"BRIDGE" OFFENDS.
BREACH OF GAMING LAW. LONDON, March 16. A prosecution for allowing gaming on licensed premises threatens the management of the Grand Hotel, Harrogate, if a bridge tournament is held there, as arranged, from March 23 to March 27. A publicity campaign has attracted visitors from all over England, and the cancellation means a serious loss to the town.
Mr. Hasler, manager of the British Bridge League, is astonished at the ban, which is the first to be exercised although hundreds of bridge tournaments have been held in hotels in the past three years.
If bridge is prevented, every game, including darts, must be stopped, he savs.
The congress will probably be abandoned at a loss to the town of £6000 Lawyers say that bridge is a game ol chance and'the licensing Acts are precise.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 68, 21 March 1934, Page 7
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