St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
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Table 2.
COMMENTS.

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Trick 2-We think South should return his
partners suit; he is weak in trumps, has no
cards of re-entry, and he can see that there
is but one card above the six against North's
suit. The club lead is responsible for the
loss of a trick
Trick 5-West's discard of queen of clubs
on the last trick is a clear call for trumps
as he must have club smaller than queen,
and East leads queen of trumps.
Tricks 6-8-East leads diamond, West
wins and draws all the trumps.
Trick 9-West has all the tricks in his own
hand except his club, and having the long
trump for a re-entry ,pleads the club, which
East wins with ace.
Tricks 10-13-East rightly leads ten of dia-
monds and West takes the rest of the tricks.
Table 2
Tricks 1--we do not think that Vests
hand justifles a trump call. When lead of
trumps becomes desirable, it had better come
from West than from his partner, in our
opinion, the lead of low trump from ace,
king and two small being more apt to bring
good results than the lead of strengthening
trump from partner, for any advantage that
might come from a f1nesse can be defeat
ed by judicious covering by second hand, as
Vests low trumps are too small to be made
good by second hand covering. Were Vests
trumps headed by ace king, jack or ace, king
full. North has too many spades to Justify
him in fnessing, and he goes up with king.
Trick 3-North's position here is a peculiar
one; the call by West makes trump lead
impossible, his diamonds are so weak that a.
forced lead from that suit is dangerous and
the weak trump hand will ruff the spades
however, 1t is possible that South can over
trump, and in any event the spade is the only
lead to make.
Trick 5-West's finesse of jack of diamonds
would have cost several tricks If, North had
held queen, for North would have forced
West on spades and been left with the thir-
teenth trump after West had led his ace and
king, and would have made two spades at
the end. For the reason that the fnesse
r1sked too much, we must condemn it as
bad whist.
Trick 10-North trumps in order to lead a
spade and make West trump and lead clubs
up to South, for If North passes, East will
win the trick and lead clubs through South.
LOCAL WHIST NOTES.
Capt. Sargent's team now holds the Gordon
trophy as the result of winning match played
last Saturday against Capt. Stoltze's team
The score was very close, the challengers
beating the holders by only two points, The
next match will be between the present cham
pions and team composed of Miller Fetter.
Buford and Gordon.
Ten tables took part in the progressive pair
game of last Wednesday night. Sargent and
o. H. Briggs, Sperry and Weatherby and Paine
and Bum tied for the high score, each pair
being eight and a half points above the aver
age. The present series is nearing a close.
and the fight for the championship medals
appears to be between Briggs and Briggs and
Buford and Zenzius.
The concluding game of the ladies' tourna-
ment was played Friday night. Mrs Coun-
tryman made the best score for the series.
with a total plus of 81 points; Mr. Countryman
was her partner in all the games but one
Mrs. Mcconnell took second place with eleven
points to the good Mr.. Potter assisting In the
capacity of partner. Appropriate prizes were
presented to these ladies. Mrs. Thompson and
Mrs. Shandrew won the weekly high-score
badges, the former with ten points plus, play
ing North and South, and the latter with four
points, playing East and West.
new ladies' tournament will be begun next
Friday night and continue until twelve games
| have been played. The high-seore badges will
| be played for in each game, and prizes will
! be given the two ladies making the highest
| scores for the series.
In the practice game the other night the A.
| w. l.. trophy team was defeated by Hudson.
| Sargent, Metcalf and Fetter.
George L. Bum.