Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1931, Page 83

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 2, ISL r 87 HE BrRIDGE FOrRuM * &Ars2 The Least Important Looking Bid or Play May . $oumses Preve to Be the Crucial One—Opening o s Bid Must Be Made With Care. T s Q882 BY SHEPARD BARCLAY A 3 IS0 QAR K85 férenge,” some of these are prone te say. “All - SAKJII0 that counts is the very last bid, the ene which . that. stebemant s toue e . B A Law a Week o What eceurs in this case? In contract, Nortl} and South bid end make a heart game. Soutiy the only plaper keeping score, negieets to yve= cord it. Omn the next hand East and Wes§’ first game at the same this last one, East pleads that he had The one law bearing upon this case (e), as follows: “A proved error in ShAKSISD 2 Nerth, as dealer, lacking the neecessary high- eard strength, made the unpardonable original We, most of us, have known her kind; she’s always an enigma; bid of one dlamond, which East overcalled with In general she is sweet and kind, but seems to like one stigma. When playing bridge she’s known to be fhe fiercest kind of shrew, "There courtesy and etiguette and manners are taboo. . She kicks about most anything she thinks she'll get away with; couple of times with diamond rebids, but these Her victims wish she’d go and find some other folks to play with. only egged South on until the ultimate contract Tn other things she’s never mean or makes her ethics shady, . was six no trumps, proper enough bidding by . But finds in bridge her one excuse to cease to be a lady. South if North had possessed what his bids said 2 v he did. With correct offense and defense—not “double dummy”—five odd can be made, but not six. Properly bid, the side would have had The New Problem a game. E In the play came the opportunity for both South hawving dealt end bid two no trumps, sides to make slips which seemed Iincense- . 5 which North reised to three, and West having quential, but were really deeisive. After a spade led the deuce of clubs, hon would you play Jead to the ace, the diamond king to the ace the following hand? : and a club to the ace, South made his big mistake. Upon his lead of the ten, played small from dummy, E'.s‘ two sides are now ready for s in the same rubber. the utterly legal and technieal case, True sportsmanship on the (PR Ly it il it HET i i v Contract Bidding How woull you bid the jfoliowing # South Deing the dealer, with neither side nerable? ; SANSS ves ¢Jses $Q73 JVEeRes 1y B“fliigéli E; hand against an opening lead of the nine af trumps? E it &973 ¥v5 ®AQJIE4S & 109 4 - Ep O wowth T 4106843 [ [ YK+ : g E ¢ 1082 P “Get the idea? A million- packs bought at H153 5 3 33 cents was $330,000. A million packs sold at SOUTH A K8 YAQJ10632 k 5 had to pay something like $3,000 to the . interest and' charges. There was $360 & AJS : personal loan; . Realizing that he had a virtual certainty for . - my - game, Samuel Fry, jr., went out to do the best possible .job on this hand by trying & squeeze play. He knew that if West held enough strength to make a. double at all within the realms of sanity he must hold practically every outstanding high card, especially after the king £ faf EEf £z e 5 B I e million packs sold the necessary guards: to all his high cards. So in five days—who wouldn’t buy dollar cards for Pry ran seven trump tricks first. a dime?” After three heart rounds West discarded two “What has this to do with how you. got this clubs and then the queen and jack of spades. check?” It was easy to tell his other cards were now the “Everything,” sald Mike. “Tum ‘em oven™ lone ace of spades, the king and queen of clubs She turned them over. “Oh, I see;” she said; the king of diamonds, twice ‘guarded to “but. even. at that—" event a finesse from setting up that suit. So . “When you said ‘It fan't in the cards’ to make Fry now led the small spade to the ace. West money without money, I' got' an inspiration: it 1 B £ i