The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1896. '\\\\ ILLIAM BROWY, the fore | mastman, brought his Boy | aboard the ship one day | while we were lying at an- chor in a little bay on the Central American coast. He took the | youngster up on the to’gallant forecastle | and introduced him to the old fellows | there. “Mates,” he said, “this is my | Boy — Brown's Boy! That’s his name, duly entered on the log as a naval appren- tice exter-ordinary. Touch yer cap to yer father and his peers, Boy !’ | Then he listened for the comment be | knew would come from these old wise | men of the sea. | “Rem-inds me of my sister's ugly brat | that looked just like its drunken father,” said Saxie Fisher, the captain of the main- | top, after a profound study of the new‘ arrival. BSaxie's observation,strongly discreditable [ ! ingly and pitifully from one face to tlie | considered pre-eminent in artistic discern- | “Brocky”’ blanket,” said *‘Cockney’’ Burns, referring to the boy’s dark orbs that roved wonder- What as- y from the other of his circle of critics. pirates Burns had brought bank of the Thames he invariably pre- ! fixed to the wrong word. This vocal char- acteristic, combined with the fact that his face was as beautiful as that of a porpoise, gained him the nom-de-marine of **’An- some 'Arry.”” He afterward became the godfather of the Boy, in sympathy, they Said, with the youngster’s homeliness. “He is as pretty_as Brown,” raid the hip's painter, and that petty officer being ment, his_judgment was concurred in fore and aft. This more than any other testi- mony established Brown in the fathership of the Boy. i While Brown’s baptismal name was William on thejpaymaster’s books, it was on the topgallant forecastle. Not *“without rhyme nor reason’’ had ne been rechristened as he came over the gangway, for his fac2_was a parody. He had gathered from hisrace not. one line of beauty and smallpox had further ruined his facial inheritance. 2 2 Sergeant McGrath said with Celtic fit- ess and humor that the ‘‘pits in Bro\\!‘;n': u = in face would hould a wake's rain. those features, seamed and scarred and | rent, little indexed the big, tender and beautiful heart of the man. Natureand the plague which had spoiled Brocky Brown for a photograph had not devas- tated the soul. That was not pitted. | clothies-bag. cook observed that the story-teller was getting the apostles somewhat mixea, but Saxie insisted that St. Paul might not have been there, but his shipmate's old man was. G5 Brown was untiring in his efforts to | make a thorough navy sailor out of the Boy. Being an expert tailor he soon had the youngster provided with a well-filled In the tropics the crew, at 8 o’clock in the morning, would shift from | blue flannel to white duck, and at 4 o’clock ! in the afternoon back to blue again. The Boy went through these revolutions in raiment guided by the modiste hand of i Brocky. Someumes he objected to these seemingly lightning-like changes, and, having been brought up in the Costa Rica | woods, too much civilization thrust upon | him was burdensome. But Brocky, brought up in the oid school of the sea, permitted no relaxation of discipline, and a small cat-o’-nine- tails, hanging on a belaying-pin in com- pany with a paint-swab and scrubbing- | brush, always fetched the Boy up_ with a | round turn. Sometimes he would miss his muster in the night watch and Brown would find him fast asleep in his tiny hammock. { Then the culprit would be brought to | the foremast—not the main, which 1s the | place of justice, the tribuual on board ship—and "put on the “black” or “extra duty” list for punishment. He even re- | ceived 8 summary court-martial charged | with stealing tbe sailmakers’ beeswax. Brown, as senior officer, heroically sen- tenced his protege to be contined on board ship all his life. Brown and the old shellbacks would gravely discuss the Boy's futureas they sat around between the guns during the dog-watches, with the subject of the con- | ference perched on his own diddy box | (which had formeriy held cigars), intently watching their faces. “If we can get the Secretary of the Nav; 4 to take off the court-martial life sentence, | said_Brocky solemnly one day to the ex- ecutive officer, ‘‘me and the Boy will take the road and go cruising with a band- | organ for a change. Doyou think the | captain will forward a petition to Wash- ington, sir?"” e was told that there was not the least doubt of it, as the Boy was well known to the department. A middy who had once “‘rushed”” Brown to the mast, charged with some frac- ture of the rules, once started in to *josh” Brown regarding his pet, and have a pleas- ant quarter ot an hour with the sailor. | “Brown, you should pick out something easy for the Boy,’” said he, ‘‘some profes- | sion that he shows the most fitness for.” { . “I will, sir,” answered Brown, remem- | bering the young officer’s hostility at the | mast and chuckling inwardly at his own wit. I am going to get him in the Naval Academy.” As the sanhedrim of the topgallant forecastle was discussing, the small re- The conversation ended abruptly, but Al e Bt WY 74T WJZ‘.’.’MJ}){ SRR AL l’W’f’(m" 7 (e \ & i*« A, RN NPT R “At These Gatherings Brocky’s Boy Was an Interested Listener.” to his kinfolks, passed without notice, be- | cruitsat on the deck and looked at his ) the middy “squared yards’ with the funny cause he was known to be a high-color | story-teller, and in proof of this it was also | known that his sister had no brat, had no | husband and had no existence—herself out | of Fisher's world of imagination. “Looks like a farmer,” mused Tom Walker, the agriculturist of the navy. “‘Bee the hay-straw in his hair.” 8o wedded was Walker to a life on the rolling lea that he would, when afloat on the topsail yard reefing down in the teeth | of a screaming gale, stop to tell of his ex- . perience on the ranch. . “Ha, my son,” he would say, as he bent | to pass the reef-earing around the yard- | arm, ‘‘that’s the life to lead. Damn a ship! Plowing and sowing, reaping and | mowing—all day watches and all night in your hammick.” And the folds of the re- sentful canvas, bellowing upward in the | blast, would slap him in the face, and the mad, mad midnight storm would carry his words away to leeward. “Pass your boy over to me, Brown,” said George Romer, boatswain’s mate of the port gangway, “and I'll ship him on my chicken ranch.” ¥'oor old Romer’s chicken ranch was au eternal mirage in the desert of his ocean life. It always stood just before, to ‘be reached when his time was out and he had said good-by to the sea forever. But he would always come back when his * niday" had fled his pocket, and from the deck ogained hasheant ae ot obl the | siren song of the worm-seeking, cackling | hen. The sea is ever calling, calling back her own. ‘‘Have his enlistment papers made out before the ship’s cook,” advised Dave Clark, the master-at-arms, *'so be will be sure to get his ration of salt horse.” David Clark was the ship’slawyer, and dispensed marine jurisprudence with an unsparing hand. To weather a section in the *‘blue | boo¥,” or burst the restraint of acoil of | red-tape successfully, one only had to con- | sult “D. Clark, attorney-at-sea-law,” and the case was won. “I think dars ’possum blood in ’im,”’ cooper, rolling his voluminous lips over a | juicy recollection of some past feast. | lam’s duties on shipboard were unhead- ing beef parrels, building deck-buckets and leading the choir at divine service. He had a mouth like the bell of a fog- horn and a voice like *“the thunder-drum of heaven.” But when thisdusky though ! sweet minstrel of the main turned loose | his organ-voice in a Sankey aria the tri- | tons of tbe deep ceased their sounding shells to listen. “Better send him ashore,” Paddy White, who owned a plank in the ship, *‘because there’s too many boys aboard this hooker. now not worth their sslt. All they think about iz loaf up un- der the fo’c’sle out uy hail uv work.. But they ‘always ancwer their names at the | mess-table muster.” And the snapny old man of: the sea | turned on bis heel to tramp his plank. Paddy White had been so long in the navy that his first enlistment papers were laid away in some deep stratum of a prehistoric | era. Even the date of his putative title to *“‘the plank” was lost in the mists of an- m’m Y- g *'Is heys er like burnt ’oles in a Ero\vled | | coming a vocalist. judges with the sad simian eyes of his race. Whata paradox a monkey is, with | all the solemnity of the animal ages in his face and the sprightly motions of a king- dom of harlequins in its limbs. Brown’s specimen was gravity and comedy jum- bled together the plague and favorite of the ship. After they had used up their fund of wit &nd satire at the little animal’s expense Brown launched out in a history of his protege. The yarn was so manifestly apocryphal, so full of “holidays”—blank spaces, where whole links were missing, that the paternity, even the maternity, of the subject, waslost in doubt. ‘The only thing tnat gave Brown a sea-legal right and title to the youagster was their com- mon comeliness, or rather their uncom- mon uncomeliness. Dave Clark handed down a learned opinion on this showing, supplementing other decisions along the same lines, and Brocky was confirmed in his guardianship. The naked truth of the matter was that Brown had stolen the baby monkey from its mother’s encircling arms and tail one day in the forest while that lady was en- gaged in a fierce battle with Jack, the ship’s dog. Jack got a whipping, but Brown got the youngster. The Boy's education was conscientiously carried on by the old graybeards of the topgallant forecastle. Under such training Le soon became a useful member of the ship’s company. He knew the names of all the gear belayed around the foremast, Brown said, and could lead out the royal sheets and clewlines as well as the boat- swain himself. Like all sa1iors, the Boy early evinced an ear for music and gave promise of be- On Sundays, when the quarterdeck was rigged for church by laying the capstan-bars on_empty buckets | for seats, the Boy could hardly wait till Brown got him into his mustering clothes. He would station himself with the choir, and when Clam Johnson tuned his mighty pipe in *Puil for the Shore, Sailor,”” the | song-loving younester would treble in uni- suggested ‘‘Ciam’’ Johnson, the colored | s m. Nor was the Boy's church-going practice without its fruits, for the men be- gan to follow the good example he set them. At least 1t seemed that way, because when the boy went off with Clam all the topgaliant forecastle followed, and would watch every movement of the small chap’s devotions. " Paddy White would walk down his plank as far as the deck to look on, and. George ‘Romer from his place in that blue-jacket congregation found his mind led up to a place higher than a chicken ranch. Dave Clark quoted Mosaic law and swore vehemently (thereby break- ingone of thoseorainances) when anybod questioned the righteousness of the Jyewmg code. Tom Walker, the agriculturist, said it was just heaven here below to hear Clam warble “Bringing In the Sieaves,” and Cockney Burns said it was good for the ‘“’art” 'to see such piety in one so young, referring to the Boy. Even Saxie Fisher's mind dwelt upon better things and his narrations took on a purer tone. He said he hud been ship- mates with a man whose father had not only been wrecked with St. Paul on the Isle of Patmos, but had looked upon the sublime scenes of the Apocalypse with in confusion worse con- | founded, and was destined to be at once | | man the next time that personage failed in some duty. Every morning, while the decks were being washed down, the Boy was put through a salt water bath. He objected until he saw dog Jack and Denis the pig subjected to the same ordeal. Then he submitted. Jack wouid shut his eyes when the soap lather ccvered him in airy, fairy, snowy robes and be dumb, but the frantic expostulations of Denis could be heard at dawn all over Central America. The monkey never could abide the fire of the great guns, and the concussion from the discharge of a 9-inch piece wonld knock him over like a bowled tenpin. Then he would start for the roval truck, the highest point he could find, to be far away from that awful roar. Of course, the jar of each aischarge would travel up the mast to him and he would cross the stays to some other mast_in his vain search for peace and tranquillity. Long after the firing was over he would perch on his airy place and watch the guns and finally ven- ture down with a reproachful look on his face. One day Brown took his charge ashore and the animal escaped into the woods. The men came cff to their ship without their Fel, feeling that he had deserted them for good. That evening they heard the Boy screeching on the beach and going | ashore they found the runaway and an- other monkey. The stranger took to the woods on the appearance of the men, but the deserter readily climbed into the boat. Like his biped shipmates he had become hungry and came back, also bringing a new recruit with him. The animal died on the voyage north, and Brown said it should have a burial betitting a sailor, and Fisher swore that such was the proper thing. ‘“‘A shark or a big-mouthed cod will get him_ before he reaches the bottom,” said Saxie, ‘‘but we must give the Boy a good send off.” So the body was sewn up in a piece of old royal for a shroud and a chunk of holystone for a sinker made fast to the feet. The little white package wrapped for its deep tomb was laid on the rail of the topgallant fore- castle and the ship’s cook, who, next to Brown, had nad more dealing with the de- ceased than any one, also made a_speech over the remains. It wasa somewhat dis- jointed eulogy, forecastle-commendation and culinary-metaphor much mixed, but Dave Clark pronounced it Al at Lloyds as a funeral sermon and Saxie Fisher said the parson had used like words over his “sister’s brat.” Then Clam Johnson in- toned “Light in the Darkness, Sailor,” as he tilted the plank and Brown’s Boy went down in the sea like a dead sailor. Not Afraid of Hard Study. Tom Corwin did not believe that there was great danger of a young man injuring his health by hard sde. _When his son was attending college in Ohio Mr. Corwin wrote to him: *Iam informed that you are seriously injuring your health by study. Very few young men inowadays are likely to be injured in this way, and if you should kill yourself by overstudy it will give me great pleasure to attend your funeral.”” that sacred personage. Here the shiy's! COLLEGIANS AT THE BAT, Berkeley aud Stanford Prepare to Wrestle on the Green Diamond, STRONG POINTS OF THE TEAMS. Cardinal Ranks Pin Faith to McLaine’s Delivery, While Worden's Twirling Inspires the Biue and Gold. On Wednesday next the baseball nine of the State University will meet the nine from Stanford on the Berkeley diamond. ‘With the opening of the present season, there has been a revival of interest in the national game, and although far from what it should be, the Varsity players claim that this season’s team is greatly suverior to those of previous years, and that the chances of besting the Palo Alto nine are better than ever before. Since the latter part of February the candidates for the various positions have been practicing daily under Captain Johnston and Coach Cohen, who from the thirty-odd men have at length practically selected the nine which will take the field in the championship games. The batting order will be as foilows: Wheeler, catcher: Worden, pitcher; Hennessey, first base; Eiston, second base; Krug or Goodwin, third base; McLaren, shortstop; Johnston, left fiela: Proctor, center held; Hoag, right field. Up to the past two weeks the nine prac- ticed in a desultory fashion, but the neces- sity of team work and fast playing became so evident that they have secured Alired H. Cohen of the University Cluboi San Francisco to act as coach. He has the boys well in hand, and sys- tematic work hasdone much to strengthen the nine. Coach Cohen is greatly pleased with his men’s work, and believes they will win from Stanford. *“The ’varsity has never had a first-class man in the field,” said he, “‘and I am sure this is the reason for the lack of interest. In every other branch of sport California ranks as high or higher than the colleges of the Middle States, and it seems a pity we should be so far behind in baseball. am sure though that from now on the game will be more popular. Ceriainly the nine is 100 per cent better than” last year's.” “We have some extraordinarily good materia! from which to seiect, and the men are all playing so well that it is hard to decide just which candidates to choose. We are exceptionally strong in the points. In fact Worden, who will vitch in the Stanford games, and Wheeler, who will be behind the bat, are the backbone of the nine, and our success depends to a big extent on their work.” The Varsity men were present at the game between Stanford and the Reliance Club at the Berkeley \grounds a week ago yesterday, and watched the work of their rivals carefuliy. Although they acknowl- edge that Stanford is playing fast ball, they feel that they are their superiors in the field, though, perhaps, the Stanfora team are harder hitters. Captain Johnston savs that Berkeley will win, but expects a hard fight. *This { is my third year on the Varsity nine,” said he, **and I know that we are stronger this year than before. We have uad the ad- vantage of good coaching, and the men are taking great interest in the work. Yes, most of the men are new, but they are al! enthusiastic and are doing their level best to get into good shape. 'he only. trouble I anticipate in the fam!s with Stanford is in the batting. 's not that our- stick work is bad, but that McLaine, who will be in the box for Stanford, is extraordinarily goog. His pitching is all the Stanfords have to boast about, and if we can hit him the rest looks easy. Coach Coh:n is giving us daily practice in batting, and most oi the boys are hard and sure hitters. A tendency to hit too high is the only trouble. i The nine has played a number of prac- | tice-games, in which they have shown to advantage. They were defeated by the Reliance team two weeks ago by a score of 7 t0 2, but as their regular battery was laid up for repairs this cannot be counted against them. | The game next Wednesday will be the first of a series of three which will decide the championship. The next Stanford game will be at Palo Alto on the 27th, and the last on the 2d of May at San Jose. Manager Miller has arranged for addi- tional games with the University Club on the 24:%, and a return game with Reliance. The gume with the University Club will be for the benefit of the Mercantile Library I‘}fl:{(flisry, and will be played at Central ark. The Peer and the Butler. A titled Englishman was a guest at a Washingion house, and a dinner party was given in his honor.. The host cau- tioned the colored butler to address the Englishman as My Lord.” This he re- membered to do until he passed the spe- cial dish of the occasion—stewed terrapio. The appearance of the dish is not :lpe- cially inviting, so, when the butler han: ed it to him, the Englishman declined it, say- ing sotto voce: X it looks uncommonly nawsty. The butler was so taken aback at the idea of any one refuiléng daucl_'x a delicacy that he forgot himself and said: “But it'ug!errlpin, my God.”—Pittsburg Dispatch. How a Princess Travels. The Princess of Wales, to the great dis- comfort of whoever may be acting as the maid-in-waiting, never puts herself at ease in traveling. Hour _after hour she retains a bolt -upright _position and pever thinks of removing her bon- net or lying down. She attributes the habit to her rigid bringing up, and in speaking of it recently said to a friena: “We were never allowed to lie down dnr- ing the daytime when we were children, for fear of mukilexg ourselves untidy, and 1 am so accustomed Lo the habit now that I should never dream of removing my bon- net while on a journey.”’ e [All communications concerning whist, an- swers to problems, etc., should be addressed “Whist Editor,” CALL, City.] How many times has the situation oec- curred when you were the opening leader of a deal that you would say to yourself, “If I could only call for trumps in making my original lead, and get a lead tbrough that honor”? Milton C. Work, author of *“Whist of To-Day,” was the first promi- nent expert player of this country that had the courage of his con- vietions to come out to try and popularize the beautiful innovation first played and introduced to the whist world by the great English expert and authority, Major- General A. W. Dravson, many years ago— some rime in the seventies. In “The Art of Practical Whist,’} by Drayson, pub- lished in 1892, the play is exemplified, and Mr. Work gives a conventioral way of making this play simple. Like all inno- vations, it has been frightfully abused or misunderstood. 1t is about three years ago that the writer's attention was called to this play, on trial | in Philadelphia, and some months after- ward in the same city we took part in a match game between Brooklyn and Phila- CAPTAIN JOHNSTON OF THE VARSITY [From a photograph taken ‘-5\) NINE. expressly for “The Call.”) ALFRED H. COHEN, THE COACH OF THE VARSITY NINE. [From a photograph taken expressly for *The “Call.”] delphia, 100 players on a side, where it was publicly announced that Philadelphia players adopted the play. It consisted in making an “irregular opening’’ from your strongest and best suit. The object being two-fold, first, to an- nounce to your partner that you wanted him to lead a trump immediately, if he could get the lead, and the best one he held, regardless of number; secondly, you were taking a step toward the establish- ment of your best suit. It does not follow that the first card led always proclaims an irregular lead; it may not be possible to select such a card from your suit that will at once give such information; it may not develop until the second round. Of course, you must be very observant and note the smail cards, and without that abiiity don’t attempt the play. There is no object in calling for trumps in this way uniess you are quite sure of preventing the honor turned of making a trick, in other words. catching it; but in trying to “catch it” be very careful that you don’t lose tricks enough to lose you the match, if your are playing one. This generally occurs with novices. For trick-winning we hold this lead should not be made excepting from your best suit. You can readily see if you do not adopt a uniform system of playing it vou muddle your partner—set him to guessing, and whoever was known to guess right in a whist play? It has become a fashion with many young players who have heard of this irrezular opening, but won't read a whist book, to make it from a | «hort suit of one, two, or three cards, and if they succeed in catching the honor, no matter how many tricks they lose in so doing, they are as tickled as a boy with his first pair of pants. Everything that comes from the pen of Milton C. Work is worth giving to the whist world. In a recent fn!er he says commenting on the above play: “To-day in this country, however, this lead is con- ventional, in spite of the fact that there are still some conservative players who be- lieve that it is better when you want trumps out to lead right up to an honor. over which you have a tenace, rather than risk an irregular card which your partner may either fail to recognize as such or may be unable to win even if he does distinguish the irregularity. This sometimes results in the leader's being torced and then beinfi compelled, aiter all, to lead up to the honor with a weakened trump suit. Of course, this sel- dom happens, and the best players of to- day heartily indorse the play underdis- cussion; but no matter how enthusiastic the player may be in its favor he must ad- mit that there are times when the play is not as effective as it might be, because the jack from any combinstion is a call ipso- facto, and the old rule appiies to any other irregular lead. The only possible objec- tion is that the partner cannot when an honor is turned get much information from a king lead, as it may be from a variety of combinations, and does not show number. On the other hand, it seems probable that the imperative trump information more than offsets this. The idea hasnotyet been put in practice, and therefore no practical statistics on the subject are available. We offer the sugzgestion to our readers with the thought tuat it is well worthy of careful consideration. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ‘When the leader has two four-card plain suits exactly alike, in playing duplicate whist, there should be a new deal—which suit to iead from is guessing pure and simple. and the deal should be thrown out and a new deal ordered. The first illustrated hand at whist was | published in Cavendish, fifth edition, | 1862, and is the hand that is engraved on the “Rideout trophy” in the rooms of the San Francisco Whist Club. The first_copy of ‘‘Cavendish on Whist” was published in May, 1862. The demand was 8o great thatinside of one year five edi. tions were printed. Our Whist Column was started Sunday, March 22, and will appear every Sunday hereafter. Yes, and we will in the near future give a full description of that style of game called “Foster, or kangaroo whist.” “The Orndorff system’’ of duplicate whist has never been played in any of the whist clubs of this City, It got that name in one of the clubs, but the system was never used—it is obsolete. WHISTLETS. John Hare, the great English actor who made his debut before an Amer- ican aundience about three months ago, was a whist pupil of James Clay. He writes us, on his next visit to this country he wili come to San Framcisco with a “Pair of Spectacles’” and give us a “Quiet Rubber.” Adorning tbe walls of the Trist Club rooms of this City is a quintet of the five most celebrated whist players and writers of the past fifty years: James Clay, of pleasant memory; Henry Jones, ‘‘Caven- dish”; Sir William Pole, the octogenarian; Major-General A. W. Drayson, F.R.A.S., the ori%inator of the penultimate lead, now called “‘the fourth best,”” and last, and greatest of all, Nicholas Browse Trist, the father of American Jeads and the patron saint of the club. Richard Mansfield, who opened in “Beau Brummell” at the Baldwin last Monday night, has the reputation of being an expert whist player. E. Le Roy Smith, director of the Ameri- can Whist League, is_the whist editor of the Albany Evening Journal of Albany, N, Mr. Smith and partner won the Pair championship trophy at the congress in Philadelphia in 1894, and again in Min- neapolis in 1895. He is one of the ‘“old guard”—“‘all wool and a yard wide.” A pew whist club will soon be formed in Centerville, Alameda County, with Mr. partner fails at first glance 10 positively Tecognize the card led as an irregular one. We suggest to our readers a possible im- provement in this yarticular. Our idea is that when an honor is turned the lead of a queen or jack should be a command to lead trumps through the honor. This can ve easily accomplished by varying the fol- lowing "lead when it is not the desire of the leader that his partner should lead trump. Instead of queen, from combinations of five cards with king, lead the king, tem- porarily not showing the number; lead king also from king, queen, jack and more than one other. Under this system the lead of queen or Emerson, Mr. Dusterberry and Charlie Riser at the head of it. If Mr. Riser can play whist as he can cast afly, he can come right down and take the “Rideout tropby’” without playing for it. Members of any club that belong to the American Whist League can join the Trist Club without having to pay any initiation fee. Dues for all, $1 a month. The following notice appears in the win- dow of an enterprising store on Market street: Everybody can go to the Brooklyn Whist Congress, in June next. Modern scient‘fic whist taught in five lessons or money refunded. With the long and short suit playing cards, (Patent applied for.) Every pack contains four cards for short, or sneak leads. Also a pa phlet giving in detail the mew system athode leads” and “X-ray dis- cards.” Price two bits. The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Whist Club has fallen into the line of having ‘ladies’ nights.”” Last Friday evening was the first night. [t was a grand success. Two even- ings a month will be devoted to the fair sex. President George E. Bates of the San Francisco Whist Club 1s takin: a step in the right direction about playing whist for points in his club. He shourd have the hearty support of every lover of good whist in this City. The winner of problem No. 2 is George H. a’Arcy. Correct solutions were made by Mrs. F. H. Atwater, Peteluma, and by Mrs. E. R. Daingerfield of this City. Toe lead of jack of clubs by South marks king queen and at least two small. North winning the trick with the ace, and re- turning the 10, savs I have no more clubs also weak 1n trum ps. South, bythedplay of the 9 on his part- ner's return lead of the 10, cails for trumps —a one card call—for South must have a Jower one in his hand than the 9, conse- quently it is unnecessarily high, and the call asks North to lead his best trump re- gardless of number through the honor turned. The above is the essence of problem 2, Mr. ‘d’Arcy giving an exhaustive analysis of the development whicks entities him to the prize. PROBLEM NO. 4. This problem that we give to-day is a good one. The situation devalopedyin a deal played in St. Paul a few days ago. It comes from the pen of George L. Bunn, director of the American Whist League, and a whist-player who is recog- nized as one of the greatest ip this coun- try. He says East ‘can practically ab- solutely place the number of cards o!yeuch suit that each player holds” at trick six. We willgive a topy of Modern Scientitie ‘Whist, by C. D. P. Hamilton, to the one who sends us the first correct solution of same or correctly places the suits, BY GEORGE L. BUNN. East hand— v i 9,5.3. earts—J, 8, 9, 5, W- B Glube-8 = Diamonds—4, Q, 10, 8, 8, 3, 3 of Liearts, (rumps. South to lead. card is underscored. The winnlag West. North. East. C.—9. C—K. C.—8 8.—8. 8.—5. S—8. A H-3 D.—4. = C.-3 B.—5. — It has been estimated from the stamp duties paid by patent-medicine makers that 4, ,O(X)IY)II.- are taken by the inhab- itants of the United Kingdom every week. In France the quantity is about haif, Only about 1!000,&0 are taken by the peo- gla of Russia. 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