Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-10
FOR WHIST PLAYERS
WHIST CAN NOT BE LEARNED FROM
TRACTS.
Westminster Papers Hand-The Lewis Play
Defeating Short Suit Lsad-Soms VAL
liable Advice to Whist-Players

1t may not be generally known,
though 1t was Of enough Importance to
telegraph all over the country by the
! Associated Press, that &. w. p. the
great whist player, and author OF
american Whist is dead. His de-
| mise occurring few days ago. Among the
best things from mis- pen was recent
valuable contribution TO the Chicago
Inter ocean which is of so much inter-
est to lovers of whist that we repro
duce il in full.
An inquiry Of the same tenor with
many that are made reads as follows:
"Can you lend me some little pamphlet
that will give me the leads and show
me how to learn to play whiSt?' Very
respectfully, but very emphatiCally,
No. II you have not the disposition
and are not willing TO give the time to
study whist, you can never learn 1t.
We have but one form of advice TO give
to all such QUestiOners. Get copy Of
American Whist Illustrated" fifth or
sixth edition; begin at the beginning;
make yourself acquainted with what
belonged TO ancient whist; then learn
how modern whist was made. Know
all this before you know a lead. Then
study the laws. Then study the leads
and the reasons for each and every
one. Learn by private practice
TO shuttle and deal and sort the cards.
At every opportunity look over the
hand in play OF good player. Watch
the cards as they fall. Ask him Ques-
tionS between the,dealS. He will always
gladly give you information. Practice
with as good players as you can find.
II they see you DESTROYS and determined
to learn they will help you. Study the
book. Compare the play with what is.
set down as correct Take time and
use the time. BE patient and in real
earnest. Be satisfied TO know that you
will know nothing for at least year
passed in hard work in all the leisure
that you can give at home and at the
club. You will make a whist player.
BY and by you will come to know that
uinety-nine men out Of every hundred
merely play cards who fancy that they
are playing whist. Some time you will
meet man who, on taking up his
hand, reads its whole history, as he be-
lieves il can be revealed. You will see
LuuI he huOWS 81 LeI lNO VI luItc IOuuuo
why second hand threw and third
hand a 10 on the first round. You will
wonder why on the fourth or fifth round
he did not play trump, or did not take
a trick, or did not return a lead, and
when on the eighth or ninth you see
that he has read the cards
in every hand, and now does some
seemingly impossible thing, you may
understand that the game of whist is
played. That player learned whist
from no little pamphlet, from 10 cheap
practice, nor from no man or men who
entertained the notion that throwing
down high cards and trumping in with
low ones in order TO take tricks cOnsti-
tuteS the game Of calculation. We will
show you to what a knowledge of the
relationship of cards such a man may
attain. Proctor gives the following
play OF four rounds taken from the
Westminster papers. The S is turned
by d. BIS hand is as follows:
s, 10, 9, 9, >.
h, a, Gu, 4, 2.
G, a, 10, S.
ID ON Il