Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 81

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, AUGUST 23,_19’ # 7ue BriDGE FOorRum * Cards Sometimes Seem to Be Endozwed With Special Talents to Surprise Humans. New Problems of Play. The Real Thing Just a bit of mathematics And some mental acrobatics— That's not bridge. If you flad' three rivals vying And the fourth is not half trying— ‘That’s not bridge. But when all those at the table Do the best of which they’re able i maintain a happy spirt let no occurrence queer it— bridge. 1 special talents to be used for that purpose. Every once in a while sorflething so startling occurs that nobody would ever foresee it, something so different frma eny previous development that it is not comparable to any- thing else One of .fl\e most peculiar happenings in the Now for the freaky surprise, Here wer¢ the bands: AA1075 v97633 g A087 & None NRORTH SOUTH aK 9AQI0EsE oK He543 The dealer could not beip making seven-odd. The first trick went to the spade king, second- was based on the thought that partner had made an original two bid instead of merely & defensive bid is surely one for the book. . J Real Champion There have been cases In the past of players claiming to be the champion of all contract bridge players because they held at one time sbout three championship trophles from among the large number at play, even though right at the time some other player held a A Law a Week What occurs if a player’s bid has plainly been made without his having heard some previously faintly spoken bid, obviously in the belief that the opponent had passed’ Alertness is part of the game. Failure to hear a bid is a player's own fault, due, as a rule, to inattention. At all times a player be- fore declaring may ask what his opponent bid, if doing so Tor his own information and call his partner's attention to it. If believes his partner @id not hear & and had mafe a declara cumstances, he has not partner whether he heard answer to that . woald about the partner's bid over and which was conveyed by the bid fteell. What occurs if, efter a dealer says faintly, “1 bid one heuart,” one of his opponents asks, “What did you bid”’? gnd he unswers “I bid one spade”? Problems 0f Play How can a player recogwize the possibility of making a “squeeze pley” in & hand? When he does recognize it, how should he 9o about de- veloping it? The most readily recognised situation for a squeeze comes when declarer and « possess & string of set-up tricks in SoN 4aQQJs ¥543 dKSse ShAIT4 GAKI08432 W9JIB72 ¢5 &3 Suppose the adversaries started with three heart tricks, then led a trump. Declarer can count a straight run of those three hearts, plus seven spades, plus one more heart, total 11 tricks. This would cut each hand down to two cards. Declarer would discard from dummy so as to leave the diamond king and the club ace-ten there prior to his last discard. He should play this way in the hope that the king- queen-jack of clubs and the ace of diamonds were all with West; if this happened to be so, West prior to his last discard would hold on to the club king-queen and the diamond ace. Which would he discard? Continued from Thirteenth Pape plies the motive power, not the thinking power, the average they are slow to grasp things. Some hunters say that they ha weighing nearly 1,000 pounds. the appearance of immensity. Lions would be wonderful watchdogs as long as they remain young and harmless. They would scare any burglar away, but it would be ggiiéfgiiigi;a 1 ¥ 5 i Contract Systems How would you bid the following hands, both sides being -vuinerable and opponents con- stantly passing? DEALER YK ¢73 PARTNER & K WYAl0852 dK1W064 &Hiss Dealer's hand would be about on the line for the new intermediate two bid, w guarantees at Jeast seven probable tricks if &Q1054 SHAKQ 1054 thorns with which it comes in contact. When he travels to the high platcaus of Mashonaland, 111 si{}s; i ! which promises one rebid if partner is able W respond with anything but a pass. If opened that way, with two clubs, pariner should bid minimum, two hearts, dealer three clubs. Partner now values his hand in support of clubs, finding it worth a strong four supporting tricks—five according 4 some methods of counting. Added to the seven shewn by dealer, there is ample strensth to go to five, which the proper bid, but not enough “slam material® b0 bid six. who use the artifizial two club bid as , or who employ all two bids that way would open with one club. So would plenty of users of the intermcdiate two bid who consider bare a minimum for that eall prel‘ernd response, but if four should be bid the dealer should go the rest of the way system should reach a club game bid. Norbert Lyons was declarer recently when West led a spade ageinst his club contract, Bast took it with the ace, returning a trump to the queen. The heart king was led, a spade ruffed in dummy, the heart ace furnished a diamond discard, a heart was ruffed, ten of spades with the jack, another heart ruffed, then the trumps run, & diamond being Jost at the end, five-odd being gathered. How would you bid the jolicr sng hand, botR sides being vulnerab'e and North the dealer? a8 ves oA SHAKJI100432 NORTH AT5¢ t vE3 g $KQ10984 32 S8OUTH & None AAKQI032 PKQ10975 @ None »&Q The New Problem had made a psychic third hand bid il d i £ animals. Later I accompanied a shipment wild animals to Hollywood. ) (Copyright, 1931.) a Plentyof Land But Unwanted PAIRLY large quantity of cut-over lang is available rornmmclnthemuts but according to a survey ¥