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  1. Card game first played 1925. From 1930 it
  2. quickly outgrew auction bridge in popularity.
  3. The game originated in 1925 on a steamer en
  4. route from Los Angeles to Havanna, and was
  5. introduced by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
  6. (1884-1970), one of the players.
  7.