The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1896, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1896. 21 Another California Girl Wins Laurels in New York NEW YORK, N. Y., July 11.—I have this week an excellent opportunity of Te- coraing the success of another Californian in the East. This time it is Miss Virginia Foitz, the ungest daughter of Mrs. Clara Foitz, so well known to Pacific Coasters, where for mauy yearsshe suc- cessfuliy practiced law prior to mms_!er- ring her office and her brains to this city. During the last year Miss Virginia has been attending the New England Con- servatoire of Music at Bosten under the personal instruction of W. L. Whitney, foremost among America’s instructors in voice culture. She early developed a rich contralto voice, which has since become one of un- usual power and range under careful and conscientious training from her instruct- ors, with the result that such professional | people as Edward Rice of the Extrava- ganza Company and Homer Norris, the song writer, have been trying very hard to secure the young lady for the American stage. “There is yet much to learn,” says Miss Foltz in speaking of her voice; *‘it is nice to be appreciated, but one must be well equipped with a musical education to stand up and expect the approval of the American people. Iintend te go abroad and complete what is already a good be- ginning before I trust myself to the hands of the public. A good many of my friends have tried to induce me to take to opera singing now, but no persuasion can over- come my intention to arm myself more thoroughly with a8 musical training before I take that step. Yes, it is true I have ap- peared in an occasional opera rendered by the students of the conservatoire, but then | that is quite different to making a regular | occupation of it. When I sang for Mr. | Rice he said a great many nice things| about my voice, but that does not impress | me with the belief that I am a finished | musician. I mean to be thorough. It is my ambition, and when I return from Kurope next year I may be in a better mood to sing before others than my friends.”’ | Since the young lady came to New York | she has been the recipient of considerable attention at the hands of musical people, and great things are prophesied for her. | It will be seen from the brief interview | with this California gir] that she expacts | to encounter lots of hard work before the end is reached, all of which indicates a character that fortune can well afford to | crown with success. * » e A. H. Jarman,son of J. P. Jarman | of San Jose, arrived in New York last Tuesday from Ann Arbor, Mich., where | he has been attending school at the Uni- MISS VIRGINIA FOLTZ. versity of Michigan, and 2t which institu- | also an old Californian, is stopping at the tion he graduated from the department of | Greylock at the corner of Ninety-fourth law with high honors. He will visit his | street and Columbus avenue, with her two home in a fortnight and settle down there | daughters and son. after making a tour of Europe as a sort of | rest and recreation. conducting the branch | Mrs. Knocker, is Adolph Liebes, a brother of Herman | York making preparations for a trip to Liebes, the San Francisco fur man, is | England, the captain’s home. store of that|return to San Francisco in a month or firm at 130 Green street, and residing at | two, where they have resided for the last 36 West Ninety-third. Mrs. Jacob Liebes, | ten years. Captain C. B. Knocker, accompanied by at present in New They will Captain Knocker is well known among California mining men and has offices in the Mills building. I met A. F. Blake recently. He was at one time a Dbusiness man of San Francisco, associated with the Scotts, in- terested in the brick and terra cotta busi- ness, and had his offices in the Flood building. While we were chatting of Cal- ifornis he told me of the different places he bad been since leaving there. “I have,” be said, “‘been over the best part of the United States during the time I have been away, and am still satistied that Califor- nia is the only State in the Union. For some time I tried Canada end the north- ern part of the country, to say nothing of considerable valuable time lost in the Bouth. Here in New York I have spent the most of my time, however, but when all things are considered and a grand total is made of the United States, I think the best thing I can do is to get back to California and tie ubp to the West for the balance of my life. The people, the busi- ness, the climate and the fature of the countrs justify my faith in it,and just as soon as 1 can getmy affairs in shape here in New York I will get out there and make it my home for good. I have seen about all there is to be seen of the great East, but give me the West again and I'll die happy.”’ Originally Mr. Blake was an Easterner, which gives his appreciation of the West all the more weight. B. Silverman, a San Franciscan who has recently returned from Guatemala, where he has been interesting himself in com- mercial life, is at the Park Avenue Hotel. Heis maXxing arrangements to establish New York mercantile relations with that country and will make his return trip via San Francisco. J. W. Provard of Oakland is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he is willing, with any Californian, to spend a few hourson a hot afternoon chatting about the coast. He is here on mining business, having an interest in many of the most valuable properties in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties. Mr. Provard says he has never found the time when Eastern capital seemed to be so anxious to get into Cali- fornia mining properties as now. B. C. Carl, who will be remembered as one of the leading life insurance men of the New York Life Insurance Company in the Mills building, is now with the execu- tive department of the Mutual Life of this city, with duties that carry him all over the State of New York. He tells me that Californians who have come here from the San Francisco insurance branches have succeeded almost to a man. Of course no one ever heard of an insurance man get- ting the worst of it anywhere. Bos Davis. The attention of beginners who are anxious to improve in their play has been called to the absolute necessity of giving careful attention 10 the cards as they are played on the table. This 15 s0 important that the advice cannot be reiterated too often, as this careful notation of the cards is the foundation upon which rests the remaining play. If you have not observed and noted the cards as piayed how are you to know late in hand whether your partner's nineis the best of the suit, or whether you should trump it? Itis nota question of mem- ory, as many suppose, but of noting during the play what high cards have fallen. If you see and note that all the cards above the nine | have been played, it is not difficult to remem- ber the fact that the nine is the best, and when | it is played you know what to do without any mental effort. | Further, the careful observation of the fall | of the cards is necessary to draw proper infer- ences, and when the inferences are drawn the tax on the memory is still further reduced. Suppose you were South player and held A, 3,10,7,2 end led the 7; West piayed the 4, North king, Eest 6. Partner afterward ob- tained the lead and returned the 9; East played Q, you the A, and West the 5. You note that the 3 and 8 only are missing. The 3 must be with your partner and the 8 with West. Now, having noted the fall and drawn the inferences at the time of the play, you have only to recollect that the 3 is with your part- ner and the 8 with West. This is very easy and simple. Suppose you had not drawn any in- ferences. but tried to Temember that the 7.4, | X,6,9,Q Aand 5 had been played in the | order given. That would require & fearful | amount of mental work. The listless, unobservant and inattentive | player ailows his thoughts to .wander during | the drop of the cards, and then, suddenly com- | ing back to the game he says, ‘“Please draw | your cards,” or “Let me see that trick before | itis turned.” Had his mind been given to | noting the cards, as they fell, he would not | have to ask questions. Had he been endeav- | oring to draw the inferences during the play, | he would have had sufficient to occupy him without thinking of other things. He would, | moreover, have acquired an insight into the unseen cards, which would have made it easy to piay the remainder of the hand intelli- gentl; The multitude of things to remember may confuse beginners, but experience will over- come all the difhculties. Nothing can be more | i tive and beneficizl than practice in Grawing inferences. Let four students arrange practice games in which they announce after each round of & suit how they place there- maining cards. Iry thisa few times and you will be astonished afterward in your play how easily the caras are located and how much more each card says as it falis in the play. Do not guess the location of the cards, but have s reason for placing a card in any hand. 1f you are wrong once you will notmake the same mistake again. Here is a simple example: Face of Election Ticket Voted in Men- docino County in 1864. 4,9,87 |W E| Q654 | | K, 8. First trick. West leads 7; North plays East plays Q; South plays K. Second trick. East leads 4; South plays 3; West plays A; North plays 10. Every hand should be able to place the re- maining cards of the suit. Here is another situation from Cavendish: A,Q.6 o E 1,10,9, 8 K |w | | ‘ 8| | | 7,5,4,3,2 First trick. South leads 3; West plays K; North plays A; East plays 8. North can place the whole suit, unless East is calling for trumps. West has no more. South led from five, and, therefore, East has three more and these, bar a call for trumps, are J, 10, 9. Hence, South’s four cardsare 7, 5,4, 2. No one else can place the suit, Again: South leads 6 of H; West plays 8; North pleys 9; East plays J. East, holding 7, 3, says he can place the re- meinder of the suit as to rank and number, if there is no cali commenced. Can hedo it? By observing the fall you can be guided by the developments and play to the situation. The trouble with most poor players 1s that they are lazy. If they see an instructive illus- trated hand they will not spreaa the cardson the table and go over the play; it istoo much trouble to sort the cards, and they imagine they can analyze the play as well by the dia- gram. but they err. The only way is to have I}I\e cards drop around the table asin actual play. We suggest the following plan for practice: Take an illustrated hand and arrange the thirteen cards held by each player in & bunch in the order they were played. Place the cards thus arranged on the table at North, East and West, face down, with the first card to be played on the top of the bunch. Retain South’s cards in your hand is an actual piay. Turn over the top card in the leader’s bunch, then play the top card of second hand and so around the tuble. Draw your inferences and locate all the cards you can. Then go on with the second round. For a trial sort the card as follows: Give North his cards in this order: 48,5H,9C,5D.10C,6 H,7D,9D,4 D, 7H, 9H,J H, Q H. Place st North’s place, face down, so that the first card he plays will be 48 East’shand: 10 8, 4 H, 2C, KD, 6C, QS 2H,AD,QD, 5C 8H, 10 H, KH. Soutn's, hand: 58, 3H, JC, JD, KC, A8, 2 2D,7810D, A H,88. Wes and: 38,6 D, 7C,8D,AC,65985,38C, 4C, QC, 8C, J§, Ace diamond trumps. South to lead. Keep South’s cards in your own hand and lead the 5 8; turn over the top card in West's bunch, and so on around the table. After the first round draw your inferences before read- ing the comments below. This is deal No. 46 of the St. Paul vs. Chi- cago match, and the comments in part are by Mr. Bunn. COMMENTS, Trick 2—How many hearts can South read in North hand? Trick 3—Why must North haveone more ciub? Although but three rounds have been played, South can locate every card in his partners hand but one. North held originally six henrts and two clubs. If he had but one spade he must have had four trumps—if two spades, three | trumps. Trick 4—South’s trump lead 18 probably bet- ter than forcing his partner on spades, as North cannot lead to sdvantage after takin, the force. South leads jack from jack, ten | two small, to give North a chance to pess, the ace being turned. East wins the trick with a false card to deceive South into continuing the trump lead later to his disadvantage. Trick 5—East does some card placing here and figures that there is a strong probability that his partner hes not another trump; he ;:n hllm;al hphcehfi'e clubs and four spades in s hand. East therefore does not try to fore West, but returns the club suit. 3t Trick 6—West notes that his partner has the ! only club not in his own hand, and cannot lead that suit again. Trick 7—South can now count each hand perfectly, barring the size of the hearts and trumps that are with North and East. West hes shown six clubs, five spades and two the investigation of the matter, and has made | an exhaustive analysis of the question, pub- | lished in the London Field, by which he Works out & trifling advantage in favor of the fourth- best; still he recommends adherence to the 0ld lead of the ace. The Hamilton trophy is a silver vase pre- sented to the league by Dr. Forrest of the Ham- ilton Club of Philadelphis. It was first won by the Capitol Bicycle Club of Washington in 1892; then by Minneapolis in 1893; by the Chicago University Club in 1894, and by the | Hyde Park Club of Chicago in 1895. trumps; North six hearts, iwo clubs, one spade, and therefore four trumps; East five hearts, three clubs, two spades, and therefore three trumps. South would be jusiified in leading ace of hearts to get out of the way of possible good hearts in North’s hands. East plays preitily in refusing to overtrump North; he knows he can and hopes that North will be trump. Trick 8—North is kind and_East makes the most of the opportunity. North shouid have ied a heart, placing no trumps in West’s hand. kind and lead & A DEAL SHOWING HOW NOT TO PLAY. -Q,9,2 -Q,J,10,5,4 9 clubs trumps; East tolead. card is undcorscored. The winning TABLE 1. TRICK. a5 | a2 Qlo 8, E-W.5. COMMENTS, But little comment can be made upon such lay as the above. At trick 3 West denies the knave and his partner is justified in trumping at trick 7. The same can be said of West's play when he denies the king diamonds at trick 2. With the king marked against him East must trump the second round of the suit attrick 5 or lose & trick. The East and West players are members of & whist cluband are supposed to play & game with cards called whist. These piayers unquestionably have a right to play with cards as they choose and give their game such a name as suits them, but they have no right to say they play whist, TABLE 2. by Fo TRICK. i EAST. Ihnl‘TM. WEST. | NORTH, [oyoror WHISTLETS. Below are some extracts from a recent srticle by N. B. Trist: New schemes for disearding—one of those of the fantastical order—have been proposed, but none of them appear to be improvements on the old system, which is based on sound prin- ciples and works well enough if you bear in mind that the discard is not a command from partner 10 play a certain suit. Inferentially you get the information that he is weak or strong in some particular suit, and it is for you to exercise a little judgment as to which one it is better to lead from under the existing conditions oi the hand. The lead of the fourth-best from ace and four or more small was first practiced in this country by the celebrated Minneapolis whist team, who consider it an improvement on the old lead, and upon this high recommendation it is being extensively tried and is gradually finding favor. Mr. Whitfield of England has applied his great mathematical attainments to A Relie of Lineoln_'; Second Election Hans Nelson, & Dane, who went from London toSan Francisco via Cape Horn in the good ship George Law during the year 1854, has in his possession an original bailot -—of which the accompanying illustration ! is a fac-simile—of the ticket voted by him for President 1n 1864, thirty-two years ago this fajl. It was thrown at Castle Creek, near Mendocino City, Mendocino County, California. Nelson, now a wéll-to-do dray- man of Seattle, was thex employed as cook in Jackson's sawmill on Castle Creek. He voted, as will be seen from the ticket, for the immortal Lincoln, and says that if he lives until November he will cast an- other ballot for the National Republican standard-bearer—William McKinley. 5 T. W. Topp. ain nothiug by so doing, | | Bast. | sovrn. | west. | NorTH. | “A man who has trained his intellect to per- fection in whist has trained it to be capable of achieving anything that the world ean offer. A campaign does not need more com- bination; a cabinet does not acquire more ad- dress; an astronomer-royal does not solve finer problems; a continental diplomatist does not prove greater tact.”’—Ouida, in Chandos. Many of the local whisters who have been missed at the clubrooms during the past two months are returning from their summer va- cations and the atlendance on contest nights is improving. : | FEighty men played in the preliminary | rounds of the Hamilton trophy contest. Each | of these men piayed whist about thirty hours on three successive days, or an average of ten hours per day. At the end of the third day sixteen were entitled to play in the semi-finals on the fourth day—ten hours more against victors from the preliminary contests. The fifth day saw the final contest between the 1wo unbeaten teams—ten hours more, or a total | of fifty hours in five days. By actual calcula- { tion the number of tricks plaved during the contest was over 120,000, or 480.000 cards. Nocorrect solution has been received by THE CALL to the dummy problem published July 5. Is it possible our whist friends cannot solve it? Whist elubs outside of San Francisco are re- uested to send interesting hands to THE CALL | for publication. | The congress developed & new finesse called the “elephant finesse,” which consists in play- ing the deuce third hand on your partner's lead of the 7, you holding ace and deuce; also “ithe Street attachment to the Howell short-suit game,” which is playing your smali cards from higher to lower, instead of the usual way. DOUBLE DUMMY PROBLEM. The following is & difficult and interesting problem by John G. Sutton of this City. Diamonds trumps; North to lead, and North and South to take all the tricks, —K, 2 s—K. J1,6,3 ¢ >4 A copy of “Whist of To-day,” by Work, will be given for the best solution. LA Reverse Side of the Union Ticket. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SACRIFICE PRICES RULE! 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