The players had to play two games a day for two weeks. The players were seeded into four preliminary sections, from which the first three qualified for the Championship, the next three for the Consolation Masters, the next three for a Class A tournament.
Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky were unavailable as they were participating in the big international tournament in Nottingham.
A number of players withdrew rather than play in the final sections. The strong master George Treysman qualified for the Championship, but retired due to illness and was replaced by Milton Hanauer.
The Final turned out to be a three-way race between I.A. Horowitz, Arthur Dake and Arnold Denker and in the end, Horowitz prevailed to take the title just a half point ahead of Dke and Denker.
In the finals the players featured in today’s game from the preliminaries drew each other. Mugridge finished 7th with 4.5-6.5 and Hanauer finished tied for places 9-11 with 3.5-7.5.
The winner of this game was the little known Donald H. Mugridge (April 23, 1905 – November 3, 1964, 59 years old) who was born in Chicago, Illinois, but spent most of his adult life in Washington DC where he worked for the Library of Congress. 
He was educated in the Chicago public schools and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California and at the Harvard Graduate School where he completed his graduate work in history.
In his and college days he was a Harvard and District of Columbia chess Champion. He also won the Massachusetts Championship in 1932.
Before joining the Library of Congress in 1933, Mugridge served as a teaching fellow at the University of Southern California and as a research assistant.
For 30 years he was a specialist in American History in the General Reference and Bibliography Division of the Library of Congress and was a leading authority in his specialty. In that capacity he was widely known to scholars throughout the country. Also, he was the author of a number of articles and book reviews on historical journals.
Mugridge edited and contributed extensively to the monumental Guide to the Study if the United States of America, an annotated bibliography of books on the development of American life and thought. The book was published by the Library of Congress in 1960.
In recognition of the significant contributions to research the Library honored him in April of 1961 with a Superior Service Award.
The third USCF rating list was published in November, 1951. Reshevsky(2747) topped the list of 22 Masters followed by Fine (2711). Mugridge was ranked 17th at 2359.
An October 1937 article in Chess Review on the mannerisms of Masters had this to say about him: "Mugridge is a head-holder and chin-nurser par excellence. Being of a more restful nature than Winter, he does not seek to find out whether his head can be screwed on or off."
Mugridge died prematurely in his home on Tuesday, November 3, 1964 of a coronary thrombosis. He left no immediate survivors.
Donald Mugridge–Milton Hanauer1–0D26ACF Congress, PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA USA08.1936Stockfish 16
D26: Queen's Gambit Accepted 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.f3 f6 4.e3 This
seemingly slow continuation sometimes contains more venom that it would appear e6 5.xc4 e7 6.0-0 c5 7.e2 cxd4 7...0-0 8.dxc5 xc5 9.a3 a6 10.b4 e7 11.b2 is equal. Naumkin,I (2480)-Barlov,D (2460) Gioiosa Marea 1996 7...c6 is less favorable for black. 8.d1 c7 9.c3 0-0 10.e4 White has an
active position. Unuk,L (2110)-Bajlo,K (2096) Opatija CRO 2014 8.d1 0-0 9.xd4 b6 10.c3 e5 11.b3 c6 12.d2 g4 13.f3 Wrong retreat...better
would have been either 13...Bf5 or 13...Bd7 h5 14.a4 14.g4 was a
promising alternative. g6 15.ac1 a5 16.a4 followed by e4 14...c7 15.e4 d4 After this white has slightly the better game, but it’s hard to
suggest an active plan for black. 16.xd4 exd4 17.ac1 Threatening 18.
Bxf7+ winning the Q. e5 18.e1 The immediate 18.g4 was plausible. fd8 18...d6 19.g3 e7 20.e5 wins 19.b4 ac8 This prevents white from
playing Nc5 20.g4 g5 It has become increasingly difficult to
suggest anything really promising for black, but after this move white gets a
decisive advantage. 20...b5 sacrificing a P which helps ease the pressure
is his best try. 21.xb5 xc1 22.xc1 d3 23.xd3 g6 but here, too, black
would lose in the long run. 21.d2 g6 White still has to be very careful+/
- The immediate threat is ...Nxg4 22.h3 22.c5 A pass to demonstrate the
threat. xg4 23.fxg4 xg4 24.g2 xd1 25.xg6 hxg6 26.xd1 b6 27.f1 f8 28.a4 bxc5 29.bxc5 xc5 and black is winning. 22...xc4 This move sets
a clever trap which Mugridge does not fall for. 23.xc4 23.xc4 loses the game! xg4 24.hxg4 xg4 25.fxg4 xg4+ 26.h1 f3+ 27.g1 d6 28.c8+ d8 29.g5 g3+ 30.f1 xg5 Materially speaking black only has 3
Ps for the R, but he has a winning position. Black won 5 Shootouts...here is
the continuation at 17 plies... 31.e5 f4+ 32.e1 e3+ 33.f1 f3+ 34.e1 d3 35.d2 e2+ 36.c3 c6+ 37.xc6 bxc6 38.xd3 c7 39.cd1 h5 40.b3 xe5 41.3d2 g4 42.c5 h4 43.a4 h3 44.f1 d4 45.c1 e3 46.cc2 xd2 47.xd2 g5 and the game is over. 23...b5 23...xg4 The above trick
doesn’t work now because White’s Q covers g4. 24.hxg4 xg4 25.fxg4 24.c5 bxa4 25.g5 h6 26.xh5 g6 27.g5 h6 28.e5 h4 29.e1 This leaves black helpless; he loses a Rook and so black resigned. 29.e1 h6 29...xh3 30.xe7 h5 31.e5 White is winning here also. 30.xe7 d7 31.xd7 xd7 32.xd4 1–0
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