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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 of both new and experienced players are featured.

3. There is opportunity for open exchange of ideas and opinions between administration and membership.

4. Members are kept alert to changes in rules, regulations, acceptable conventions, etc.

5. An events calendar helps a player find a game in a city in which he may be visiting.

6. The best publications on bridge are listed and sometimes reviewed.

7. Beneficial opinions on bidding and play are given by top players.

ABA CLUB SPONSORSHIP

Where Kibitzer Clubs are formed for the purpose of playing in a Kibitzer Section of an already established ABA Club, it is hoped that by special request, that particular ABA Club will serve as a "parent organization."

It should be noted that ABA Clubs serving in the capacity of "parent organization" will benefit not only financially, but by increased membership.

WHAT IS DUPLICATE BRIDGE?

The game is called duplicate cause each hand is 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 sectional 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 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 on the national tournament schedule for new players only.

The WOMEN'S COMMITTEE plans a national game each year for the purpose of raising funds for their scholarship program.

MASTER POINTS

In any competitive event there must be some way to determine and award 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 high in any event. The higher the number of master points earned by a player the higher his national classification.

Players may, therefore, play in the section of an event made up of players having approximately the same number of master points.

PLAYER CLASSIFICATION

0 to 24 ... (Novice)
25 to 99 ... Junior Master
100 to 299 ... Life Master
300 and over ... Senior Life Master

Many tournaments provide that new players may compete in the Novice or Junior Master Section.

AWARDS

Awards for winning and placing second in tournaments may be in the form of trophies, S&H green stamps, or other useful articles chosen by the player.

Of course, there are those master points which go to the first and second place winners and to a certain number of players placing lower depending on the size of the event.

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