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Show Bridge Not a Modern Game. Bridge, it would appear, Is not quite so modern a game as has been supposed. A correspondent of the Liverpool Post mentions a letter ho has received In which It 13 stated that tho game was played as far back as tho '70s by the Greek colony in Manchester. Man-chester. "No trumps" then counted ten the trick, Instead of 12, and four aces In one hand 80. instead of 100. The "heart convention" was also known and practiced. There is, too, a pamphlet in the British museum on "Ulrltch," dated 1886, which gives a brief account of the game, with the rules much as they exist at present. |