[Ads-l] Antedating of "Contract Bridge"

[Pete Morris]

>From the same journal,

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Illustrated_Sporting_Dramatic_News/fQFIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Contract+Bridge%22+play&dq=%22Contract+Bridge%22+play&printsec=frontcover

"I am told that in Paris they now play hardly anything but Contract 
Bridge, a
game which was described in this column several months ago."

Appears to be March 22, 1919.  I think this is the top of the same page.

https://books.google.co.uk/books/content?id=fQFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA102&img=1&pgis=1&dq=contract+bridge+1919&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U0LBkpWcBXxWxdjzAJabZXfgvqyHQ&edge=0

And I suppose that a careful study of the archives would find the 
earlier description
several months previously.


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Date 21/04/2026 15:00:56
Subject Antedating of "Contract Bridge"

>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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