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Bridge addicts by thousands devoured eagerly the first recognized code of laws for Contract Bridge issued last week by the Whist Club...
...sundry stands in which are not alone the new rules, but even the newest comments by Work and Whitehead and all the other gentlemen of the green plush. For it seems that when one cuts high does win and that you just must know or the Ladies' Whist and Euchre (prize a doily isn't it just dear) will kick you down the back stairs of your local reputation and Mrs. J. De Riff Punkle will cut you every time you meet her at the linen counter. Such is the effect of bridge upon the mind American...
When the 1926 bridge laws went into effect last week, they were issued from Manhattan by a council of 14 composed of ten New Yorkers, one Virginian, one Connecticutian, one Milwaukeean, one Bostonian. The organizations represented were but three: the Whist Club of New York, the American Whist League (Manhattan), the Knickerbocker Whist Club of New York. Books were published to celebrate the going into effect of the laws, two of them (Work's and Whitehead's) written by members of the bridge legislature...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...ignored and approved. (But this is the lot of minutes.) The business of the meeting will be opened by a recommendation of X for numberals in backgammon. The whole checker team for A to Z will be recommended for their letters. So-and-so will be recommended for assistant whist manager. (These sports are taken at random to prove to the critics that Harvard is as decadent as they declare her to be.) Schedules will be read and approved. All recommendations of course, are subject to the approval of a higher committee. A few other questions will be discussed. Cigarettes...