Americans win 120 board match over Italian women team
In a year-old match between U S women players and the Italian champions, Emma Jean Hawes of Fort Worth opened notrump and Dorothy Hayden Truscott of New York guided the bidding to six hearts. Truscott won the lead and both sides reached six hearts, which held for 1,430 points while the Italian North-South pair reached six spades in the other contract and finished down one for 1,530 points.