Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1933, Page 27

Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and @uction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. You Are Not Lying in Ambush When You Show Card Sense. | EFORE sqme understanding of | the Sims system had spread | outside the immediate circle of | my friends, players used to think that I had trapped them “passing & big hand for a play” en actually I was passing a hand be- cause I considered it unbiddable in first or second position. and was the dealer. | It never octurred | to me to bid this| hand originally, as it could have no future unless my rtner could take airly optimistic action ‘over & pass by me. East opened with a diamond, ‘West conectly bid two diamonds, East bid two hearts. West had to deny this, and gld 50 h‘y blddlni W0 no trumps. Bl Slms. (hinkthree. dia- | monds would have been a safer, less | istic form of denial. However, he | e the M'her e ls;{id.figr | no trumps. e sHoulds have bid the aces of weak in clubs. Probably he overesti- mated the two no trump bid made by | his partner. Willard Karn, South, is ! very sensitive to “insecure bidding by | the adversaries, and doubled on the | strengih of his uneven suit distribution strength n both unbid suits. hand had been overbid, and sought safety in four diamonds. West now made a very serious error. Although rescued from the no trump pitfall, he still did not grasp that there was some defect in East's hand; he could not imagine that both red aces were in | the hands of the enemy, and presum- ably assumed that East had been bluffed by the double out of a no trymp e. So he bid five diamonds, | which I joyfully doubled. The penalty ‘was two tricks, 600 points. | At another table they reached three no trumps by approximately the same | bidding; West did not double, and they | down three tricks, losing 500 The mistake lay, I think, in LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pockits. © 1 went through all my pockits When I'd nothing elts to do. And I emptied out their contents Of wich these are a few: © the glove for one hand and a little loose sand i And a puzzle that once werked fine, A pencil stump and a putty lump And a hunk of orange rine. © a cork made of rubber and a cork made of cork, And a brush from a bottle of glue, A peece of gold string and a celluloid Tirg And a tipewriter ribbin, not new. © & small hunk of bread and a band, green and red, That came off a last year straw hat, A fountain pen that wont write and a bulb that dont lite | And a patch for when tires get flat. © a falts mustash and 2 cents in cash, And a chockolit mushmellow bar A rubbér band sling and a empty key ring And the lid off & vazaleen jar. © I carefully looked at all of them And I thawt a while, and then I decided I needed everything And put them all back again. Cane Sugars Refined in U.S.A. it with Domino” horsepower. East assuming too much about his partner's hand after receiving the mild chance-giving two-diamonds response. Lacking both red aces, he should have proceeded cautiously, and looked for more encouragement from West before plunging into three no trumps. This contract would only seem good to me in East’s position if West had been able to bid clubs, and had later gone to no| trumps, revenlmg‘n stopper in spades. Some of the North players did not believe in “passing big hands.” They saw before them a “two-and-a-half- trick hand including a five-card major suit headed by the ace,” remembered’| the formula of the text book on which they relied to do their thinking for them, and opened the bidding with one .heart. Thus they arrived at partial | score contracts in one of the black suits ‘Three-odd can be made in either one—but that is a poor substi- tute for 500 or 600. It really is an expensive practice to warn the enemy automatically, and save them from making mistakes. 1Is a pugilist accused of waiting in ambush or setting a trap if he allows his opponent to stumble over his own feet? Is it considered un- ethical in any athletic sport to reserve & decisive blow for the moment when you preceive that your opponent is off balance? (Sopyright. 1933.) Man-Made Lake. ‘The Alps are filled with lakes, but a new one has been recently made for the purposes of performing some in- dustrial work. The construction of a comparatively small dam has created e lake at an altitude of a little more tl 6,000 feet. When the lake has entir l{\flfled it will contain 300,000,000 cubic eel"ql.,'nfi and it will operate three large plants copsuming 282,000 The ONLY Hot Cross Buns That Washington Has Insisted on for 50 Years pil AT YOUR DEALER'S WED., THURS., FRI AND SAT. 00 SCHNEIDER AKING CO. THE EVE) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN I closure of zoological park and | not know its life history is to miss much. ‘The first bicgraphy written about the musk-cx Was by an Engiishman, Sam- uel Hearne, about 1730. He was also responsible for the first specimen be- ing sent to Europe. The first to be sent to American was in 1902 and it ;llkphced in the New York Zoological At Clad in the heaviest and longest hair ever given to a mammal, and with a | Makes Up for Lost Time. No time you lose you e'er regain; Your efforts to are all in vain, —Old Mother Nature. COX ATHEY. Musk-0x. Ovibus Moschatus. 7 gaze into the eyes of a musk-ox standing behind the meshed in- sleep and a deep sleep. slept all Wintar. [ foolish. Ot course he is wrong there. | It may not be foolish for him to do it would happen to the Great World. | Buster Bear. wait for really cold weather. decided that he was fat enough and quite ready for that long sleep. He had taken a last long look around, said good-by to no one, and gone down to his snug bed room, where he rolled up in & ball and went g sleep. He was asleep when Polly Chuck joined him and curled up beside him. It was very snug and comfortable down there, for they were beyond the reach of Jack Frost. There he and Polly had slept with- out waking once, while cutside rough Brother North Wind roared and Jack Frost covered the Smiling Pool and dense woolen undercoat besides, in spite | of its heavy garments it does not ap- pear to be troubled with the heat our warm climate. ‘It is content with the food placed before it. is easily domesticated, and gets slong nicely with those in its new home. Until re- cent years it would not mate in cap- tivity. The animals are not able rear their offspring. Roaming the Arctic wastes, where | only the caribou and & few small ani- mals and white garbed birds can sur- vive the terrible, ice-laden winds, these janimals come through the Winter in fine condition. They know where to find the lichens and mosses, as well as Ithe dried grasses laden with seeds, 1 It is at this time their coats are in perfect condition, but no Eskimo or native Indian is willing to take the i fearful risk to get them. Later the {Summer coat is highly prized for clothing, bedding and barter. In the Summer the lakes are free i from ice and there will be an abund- ance of willow leaves and plants. Then the animals are easily caught. ‘When fully grown, the musk-ox stands about 415 feet high and is about 6 feet long. His wonderful horns are | never shed and both sexes have them.| The downward turn is made after the | second year, and it takes 8 years for them to develop. The head of the ox | 1s massive, the eyes bluish-purple, with ibrown iris, and the ears are hidden |in the long hair. On the back, the dark brown hair is curly and matted, but so long over the other parts of the body, at_times almost to sweep the ground. In September they find their mates, and in May or early June the babies are L. | A musk-ox has been the means of saving many ap Arctic traveler's life, and though the meat is second choice MARION DAVIES HAS HER OWN DENTAL WHERE JOANCE OVER 20 YEARS AGO 3. W. JACKSON , ENGUISH MUSIC CHARLIE CHAPLIN dodon- jamong the Eskimos, thosc who have | eaten it say that it is tender and free the musk upue, it properly pre- SCALED REPRODUCTION OF THE BUNL! BEDTIME STORIE thinks those who do not -sleep | awoke slowly. away the cold and stormy weather are | stretch the kinks out of his legs, for .| he had been curled up in a ball all , | Winter. but if everybody did it I wonder what | side. She was still asleep. He paid no he | Johnny didn't wait for the coming |of Jack Frost before retiring as did | hall No, sir, Johnny didn't|grew colder the nearer the entrance | ‘There | he got. was still plenty to eat when Johnny |found the doorway partly closed with By Thornton W. Burgess. the Big River with thick ice and froze the ground like iron. But he couldn’t freeze deep cnough tn( reach Johnny and Polly, and they’ knew nothing about it, nor of the hard times that had befallen all their friends. Un- OHNNY CHUCK had had a long ! troubled by worries of any kind, or He had | even dreams, they slept the deep sleep It is a way he that is known as hibernation. has of doing, and I suspect he| ‘Then in March Johnny awoke. He He discovered Polly by his | attention to her. -After a time crawled out of bed and up the long toward the entrance. But it was fresh and good. He | snow. This he dug out. It wes good |to be digging again. When he had | finished that job he felt more like t himself. He thrust his head outside and there he sat for some time just | looking. It was not at all the same | Great World he had left when he went | to sleep in the Fall. At least it didn't seem to be. The trees, all but the evergreens, were bare. So were the bushes. Not a spear of green grass was to be seen anywhere. The snow had melted in places, but there was still plenty of it. Jack Frost still lingered and rough | SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. It took a little time to| ‘The air | APRIL 1 best to ‘make - people shiver. Chuck didn’t shiver. shiver. was all. [ | WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER | THERE?" | when because of it he had become so | stout he could hardiy run at all. That fat had kept him warm all Winter and he had used very little of it. That fat | had kept him from freezing and now | it would keep him from starving. He | didn't know this, but it was so. It was one of wise Old Moth:r Nature's Presently Johnny He didn't go far. ventured outside. He couldn't do that. sy HALL ENTERTAINER WHO ALSO INITIATED AS AN ACTOR.- THE SO-FOOT APE CLIMBING THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN “KING KONG 1S ANORMAL SIZE ACTOR, MADE UP AS AN APE. HE CRAWLED OVER A DING WMICH LAY FLAT ON THE FLOO! i from | i l pared. Coffee is a great, natural stimulant. As food makes you strong, coffee makes you quick. Youll do it b It speeds brain and body, ends fatigue. But avoid stale coffee. the very first coffeehouses, gen- try and commoners alike took their coffee seriously for its re- storative and stimulating powers. Why, then, do some people today hesitate to drink the second cup? Be- cause, they say, it seems to make them nervous, causes indigestion. “Why?”’ asked modern research. And, analyzing coffee, found the answer. Of course! Back in the old days, every Brother North Wind was doing his| You see it Johnny | he had used his legs. No, sir. he didn’t ‘The cold air may have made his nose and his toes tingle, but .that | nation. WOMEN'S FE such & long time sinte ‘Then he went back for & nap. This time is was regu: lar sleep, not the long sleep of hiber- Within & few days Johnny | You see just under his coat|Chuck was making long trips away Johnny was wearing a thick blanket of from home. He had become possessed | fat, the fat he had put on in the Fall| of the wandering foot as the saying e is. That means that he couldn't be content at home. The more he ran about the thinner he became. He was using up that fat fast now. Yes, sir, that fat was going so fast that his coat was bec see Johnny wi eat. The grass had not yet started. So it happened that Peter Rabbit met Johnny Chuck far from his home. “For goodness sake, Johnny, what are you doing way over here?” demanded ing up for lost time™ replied Johnny. “Just running around Iryln‘ to find out all that happened while was asleep.” Peter chuckled. “Don't you know." hat lost time can never be made up? “I can try, anyway,” retorted Johnny. (Copyrignt. 193%.) Aluminum in Colors. A new ware on the market in Eng- l1and which is uinbreakable, and will not | chip pFoves to be & dyed aluminum. It is used for cups and saucers, plates or other similar items which will, of course, last endlessly. The pure alumi- num is treated by an electrochemical process which builds up the surface coating of aluminum oxide into a sur- usual colors. hanging up a record. MARY’S STOCKINGS: Look at this run—we’re 30 ashamed we could die! SUE’S STOCKINGS: We had Lux care «=that makes the difference! bing,M ela Lux pound was roasted fresh as they needed it, right there in the coffeehouse. No one ever got the slightest bad effects because nobody drank stale coffee. But in. every pound of stale coffee therels nearly half a cup of rancid oil. And it’s the steady use of stale coffee that often makes trouble for modern coffee-drinkers. No wonder Chase & Sanborn were in- spired to institute Dated Coffee! Always fresh, full of flavor, delicious. saves with Lux! “Anything safe in water is ary rubbed hers with cake soap. and containing harmful alkali, weaken the ;f'n'lyof‘:,E.lon elasticity. mmtdm: ctter on puts new strength, play. If you'’re a healthy normal grown-up, you can drink as many as 5 cups of it a day. At parties, you need not refuse this stimulant. Outdoors, in any sport, you'll find it ATURES | WHO REMEMBERS? | BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8 Patent Ofes. ‘When beer checks had s vash of provisions for Johnny Chuck’s welfare. | face suitable for dyeing. This ware is | lati certain piaces in Waahinge obtainable in many beautiful and un- | e » i ton? SUE’S STOCKINGS: Thirty-four days without a run!. .. That’s what we call rub- gy Mo <X new pep into your Ask for Chase & Sanborn’s Dated Coffee. In half-pound and one-pound cans. Notice the date of delivery on each can. Your grocer is not allowed to ki a can on his shelf more than 10 days}