mathieson's part in the match was curtailed when he fell through a glass roof, to be rescued swinging from a girder above a 40-foot drop! the culbertson team won by the decisive, but not overwhelming, margin of 10,900 points (total points scoring). hubert phillips, writing in the "news chronicle", put the reasons as superior teamwork, avoidance of unnecessary risks when vulnerable, and greater precision in slam-bidding. the match was analysed in three books, and had a considerable effect on bidding methods in britain and elsewhere.