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...card game which Mr. Maschke was playing at his club was upstate whist,* requiring brains, not downstate poker, game of bluff. "I am not interested in anything Mr. Willis says. Anything he does is all right with me. . . . I'm through writing letters. But I'm going to make a speech one of these days and when I do I'll say a few things . . . ," said Mr. Maschke...
...engaged in a match against a combined team from New York and Detroit. Mr. Maschke's team lost, 27 boards to 25. But last June, Mr. Maschke and his three mates on the Cleveland Whist Club team won the U. S. auction bridge championship, at a tournament held in Hanover...
This statement is not correct. The Wilmington Whist Club is one of the best bridge clubs in the country. It is a prosperous club and has been operated for many years without playing for a stake or without playing Sundays. The system of playing bridge at the club is entirely one of individual records. These records are tabulated monthly and each member's standing posted by classes at the end of the month...
...course joined the Institute. Its members respected the judge; they liked Mr. Schwab. He often outwitted them in business. But he did so according to the rough & tumble rules they knew. He, himself, was a practical steel man; he told them boisterous stories; and he beat them at whist. The judge treated Mr. Schwab, as he did all men, with careful geniality. The two never were harmonious in spirit. One year Mr. Schwab refused to attend the Institute meetings. Friends urged him to be big-hearted and return...
...Whist and for about ten years reigned unchallenged. It became known as Bridge. Then one afternoon three Englishmen (according to reliable tradition) could not find a fourth to complete their table. They evolved a game based on exposing one of the four hands and bidding for it. The man who estimated he could make the most tricks with his hand playing in combination with the exposed hand took the bid. There were, of course, heavy penalties, for overestimation. From this crude start grew Auction Bridge, which is still the most widely played of all. In its present form all four...