St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29


tirues the trump lead. hoping for a lead
through South, who must have two trumps
left.
Tricks 4-6-South leads Jack of his partners
declared suit; west, holding ace queen eight
rightly plays ace, and continues his diamond
suit.
Trick North would be fairly safe in
messing ten Of hearts, as West would have
hardly played ace at trick 4, II he had not
held queen, he was strong enough in
trnmps to have passed. but the development
ala not'warrant taking any chances.
lrlcks S-9-North knows that West II he
holus queen OF hearts, has but one spade and
leads ace OF spades, and follows it with a
small one, hoping to force the play so that
South may make his jack ofutrumps IL he
holds it; we think surer way to bring this
result was TO lead heartiafter ace of spades,
to throw the lead into Vests hand.
Trick 9-West has the opportunity of a life
time, but he does not think ii necessary to
attempt the play, because no tricks can escape
II East plays correctly but one useful rule
In whist is to play so that your partner can
not make mistake, and If North dlscards ten
of diamonds on this trick,nand IL South per-
sists In a third lead of spades, North will
trump lead his queen of heartsi which South
Will trump, and then North has the tenace
over Vests jack and seven of trumps. West
trump; but we think he should have prepared
for the play, at least by discarding the
diamond instead of the heart and then If
East showed disposition to continue spades
too long, West would be in position to pre-
vent a loss by making the grand COUP" a
play that very few players have ever had the
opportunity of making.
Trick 10-East is too anxious to take the
tricks himself, and compels West to discard
his thirteenth diamond.
Tricks 11-13-All would have been well had
East led his trump here, but his anxiety to
make his spades made him forget that West
had nothing but trumps left; South does not
forget this, however, and saves his jack of
trumps by refusing to trump queen of spades.
West is obliged to trump and curses East as
he does 1t.
WHIST NEWS.
The Albany Evening Journal has started
whist column in its Saturday issue edited by
E. lie Roy Smith and Howard j. Rogers. Mr..
Smith is one Of the best known minister's Of
the country, being director of the American
Whist league, and a member of the famous
pair, Smith and Snow, the winners of the
Minneapolis trophy at the congress last sum-
mer, and also the winners of the pair champ
ionshp in 1894. The column should be
grand success.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat has also
started a whist department B. D. Kribben,
recording secretary Of the league. says that
its editor is "a Jap, named Weller"
Whist for March is out. Nutmeg" con-
tributes three pages Of st. Paul items in his
inimitable style, and the issue is therefore Of
unusual interest to local whist cranks. Nut
meg is prominent member of the st. Paul
club.
In local whist circles things have been rath-
er quiet the past week. In the Wednesday
night game nine tables participated, Erwin
and Hay playing East and West, capturing the
weekly high score badges.
The heavy storm kept all but four tables
of players away from the ladies' tournament
Friday night. Mrs. Countryman and Mrs.
Larkin won the high SCORE badges.
The match for the Gordon trophy between
the present holders and Capt. Whellams' team
will be played Tuesday evening, March 81.
Hereafter the Wednesday night games will
be started promptly at five minutes past 8.
provided there are enough players present to
make UP Ave tables. The whist committee
proposes to enforce this rule strictly, II 1t Is
possible to do so, and players arriving at the
club rooms after that time will not be given
a chance to play, II the tables have been made
up. George L. Bum.