Bridge - _ Final Qualifying Flight A Tournament for District 24 The North American Pairs begins at the club level and ends at the Spring North American Championships, which will be played in St. Louis in March. The final qualifying Flight A tournament for District 24 (Greater New York and Long Island) was held last Sunday at the Sagamore Bridge Club in Syosset, N.Y. The qualifiers were Michael Lipkin-Michael Radin, Susan Wexlar-Ira Herman and David Gurvich-Ron Haack (all of New York City). The winners did well in the diagramed deal. Lipkin (North) redoubled to express doubt about the final contract, but Radin (South) had nowhere to run. West led his higher spade. South won the trick because he knew the spades were 6-2. He continued with the heart ten, West taking the trick and leading his second spade. Declarer won, played a heart to dummy's jack, cashed the heart king and led another heart to West's queen. West shifted to a low diamond. This was the critical point; South had to guess correctly. But East had discarded an encouraging diamond. Believing him, declarer played dummy's ten and took East's king with his ace. Then South led a club to dummy and had nine tricks: two spades, four hearts, two diamonds and one club. Plus 800, not surprisingly, was a cold top, 12 match points out of 12. If West had not doubled, plus 400 would have gained only 9.5, which would have dropped Lipkin and Radin to second and cost them $400 each. The winners received $700 each to help cover their travel expenses to St. Louis; the second-placed pair won only $300 each.