Silver, 34 mm, 16.53 gm
AWARDED TO / August Mehrtens / 1897

The San Francisco Call newspaper of June 21, 1897, page 8, had an article on the graduates of the Adams Cosmopolitan School mentioning a Bridge Medal to August Mehrtens. Not much else can be found about August Mehrtens.
He would have been born around 1884 as the bridge medalists were usually 13 to 15 years old. The San Francisco Call newspaper index has a couple of lines of interest: A Henry Ernst August Mehrtens was married in 1876 to Meta and had a son born in 1884.