New York, Jan. 9.
Bridge enthusiasts the world lover will be interested to learn that. the Culbertson forcing system has been vindicated, Mr. Ely Culbertson and his wife emerged victor to-day from several weeks continuous contract bridge in which they have been pitted against Mr. Sidney Lent, another famous [writer on the game, each aide trying to prove that its system of contract was the best The Culbertsons ended the 150) rubbers 8,980 points up, after being} several thousand down at an early stage of the tournament. The bridge world has been. anxiously awaiting: the result, for it was fore-least that the winning system would bbe adopted as the "oficial" game in the United States.—Reater, London, Jan. 9. The Oxford and Cambridge Goltiety's meeting for the Pre-Patter at Rye reached the: when the hold~ for and amateur ex-champion, Sir Eaward Holderness, was beaten by Morton by one up.
Leonard Crawley, the British native champion, T.'Bourn, and won their matehes—
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