Word: schenken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week to play for the Vanderbilt Cup, blue ribbon U. S. championship for four-man teams. After 5 days of qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close...
...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 won in 1930. Their opponents in the final were Howard Schenken, David Burnstine, Richard Frey-who finished in that order at the top of the list in the bridge masters' individual tournament at Deal, N. J.-and Charles Lochridge. After the first night's play in the final the Vanderbilt team was 225 points behind. On the second and last...
...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's king, Mr. Karn deliberated for several minutes. Then he made...
...Philip Hal Sims, Howard Schenken, Willard S. Kara & David Burnstine, famed "Four Horsemen" of the Deal (N. J.) Bridge Club: the team-of-four contract championship at the American Whist League Congress in Cleveland; with 18½ matches out of a possible...
...Howard Schenken...