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...game room on the second floor is ready to accommodate the students who want to play bridge, Monopoly, poker, or whist in French or any other language...
Visitors, on entering, found themselves dodging a whirling lighthouse powered by an old Victrola motor. They moved on to a "Hall of Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...
Englishmen abroad, he has observed, show an unexpected interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
...good bridge player, Beard had tried to enter the tournament at the invitation of the Whist Club. But when he showed up at the Royal York he was told first that all the tables were filled. Then he was told the truth. Al Sobel had refused "to direct the tournament if Beard played." Reason, according to Sobel: the A.C.B.L.'s "regulations state clearly that . . . colored people are not allowed to take part. . . . Rules are rules." The Whist Club thought it over and stuck by Sobel, because it did not want to lose the prestige that came with his officiating...
Next day Sobel heard what Toronto thought of his action. Said the Globe & Mail: "It is intolerable that the color bar should be imported. . . ." With an eye on the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the Telegram added: "The [Whist Club] players . . . should consider whether at this point in the course of human events it has not become necessary to dissolve-the bonds which have connected them with the [A.C.B.L.]." Said one of the tournament's players: "[Sobel] should know the meaning of persecution." Snapped John McBirney, president of the University of Toronto student council: "They may have that sort...