Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1932, Page 87

s Poor Li’l Feller Sweetest little feller, Sleeping there alone, Don’'t know what awaits him When his babyhood has flown; Mom and pop will teach him Bridge the way they play, Then he’ll get in arguments And yell the same as they. Wheén he’s there a-sleeping In his little place, Couldn’t tell a psychic From a deuce or ace, But when he’s a little older, When he sarts to learn, Then he’ll hear his partners Call him names that burn. Sweetest little feller, Ignorant in bliss, What his parents think of When they give their babe a kiss! Pledged to be an expert By their very hugs, Poor predestined baby Of a pair of contract bugs. RIDGE as a competitive sport is taking . a leaf out of the book of golf. Its gov- erning body, the American Bridge League, shortly will be controlled chiefly by the clubs of the country, through their delegates. Heretofore membership has been entirely on a& basis of individuals, vhich has not been nearly so satisfactory as the ew arrangements are expected to be. A general plan’for reorganization was sug- sted at the annual meeting in December by committee headed by George Reith of New [Work, who was the first to propose it. The jleague meeting adopted the idea in principle nanimously and voted the creation of a com- nittee with power to take all necessary steps to ork out the details and put it in force. Sir Derrick Wernher of New York is chairman of e committee, whose other members are Capt. Fred G. French of Philadelphia and Henry P. aeger of Cleveland, past presidents of the or- anization. With their labors now completed, the detailed blans are being sent to recognized clubs in all ba of the country, together with the invita- on to become member clubs. Any club of anding, whether bridge be its primary inter- bst or only one of many interests, is eligible. e dues for a full-fledged “delegate club” are 0 be $20 a year. Individual players who are ot members of a club may join and have a yoice by paying dues of $2; any group of 1§ uch members may be represented by a dele- pate. Clubs not desiring full-fledged “delegate cmbership” may become “associate clubs” with dues of $5, having the voting power of two dividual members. Thus it is hoped that all nterests will be proportionately represented in e government of the game. The delegates to the annual meeting each ear will elect an Executive Committee of 15, vhich will have full authority to control the eague's affairs between meetings. These will nclude, in addition to the conduct and sance oning of tournaments, the adjustment of all ontroversial questions which may arise in con- ection with the game as & sport. It is hoped the league’s supporters that it will become uly representative in character and be estab- hed as “the definite, final authority,” with all ompetitions of importance under its jurisdic- on, either directly or indirectly. The United States Golf Association has been yle of play are growing amazingly every sea- on. It is about time for this step to be taken ich does not now make the most ilities to serve the vast bridge-playing out of date and cannot lay claim to pleness of service to its patronage. e is one of the game’s real assets. FHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 28 ‘19%2 Competitive Bridge Is to Be Governed in the Same General Way as Golf—Reorganiza- tion Plans for American Bridge League. BY SHEPARD BARCLAY | Fik fr ek HH e zié !:igg J ¥ nggg aenye it !5%3’ i The blood of the slain is upon words: dear, because if you slip you might break your meck, and that be just Too Badl” Rash Overbidding oranges, aspens, mulberries, magnolia and horse chestnut trees. Washington thus came Into possession of a considerable menagerie and arboreum. The King of France presented Washington with a cane, Count de Rochambeau a cup and saucer, Lord Fairfax a liqueur case, Lafayette was obliged to see Trumbull daily. A Law a Week South bid one spade, West passed, North bdid two spades. While East was studying his hand North said, “I change my bid to three spades.™ Does the law allow that? After North’s two-spade bid it was East's North’s statement constituted a bid out of turn. The penalty for this, if attention is called to it promptly, is that the bid is void, and the contracting proceeds from the last proper decla- ration, North’s two-spade bid, with his partner, South, barred from further participation in the contracting. This very properly has the effect of preventing South from taking advan- tage of the unauthorized information given him by his partner’s out-of-turn bid. In a pivot game of contract, two players an- nounced they would have to depart at a stated time whether a rubber was then completed or not, which was agreeable to the others. When that time arrived, each si® had won a game, One of the other two plogers, who were part- ners at the time, claimed 200 points, saying it was the “rule” that when a game was broken up and each side had a game, the remaining players would receive such a bonus. Is that correct? Experts’ Mistakes North had opened the bidding on this with a second hand no trump. South forced with three spades, which North took to four, South then to six. The heart led, followed by the heart 3, covered jack and king. Now let us see how tional tournament player in the South to make the slam. & A852 vQJ1s ®AT2 HJ6 &3 VA PR ¢ 2065 § K932 - SOUTH A#KQ1096 L X GEQJ4 ®AB4 Declarer, of course, ruffed that trick, them went after the trumps. Three rounds settled them. Then he tackled the diamonds. On the fourth diamond all he had to do to make sure of his contract was to discard s club from dummy. Then his ace of clubs would have cleared dummy of that suit. He could there- fore ruff one of South’s losing clubs, discard the other one on his set-up heart queen and then ruff dummy’s last heart for the final trick. In some sort of mental funk he seemed %o have forgotten momentarily what he was about when he played his fourth diamond trick and so stupidly discarded the seven of hearts on it instead of the club. He now had no earthly way to prevent a club loser. East and West were vulnerable when the following hand arrived in a national compe- tition. East bid a dealer’s one no trump, beat him. How would you make the game in spite of it? The expert’s sad 53 YEW ®AJTB4 AQI748 replied: “T am not surprised at what George has done, for he always was a good boy.” Per- haps there was nothing else that she mighd have said more meaningful, more truthful, more modest or more just. Her “good boy* became the “goed man” of the Revolutionary era—“good™ in no invidious