The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1896, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1896. 21 BIRD'S ADVICE ON DISTANCE RUNNING, Good Judgment the Great Thing Needed for the Racer. Mind Should Be Developed Along With Muscle and En- durance. Start Off at a Lively Pace but With. out Teo Much of an Effort. One Method. We come, in the naturai course of events, to “Distance Running.” This is from one mile to ten. It is entirely.un- necessary for a young man to train for over ten miles; and as for racing, he will not have an opportunity to run five miles even once in three years. It is a notable fact that this country has produced very few mien who could run five miles mn first- class form. it isnot because we have not the material, for W. D. Day ran three miles in 14 minutes 39 seconds, which demonstrates that he was capable of doing about anything that man could do. The trouble withe+distance running in this country is that it has not had suf- ficient encouragement, and moreover, few athletes care to run such a long distance. T that is calculated to give a man a strong constitution it is distance running. A man who can step out and run five miles in twenty-five minutes has something to be proud of. To be a first-class distance runner re- quires a number, of qualities. Endurance is & chief requisite, because you must travel such a distance that it will take all the strength out of you if you are not bhardy. Juagment 1s very necessary in- deed, for many a fine runner has lost a race by losing his head and improperly managing himself. Concerning speed, a remark was made to me that illustrates the ideas some peo- ple entertain about running. “I'm some- thing of an athlete myself; naw I couldn’t do much at the short distances, but on a dog trot, for ssy. ten miles, I believe I could keep up with the best them.” I did not disabuse his mind of such a charming illusion, but I felt a great temptation to tell him that great runners do not use the dog trot for ten miles. The greatest runners do each mile in less than five minutes and ten seconds—which is no dog trot. Let us have a little talk on judgment. Now the first vear is the most critical part of an athlete’s career; during that period habits are formed that are very advan- tageous or very injurious, and therefore the greatest care should be taken not to fall into bad habits of training. I have a pet theory which, while I recom- mend, I do not insisi that all shoald prac- tice it, as it may not agree with the physi- cal and mental constitution of another. I refer to the practice of ‘‘pace.”” I believe that no distance runner can approach within a considerable degree of his true form and speed.without the ability to per- fectly judge pace. Success in properly measuring speed is the most important re- sult of hard work and study. During my training 1 seldom bad any- body to run or walk with me—véry sel- dom. This was not through any desire to be alone, but simply because I had no company. Some men would take their ex- ercise in the afternoon or not at all; some in the forenoon. As for me I had to take my spin whenever business would permit me or lose my reputation. Many a time have I walked at 8,9, 10 and 11 o’clock at night. It wasa common thing to watch my style by my shadow in the moonlight. However, it is my opinion that it was the pest thing in this regard that could have happened to me, for it taught me perfect self-reliance. Iseldom depended on any one, for I was my own trainer, coach, scorer, timer and judge. My mind devel- oped with my muscles and was as inde- pendent of my body s a pilotisindepend. ent of the ship he goides over the treach- erous bar. Thereare few distance runners who are not dependent on somebody or some thing during a race, and one often hears remarks like thes “T had the limit, but did not bave any- body to judge my pace by, and walked all wrong:” “That fellow on the same mark with me went off at such a pace that I was afraia he would get away from me, so hung on to him, and we both went to pieces half way, while the others left us completely.” Two things are required to overcome these errors. First, and very important, one must not get nervous, or in the ele- gant phrase of the day, “rattled.” Such a thing is almost fatal to tife prospects of an otherwise promising athlete. You must learn to keep cool. Then you must learn to judge pace. My method was as good as any, I think, o Say that you are going to run three miles for practice. Geta friend to hold a stop-wateh on you, It is not necesgary to be as accurate in starting asin a “hun- dred.” but the time should be taken as accurately as convenient, for there is no necessity of being careless. If you have not a stop-watch, then use an ordinary, provided it has a second hand. In this case wait until the needle hand nearsthe top, and get on your mark. At three sec- onds let your friend say “set’” and then shout *‘Go!” when it touches 60. Start off at a lively pace, but without too much of an effort. We will presume that you are running on a quarter-mile track. Mark the half distance, or 220 yards, and have the timer note the time for that, marking it down on a card. At the lap he should do the same thing, and in fact right on until the finish. Now comes the imporiant part. Takea small sheet of paper; write the time as recorded in a column on the left side. Next figure out the individual time of esch eizhth or quarter mile, as the cage may be, and put the column on the right of the other. Now figure out the time of the halves and the miles, and put them in the column on the right. When your table is complete you can familiarize yourself with every detail of the trial—the time in which you did the third quarter, thefiith furlong, the second half; when you eased up too much, and when you made an injudicious spurt. All these matters are exceedingly important—you will never realize how much so until you have been beaten a few times by neglecting them. Before taking up running it was a habit of mine to walk regularly on the watch— in fact whenever I could get any omne to favor me. The result was that I could walk a quarter mile and inform you within is is a pity, for if thereis any exercise | of asecond what the time was, or tell you that I was going to walk 220 yards in forty seconds, and finish within a fraction of the stated time. I could walk a mile or any such distance, and on reaching the post a quarter mile from home, if given the time, would predict the time for the full dis- Lance, and would be inside two seconds of veing exact. This practice on the watch relieved the monotony of walking alone and endowed me with the most delightful inaependence and self-reliance. Now do not suppose that because I walked . frequently on the watch I was incessantly racing myself to death. Notatall. I generally decided upon the distance before starting; then I would proceed, and my friend would inform me at each lap the time I was making. Some- times I would prepare a schedule by com- bining the experience gained from my trials with times made by others, and my friend would shout after me as I would shoot past the post “two seconds slow” or “three seconds fast,” as the case might be. 1 discovered that distance runners and walkers were in the habit of traveling in preposterously/ irregular time. After studying all the records possible I came to the conclusion that serious errors were being practiced; that runners and walkers were not studying the important subject of judgment. The principal error seemed to be irregularity in pace: but I also noticed that five seconds lost in the first quarter mile could never be made up. It is very necessary that the pace should be regular, that the vitality may be ex- hausted gradually. . I must be remembered that the runner has a long way to go if he has two or three miles to cover, and he should study every feature of his style of locomotion. The head should be carried erect, but the neck should not be stiff. In running five miles 1 frequently noticed that the muscles in the back of my neck were stiff and in- clined to ache. It was from holding my neck too stiff, but I could not help it, so | did not trouble myself unduly’over the matter. i The hands and arms should be carried | easily at the sides; above all things do not draw them up, bu; let them hang at the | sides, with the elbow slightly bent, and, with arms slightly, akimbo, move them slightly back and forth, exactly parallel to | each other. The wrists must not be stiff, but swing in unison with the rest of the arm. The hands should not be clenched, but grasping cigar-shaped corks, with the fingers somewhat elongated, the thumb lying against the tip of the cork. The position of the feet in running is worthy of great attention. For distances up to one mile the running should be done entirely on the toes, the heel never strik- ing the ground. Over one mile it may be convenient for some beginners to sink on their heels when they get. tired, asthe | strain on unused muscles may be unwise and unnecessary. One will never become a great runner until he can run ten miles at a vigorous pace on the ball of his foot. Never give up a race while you can place | one foot before another and your opponent has not touched toe tape. The race is not always to the swift, and those ahead of vou may drop in their tracks or leave the course, or foul some one and be disquali- fied. Moreover, it is a bad, very bad, habit to quit. Once you acquire it you will find that it has gained a hold on you that will be difficult to master. I haveknown cases where -a runner has been overhauled by & champion, and, after running a short .distance, stopped. He had sim- ply been frightened, and because ne did not see any use in continuing, or because it would be presumption on his part to continue and subject himself to ridicule. A runner should never feel this way. He has started out to win, and nothing but defeat should deter him; and it is not defeat if the scratch man spurts up to your shoulder or the man ahead of Fou seems stronger than yourself. Either one may be taken with cramps or their vitality ooze out before the finish. The outfit of a distance runner is very small, but it should contain a pair of corks if nothing else. These should be hand- made and as follows: Take a chunk about three inches long and about two inches square. Cut this in two end carve from each the shape of a cigar. You will find they will fit in the hand perfectly—not grasped in the full fist, but with the fingers elongated as already described. It is won- | derful what a comfort they are to most long-distance runners, absorbing the per- spiration and giving them something to cling to—an uncontrollable desire in most GEORC men. D. Barep. CAUGHT N THEBOWLDERS Unpleasant Predicament of a Chinese in the Kentucky-- Street Cut. The cries of a lonely Chinese coming from the loose bowlders on the sidewalk on Kentucky street a few nights ago at- tracted the aftention of Lieutenant of Police George Bennett. Lieutenant Ben- nett found the cause of distress to bea badly scared Mongolian who had in some unaccountable manner got foul of C. P. Huntington’s huge bowlders, which are permitted to remain on the sidewalk, to the danger of pedestrians. An examination of the Chinese’s position showed that the victim had got in among the fallen rocks and was thrown down, and in falling had caught hold of one of the bowlders and pulled it on top of him- self, forming an arch out of which he could not get. By means of a lever in the hands of his rescuer, the rock was rolled back and the Chiuese released from his uncom fortable position. 4 These huge bowlders, with a lot of fallen Tock and clay, have rendered the sidewalk im passable for three blocks distant on the east side of Kentucky street. So danger- ous are they that the wheel of a grocery wagon was smashed a few days 8go by coming in contaet with one thatoverhangs the street. Since THE CarL drew the attention of the Street Superintendent to the bad con- dition of Kentucky street a gang of men have been put to work making the neces- sary repairs. Preparation is being made on the north side of Twentieth street (formerly Napa) by the Union Works for the erection of a two-story building, which will be used as a beiter-shop and offices for the ‘company. The present boiler-shop will be turned give more room and better facilities for carrving on the increased work which is coming in every day. The cutting through of Tennessee street, between Sierra and Shasta, will be finished in about thirty days. This opening when made will give greater fecilities for the proposed attack on Blue Rock Hill, which stands on the westside of Kentucky street, and the demolition of which every resident in the Potrero would anxiously hail. © The postoffice which formerly was located at Nineteenth and Kentuck; streets has been moved with Harry K. Harrig’ drugstore to the corner of Ken- tucky and Twentieth streets, in the new building just finished. —————————— The consumption of wheat in Britain is reckoned at six bushels per head per an- num, v_rhich, on the basis of an estimated population of 38,900,000, makes a total con- sumption of 233,400,000, into a machine-shop. This change will | REYNOLDS. PLAYED THE LOTTERY, Was Unable to His Ticket Cashed. But He Get The Disappointed Man Says He Was Swindled by the Agent, A Small Prize and an Angry Winner. The Chances Taken by Ticket Buyers. The latest victim of the lottery beats is Michael Reynolds. He is out of pocket to the extent of only $1 25, but he is severely galled with the reflection that he has been played. It happened in this way: Last month Reynolds bought a ticket in the Original Little Louisiuna Lottery, for which he paid to an agent named Smith the sum of 25 cents. The number of the ticket was 9209, and when the results of the drawing were pub- lished the holder found that he was en- titled to a prize of $125. The sum was not a very munificent one, but then it was a clear gain of $1 to Reynolds after de- ductirg the price of the ticket. He ac- cordingly hied himself to the office of Metzger & Franklin in Wells, Fargo & |.Co.’s building on, New Montgomery street and demanded payment. Louis Metzger said it was a bogus ticket and refused to cash it. Then Reynolds went to the agent from whom he had bought the ticket and in- dignantly requested an explanation. The agent said it was all the result of a clerical mistake, and wishing to close the mouth of Reynolds tendered him the payment of the $1 25 prize, also 25 cents, the price of ticket number 527, puschased by him, which drew a blank. These offers were declined by Reynolds, who was determined to expose the fraud. Louis Metzger and Julius L. Frankhn style themselves capitalists, but in reality they make a specialty of handling tickets issued by the Louisiana and Mexican lotteries. They supply the numerous agents who are scattered over the City, and when so inclined cash the tickets which draw prizes, but if a ticket calls for a big sum and they see fit to pronounce it a counterfeit there remains no legal redress for the purchaser if the ticket is genuine or bogus. There is a law against the sale of lottery tickets, but purchasers must take all the chances involved of getting their money if they happen to call for prizes. Many, if not all, of the bogus tickets of the Louisiana and Mexican lotteries are manufactured in San Francisco and sold on the streets. Some time ago Joseph S. Upson was con- victed in the United States District Court of using the mails to sell lotzery tickets. He pieaded guilty and paid a fine of $200, but was sugsequemly pardoned by Gov- ernor Budd. THE CALL'S" STAFF SUPS A Unique Midnight Affair in the Latin Quarter That “Caught On.” Bobemia was given a new form of sccial delight night before last. Neither society nor “society’’ ever knew just its like be- fore, and that is the wonder of it, and that is a little part of the charm that jeweled it. It was discovered—invented rather—by TrE CALL reporters, who are always out for something new. Newspaper men have often and for long fretted the small and the early hours with their “jinks.” But it is not within the recollection of local re- porters that the staff of a newspaper has brought wives and lady friends out into the night when midnight had passed and the day’s record of & big City was made up, and, plunging into the *Bohemian quar- ter” of town, have with the ladies they most respect, with a distinguished parson ‘and with wine, feasting and song made merry until the morning sun had set the City’s heights aflame. This originai social affair was & natural and spontaneous expression of the frater- nal spirit which, under the old and es- peciallv under the new management of Tre CALL, haé made its internal life pecu- lar amunfiz that of newspaper offices in the genial human kindness and loyalty that pervades it and lightens its labors. The idea occurred a few days ago to John P. Cosgrave, who had to leave on Friday to represent the paper at St. Louis. It was quickly approved.- A joint social affair amonyg newspaper men in the re- spectable hours that the rest of the world so improve is impossible, because they must be on watch while the rest are doing. A small committee of arrangements en- gaged Martinelli’s. restaurant in the Com- mercial Hotel, arranged that the supper should be made winsome, and made As- sistant City Editor Adam a committee on entertainment. When Friday’s midnight came the police reporter had on a white vest, the “clean-up’”’ of news was about finished, Tom Gregory, the chief staff poet, was hurriedly searching a dictionary of rhymes for something to go with ‘‘—izzle,”’ and the firebell graciously stopped with a first alarm. And at 1 A% M. there were thirty-five jolly good fellows in a hall prettily deco- rated with hangings, flowers and a long table brilliant in color and crowded with good things. What followed might not have been just to a roysterer’s liking, but it was keenlysenjoyed by those there, and no suspicion of regret followed its jolly but seemly end. g Mrs. Adam convulsed the assembly with some inimitable character imitations, E. C. Stock told dialect stories, Tom Gregor; and F. L. Perkins displayed their consid- eration by not singing, Frank Lister sang to guitar accompaniment, and there were a rendering by Mr. Logan, piano selections by Mrs. L. Seidenberg and brief contribu- tions by others. A little period of serions and apprecia- tive talk about the affair followed Sam W. Wall’s reading of his clever bear poem at about 4 A. m. C. M. Coe, president of the Press Ciub; G. W. Mackrett, J. H. Griffes, M. J. White and others of the staff ex- pressed the sentiments of all regarding the gratifying success of the affair. A committee was appointed on the sug- estion of L. D. Adam to arrange & simi- ar. getting together a month hence and a plan to make the institution a permanent one. ‘“‘Auld Lang Syne,” “America” and “Home, Sweet Home”’ came with the end. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Adam, Mr. and Mrs. L. Seidenberg, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Hackett, Mr. and Mre. J. H. Griffes, Mr. and Mrs, 8. W. Wall, Miss Nellie Binckley, Miss M. E. Lister, Mis. E. C. Newhoff, Mrs. J. P. Cosgrave, Miss Belle Newhoff, Mrs. Luella Green Harton, Miss Die- fendorf, Rev. Dr. W. L. Birch, J. A, Filcher, C. M. Coe, M. J. White, ¥rederick Bishop, J. O. Denny, E. W. Parker, Henry Logan, F. L. Per- icing, %, C. Btook, Gaorge W. Mackrett, Frank Laster, George Adam, Thomas Gregory. ‘Young men or old should not fail to read Thomas Slater's advertisement on page 32. - (LEARANCE PRI Last week’s overwhelming response to the Reductions with which we opened our GREAT SACRIFICE CLEARANCE SALE guarantees an equally favorable reception for the following and the many other equally POWERFUL BARGAINS OFFERED THIS WEEK, which, though they indicate ASTOUNDING and in some cases ALMOST INCREDIBLE CUTS IN PRICES, will be found exactly as stated in every instance, as a personal inspection of the styles and qualities offered is all that is required to convince any one that this is THE GREATEST VALUE-GIVING SALE EVER INAUGURATED! IS MK NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. o b OARVELOLS BARGAIN TADIES CAPES! At §1.45, LADIES' SINGLE RIPPLE CAPES, of * tan, black and navy ladies’ cloth, neatly braided, neck finished with ruching of ribbon and lace, worth $3 50, will be closed out at §1 45 each. At $1.75. 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At 50 Cents. 25 pieces 42-INCH ALL PURE WOOL GERMAN JACQUARDS, in a variety of new and elegant designs, former price 85¢, will be closed ontar50ca yard. 35 | LADIES’ COLORED DRESS GOODS ! At 25 Cents. jeces FINE ALL-WOOL FRENCH TGURED CHALLIES, reduced from 50¢ to 25¢ a yard. . At 25 Cents. 72 pieces 39-INCH ALL-WOOL BLACK AND WHITE CHECKS, reduced from 75¢ to 25¢ a yard. At 35 Cents. 105 pieces 38-INCH ALL-WOOL CHECK- ED CHEVIOTS, reduced from 50c to 35¢ a vard. At 50 Cents. 4 ‘02 pieces 42-INCH ALL-WOOL GRANITE SU&TING. reduced from 75¢ to 50c a yard. 65 HOSTERY! HOSIERY ! At 20 Cents a Pair. BLACK LISLE - THREAD HOSE, high-spliced heels ana toes, warranted fast and stainless black, worth 3314c, reduced to 20c a pair. At 25 Cents a Pair. LADIES’ RICHELIEU RIBBED MACO COTTON HOSE, high-spliced beels and toes, assorted tan shades, worth 40c, reduced to 25¢ a pair. DRESDEN RIBBONS! | At 30 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBON, extra quality, all silk, value 50c, reduced to 30c a yard. 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GREAT LINEN SALE| #F For Wash Goods and Blanket SALESsee ‘“Examiner’’ and ‘“Chronicle’ | 600D BLEACHED TABLE DAM-) 9() s ASK, 58 inches wide, that was ¢ ZUC 35¢, reduced to. . ) Yard. 3% IRISH LINEN BLEACHED, NAPKINS, 21 mches square, well and closely woven, that were $1 50, reduced to | ANOTHER LOT CHECK IRISH {7 LINEN GLASS TOWELING.| 6! 18 inches wide, that was 10c| 40 yard, reduced to.. 500 dozen PURE SCOTCH. LINEN TOWELS, size 22x44 inches (an extra grade and very large), . that were $2 75 doz., reduced to 115¢ Each. 45 pieces good grade BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, well made! and in good designs, -70c a yard, reduced to 50 dozen TURKISH TOWELS, half bleached, 44 inches long. that were $2 dozen, reduced to. o L'5o¢ that Wwasf yard. 110¢ § Each. | NOTE—A large lot ‘of Remnants of Table Damasks, Crashes, etc., the accumu- | lation of last week’s sale, to be clpsed out this week. MENS FURNISHINGS! At 10 Cents. 120 dozen MEN’S AND BOYS' SEAM- LESS COTTON HALF HOSE, in brown, tan, slate and mottied colors, with double heels and toes, regular price 15¢, marked down to 10¢ per pair. At 65 Cents. dozen MEN’S FINE AUSTRALIAN LAMBS WOOL UNDERSHIRTS AAND DRAWERS, medium weight, regularly sold at $2 a suit, marked down to 65c each garment. 64 Murphy Building, Market and Jons Strets Murphy Building, Warket and Jongs Stregts. ‘Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. . «Book whist-players'’ is the name that is generally applied to whist students. A physician of considerable prominence, in the presence of a number of whist students, made the following remarkable statement, which struck me at the time would be good subject for a few lines in our whist column, Hesaid: “I have played whist for twenty-five years; 1 am no ‘book player’ and I bave no use for that kind of agame. My style of a game is based on what I call good common-sense, and I don’t want to know any more about it than Ido now.” 3 Such a remark coming from a gentleman supposed to be educated in bis own pro- fession was surprising, to put it mildly. If he practices his profession as he plavs at the game of whist, without any “book knowledge,” as he callsit, whata fearful mess he must make of it! It puts me in mind of & littleincident that occurred in connection with a small launch we Lave in Sausalito. A while ago we hired a man to take charge of and rum it. We taught him how to start the engine and Low to do oneor two other necessary things. He soon got so he could navigate the boat very well and in a couple of weeks we felt a little more comifortable with him in charge. At the end of a month I brought him & book which gave in detail every lit- tle obstacle that was liable to come up and how to overcome it, in the working of the engine, etc. I asked him to react it, and in about tive minutes he returned it to- me sayix:g, “Them books can’t teach me noth- ing.” Eo in our whist experiences we find peo- ple every day that are “‘training’’ with wooden guns loaded, and with what? Men constituted with such peculiar men- tal faculties are those we hope to reach and point out the value of a little applica- tion and study, or what they term ‘*‘book knowledge.” it is hardl possible that these people will say that Trist, Cavendish, Drayson, Pole, Ames, Work, Hamilton and others are not men of wonderful whist knowledge and ability, men who have.de- voted years of time and study to the scien- tific principles of this beautiful game. No one will doubt but what they were as- sisted 1n their researches by the writings of learned men ‘fime as able as themselves that lived years before they did. Does it not stand to reason, if all these great writers agree on the essential points and fundamental principles of the game of whist, that if you fotlow their advice ycu are doing about the right thing? In all instructions that you get from the great whist authorities the object you wish to attsin, or the end in view, is to learn how to make the most out.of every hand you hold; in other words, to understand how to win where others lose. When the great mathematician, Sir William Pole, tells, in his “Philosophy of Whist,”” that once in 80 many deals’ you will hold one, two, three, four, or thirteen trumps, you are not going to be foolish enough to sit down and try to figure it out yourself. Neither would” you_ be foolish, enough to go strawberrying in g pateh where you knew a hundred school children were let loose and stripped the vines. Why not profit by the experience and years of hard study of others? .You don’t have to follow blindly any teachings; the game of whist is of such infinite variety that 1t is impos- ‘sible tq do more than give you a general idea of what you should do. Like the charts that guide the mariner in navigat- ing the seas, like the buovs and beacon lights that keep the ship's pilot in the channel and off the rocks, so- whist books and whist authorities point the way you should go to reach the goal. It is*en to your own sweet will to follow their advice, or mope on blindly in the dark. An Interesting Deal at Whist. The deal we give below came in vlay at the Trist Duplicate Club rooms a short while ago and is a beautiful illustration of the finesse obligatory. We ask our readers to lay out the hand, play it as they ordinarily would and then overplay it. It is very instructive to the student. In making the finesse it is impossible to | lose by the play. 5,4 8, 2 2 0,68 S—K.Q,8,6,3 87,10 EER e H.—j,10,4 a5, ¢ c. D.—6; 4,3 D.—K,8, 5 9 clubs trumps. South to lead. [The winning card is underscored.] Trick South. West. North. East. 2 JH.—8. H.—3. H. H.—4 2. C—4 C.—2 3. C.—5. c—7 4 c.—9 5 H.-10 6 810 7 H.-J. 8 D.—2 9 D.—7 10 D.—9 11 D.—10 12 D.-J. 13 S.—K. 8—J. 8. 12; E-W,, L COMMENT ON THE PLAY. Trick 1—South makes the conventional lead—fourth best heart. 5 Trick 3—North makes the usual finesse in trumps. He can read his partner has but one more trump at most, and if the queen is ir East’s hand once guarded it will make in any event. Trick 4—North now knows his partner has no, more trumps and continues the lead, hoping to catch both queen and nine. Trick 5—South can mark the two of hearts with his partner; thisenables him to place the entire heart suit except the jack. If West has it with the ace that is marked in his hand, both will make, whether he covers the ten or not. This ‘is the play in the whole deal; by passing he saves his ueen to.capture the jack, if it is with ast. 1t is certain North can get in with his remaining trupp and lead hearts again. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. The question of misdealing comes under the head of law 17, A. W. L. code. It is a misdeal. If the dealer omits to have the pack cut and his adversaries dis- cover the error before the trump card is turned and before looking at any of their cards. 2. If he deals a card incorrectly and fails to correct the error before dealing another. 2. If he counts the cards on the table or in the remainder of the pack. 4. If, having a perfect pack, he does not deal to each player, the proper number of cards and the error is discovered before all have played to the first trick. 5. If he looks at the trump card before the deal is completed. 6. 1f he places the trump card face down- ward upon his own or any other player's cards. A misdeal loses the deal, unless during the deal either of the adversaries touchesa card or in any other manner interrupts the dealer. » Yes, and the following are a few of the reat whist lighis of the world who will gc in attendance at the Brooklyn Whist Congress: Eugene 8. Elliott, founder of the A. W. L.; Henry Jones (Cavendish), W. H. Whitfield, Nicholas Browse Trist, Fisher Ames, the Whist Queen (Kate Wheelock), C. D. P. Hamiiton, Milton C. York, John T. Mitchell, John H. Briggs, George L. Bunn, Cassius M. Paine, editor of Whist, Walter H. Barney, E. Le Roy Smith, Henry K. Dillard, the wonderful blind ‘whist-player, Theo Schwarz, presi- dent American Whist League. In answer to the question what is the best system of play for teams of four from two clubs, we give below the American Whist League Schedule for two-table du- plicate in teams of four, to govern all challenge matches for the A. W. L. trophy; adopted by the Pacific Coast Whist Association in playing for the Rideout trophy : TABLE No. 1 24 DEALS. TABLE No. 2. 3 South Fast and 2 against against 3 and EECERv) w® 2 Number the players of the challengin club team 1, 2, 3 and 4; the home team 5, 6, 7and 8: When starting in to play take positions as scheduled sbove, deal out four hands, two at each table, turn the trump cord it on & trump card, as the law directs. When the two hands are played at each table, exchange, pla( the other two, then all change (except No. 1, who always sits North), then deal four more hands, and so on to the finish. The score is kept in blocks of four, compared, and announced at the end of every four deals. Yes, THE CALL will have a epecial cor- respondent at the Brooklyn congress and will publish everything 1in our whist column that takes place there that will interest whisters on the Pacific Coast. Our whist editor has just received a letter from President J. E. Schwab of the Nashville Whist Club and captain of the team that won the American Whiss League tropby at Minneapolis last sum- mer. In closing he says: “The Nashville Guerrillas will be on hand at the Brooklyn con];russ when the bell taps to begic play. e NG Sem o an Fust FRRrTY 4 4 4 4 3 3 8 The full score of the Vallejo Whist Club vs. the San Francisco Whist Club was {)Pblishsd in our whist column on May WHISTLETS. Robert H. Weems, corresponding secre- tary of the American Whist League and chairman of the tournament commitiee, will accompuny “Cavendish' on hisreturn to England, leaving New York on the Lu- cania July 4. The Trist Duplicate Whist Club gave its last reception to its members and guests last Saturday evening that will take piace until the summer vacations are over. The clubrooms were beautifully decorated with ferns and flowers, interspersed with electric lights. Many of the ladies and gentlemen were in full evening dress. It was an avanin; long to be remembered, and the ladies’ ‘‘house committee’ did everything to mcke every one “at home.”” The prizes for the month were distributed. | During the summer guests are invited on all whist evenings—Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Oakland Whist Club finished their regular evenings of whist last Saturday. From now until some time in August the members will ‘‘go as they please,” a sort of vacation. This 1s a good idea. Ten months in the year is about as long as you can run tournaments and have the nterest keep up. The clubson this side of the bay should “follow suit.”” “Idon't see what enjoyment you can find in playing whist night after night.” “You don't? My dear boy; the game ives more opportunity of “calling your ellow-men asses, fools and idiots than un%other possible social occasion.” e have received a great many letters for free sample copies of Whist for May. If any one has failed to receive a copy please notify us and we wiil send another. Monday evening last the San Francisco Whist Club gave their monthly entertain- ment, Their rooms were filled with mem- bers and their friends. The play was straight whist, two grizes being given. After the game refreshments were served. ‘Notice was given that this entertainment was the last that would be given until Sep- tember. . During thé vacation months of June, July and August, 1896, the tournament games will be conducied as at present without prizes, except on Mond;! even- in, June 15, Wednesday evening, July 15, and Saturday evening, August 15, when - and re- | With the Whist ?/ayers. two prizes will be awarded each evening to the winners. Ladies’ games Tuesday and Saturday | afternoons will be continued. Games Tuesday afternoons will be conducted for four prizes at end of each month to those having played at least twice each month | and baving the highest average, with part- | ners chosen by lot. Lady members may | play in these games and select theirdpnr;- ners, but their score witl not be considered |in awarding prizes. Each Wednesday evening members are requested to invite | friends_ interested in whist and likely to | becume club members. 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