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First Night All four contestants, even the usually placid Lenz (onetime paper box manufacturer & ping pong champion) and Mrs. Culbertson, were nervous. Noises from a party next door came through the wall. Troops of inebriated bridge addicts found the Culbertson door, were prevented from entering by five porters. On the first hand, Mr. Jacoby bid three no-trump, went down one. The play continued in a manner so erratic that even novice bridge addicts detected painful foibles. On the second hand the Culbertson team bid five diamonds, went down four. The fourth hand was generally conceded to be the most...
Second Night. Before play started, Culbertson bet Jacoby $1,000 at 2 to 1 that his side would win, in addition to his original bet, the proceeds of which were to go to charity, of $5,000 to $1,000. On the tenth hand of the eighth rubber. Lenz made the first contracted little slam of the match, in hearts. Dissension occurred when Mr. Culbertson said he had to "see about something" and asked Mr. Jacoby, dummy, to play his hand. Referee Lieutenant Alfred M. Greunther and two assistants said, "No, no!" Noises were heard from a room where reporters...
Third Night The Culbertsons made 13 contracts, were set at eleven. Lenz and Jacoby made twelve, were set at 14. Even Mr. Jacoby, who earlier in the day had been bitten on the right hand by a mongrel dog he was trying to save from being run over on Park Avenue, seemed irritable. Mr. Lenz waited impatiently while Mr. Culbertson superintended the laying of a heavy rug to prevent squeakings & squash-ings. Later he got up from the table, complained to the referee against Cul-bertson's "waste of time." Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic...
...sixteenth rubber there came what Ely Culbertson described, in his report for various newspapers, as the "most spectacular hand of the match." Culbertson held four spades to the nine, bid 4 spades and made six. Score: Lenz & Jacoby...
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...