Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-07 | Page 1 | Rival Players Ready for Big Bridge Battle

Rival Players Ready For Eor Big Bridge Battle B Telegram Will a Wili Carry C rry Fuji Fuel Account of Hands Hands' in ins Grudge Fight Two of the keenest and most moat proficient proficient pro pro- bridge teams in the world will play Monday night when Ely IEly Cul CuI berts n and Si Sidney n y S 1 Lenz meet t t to determine the supremacy between th the approach forcing system of bidding of-bidding and the J i called so-called d official system Mondays Monday's play tay will willbe be the lint first in uva ina match of I O rubbers Play vc Y diy Thu Thursday Thursday Thurs day an and Sat Saturday a evening for six lix weeks ee B Because cause of the thel the large large rge number of contract contract con con- on tract bridge players in Salt The Telegram has obtained for Salt Lake exclusive I rights to an expert f d of th the DP ti I J i RIVAlS READY FD FOR B IDGE MATCHES Continued from Irom P Pare Pan e One Ono hands and bidding written by one o othe of the two principals Ely Culbertson The articles describing the play will wil come to Salt Lake by wire and wilbe will wil willbe willbe be printed in the Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Friday issues Mr Lenz will have as his partner Oswald Jacoby nationally known fo for his excellent playing Mr Lens Len haslon has lon long Ions been a factor fictor In all card play ing He Is recognized even by hi his opponent as the keenest player in the world In the coming series he represents represents represents rep rep- resents a large group of experts who are advocates advocate of at a community system known as the official l and who are arc known as the elder statesmen of o bridge GAVE FIRST LESSON The elder statesmen some years year ago gave a n certain young woman named Josephine Murphy her first firs lessons essons in the game of bridge Next week she starts on a 1 six weeks weeks' contract bridge match one oie woman playing with three men and if It she and her partner win it will cost one of her teachers Mr Lenz 1000 Josephine Murphy Is now Mrs Ely Culbertson on wife of the blond yO yOman young man who came charging out of Russia to upset the bridge bridge tables of the U. U S SA A. A and the match is Js to be bo the Culbertson Culbert Culbert- son system of contract bridge bidding against the Lenz Lena system with a Culbertson wager against a 1000 wa wager a ager ger by Lenz LenZo Mrs Ely Culbertson is rated the best woman player in the world am and her husband hUband goes even further than that Sh She is his favorite partner he says and the only woman worthy of f J being counted among the ten best players in the world She was was was' the late Wilbur Whiteheads Whiteheads Whitehead's Whiteheads Whitehead's White White- heads head's assistant when she met Ely Cubertson Cul Cui bertson then a discouraged young Russian emigre to whom the thought though of ot earning his living by his favorite pastime had never occurred Youre better than you think you are arc she told him married him am and launched him on the career which Isto is to reach its peak n next week in the thel match natch of Culbertson St Culbertson vs VI Lenz Lena Jacoby Understand Culbertson said today today to to- day she shells is playing in this match solely on her ber merits as a player not because she i is im m my wife fe