Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1937, Page 19

OVER TO SEE IF YOU WERE STILL AROUND.” MODERN MAIDENS YS WE DON'T REALLY MILK A COW. WE JUST PRE- TEND WE'RE GONNA." | tem in existence.) A P —— WEBSTER—The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime | suit THE EVENING Sonnysayings Did you eber notice, Baby, no mat- ter how many skeeters you kill there is alers one more? THE CHEERFUL CHERUB Sed poetry 2nd music too Are sweeter far than g I wonder why sad moments then Jost never seem that Winning Contract BY THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwin D. Majer. O- wald Jacoby. Howard Schenken. world's leading team of four. inventors of the system that has beaten every other sys- Rarely When Void. T IS generally poor policy to at- tempt to play a no-trump contract when extremely short in partner’s #uit, and especially when doubtful as to whether partner can support your However, bridge rules apply only to the majority of cases, and the hand shown here was one of those rare combinations when declarer made a game in no-trump although void in partner’s suitt West, dealer. Neither side vulnerable AAKI09T4 vis5 46 410853 433 v62 ®KJ05432 *Q6 AQJIB52 YAQ1I84 .7 A2 W+ s J93 108 974 The bidding: West North 18 Pass 2v 24 Pass Pass Pass Pass South's original inténtion was to trap the opponents and inflict a sub- stantial penalty on them. His power- ful diamond holding in beck of East's Bast 2 Bouth Pass 3NT | | | | | enter dummy with the ten of | discard two diamonds on dun for the king of diamon LETTER-OUT PURSER it And he is more con- | KLccess 1 URBAN t and svery farmer has Leter-Out and his face is some- what gioomy 3 TROCHE' 4 TYRIAN . l l TUDOR I | | rd and re-arrange to spell e letter in center columr “Lettered-Ou opposit ectly Answer to Yesterday's LETTER-OUT. | action. | immediately obtaining the lead and | returning a heart | ed two heart tricks, but declarer made | the word STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY THE MOUNTAIN BOYS— PSST// WILLIE SAYS HE FOUND THIS GOLD NUGGET DOWN BY SNAGTOOTH FALLS. IF WE- CAN BUY THAT PROPERTY WE’LL BE RICH. AUGUST 7, 1837 ---ER- WILLIE - WE'RE ANXIOUS TO BUY A PIECE OF PROPERTY OUT HERE IN THE HIL\S WOULD YOU CONSIDER SELLING US THE_ LITTLE STRIP ALONG SNAGTOOTH EALLS FOR A COOL GRAND? BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER— [} WERE ONLY FINE MULES OUT OF HARDPAN GULCH,BEN —RECKON D BEST SLOW DOWM AND LET NYOU AND BRIAR YAMOOSE — oy, JASON- Vg D N P N AE o S “KEEPING UP. WITH THE-JONES” bid, and the fact that he was void in spades made him think that a fairly | high contract in any suit by his op- ponents could be penalized | when North made his two-spade | call and the next player passed, Sou | realized that the opponents would | | probably do no more bidding, and it | was up to him to take some drastic South'’s bid of three no-trump | was very fine When. West opened the eight of hearts, declarer won with the nine, and sel about esiablishing his club suit. It was vital to prevent Bast from Declarer, there- | fore, knowing that West's opening bid had placed him with the ace of | clubs, played the king of that suit. | | West, on lead with the ace of clubs, | made the safest return—another club. East returned a heart, and West cash- the remainder, as he was able to two top spades and then fin stem of reau eesed larg Yanks Are Attacking. | \en the English held Boston dur- | in Revolution they put on a play | to burlesque Gen. Washington, who | appeared on the stage dressed in the | | most uncouth style, with a long rusty | | sword and attended by several soi- | | diers with old rusty guns. Just as the burlesque Washington stood on | e stage an English officer came | g in, alarm on his face, shout- | “The Yankees are attacking!” | | The audience roared, thinking it a part of the farce, but when Gen. Howe stood up with the command, “To your the burlesque changed to Twizzler Answer. The Belty Ann arrived home first. | On the going trip the Daisy May took | 162; hours and on the re ! she took 25 hours, a t | hours for the | took 20 hours each way or 40 hours | | for the round trip. 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