Sport: First Ten

Unlike tennis, contract bridge has no governing body to grade the year's ten best players. Bridge experts, however, have surprisingly unanimous opinions on the matter. Few would have quarreled more than mildly with the ranking, based on play in last year's tournaments, which Shepard Barclay, bridge commentator of the New York Herald Tribune, made last week for the Saturday Evening Post:

1) Willard S. Karn

2) P. Hal Sims

3) David Burnstine

4) Oswald Jacoby

5) Howard Schenken

6) Baron Waldemar Von Zedwitz

7) Theodore A. Lightner

8) George...

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