Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-25 | Page 6 | Some Call it Recreation

Some C Call lIlt It If Recreation HE court of appeals at Warsaw Poland must T THE be bridge players If they arent aren't bridge players everywhere will agree that they at least have a rare understanding of the emotional side of the game It seems th that t a Polish gentleman named Josef Iljas having bid three no trump played the hand and was set four tricks His partner instead of keeping quiet as a dummy should criticised his play throughout the hand so Mr Iljas overtaxed by a strain no bridge player can bear finally dr drew w a revolver and shot his talkative partner through the shoulder In due course he was sentenced to three years in prison and now the appellate court has re reduced reduced reduced re- re this this sentence to two years remarking that the trial court should have taken into account the excessive nervous strain under which the prisoner had been laboring Can any bridge player fail to salute these judicial gentlemen for forthe forthe forthe the setting of a useful precedent I