Word: culbertsons
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Fourth Night Cards favored Lenz & Jacoby (203 aces & kings to 157) as they had through the whole match?636 to 596. Mr. Culbertson prefaced play, as he had each night previously, by saying to his opponents: "Have you changed your systems?" Said Mrs. Culbertson: "That's getting a little monotonous, Ely." Disappointed because the conflicting elements of the Culbertson and Lenz systems had been infrequently demonstrated so far, experts were pleased at the first Culbertson two-demand bid, which produced a small slam in clubs...
...Culbertson NORTH Mrs. Culbertson . (dealer) A 4 3 A J West AKQ99765252 A K Q 9 7 SOUTH W 3 A Q 5 K J 9 8 6 4 Jacoby...
...cards for the Culbertsons, even with a brilliant victory in the 28th rubber, left Lenz & Jacoby 5,650 points ahead. Ely Culbertson refused a $250 bet offered by Mr. Lenz for a friend...
Another Night. Bothered by a superfluity of spectators, Ely Culbertson ordered the room cleared, announced that all the cards used?a fresh deck for each hand?would be auctioned for charity. To settle a controversy, he produced a copy of his Contract Bridge Blue Book, gave it to Mr. Jacoby, asked if Mr. Jacoby wanted it autographed. Said Mr. Jacoby: "I do not." A 15-minute argument over rules occurred when Mr. Culbertson dropped the ace of spades into his lap so that it was seen by his opponents but not by his partner...
...Grinnell, Iowa, two barbers. Ed Jansen and John Ditzler, organized a ten-day, highpoint craps-match, patterned after the Lenz-Culbertson bridge match, to demonstrate the respective merits of the "African twist" v. "cotton roll." Late results, posted on the barber shop window, showed that Barber Ditzler, using the cotton roll, was 17 passes up on Barber Jansen...