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While Tennessee and Vanderbilt played a scoreless tie at Nashville. Auburn, only undefeated, untied team in the South, came a step closer to a Southern Conference championship by piling up two touchdowns in the first quarter, another in the last, against Florida...
Ever since Harold Stirling (''Mike") Vanderbilt put up the Vanderbilt Cup for contract bridge teams of four, he has been ambitious to have his own name engraved on it among the winners. Last week, for the first time in five years, he had a good chance. The famed Four Horsemen of bridge-Hal Sims, Willard S. Karn, David Burnstine and Oswald (''Ossie") Jacoby, who won the cup a year ago-were split up. Mr. Vanderbilt was playing with Sims, Karn and Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz, onetime member of Ely Culbertson's Bridge World team which...
Both sides were vulnerable. At the table at which Lochridge & Frey were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt, Lochridge & Frey reached a contract of six hearts which Mr. Lochridge (East) failed to make by one trick. While von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt were thus earning their side 100 points, their partners were doing even better. At the table where Karn (East) & Sims were playing Burnstine & Schenken, the bidding also reached six hearts but Mr. Karn set out for his contract more shrewdly than Mr. Lochridge had done in the same situation. When Mr. Burnstine (North) played the queen of diamonds on the dummy...
Even more exciting than the final was a match in the quarter-finals which helped bring about the downfall of the Culbertsons. Mrs. Ely Culbertson. her invisible eyebrows arched more coolly than ever, was playing with William J. Huske, Samuel Fry Jr. and Louis H. Watson against the Sims-Vanderbilt team. The match hung on the last hand at the table where Watson & Fry were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt (who puts his cards down so deliberately that his table almost always finishes last). When Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, who referees all important bridge games, cried: "Von Zedtwitz has the contract...
...While the Vanderbilt Cup tournament was in progress last week, the Whist Club's Committee on Laws announced a new international code for contract which contains five major changes in scoring and a change in the penalty for revoking...