[Ads-l] Antedating of "Contract Bridge"

[Shapiro, Fred]

contract bridge (OED 1929)

1919 Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 29 Nov. 472/1 (Newspapers.com)

It has arrived at last — the inevitable successor to Auction Bridge.  Contract Bridge, which has already ousted Royal Auction in France and America, is beginning to be played in the London clubs, and I do not think there is the smallest doubt that it will soon be the only form of Bridge played there.

Fred Shapiro

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