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OCT ASHTABOIA OHIO STAR-BEACON D. mooo 8 1966 Hubby, Wife Teams Should Be Avoided at Bridge Table By PATRICIA McCORMACK NEW YORK (UPI) ?╟÷You?╟╓ve got that husband of yours squared away for an evening of bridge-with the couple next door. Do yourself a favor. Pair him off with your neighbor?╟╓s wife and you team up with her hubby as a partner. It?╟╓s the j only way to avoid short circuits in the nervous systems of you and your mate while having a friendly game of cards. The advice comes from Jan Stone, wife of Tobias Stone, a bridge champ. And Mrs. Stone herself, if you know your way around in the world cards, has her fair share of bridge trophies, too. MRS .STONE, who took up I cards during a wh'rlvdnd courtship with Stone, made that ?'Hnt during an interview as she warmed up the cards for participation in the Sands Hofei first, international bridge tour^ nament, an event starting in Las Vegas, Nev., Sunday. ?╟úFeelings get so fierce during bridge,?╟Ñ she said, ?╟úthat it isn?╟╓t fair to have a husband and wife battle at that level over the card table.?╟╓?╟╓ Mrs. Stone, a television and radio actress on a steady scale oefore her bridge days, said she took up the game during a >ery brief courtship with Stone. HE HANDED her a book describing the system he advocated ?╟÷ Roth-Stone. She boned up on it for two days and then teamed up with him. ! ?╟úT did all the right things,?╟Ñ she said, ?╟úand he was saying it?╟╓s ?╟ adorable?╟╓ the way you play. That?╟╓s ?╟ grand?╟╓ he would say when I played my cards. We won. After that, we were married and his real self came through. ?╟ He would tell me I was doing terrible things with the SURROUNDED by her trophies,bridge champion, Mrs. Jan Stone works out a bridge hand in her New York apartment. Mrs. Stone, a television and radio actress on a steady scale before her bridge days, said she took up the card game during the courtship with her husband, bridge champ Tobias Stone. (Star-Bea- con Telephoto) cards: Pretty soon, I realized the honeymoon was over.?╟Ñ The Stones have been playing championship bridge now for a decade. They have enough trophies to line several walls. But the tournament they ?╟╓re participating in beginning Sun- day guess what? Each is playing with someone else. HER PARTNER will be George Boehm, a New York writer. His partner will be Ivan Erdos, of Los Angeles. rather than dunl?╟╓oate brtdger is being run with the teehmStt ?√ß advice of the U.S. Playin^';Car(| Co. The purse, for the winder,; p the largest ever in bridge*- around $60,000, Mrs. Stone,/^aid. Mrs. Stone, who undeff |h^ husband?╟╓s tutelage wbn| a - master?╟╓s in bridge in:. jWr;: months from the first time/islie y p'aved the game, represented the United States in iwo,vvorld' bridge Olympiads. She has won the '15.S! women?╟╓s team championship^ The competition , contract I numerous times.