Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1942, Page 34

Winning Contract By THE FOUR ACES. (Bavid Brus jerwin D. Sier, “Gawald Jacoy aad " Howard b - LT i every other sysiem in An OId Error For years, now, we have crusaded against the error of responding with one no-trump when you have a fairly good suit which you can show | ! at the level of one. Time after time / we have heard a player give as his excuse the fact that he had a weak hand—the very best reason for not bidding one mno-trump if any other one-bid was available. Everybody will admit that it's us- ually safer to play a hand at a suit than at no-trump, and that it's safer to stay at the low bidding levels than at high levels when you have a weak hand. Yet responding with one no-trump when you have a weak hand goes against both those obvious principles! For either your partner must let you play one no- trump (which, you admit, is not as safe as some suit) or he must try to find some better spot at the level of two. How much better it would be if you had shown your own suit at the level of one, allowing him either to raise, show another suit or bid one no-trump himself. Today’s hand is typical: North dealer. Both sides vulnerable. North-South, 40 part-score. 4 AB83 VAQ 0AQS #K10762 AK9763 ©10865 096 W-; E *A3 4J10 VK91732 ©J104 »J95 ‘The bidding: North. East. South. ‘West. 18 Pass INT Pass SNT Pass Pass Pass ‘West opened a spade, and South had no play for two no-trump. Yet North’s bid was fairly logical. From his point of view, South should have about as easy a task making two no- trump as North making three clubs, and North certainly wanted to be in some game contract. How much easier it would have been if South had simply responded with one heart. Actually, North would have raised to two hearts, & contract which would have been made without any trouble. But if North didn't like hearts, he could bid one spade or one no-trump— without leaving the level of one. Certainly South should have seen the advantage of keeping the bid- ding low when he had & weak hand. * % k% Yesterday you were Oswald Ja- coby’s partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you held: 4109632 VJI4 © Q83 S&#KJI9 The bidding: Bchenken Jacoby Burnstone' You 36 Dbl Pass [¢)] Answer—Pass. Such a double is “take-it-or-leave-it” in nature. You have fair defensive strength and no support for any other contract. Hence you prefer to “leave” the dou- ble. Score 100 per cent for pass, noth- ing for any other bid. Question No. 980. Today the bidding is the same, but your hand is different: AB2 ©J10973 Q8332 &KJ What do you bid? (Answer to- morrow.) (Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Four Aces will be pleased to an- gwer letters from readers if s stamped (3-cent). self-addressed envelope is in- b eech communication ad- 3 f the contract bridge. send with your request to the Four Aces. care of Evening Btar. s stamped (3-cent), self-addressed. arge-size envelope and you will Teceive an outline without any charge. FAMILY LI CROSS-WORD PUZZLE . Man’s name. . Remainder. . Large package. . Greek letter . Genus of maples. . To declare, . Ovum . Simultane- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1942. —By Gluyas Williams HORIZONTAL. 21. Artificial language. . Paste eaten by the Japa- nese. . Appellation of Athena, . Light- hearted. ous dis- charge of firearms. 18. Drama by - 5 ©® ® Nagaw 9 = - 1| passter TREADS DECORE 34. Two. 35. Wooden part of & gun. 37. Obstruction. 38. Philippine savage. 39. South country. 40. Sticky Im-on-uh-mh«u lunn-on-u-utduhn-o. THE SPIRIT (Keop wp with The Spiric's wer on crime in The Sendsy Ster's somic NOU BET! THAT WILL REMOVE TH' = THEN B-17 —By Will Eisner 252 R. B. Fuller HERE, HAVE g YOURSELVES A TIME Brig. Gen. C. D. Barrett Gets Permanent Rank DARIEN l ‘The Navy Department announced 2 3 | omm | 5 todsy that Brig. Gen. Charles D.| Remove one letter from each word and rearrange o spell the word Imfiflu’ll-l-. Barrett, Marine Corps, had been ap- | called for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite pointed to the permanent rank of | the word from which have removed “Lettered-Out” brigadier general, in which he had | carrectly it's in pleeeu.’ iy et T been serving on a temporary basis —— since last November. Answer ‘esterday’s LETTER-O! Gen. Barrett lives at 603 Queen . - 2 e street, Alexandria, Va., and is assist- (A) ACTIVE—EVICT (put out). ant to Lt. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, (I) REVILED—DELVER (digs until he finds). commandant of the Marine Corps. (R) INNER—NINE (see them around a diamond). - (E) ARMISTICE—SCIMITAR (good for & sharp cut). (D) DECREPIT—RECEIPT (better than s bill). Answer to Saturday’s LETTER-OUT. SPROUTS—SPOUTERS (and it grows). (A) MINERS—SEMINAR (for unde workers). (R) HOSTAGE—SHORTAGE (for a pérson given as security). (L) NAPERY—PLENARY (for household linen). (Y) ROPES—OSPREY (and an experienced person knows these). Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle Six Washingtonians Promoted to Captain Six Washingtonians are on s Hlst of 154 first lieutenants of the Marine Corps selected yesterday for promo- tion to temporary rank of captain, They are Owen A. Chambers, Robert UNCLE RAY’S COR The United Kingdom has a coat of arms in which we find outlines of a lon and a unicorn. The lion stands for England, the unicorn for Scotland. The coat of arms was adopted after the union of Scotland and England. Four centuries ago, gold coins of Scotland had the image of & unicorn on one side. ‘There are plenty of lions on this earth, but no one ever has seen & unicorn. It is an animal of legend. The name “unicorn” came from the Latin language. It means “one- horn.” The unicorn was supposed to be an animal something like a donkey or horse but with a single twisted horn in its forehead. Unicorn stories were told in an- elent Rome more than 2,000 years 2go. One writer reported that a unicorn had “the hind legs of an antelope, the beard of a goat and the tail of a lion.” Another Roman_writer declared that a traveler in India had seen a “one-horned donkey” in India. That donkey, he believed, was a true unicorn. ‘The unicorn was said to be flerce and dangerous. People were told that 1t could whip an elephant in & fair fight. Ancther early story said ‘that when the unicorn dipped its horn into a spring or pond, the water became sweet. Only a maiden could tame the animal. . er g 5y MERE ALL DAY? ONLY TAKE ME TEN MINUTES TO EXPLORE THIS LITTLE BITOF A DESERTED ISLAND! g : It The top picture was made in the Middle Ages and shows a maiden taming a wounded uni- il P HH i A ! R corn. At lower left is unicorn on Brit- ish coat of arms. At lower right is one-horned rhino. z i