Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 94

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 19, 1981. r Diogones came back to earth and, in- stead tried of searching for an honest man, to find the most asinine remarks, oould spend his time quite profitably the vicinity of many bridge games. where {ill-considered statements made—statements which not only offend or y but which make the talker appear bred and stupid—the bridge table liar rank. Some of the most gracious, intelligent persons—that is, away bridge—scen mnever {o have given a to the impression they make with their remarks. They get so intense excitement cf the moment, so boiling some perhaps half-baked view- nothing counts except relieving of whatever ails them. slde of such outbursts, if true be properly linked with incon- Mes in the fact that most such absurdly out of line with the case at hund. No better exampile be given than what occurred when these t recently to a group of players themsecives as cultured and refined NN gt ) i I sHil anybody : &aK943 VAQS @ A65 Hh654 NORTH ™= & E SOUTH &AQ2 ®Ji104 $QJ103 SdAQ2 It was contract, so South's borderline twe no trump bid was raised to four by North. When South passed North glared at him, ex- claiming, “I thought you knew a raise above game was a slam invitation!™ The jack of clubs lead enabled South to pick # all the tricks, getting five lucky breaks—one or more In every suit. Even though the out- standing spades were split badly, the nine was good for a fourth trick over East's eight. In hearts a finesse scored, in diamonds there was the good fortune of a winning finesse and an established thirteener, while in clubs the open- ing lead was worth a trick to the declarer. While South raked in the cards North sat and fumed, with her mind just about half on what was occurring. Probably there was not enough room in that small space for anything in addition to her mulling over the brilliant . remark about a slam invitation. When the last trick was taken she exploded. “Dom't you know a slam invitation when you hear one?” she demanded. bid the grand slam when we were vilnerable cost us 1,500 points.” Happily for the declarer, and possibly for others, that hand completed the rubber, and he suddenly realized he was already so late A Law a Week. What occurs if declarer leads from his own hand when it is really dummy’s turn, but be- fore attention is called to the mistake the player at declarer's right plays to the trick? ‘When declarer has led out of turn from either own hand or dummy, the lead stands the if correct, unless an adversary calls to the error before he or his partner o this case, since the adversary on the right has played before such attention has the declarer’s improper lead is . Such being true, the right-hand ad- ersary has played out of turn, for after the lead by declarer it was his partner’s turn to play. Hence the penalty exacted is against the adversaries for a play by the fourth hand be- . fore the second hand has played. Declarer may require the other adversary to play his highest lowest card of the suit led, or to win or Why should a dummy wait opening lead before tabling any of his cards . instead of prematurely throwing the table as so many do? Coniract Systems. How would you bid the following hands, SAKIEE3 YNone $AKQ HAQ42 PARTNER &752 YVAKQJ ¢$83 K73 Whatever forcing bid is being used by the partnership should be employed on the dealer's hand. Those with the forcing system, in which a suit two bid guarantees game at some decla- ration, will open with two spades. Partner re- sponds with three heartis, dealer shows his clubs with a four call and partner jumps to six or seven clubs, depending upon whether he is a bit bold or a bit timid; if to six, dealer should €0 to seven unless he is quite a conservative. Those with the semi-forcing method also would start with two spades, not guaranteeing a game, partner with a bust being allowed to pass. ‘This partner has far from a bust, how- ever, so the risk of the bidding would be the same as with the absolute forcers. Vanderbilt one-clubbers would use their ar- tificial one-club bid, meaning nothing in regard to the club suit, to proclaim at least three quick tricks and a sound reserve bid, for the purpose of forcing partner to show whether “Your failure to . ® 7ur BripGE FORUM 1ll-Considered Remarks Usually Make the Perpetrator Look Silly—Latest News of the Bridge World—Interesting Problems. BY SHEPARD BARCLAY. mond, which the diamond suit is concerned. With the two quick tricks, however, and a biddable suit, the partner shows both items with a one-heart call, A two-spade response now by dealer, a forcing take-out of one more than necessary, discloses his great power, compelling partner to keep the bidding alive until at least game. The hearts being too short to rebid, two no trump is the partner's action, to give dealer a chance to say something else about his hand. When the club suit is now shown with three, partner indicates his support with four, dealer imme- diately going to six and the partner to seven. Similar tactics would be used by those em- ploying the two-glub forcer. The bid of two clubs would proclaim, artificially, possession of a game hand. The response of two no trump would disclose possession of an ace and a king or two aces, and the fact that neither is in a five-card suit; if there were such a suit it would be bid; if the ace and kings were not both present, or two aces, the arti- ficial denial would be two diamonds. De- clarer’s second bid would show his top suit, with three spades; partner now could show his strong though short heart suit with a four call; declarer would reveal his second declar- ation with five clubs; partner would lift it to six and-declarer .then should bid seven. Some straightaway bidders who have no forcing bid would arrive at a grand slam with his hand, but probably at spades, making them take a chance on the break of that suit, which Swift’s Remarkable Travels Continued from Pifth Page and tried bucking the fence as he started down the right of way. “It didn't take the train crew long to sense the situation. In fact, I guess they started to taste venison at the sight of ths deer. They uncoupled the engine and started in pursuit of the buck. With two brakemen and the con- ductor on the front of the engine, yelling and brandishing big clubs, it looked as though Mr. Deer was doomed. “Down the track several hundred yards he raced with the engine and its excited crew in hot pursuit. Then he turned and retraced his steps. ‘This race back and forth lasted for a few min- utes, but the deer was finally run down and clubbed to death, while the locomotive whistle tooted victoriously!” EOPLE living in the Allegheny Mountain area and those of the mountainous districts of the Southern States are the most supersti- tious in the United States, yet when known are the most friendly and accommodating, Swift believes, “I pity the poor revenue or prohibition officer or sheriff in the mountains in the South,” Swift says. “Their lives must be one continuous struggle. When you first enter those districts you are immediately catalogued as a revenue officer. From then on you are on the defensive and an extremely unwelcome visitor until you prove your identity. “It took several trips through those districts before I got wise to myself and knew how to answer their questions, which always number three, and sometimes four. Travelers in those sections will be wise to remember these: “What's ya name, mister?’ “‘Where ya from?’ “ ‘Where ya going?’ “The first question isn't so much of importance unless it happens to be the same as that of a sheriff or revenue officer, but be careful how you answer the second. To tell them you are from Oregon or any far-away place doesn’t mean a thing. Many of them don’t know such places exist. The smart way to answer it is to say that you are from an adjoining county. I also found that when asked where I was going it was much better to say the next county. Both answers tend to quiet any suspicien. “If the answers to the first three questions don’t pacify their curiosity then will come: “What's your business, mister?” I'll admit this one is often hard to explain. If your answers are convincing, however, you have made won- derful and accommodating friends, but if they fail to satisfy then yoe will find hostility.” Swift declares that i traveling in Kentucky the big thought in the minds of mest mountain- eers is how to get away from the sheriff. Many times, he remembers, he was considerably em- barrassed. “Whenever I'd stop at a place and ask what county I was in the question always provoked amother: “Tryin’ to git away from the sheriff, mister?’ ” For natural scenery, Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, taken as a whole, are most beautiful, Swift declares. Three complete visits to Yellowstone National Park have only tended to whet his appetitie for this showplace of na- ture. He believes it exceeds anything in North America. TH.E auto and excellent highways have done much to do away with provincialism, Swift believes. “With so many tourists now taking to the highways people are beginning to learn that their far-away neighbors in Portland, Me., aren't so different from those in Portland, Ore.,” he says. “During the Summer months each night finds thousands of tourists in auto camps all over the country visiting, exchang- ing ideas, traditions and customs.” Travelers may come and travelers may go, but the more they come the morg discourteous they become, Swift says. “It used to be that motorists would help each other,” he muses. “Now it seems to be ‘Excuse my dust,” and on they go. It is the hurry and the attempt to make too long a trip in too short a time that cause many people to lose all the pleasure of traveling. “In all of my travels by auto I seldom average more than 250 miles a day. It is the motorist taking his time, and, incidentally, the one taking in all the sights, who remembers something more out of his trip than where he had a flat tire or stopped for gas.” ‘The careful driver never need to worry about traffic laws in any of the 48 States, Swift declares. As he entered a new State he always endeavored to find out about the laws. “I never encountered a traffic officer who told me how fast I should go. ‘They always pointed out that carefulness was the main object.” Looking for new fields to conquer, Swift de- clares that he still hasn't any desire to visit Europe. Alaska holds a charm for him, but he'll never visit it until a connecting auto road is built. Romantic old Mexico will probably see a lightweight auto, bearing an Oregon license, visiting there before long. Many of Swift's trips have been made in company with his wife. While she has not visited every county, she has traveled in every State and a great part of Canada, and she is as enthusiastic a traveler as he is. is riskier than the clubs, for there is a greater danger of three outstanding cards being bunched in one hand than that five outstand- ing will be divided four to one oppopent and one to the other, which is the only point ef risk in the club grand slam bid. What is the preferred response to a forcing take-out, if partner is able to make it? Auction Problems Hearts are trumps. South has the leaa. How can North and South win three of the five tricks against any defense by East aad Waest? & 1083 ¥ None ¢®J6 & None YA ot & None The ace of hearts lead and the discard on it of a high spade are absolutely essential to success; with any different play to the first trick, the adversaries can limit North and South to two tricks. Also absolutely essential is the second lead of the deuce of spades. After that the play is governed by what the opponents do. If West plays the queen on the second trick, North unlocks by throwing the eight. If West then offers the diamond, North refuses to play the jack; should East allow this trick to be won by the 10, West is compelled to give South t 4 should East use his queen, North a diamond trick and If West plays low on the second diamond lead assuring West trumped trick. North and South may try an; number of other ways, but no method is sure except that given. ‘This problem was devised by A. E. Sperber of New York, winner of the national problem econtest conducted by Sidney S. Lenz. Who else has a good new problem of this type? The New Problem How would you bid and play the following hand, South being the dealer? ad84 Y1062 743 dhAJBE AQJI10 o A7652 vJIsT & "] vQs e 10862 g *95 &K103 - 9652 souTH - AAK3 WAK954 ®AKQJ rY New Chemical Music. Continued from Sizth Page notes of 210 and 200 sound very discordant te- gether; but 300 with 200 is harmonious. In this sense, certainly, Leibnitz is myste- riously right. If, then, on playing Dr., Andrews’ chemical chords scientists find that pleasing combina- tions of tones are more frequent than displeas- ing ones, they would be justified in looking back to the Raman specira with the expectation of finding simple numerical relationships between the frequencies of a given molecule. DR. ANDREWS makes no claim that he has shown this. Too much emphasis must not be placed, for instance, on the fact that the chords of benzine and alcohol have some well known harmonic groupings among their notes. It is, he admits, possible that simple underlying relationships do, in some cases, connect the notes of a chemical harmony, but the experimental results do not as yet permit him to draw such a far-reaching conclusion. It remains an attractive possibility with per- haps a little support from theory. It would indeed be reassuring to find that common sub- stances of our acquaintanceship gave, on the whole, a good account of themselves, constantly emitting a pleasing combinaticn of radiations. Such regularity is not necessary, as might at first be supposed, to the importance of Dr. Andrews’ work. All combinations of notes, whether simply related or not, have a musical meaning, especially in modern music where any sart of cacophony seems to be encouraged. ‘The important thing is that a new method has been brought into play in chemistry, throw- ing a different kind of light on the experimental facts. We can now perceive the fundamental relations by another sense. This is, however, dangerous ground we are on. Scientists have always believed that they cannot reach the truth unless they can keep their emotions from interfering with their work, Yet music appeals almost entirely to emotion.