Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1931 — Page 4

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LENZ' LEAD IN BRIDGE SLICED BY CULBERTSON Ely Knocks Foes’ Margin Down to 1,815 Points in Thrilling Game. BY H. ALLEN SMITH Vnited Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The postmortem boys passed up sleep and even breakfast today to mull and fuss over the results of Thursday night's session in the CulbersonLenz contract bridge battle—a session replete with quibbling, quarreling, and the plain garden variety of back-talk. If It’s possible for a half dozen rubbers of bridge to be thrilling, then Thursday night’s affair was precisely that through six hours of play, until Ely Culbertson, on the last hand of the final rubber, made the company’s eyes pop out with the most spectacular hand of the match. Sidney Lonz and Oswald Jacoby, practitioners of the official, or 1-2-3 system of bidding, had been plugging along, holding their lead over Ely and Josephine Culbertson. Then, like a bolt out of tne blue, Ely bid spades, with only four trumps to the nine, for game and two over-tricks, slashing 720 points off the Lenz lead and capturing the evening’s honors for himself and wife by the lean margin of 260 points. Lenz and Jacoby now stand 1,815 points ahead. Coup None Had Expected Capers were cut on the tenth floor of the Hotel Chatham after that sixteenth rubber was completed. It was a coup no one had expected. The squabbling, chiefly between Lenz and Culbertson, had its origin in Lenz’s protest that Culbertson was delaying the game. “He’s not been on time any one of the three session,” Lenz said. “Talk about Jimmy Walker. This fellow’s got him beat.” Since 150 rubbers have to be played in order to determine which team plays the better system, an extra session has been ordered for Saturday night at 7. They will play again Monday and Tuesday. Snap at Each Other “He’s been sitting there,” Lenz declared of Culbertson, speaking to a referee, “for ten minutes without moving—acting like he was studying, when it’s plain there’s only one play he can make.” Culbertson, a match for Lenz at repartee, promptly offered to let his foe “play my hand if you want to.” "You can’t make a protest in the middle of a hand when a man’s playing his cards,” he snapped. “It’s .lust like letting out a yell at a golfer Just as he starts to swing. I ask the referees to please make this

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man stop breaking in on me like I this.” Only two hands earlier, Lenz had made another protest, charging that Culbertson was not following the approach-forcing system in his bidding, as liad down in his writings on that system. Culbertson revealed Thursday night that he has a total of $7,700 on himself and his wife to win the match. Os this sum, $5,000 was wagered against Lenz’s SI,OOO at the start, the winnings to go to charity. Culbertson has bet $1,500 to Jacoby’s $750 that he will win. He received Thursday a telegram from a man in San Francisco stating that SSOO is on the way east, and another man from Newark, N. J., came in with SIOO to bet on Lenz and Ja- ! coby. Culbertson posted checks for SI,OOO and S2OO to cover these bets. During Thursday evening’s play he was overheard trying to urge Lenz to put up $5,000 against his own SIO,OOO on the outcome. Lenz smiled and shook his head. JURIST TO BE SPEAKER 1 City Business Men Incensed at Federal Inroads Are Sponsors. Sponsored by a group of- Indianapolis business men irate against governmental interference in pri- ! vate business, Judge V. H. Stone of Wyoming will discuss “Government in Business” at a dinner in the Columbia Club next Thursday night. Judge Stone is educational economist of the national headquarters of the Federation of American Business in Chicago. The group of business men bringing him here is headed by Michael E. Foley, attorney. Foley said this group is incensed by the growing interference of the government in business in competition with citizens.

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brother, Abraham, as the climax, police said, of a love affair involving a Negro maid. Miss Eleanor Johnson, the Negro maid employed in the sumptuous Levine home here, was arrested and charged with being an accessory before and after the fact Police also held as material witnesses Samuel Morrison. 50, a Negro described as a friend of Miss Johnson, and Miss Emil Boyle, said to be Morrison’s sweetheart. All were to be arraigned before Municipal Judge Charles W. Atchley later today. Abraham Levine was shot to . death with a revolver 'more than

eleven weeks ago while writing a check. The name of the Negro maid figured prominently in the investigation that followed. According to police, Morrison admitted he bought the gun, using money given him by Miss Johnson. The latter said she, in turn, had received the money from Merton Levine, police said. Whale Liked Bay By United Pre* CAPETOWN, Nov. 20.—A sixtyfoot cow whale, which the people have christened “Wendy,” entered Simonstown Bay and refused to leave for over a week.

EDITOR IS CLUB SPEAKER Europe Facing Bankruptcy, Landis Tells Traffic Men. While America is experiencing hardship to many of its individuals, other nations are facing utter bankruptcy, Frederick Landis, Logansport editor, told the Indianapolis Traffic Club at its annual dinner Thursday night in the Columbia Club. This country, he said, still is the most prosperous in the world despite the business depression and suffering rrom unemployment. 1 Representatives of railroads and

business firms throughout Indiana attended the dinner. John K. Ruckelshaus of Lebanon was toastmaster. LESLIE^3ETS~AID FUND Governor Receives SI.OOO Check From Purdue University Faculty. Governor Harry G. Leslie has received a SI,OOO check from President Edward C. Elliott of Purdue university to be used as a special Purdue relief fund. The money was contributed by faculty members. It was placed by the Governor in an Indianapolis bank and will be used for emer- ! gency relief as he sees fit.

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