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and suggest bridge as one of their recreational activities. Perhaps your club can participate in the activities in some helpful way.

10. Encourage participation in Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced Bridge classes.

11. Establish a bridge library:

a. With books donated by players and friends.

b. By encouraging players to exchange books among themselves. Original ownership is of course maintained.

12. Directors and scorers may be asked to donate their services until a new club can maintain itself. To run a weekly game these officials need not be nationally certified.

13. Offer a prize, maybe a free entry, to a member who brings two or more new or potential members to a game tournament.

14. PUBLICITY . . . PUBLICITY . . . TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, telephone, placards in public places, etc.

15. Some local group or business may be interested in sponsoring a bridge club made up of its own employees. If not enough for a club there might be a pair or a team.

16. Insist that games and tournaments begin and end on time, that scoring errors by both players and scorers be kept at a minimum, that rules of the game are observed by all players, and that courtesy is the order of the day.

17. REMEMBER, you can win a single room in the hotel at the summer nationals by recruiting more new members over sixteen (16) than any other ABA member. This prize is not limited to KIBITZER-NATIONAL.

18. OFFER PRIZES . . . It makes competition more exciting. It's human to want to win . . . To enjoy winning.

THE ABA BULLETIN
The BULLETIN is the official publication of the ABA and is published bi-monthly. It bridges any communications gap where areas of responsibility or levels of playing skills might breed misunderstanding or friction.
1. Members as well as other interested persons and    groups are kept-up-to-date on all activities, whether competitive, business or entertainment.
2. Pictures and achievements to both new and experienced players are featured.

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played at least twice under the same conditions but does not depend on the luck of the deal, but is compared with the scores made by players who hold the same card as you held when you played the hand.

The mechanics are simple and may be learned as you learn the game itself under an instructor your choice or an instructor provided by a club near you.

HOW TO START PLAYING DUPLICATE
1. Contact a club near you. This brochure provides a map to tell you in which ABA section you live and the name and address of the vice-president of that section. Names and address of the national membership chairman and the president of KIBITZERS NATIONAL also appear in this brochure.

2. Get eight (8) players together and run a duplicate game in your home. An experienced duplicate player can help you. This eight player game may be played as a pair game or as an individual game as you would run your parlor game.

GAMES AND TOURNAMENTS
Events are classified as pair, individual, or team.

A tournament may offer several games of different classifications and may cover several sessions.

A Sectional Tournament is sponsored by each section division of the ABA. Clubs and units hold regionals, and the ABA itself holds two national tournaments annually. These tournaments are held in the best hotels and motels throughout the country.

The city sponsoring a regional tournament of hosting a sectional or national tournament or hosting a sectional or national tournament provides fun and entertainment for the players and their children.

Aside from these regularly scheduled events, there are others which provide  the money for contributions to worthwhile organizations and scholarships to qualified high school graduates with limited funds for college enrollment.

The KIBITZER OPEN PAIR is a special game om the national tournament schedule for new players only.

The WOMEN'S COMMTTEE plans a national game to determine and reward a winner. Fairness, however, demands that competitors possess similar skills.

The ABA uses a system which involves the awarding of national master points or credits to players placing

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