“I LOATHE BRIDGE.”

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 2

“I LOATHE BRIDGE.”

SPOILS MANY HAPPY HOMES. LONDON, October 14, The psychologist has devised a new form of inquisition, a new way of gang ing tfie powers of our grey matter. He goes around asking.—“Do you play bridge?” He has been around asking a lot of brainy men this question, among them Mr Hugh Walpole, who said, “No,” and declared that lie never even wanted to play; it just bored him. The bridge play.ng devotees are not to be done so easily. Colonel Walter Duller, who is tlie bridge expert of the London “Star” is taking the distinguished novelist in hand and declares that he will convert Mr Walpole to the beauties of bridge ip three days, undeterred by the fact that hundreds of people had tried to tench liim. Mr Walpole flatly declares: “I loaf,lie and detest the game, Ifor if seems to me to ruin all decent and honest conversation, to do harm to everybody's temper, and to spoil a great many happy married lives. Probably on the whole it causes more dissension in this world than any other single tiling.”

When he consented to let Colonel Buller undertake his conversion, Mr Walpole said; “I have little hone of becoming 11 bridge player. Nohod.v will ever make me a convert to bridge. It all depends on whether a person has a card sense or not. If one has not bridge is nothing hut a waste of time and very tiresome. It certainly is an enemy of good conversation. I stick to my guns, although 1 had not th(> remotest idea that what I said to an audience, in a small place, would ever he given so much publicity.”