Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-07

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q.72

C started off with the lead of the two
of spades Singleton. Il played the
ace second hand and Immediately re-
turned the suit with the four. ID, the
only gentleman at the table, played
good old-fashioned game, and had also
caught onto" some OF the modern
scientific management at whist, played
the queen second hand to unlock his
| partners suit. This forced AS king,
and to the establishment Of every one
except A, G trumped with the four OF
clubs, and laughingly congratulated
herself on getting so small a trump In,
but with admirable simplicity, after
such strategic move, confessed her
ignorance as to what her next play
should be. She finally determined onI
leading the ace of diamonds. played
the three, and ID was not surprised
when B trumped the next lead, which.
was the nine of diamonds.
RECKLESS PLAY.
B led the ace of hearts, which won
then the king of hearts, which is
trumped to his left. ID led the nine of
spades, which G trumped aud led the
sin Of hearts; his partner trumped with
the knave, and A, utterly Disguised,
overtrumped with the king and led a
small trump, which his partner took
with the queen, and instead OF the
spade led a heart which forced his part
ner who then led the knave OF spades,
which is trumped by G, who led the ace
of trumps and captured the last trump
aud unwittngly made good his part
ner's king of diamonds. 9 and B
were satisfied with the manner in
which the deal was handled, and
expressed their satisfaction with an
emphasis that silenced just criticism,
and the reckleSSness went on for an
hour, with absolutely no relief save the
confusion OF deals and the perfect free
dom to conversation during the play.
Except when a singleton was led, the
play invariably went something like
this: The leader selected for his open
/ ing suit headed By an ace, regardless OF
the length OF his suit. If the third
hand was fortunate enough to hold
both king and queen, the king would be
played, and a small one Of the suit i'm
mediately returned, which, If not
trumped by an adversary, the ace would
win By the original leader 1t was
quite amusing to see the puzzled look
of this original leader to know what to
lead next. The lead of trumps was
usually avoided until forced to lead
them, after an adversary had saved one
or two.
NO SYSTEM.
Second hand holding king and queen,
would play the king and II the partner
should at any time afterward trump
that suit, look OF scorn by the holder
of the queen would be bestowed on the
delinquent, that would reduce the
bravest heart to utter submission, al
though he had, by his previous play Of
the king instead of the lowest one of
the sequence that would take the trick
or force a higher card, deprived his
partner of the least possible chance OF
locating the queen. Had he played
queen second hand, his partner
might have been able to locate the
king in his hand, and passed the
trick for his partner to capture. The
play of the highest OF sequence, by
second, third or fourth hand, is of
who seem TO exercise good judgment in
every other situation. Another re-
markabe habit with these would-be
whist players is to abandon the lead Of
their long suit after the ace and king
are played and break into the protec-
ton of short suit, in which there were
two chances to one that it was an enc
my's long suit. The beautiful chances
of fineSse in a deal are thoughtlessly ig-
nored, and the possibility OF creating
chances for a partners convenience of
tineSse is unknown.
Once in awhile it is good for sys-
tematic whist player to be obliged to
play at the table with players of this
quality. 1t is patience discipline and
never fails to bring renewed satisfac-
ton for the time spent in the scientific
study Of the ennobling game.