Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-03
FOE WHIST PLAYERS.
Don't Change Suit Without Due Thought
A Lead From the Inn of NatlInp

Lead From the Top of Nothing.
minister's may read with profit the
following advice from the Evening
Telegraph against changing the suit:
our advice 'is, when you have the
lead. having won trick third in hand,
be absolutely sure it is the wisest play
TO Hhift the suit before you decide to
do SO, and IL there is any doubt In
your mind on the subject give the
beneht OF that doubt to the suit that
has just been led.
Remember every time you open a
new suit you place yourself at a dis
advantage, unless it is headed by a
three card sequence OF which the
queen is a component part.
Remember that to attempt to estab-
Iish two suits is the height OF folly,
ana mat as your partner has already
started to establish his, you will, as
a rule, do better to aid him In that
effort rather than start off on new
JACK with your own suit, which is
one trick farther from establishment
than your partners. IL you do not
return your partners suit you virtually
say to him. Partner, in spite Of the
disadvantage of opening new sui t,
and in spite of the fact that yours
has already once been led, mine can be
more easily established than yours,
and therefore l assume the RESPONSE
bility of shifting.
The old doctrine of showing your
partner your suit before returning his
is one Of the absurdities of past that
is dead. That the same authors should
tell us to play two hands as one and
yet play them in this way at cross pur-
poses seems, indeed, strange in the
light Of modern experience.
OF course. this advice only applies
to fourth best lead showing strength.
but under thOae circumstances it IL
worthy Of consideration. We venture
to say that 20 tricks are lost by opening
n new suit where one is dropped by
continuing that Of the partner. :"
A whist club of eight young people
has boen formed in this city. They
meet for play every two weeks.
In hand whose long suit contains
five cards Of which the is the highest
the lead of the has heen advised.
The Hamilton team which advises rbit
lead calls it the lead from the top oil
nothing. Says the Newark Call
There is good logical reason fol
30 doing, where it can be depended
upon that the original leader il
positively leading from a four or FIVE
card suit. The information 1t givei
to partner is of great value in saying al
once, Here, partner, this is the top o.
long, dreary suit in which you car
expect nothing In the hands of thu
Hamilton team it has proved trick
winner. ~
The Evening Telegraph assigns the
following reasons for the good team
work of the Hamilton team of Phila'
delphia.
ta) Long experience together ii
match play.
(b) Absolute satisfaction with the
system in use.
tc) knowledge of each others deals
(d) No "bossing" or oficious coach
ing.
(e) No stars, the four players being
as nearly even in playing ability al
1t Is possible for four different men t.
be. VI sa.as t.a
tf) An absence OF over. confidence.
The matches for the challenge trophy
of the An erican Whist League will bt
played as follows: December 9th, Capt.
tai Bicycle Club; December 18th, Will
mingtou Whist Club: December 10th
American Whist Club Of Boston; De
cember 26th, Knickerbocker Field Clul
of Brooklyn; January %, Park Clui
OF Plaintield; January 9th, Slater
Island Whist Club; January 10th
Albany Club; January 23d, Newton
Club OF Boston; January Both, Alban,
Chess and Whist Club.
In the compass whist tournament a
the Wilmington Whist Club last nigh
the Morning News prize was won b,
=. Il. Candy, whose score was plus g.
Four tables were in use. Other score
we're: w. j. McClary, plus D. B.; JOSEPH
Swift, plus AS; G. g. Lobdell. plu
3.5; f. Il. Belts, plus 3.5, Victo
du Pont, plus 2.5; G. M. Townsend
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