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life failed to comment on his exemplary
manners and sportsmanship at the card
table.
But wait, I hear you say, bridge a
sport? And the finest card game of all
time? A Wykehamical education might
not have instilled in you a proper
awareness of these universal truths, as I
think it is safe to say that few generations
of Winchester men will have been
offered anything but discouraging (and
possibly dyspeptic) noises about this
most illustrious of games during their
time at the School.
As Tony himself noted in a piece for
The Trusty Servant a few years ago, dons
and Housedons have generally poured
cold water on