HOW THE GAME "BRIDGE"
EARNED IT NAME. Some forty-five years ago two families at Great Dalby, Leicestershire, were in the halbit of paying visits to each other on alternate nights for the purpose of playing a game known at that time as KJussian whist. Their way lay across a (broken bridge, which made a •journey after nightfall a hazardousl task. "TBxank goodness," they were ! wont to exclaim on parting, "it is youi* bridge to-morrow night.'* Soon they came to refer to the game itself as "Bridge" and the name stack.
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Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 24, 6 November 1930, Page 2
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