Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1937, Page 19

CAPL IOLIAFLIYE ARMYNURSEHEAD Succeeds Maj. Julia Stimson Around June 1, Says War Department. » Capt. Julia O. Flikke, assistant su- perintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, now on duty in the office of the sur- geon general, will succeed Maj. Julia C. Stimson as chief of the corps about June 1, the War Department announced yesterday. Miss Stimson, after 18 years of Army nursing service, will be relieved of duty about May 15 and placed on the retired list May 31. She was director of the nursing service of the American Expeditionary Forces in *PFrance during the World War and has been superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps since 1919, holding the rank of major since 1920. Miss Stim- " son is recognized throughout the world as an expert on nursing ad- ministration and education, the War Department said. Mrs. Flikke, who will be promoted to the rank of major, also began her Wrmy nursing carder during the World War. She was born in Wisconsin March 18, 1878, and was graduated from the Nurses’ School at Augustana Hospital, Chicago, May 10, 1915. She took & post-graduate course in the Teachers’ College of Columbia Uni- versity in 1915-16, specializing in nursing education and administra- tion. She was appointed an Army nurse March 11, 1918, and was promoted to chief nurse a month later. She served with the A. E. F. at several base hos- pitals and with hospital trains. Since the war she has served at a num- ber of Army hospitals in this coun- Heads Nurses CAPT. JULIA O. FLIKKE. —Harris-Ewing Photo. including Walter Reed General Hos- pital. Mrs. Flikke has been ase sistant superintendent of the corps since September 13, 1927. Miss Stimson, a native of Worces- ter, Mass, where she was born May 26, 1881, now lives at 149 Mount Vernon avenue, Arlington Ridge, Va., but gives New York as her permanent address. Meeting House Is Topic. “The Friends' I Street Meeting House and Its Colonial Background” will be discussed by William E. Rich- ardson at a meeting of the Coiumbia Historical Society at 8:15 p.m. Wednes- day at the Mayflower Hotel. Music will be offered by Mr. and Mrs. +try and in China and the Philippines, Frank K. Sanderson. Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine, Merwin D. Mafer, Oswald team-of-four, inventors of the Jacoby. Howard Schenken. world's leading system that has beaten every other system in existence.) Third-Hand Suit Defense. HE defense of many hands is thrown because of laziness or ignorance on the part of the opening leader's partner, so today we shall discuss first principles of defense by the third hand against & suit contract, including both his play to the first trick and his subsequent defense. In other words, many third- hand players seem to feel licensed to sit back with their minds dormant merely because they are not saddled with the responsibility of making the opening lead, while, actually, their efforts can be of even greater im= portance to the success of the defense. To begin with, partner (of the open- "ing leader) is in a unique position to diagnose the best defense against the declarer from his view of the dummy hand, his knowledge of the bidding, and the inferences to be gleaned from the opening lead. It may be said that the leader very often outlines a policy of defense and it becomes necessary for the partner to confirm this proce- dure or point out a better one. If the opening lead is in a suit which you have bid, try to figure out the leader’s holding in the suit and, there- *ore, the declarer’s. If you do not or cannot win the first trick, play an en- oouraging or discouraging card, de- pending upon whether or not you wish the suit continued. Of course, should you win the first round, your prob- lem is to decide whether to cash your high cards immediately, force the de- elarer to ruff, attempt to secure a ruff in the leader’s hand or shift to an- other suit. - WHEN the opening lead appears to be a short suit, a close choice is | often presented whether to blindly‘ blay “third-hand high” or to preserve protection in the suit, and sometimes, upon winning the first trick, whether to commit the entire defense of a hand to a possible ruff in the event that the opening lead was a singleton (or a dou- bleton, you having won the first two tricks). However, more often than not you should attempt the defeat of the sontract by cashing your high cards, ¥ suficlent in number, which in- oludes leading up to a weak suit in dummy. For example, in most any hand, if third-hand holds queen-jack- ten of a suit, and dummy three small, It is paramount that the queen be led at the first opportunity, thereby pos- sibly trapping the declarer’s king with partner’s ace, or driving out the ace in declarer’s hand so that one or two tricks can subsequently be cashed. On the other hand, there are times when you hold high cards over the dummy and it is vital that you be content to play a waiting or passive defense; otherwise, while you are win- *ning tricks yourself you will be estab~ lishing other tricks for the declarer and actualy simplifying his play of the hand. In explanation of the general rule *third-hand high.” This means that if the lead by your partner is a low eard, usually you should play your highest card unless it is touching or in sequence with one or more lower cards. Suppose, for example, that your partner leads a low diamond; the dummy contains 10, 3, 2 of the suit, and you hold queen, jack, 9. If the 2 or 3 is played from dummy, you should play the 9; while if the 10 is played, your proper play is the jack. Note that under no circumstance should the queen be played to the trick, although, subsequently, when you, yourself, lead the suit, the proper card would be the queen. The reason for being careful to play the 9 or Jjack, respectively, is so that your part- ner can infer that you may hold higher cards, and that in any case you do not hold the card immediately be- low the one that you play, viz, the 8. An exception to the “third-hand high” rule occurs when you hold ace- jack of a suit, dummy contains the guarded king or queen, and your part- ner has opened a low card of the suit. Here you should finesse your part- ner’s lead, that is, fail to play your*| highest. The reason for this play is that if your partner has led away from the queen or king, respectively, you stand to gain an extra trick vy playing the jack instead of the ace. Of course a degree of caution must be exercised because of the possibility that the de- clarer holds the missing face card, and that it is either solo or that he can dis- For the Home Beautiful A Smartly Styled Piano BY FISCHER Made in soft toned ma- hogany or walnut, three feet one-inch high, four feet nine inches wide, one foot ten and one- half inches deep. Full keyboard and the rich, glorious tone always associated with the Fischer. Priced ‘at Only $325 On Easy Terms 4 4 Special Offer Exclusive THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. .APRIL 18 card on an established suit in dummy. ‘There are other occasions when a finesse is permissible. You hold king-10-smalls and dummy has a guarded jack or queen. Assuming that dummy plays low, your 10-spot may force declarer’s ace, leaving your king in a commanding position over dum- my's jack or queen. Of course this can be done more freely when you know that your partner is not given to leading away from an ace as a sur- prise lead. Again, suppose your partner opens the jack of a suit, dummy plays small from the guarded king or queen and you hold the ace—declarer of course is marked with the missing face-card. Now, if you play the ace, you practi- cally concede two tricks in the suit to the declarer, whereas, if you play an encouraging card (if possible), re- taining the ace, you may succeed in limiting the declarer to one trick in the suit. The advisability of such & finesse requires keen judgment de- pending, as it does, upon your knowl- edge of the bidding, the strength of dummy, and the number of cards (of the suit) in sight. Applicable to both suit and no- trump defense, learn to use the “come- on” card and echo. For example, if your partner opens with an honor in & suit and you follow with your lowest card, the play indicates weakness and suggests that he shift to another suit. Therefore, when it appears desirable that the suit be contigued, you should follow with the hig] card that you can afford—come on! By afford we mean never encourage with a card so high that it may cost th: defense a trick. echo consists of first playing some intermediate card and sub- sequently playing a lower one. For chair to match. A new and lovely creation, carefully tailored in newest designed damask. construction with sagless foundation, as- suring lifetime comfort and service. Hand- somely designed mahogany carved base and legs. Consists of a luxurious sofa and club High-grade All-Steel 1937—PART ONE exampie, if your partner opens with the king.of a suit followed by the ace, and you follow with the five and then the deuce, you tell your partner in this way to lead s third round of the sult because you hold the queen or are ready to trump. Another echo that is used fre- quen‘ly is the “high-higher” discard, which means that you wish your partner to lead two rounds of the suit and then shift. For example, you are defending against a spade contract and your partner opens the king of clubs. The dum holds t A--19 and you Q-10-9-2. If you play high- low, your partner will play the third round and declarer may be able to ruff in dummy and discard a loser from another suit. At the same time you wish to win the first two tricks. Hence, you play the nine, asking the leader to play a second round, and follow with the 10, requesting him to discontinue. (opyright, 1937.) The Four Aces will be pleased to from reaaers if s . self-addressed en. osed ‘with each commun: line of the Four Aces system of cone act bridge. send. with your request, stamped ' (3-cent). self-addressed, large aize envelope to the Four Aces, Inc. 130 West Forty-second strest, New York City, and you will receive an gutline without any charge. | The next n this serles - article s will ‘appear to. COUNSEL CIRCLE “CARLETTA" 922 i4th St. N.W. Personal interviews for help and ance may be arranged by o vi her studio, Carletta. reader See Name o Your Furniture Dollar is Worth 15¢ More! 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