjamin related many remi- | niscences connected with Dr. Munroe and members of the club in the circles | of its environments and at scientific meetings and pictured the “human side” of the distinguished scientist. Dr. H. S. Washington of the Geo- physical Laboratory, who outlined Dr. | Munroe's scientific activities, referred to.his duties as professor of chemistry at the Naval Torpedo Station at New- | pert, R. I, where he was experiment- | with explosives, a field in which he invented smokeless powder, for which he is known over the world. | In this connection, Dr. Washington related an amusing anecdote to cor- | With foodstuls freshest and best prices at expert and e buying make the values are unsurpassed. at their at low large possible, s Daily shipments of meats, fish, fowl, produce, dalry products—delicacies from all over the world—every type of foodstuff under one roof. and economy, buy at EW MARKET | his younger days. | nerves, when the nitro-glycerine slipped THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., CENE at the presentation to the Cosmos Club of a portrait of Dr. Charles E. Munroe, a former president and mem- | POrtant In the photo (left to right) are: Charles White, president of Cosmos Club; Dr. C. E. Munroe and Dr. H. 5. Washington, sitting. In the back, right | (standing) are: Dr. Henry G. Knight Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Dr. L. J. Briggs, Dr. William nd H. Ludden, the artist. —Star Staff Photo. rect geruhtent rumors, he said, as to'vin. president of George Washington why Dr. Munroe's hair turned white in | University; Dr. Knight and Dr. Wash- |Ington. Dr. James F. Couch of the Bu- reau of Animal Industry, Agriculture Shock Not Cause of Grayness. Department, was said to have originat- “This rumor is to the effect’ he ed the plan for honoring Dr. Munroe sald, “that Dr. Munroe was experiment- | In this manner and took a leading part ing with some nitro-gylcerine at the | in bringing the plan to a culmination. laboratory one day, when he sccident- | Among those who attended the ceremo- ally dropped it The shock to his |Dies were bout, 50 non-members of the osmos Club. b;);}.s; 7D.(:lay Is Laid by Skippers To Bridge Contest out of his hll’l’dl, ‘was supposed to have - turned his hair suddenly white. Now ¥ - the truth of the matter 1, Dr. Munroe | I erry has told me confidentially, that is not » 80. His hair had tarned white some | time before he dropped the explosive.” Many Navy men of the Frmnt day, he said, derive their knowledge of ex- plosives from Dr. Munroe, who had taught not only at the War College. but also at the Naval Academy for | many years. . | Among the members of the sclentist's | family in Washington who attended the informal ceremonies were his wife, Mrs. Louise Barker Munroe; a daugh- ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hor- ace D. Rouzer, and their three children; | a son, Capt. Russell B. Munroe, and a niece, Miss Louise Munroe. The portrait was arranged for by a committee consisting of Dr. A. C. Field- ner, chief engineer experiment sta- tions division, Bureau of Mines; Dr. R. E. Gibson, president of the Washington Chemical Soclety; Dr. F. J. Lynch, president Wasl Chapter, Ameri- can Institute of Chemists; former Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the District By the Associated Press. SAN Maybe this bridge contest is all right, but the skippers of San Francisco Bay ferries are complaining They say the Lenz-Culbertson con- test is causing the boats to run behind | schedule. Not because the skippers themselves are arguing, but— The daily commuters have taken to playing out the hands from newspaper graphs and when the boats reach dock the commuters won't get off. And so, say the skippers, they have to wait until the hands are played before they can start the opposite run, and that makes Supreme Court; Dr. Cloyd Heck Mar- | the boats late! The Gift that FRANCISCO, December 10.— | THURSDAY, BIDDING BLAMED FOR BRIDGE LOSSES Culbertson Says His System Would Save Country $72,000,000 Yearly. BY ELY CULBERTSON. NEW YORK, December 10.—A day’s lull in the Culbertson-Lenz battle of | pasteboard armies permits me to give | the readers of my articles some sta- lusucs and some | pertinent _observa- |tions which I | think will be of | value to them in | following the fu- | ture accounts of | the match to be resumed this eve- ning for the bal- ance of 140 rub- bers to determine the championship | of the Culbertson | system, sometimes | miscalled the “one- | over-one,” and the | Lenz system, so- | called “official.” First of all there | is & persistent and | fallacious little ghost which I will try to lay—the naive idea, fostered by ex- | perts themselves, that a great bridge | player hardly ever makes a mistake— | that he does not “drop a trick.” The only thing an expert, including Cul- | bertson, is perfect in, is in the im- art of preparing alibis, | Ask Lige Sentence. Ely Culbertson. Ninety per cent of the torrent of words which clog the telegraph wires | is made up of alibis, conscious or sub- | conscious, of bridge experts or their representatives. Any one, therefore, | who thinks this wonderful country is | suffering from a depression ought to | be condemned for life to play Lenz's | eln-dwei-drel system. It any of the world's 13 greatest | players (and there are only 13) misses nly 1,500 makeable points in 10 rub- | bers, he is playing a game which is close to perfection. An average rub- ber is worth 957 points, say, roughly 1,000 points. Ten rubbers is 10,000 points. Fifteen hundred points missed | out of 10,000 points is 85 per cent per- fection. That is the average that only a few chosen ones can sustain. A very fine player will lose about 500 points, or 25 per cent, as con- | trasted with the expert's 15 per cent, | An average player loses close to 50 per cent. 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PARIS, December 10.—Salvador de Madariags, internationally known | writer and publicist, looked back upon | his brief and interrupted representa- tion of the Spanish government at | Washington as Ambassador today, fol- lowing concurrence of the French for- eign office in his new appointment as Ambassador to France, ‘1 took up my post at Washington with great hopes of developing rela- | tions between our two countries,” he | sald. “The United States is a coun- | try where I have so mai public and private friends I choughc’i would have been able to put Spanish relations with her on s footing of mutual knowl- edge and effect a co-ordination of ef- fort toward what has always been my central idea—the inherent possibility of close co-operation between the United States and Spain, and Spanish- American nations.” 5 He said he soon realized with re- gret, however, that his work with the | League of Netions at Geneva would | take considerable time away from his | residence in Washington. Dr. Madariaga has been prominent in | League of Nations work for several | years. He is serving now as Spain’s ' SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA. representative on the League Council and, with Chairman Briand, has had the most active hand in drafting the Manchurian peace resolution. DECLINES UNITED STATES POST. Resigning Director of Spanish Police Oftered Ambassadorship. MADRID, December 10 (#) —Angel Galarza, resigning director of Spanish police, was offered the post as Am- bassador to the United States by the government today, but declined to accept it. He said he resigned his police direc- torsh’p because he intended cnly to serve until a permanent President of the public was elected. game would account for a t.remendum! loss of points. | For instance, I firmly believe that the | atrocity known as the intermediate or in- vitational two-bid (which is the main- stay of the miscalied “official” system), | is causing the players of this country loss of, at least, $70,000,000 yearly. It can be mathematicail; - | BELT icaily demon. ! Stake Is Quarter of Cent. | Perhaps I am too generous in grant- | ing that there are, say, 100,000 gcplei who play the Lenz “official’ system (of course, there are several miilion who play another system). The average stake in this country is one-quarter of & cent per point, This “official” two-bid, which is neither fish, flesh nor fowl, will cost any one of my very generously conceded 100,000 players at least $2 per session. This makes $200,000 per day, $6,000,000 per month, and $72,000,000 yearly. I notice President Hoover is working | frantically trying to solve the question | of German reparations. He seems to | have exhausted every possible sugges- tion without finding a solution. Here is at least $70,000,000 which might be saved yearly simply by abolishing one wrong method of bidding. The question of the German reparations is on the highroad to a solution by having every convert from the ‘“omicial’ system turn over $2 a day, which he will save, as an official tax to the Federal Gov- :]"];Tem to be applied against the war el I have exaggerated this thought a little bit, as the perspicacious reader may have guesscy’, but the fundamental idea is correct. "> win you need a right | system, and even with a right system the greatest of them fail down. (Copyright, 1931, by Ely Culbertson.) Knocked Down by Auto. Marvin Hall, 53, of 2520 L street, was knocked down last night by an auto- mobile driven by Jesse Nicholson, Clarendon, Va. The accident occurred at Potomac and M streets. treated at Georgetown Hospital this story about... Hall was | D.C. OTE PROPOSAL GIVEN TG SEAATE {Jones Urges Plan to Gain Representation for Capi- tal Area. The movement to give the people of the District representation in the House and Senate and the right to vote for President and Vice President was ‘brought to the attention of the new Congress yesterday, when Senator Wes- ley L. Jones, Republican, of Washing- ton, reintroduced the joint resolution by which it is sought to reach that goal. The resolution, which is similar to the one considered in committee in | the last Congress, proposes a constitu- tional amendment that would empower Congress to grant the people of the District representation in the House cn the of population, and one for two Senators as determined by Congress, or such other representative in the Senate as Congress may pro- vide for. It would give the District nresiden- tial electors equal in number to its representation in the House and Sen- ate, or as Congress may provide. The resolution proposes gress submit to the States for ratifica- tion an amendment to the Constitution reading as follows: “That Congress shall have power to |admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of th» District con- | stituting the seat of Government of the United States, created by article I, | section VIII, for th= purpose of repre- sentation in the Congress and among the clectors of President and Vice President, and for the purpose of suing and being sued in the courts of the United States under the provisions of article III, Section II. Referred to Committee. “When the Congress shall exercise this power, the residents of such Dis- trict shall be entitled to elect one or two Senators, as determined by the Con- gress, or such other representative in the Senate as Congress may provide for, Representatives in the House according “to their numbers, as determined by the decennial enumeration, and presidential electors equal in number to their ag- | gregate representation in the House and | SBenate, or as Congress may pmvi%:_ “The Congress shall provide by Jaw the qualifications of voters and the tims and manner of choosing the Senator or" Senators, the Representative or Repre- sentatives, and the electors herein au- thorizd. “The Congress shall have power fo make all laws which shall be necessary | and proper for carrving into execution | the foregoing power.” The resolution was referred to the Senat> Judiciary Committee for report. | DIAMOND Purchased from RINGS WATCHES A.Kahn Jnc. 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