Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1932, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON JANUARY 11, 1932. D. C, MONDAY, PHILIPPINES SILENT ON NEW GOVERNOR' Only Guarded Comments Are Made on Appointment of Roosevelt. B the Associated Press. MANILA, Philippine Islands, January 10—ln deference to the current inde- pendence campaign being carried on at Washington, Filipino leaders yesterday guarded comment on President Hoover's nomination of Theodore Roosevelt to be governor general of the Philippines. President Manuel Quezon of the In- sular Senate declined to make a state- ment, Roosevelt is 50 little known here he has been confused in the minds of the less informed with Nicholas Roose- velt, whose nomination for the vice governor generalship in 1929 proved so unpopular. Aat_that time coples of a book written by Nicholas Roosevelt were burned as an expression of public feel- The American-owned Daily Bulletin expressed fear the appointment would mean_another short-term governor for the Philippines because of Roosevelt's record and ambitions. The paper said the Philippines need a ‘governor who will stay.” Gov. Gen. Dwight Davis was here two and one-half years, but the paper excused his resignation because he took the post at a personal sacrifice and be- cause of a feeling of public duty. The bulletin concludes its comment with the phrase, “Roosevelt should under- stand he cannot learn the job in a day and cannot accomplish his task in a week.” Representative Francisco _Varona, acting majority leader of the House of Representatives, said Roosevelt'’s nomi- nation appeared to indicate the admin- istration planned no change in its re- lations with the Philippines THE WEATHER District bf Columbia—Fair, with low- st temperature about 32 degrees to- night; tomorrow increasing cloudiness | with slowly rising temperature, with | rain in the afternoon or night; gentle | shifting winds becoming southeast and increasing tomorrow. Maryland—Fair tonight: tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature, rain in the afternoon o: night; moderate north shifting to east or southeast winds, increasing tomor- row. Virginia—Fair, with slowly rising | temperature in west and south portions tonight; tomorrow cloudy with slowly rising temperature, with rain in the afternoon or night; moderate northeast | shifting to east or southeast winds, in- creasing_tomorrow West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness, th slowly rising temperature tonight; 10rrow rain and warmer Report for Last 48 Hours. Saturday. Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.87 29.89 29.94 4 pm. .. 3 pmt.. 12 midnight . Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 29.96 30.05 30.13 30.13 30.16 30.24 30.32 wre. Barometer. Inches. 30.39 30.46 on » 4 30.50 Highest temperature, 42, 3 p.m. Sun- | December 10. Lowest temperature, 32, 8 a.m. Mon- December 11 Temperature year ago—Highest, 50; lowest, 26. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic_Survey.) Today . 10:32a.m. . 4 am . 10:51 p.m 5:13 p.m. Sun and Moon. Rises. 7:27 Tomorrow 11:16am. | 5:38am. | 36 p.m 59 p.m. | The 9:5¢a.m ps to be lighted one- after sunset Rainfall. Monthly in the Capital (currer Month January February Merch April inches it ” . September ... October November ... . December ... . Weather in Various Cities. Temperature, 3 Stations. - 1aamores 38 010 Cloudy 3 a“ Cloudy 3046 32 Clear FOREIGN. , Greenwic Horta Hamilton, Bermuda San Juan. Porto Rico Havana,_Cuba Colon, Canal Spanish Jobless Under 500,000. 72 Zone 72 Clear | seemed Contest Trying to Lenz, Due to Adversary’s Dilatory Tactics. BY SIDNEY S. L | Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, January 11.—For weeks I have matched cards finesses against Culbertson, fate and | distribution. I have lost—fairly and honestly—and will not ask the’ card- | playing public to listen to any_alibis from me, although they can hardly hope to escape the modest and subdued exaltations of the winner. This long match was rather trying, owing to the dilatory tactics of my ad- versary. In brief: A player of his unquestionable brilliancy should really not require 8 minutes and 20 seconds to decide whether a simple finesse should be taken or not. And think of the ignominy of guessing wrongly. as Ely did on the longest wait of the 20 sessions of play! Again, it was not quite pleasant to wait_a number of times every rubber for Ely to return to the playing room, as he insisted upon his right to leave the game and visit with the gentlemen of the press. He invariably jumped up at once, whenever he was the dummy. and on the completion of the hand there was a wait of from two to five minutes before he could be induced to return to the game. ‘ Refused to Waive Rights. Under the official rules, I was forced to ask, every time his partner re- nounced, whether they had none of the suit, or no penalty for a possible | revoke could be claimed. Culbertson refused to waive his legal rights in this | respect I played the greater part of the match with Oswald Jacoby and much has been said in reference to his psvchic bids A number of people seemed to think that Jacoby was not out to win or that he was not giving me the best support that he was capable of. Any such im- | pression was unfair and wholly uncalled | for, There is no better card player in| the country than Oswald Jacoby or one | in whom I have more implicit confi-| dence. His honesty is beyond reproach | and he was fully as eager to win the | match as I was. It is true that we did not hit it off as well as we might, but it is quite likely that the fault was mine more than his. The bluff bids | that he favors have proven to be suc- cessful with other partners he has played with and I should have devoted more study to that line of strategy than I did. | Bad Breaks on Errors. We had the worst possible breaks on the slightest errors that cropped up on our bidding or on our play. while the adversaries’ errors were either en- tirely unproductive to us or cost them but 50 or 100 points at most. Ossie is a fine boy and was perfectly justified in withdrawing from the match when he did, but he did not withdraw at my solicitations, and I would have | continued on with him to the finish had he so desired. Comdr. Liggett, who finished the match, needs no praise from me. “Lig" | is always an ideal player, tolerant of | the errors and idiosyncrasies of his part- | ner or his adversaries. He came into | the match at a moment's notice, when | it appeared to be hopeless, and by steady and consistent play succeeded in win- | ning back 7,860 points in seven sessions | of play. | This match was not won or lost on a | hidding system or the play of the cards. | The system I employed worked per- fectly. All players, good, bad or indifferent, make errors in judgment and in play. Even the aces and kings are not the all-important things that count in con- tract bridge. Distribution is the greatest | factor! five | and Defeated on Three Slams. Holding & good biddable suit, with fcur aces and three kings in the part- nership hands, & slam is usually in sight and should be made—with favorable cistribution. Three times Jacoby and I bid little slams on such holding and went down to defeat , Twice we found five trumps massed in one hard against us. With any other split the slam could not have been lost. One hand was lost where the making of a vulnerable small slam would have made a difference of al- most 3,000 points, because the rubber was later won by ihe adversarles. It like a certainty, as a pivotal king was held in a suit bid by the right- hand adversary. The bidder, however, had declared on queen high and the ace was held by his partner. On another deal in the last session of play, hand No. 858, nothing mattered but the gods of distribution: LENZ. S—KQ83 H—83 D.—J C—AKJ865 | CULBERTSON. MRS. CULBEET- | 8917 SON H—A 10 2 S—10654 D—109765 H—QJ 764 | C—109 2 D—A 82 ! c—1 | LIGGETT. —A J K 9 KQ43 —Q 4 ‘The bidding SOUTH. WEST. Pass 2notrump Pass 5 clubs Pass With the heart bid by Mrs. Culbert- son, five clubs should be made if there is any justice in this queer world of ours NORTH. 1 club 3 spades Pass EAST 1 heart | Pass Pass Difference of 1,500 Points. The ace of diamonds was opened and the queen of hearts came next. If I had held two diamonds and one heart or had Mrs, Culbertson—or Liggett—or anything but as it was, we would have won the rubber instead of losing it and it would have meant a difference of 1,500 points, It might occur to the reader that Liggett might have played the deal at three no trumps, &t least so the kindly Ely delicately pointed out. Also wily Ely could have opened the diamond and the gracious Josephine come through with the queen of hearts Liggett might have guessed right on the queen, but the next lead would doubtless have been too much for any sailor. In the next article I want to say something about the fine points of sys- tems, bidding and play as revealed in the match. (Copyright. 1932.) Speed “Wizard” Seeks Record. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, January 11 (#) —“Wizard” Smith, Australian speed driver, said today he hopes to make his try for a new world land speed record early Wednesday morning. The run, which is to be made over a 10- mile course, has been planned for sev- eral weeks. The South Manchuria Railway ex- pects its 1932 income to total $10,500,- 0Q0, and its expenses for the year to be $8,500,000 Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. The great ma- jority have the paper delivered regularly every evening and Sun- day morning at a cost of 1l cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. MADRID, Spain, January 11 Antonio Fabra Rivas, director of labor, estimated yesterday that there »).— were fewer than 500,000 unemployed in Spain. If you are not taking advantage 1| of this regular service at this low rate, telephone National 5000 now Bridge Players Sum Up f | 2 Clubs. Match Proved Superior- ity of His System, Says Culbertson. This s the first of a series of four articies by Ely Culbertson reviewing the games played in the Bridge Contract Tournament with Sidney 8. z BY ELY CULBERTSON. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 11.—There is never a bridge game without a post mortem, ard thus it seems fitting that | the longest and most important bridge tournament, in history should have one, al- though not, pel haps, as_extensive or as beated as follows the play of | some hands at the bridge table. | One of the ques- tions that occurs in connection with | any game of bridge | is the question of | luck. Luck as ap- | plied to bridge is| of two kinds—the | possession of the aces and kings and ; the other honors, ity and the element | of luck in distribution — that is, suit lengths. My partners and I in the 150-rubber | match with Sidney S. Lenz and his | partners held 3,520 aces and kings. | Our opponents held 3,512. Using the | Culbertson honor trick table, which is | the most accurate yardstick there is for the measurement of high card| values, we had 3,649': honor tricks, | while Mr. Lenz and his partners held 3.648. Thus the difference in the aces and kings was 8 in_our favor, in honor | tricks 17.. The difference in’ the score | was 8,980. Says Distribution Favored Foes. As to luck in distribution, that seems | at the moment to be the last refuge for the more scientific alibis now be- | ing offered. Luck in distribution is partly the matter of successful finesses, | partly in suit lengths, or the ruffing | of suit making of no value aces and kings adversely held. In this our op- | ponents had by far the best of it. | Skill_in_bridge is of two kinds; the | skill of the player and the accuracy | of the system he uses. You can give a skillful driver a poor engine, but he | would still be beaten by an equally skillful driver equipped with a better | engine. The skill of the players is not | in question, so it is very apparent that | the difference of 8.980 points, with only eight more aces and kings, is due to the superiority of the system. | All versions of the official system of | contract bridge have for their corner | stone the optional bid of two in a suit, to show a hand that is stronger than | one bids. This match has demonstrated the utter futility of this bid. In no case was a game contract reached through its use that would mnot have been reached more scientifically and more safely had the opening bid of one | been made. In addition, by the use | of this bid, it i§ impossible to compute the penalties which we might have suf- | fered had we not been warned of the | strength of our opponents’ hand. First Optional Two Bid. Take as an example the first optional | two bid used in the match. It was! the fourth hand in the first rubber.| Dealer was West, and North and South | were vulnerable. MR. LENZ (NORTH). 8—A 6 H—A Q D—AQ109632 C—9 4 MR. CULBERT- SON (WEST). 5—K98543 H—943 D—54 = c—108 C—AJ2 MR JACOBY (SOUTH). Culbertson. MRS. CULBERT- | SON (EAST). 51072 H—J108765 D H—K 2 D—K871 C—KQT7653 As it was: SOUTH WEST Pass NORTH 2 diamonds 3 clubs Pass 3 no trump Pass| 4 no trump Pass Pass Pass Contract—4 no trump. | Result—Defeated two tricks for pen- alty of 300. EAST | Pass Best Bid in Diamonds. The result of this bidding was the playing of the hand at no trumps when it should have been played in diamonds, and the missing of a slam through the | foreclosing of the exchange of informa- tion. Mr. Lenz on the second round of bidding was afraid to rebid the dia- monds fearing that his partner might not respond. When, after his bid of three no trumps, Mr. Jacoby bid four no trumps in an attempt to reach a slam, Mr. Lenz could not go on because he knew nothing of the diamond sup- port held by his partner. | Consider now the scientific_ precision of inferences with natural bidding and | how simply the mystery of distribution is unraveled As it might have been: South, West North 1 Diamond. 3 Diamonds. 6 Diamonds. East. Pass. | Pass. Pass. Pass 5 Diamonds. Pass. Pass Pass While North’s hand was very strong it could not go game unless South held | sufficient cards to make a free re- | sponse. Through the added round of | bidding given by opening the hand | | with a bid of one a slam can be easily | reached | Contrast this with the use of the | opening forcing bid of two in a suit Values to $29.50 to Order teed get 1009, perfection all-wool fabrics—tl in fit—honesty as our regular prices. Whether need a garment now or not . . price should prompt your immed action. and ice will start tomorrow. 100% All-Wool Fabrics Strictly Hand Tailored Pick from a wide range of guaran- tailoring—with every detail the same 405 11th St. the big bid of the approach-forcing system. The first bid of this kind was made in the twenty-fourth rubber on the following hand, Mrs. Culbertson, dealer: MR. LENZ (NORTH). 8—J 7.6 2 H—-Q 8 D—108 6 5 4 Cc—1 2 MR. CULBERT- SON (WEST). S—A 43 H MRS. CULBERT- SON (EAST). s—9 AJ H—97652 ~AKQ97 D-— C—AQ5 C—KJ9864 MR. JACOBY (SOUTH). S—KQ108 5 H—K 10 4 3 D—J 2 c—10 3 WEST. NORTH. EAST. Pass 3 no trump 3 clubs Pass SOUTH. 2 diamonds Pass Pass 3 diamonds Pass Pass 6 clubs Pass By using the precise bidding of the approach-forcing system both partners were informed as to the strength held opposite, and thus a slam was safely reached. In view of the no-trump com- plex which marks the official system throughout, it seems fair to predict that, had this hand been held by users of that system, a slam contract in no trumps would have been reached and could not have been made. While one can select a hand to prove most any point it is obvious that in the first hand a two bid is utterly superfluous, for it can no nothing that a natural one bid would not do, while in the second hand & game is possible even if partner holds a very weak hand. Pass DUPLICATE KEYS USED IN 4 ROBBERIES HERE Victims Estimate Loot at About $230 in Series of Apartment Thefts. Police today were investigating four robberies believed to have been com- mitted by means of duplicate keys. The amount taken was estimated by the victims at about $230 in all Irwin Pridgeon, who lives in apart- ment 22, 1129 New Hampshire avenue, said two billfolds and several articles of jewelry were taken from his apart- ment while he was absent last night. The stolen property, Mr. Pridgeon said, was worth about $100. Clothing and jewelry valued at $70 were stolen from the apartment of william O'Donohoe. 4115 Wisconsin avenue, he told police. Roy Summy, apartment 22, 935 Ninth street, reported his apartment was robbed of clothing valued at more than $60. Sixteen dollars in cash were taken from the home of Charles E. Colvin, 4019 Grant street northeast, he re- TORONTO, Ontario, January 11 () —Trampled beneath the hoofs of & frightened horse, John Manning, 68, was killed and Albert Farr, 60, was se- riously injured Saturday night. The animal became excited when the men sought to inspect it in a stable. 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