american whist league造句

• The most common team movement, known as the American Whist League ( AWL ) movement, is again similar to the Mitchell movement, and requires an odd number of teams.
• Wernher-- a resident of both London and Deal NJ-- was president of the American Bridge League in 1933, chairman of its Master Plan committee and a member of the board of directors of the American Whist League.
• The senior Jacoby, Oswald Jacoby, ( 1902 1984 ) won his first major title---the National Team Championship of the American Whist League---in 1929 and his last major title---the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams---in 1983.
• In 1910 Lenz won the American Whist League's principal national team championship . ( In his lifetime he won more than 600 whist and bridge competitions; whist is a precursor and close relative of bridge . ) He learned auction bridge in 1911 from British Army officers while traveling in India, studying magic and Hindu culture.
• In 1925 when contract bridge first evolved, bridge tournaments were becoming popular, but the rules were somewhat in flux, and several different organizing bodies were involved in tournament sponsorship : the American Bridge League ( formerly the American Auction Bridge League, which changed its name in 1929 ), the American Whist League, and the United States Bridge Association.