The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
advice would be to get little whist book

they are all good.
When your partner opens the game hesi-
tate long enough before you play to read
as much of his hand as his lead will tell
you. Don't hurry; if you do you are lost.
We have often been asked this question !:
Is a player ever justified in leading q
"sneak" or singleton as an original lead !?
The answer is, ''ever' is long time.
There is no law to prevent any person do
ing this if he wants to. 1t could happen
that you would be justified in making such
lead, but the writer never held hand
that he could say ne was justified in so do
ing. Now, dear reader, do not confound
this with any other than the original lead
the first card played next to the dealer.
No other lead during that game can be an
Original lead. When the game is once
opened or under way a singleton lead
would be the best you could possibly make
at times and always right and proper,
laughs and sneers to the contrary notwith-
standing, when the player uses good judg-
ment.
WHISTLES.
A little eighteen-page pamphlet with
the schedule and rules governing the play
for the nine general whist contests, to take
place in Brooklyn June % to June 27 at
the next American Whist League Con-
gress, can be had free by applying by
letter to the whist department..
c. S. Raymond, a prominent jeweler of
Omaha. and one of the experts of the
Omaha Whist Club, is sojourning at the
Palace.
D. w. Kirkland of the Los Angeles
Whist Club is spending few days in the
City. He reports whist lively in the City
of the Angels.
A match between the Chicago Whist
Club and the com bined whist clubs Of Illi-
nois took place on Friday evening last at
the Masonic Temple in Chicago; 344 play
ers sat down to battle in the silent game.
Chicago won by 238 tricks.
The Los Angeles Whist Club of Los An
gees has started out in fourishing con-
dition with James Foord as its first presi-
dent
The Trist Duplicate Whist Club has in
augurated new system of play in teams
of four under the Howell system on Fri
day evenings under the guidance of John
G. Sutton.
L. Therkelsen, president of the Portland
Whist Club of Portland, Or, is spending a
few days in the City. President Therkel-
Club won the progressive pair match tro-
ply at the third annual meeting of the
| North Pacific Whist Association.
The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia
has a daily whist column and every Satur-
day has one entire page devoted to the
game. Milton c. Work, author of
"Whist OF To-day" and one of the great
expert whist players, is the whist editor
| The Canadians have caught the whist
fever. A whist league is to be formed in
the Dominion. The call is out for the first
meeting to be held in Toronto April 3. A
tournament will be held at the same time,
and all the games will be played under the
American Whist League code of laws.
The Trist Whist Club of Philadelphia
calls the father of the merican lead sys-
TEN, Nicholas Browse Trist, "Our Patron
SAINT"
The London Field of February 90 has a
full column on Scoring Honors," an OBJ
solete practice in this country. Why
does not "Cayendish' turn on the "Ce-
thode ray" and show how nonsensicaI
it is.
1t is pleasing to say to our whist readers
that il is almost an absolute certainty
that the master, Henry Jones, known
over the world as ''Cavendish." will at
tend the next American Whist League
Congress, TO be held in Brooklyn in June
next.
G. A. Singer, one of the great Chicago
Whist Club experts, is spending several
weeks in the City. He is always a well
com guest to any of the whist clubs.
PROBLEM NO. 2.
Another simple situation. The question
is what should North lead at trick four and
what is the development. East deals and
turns up king of hearts. South to lead.
South. West North. East.
E1ns foas sIass SPADES ds aE asss 1ee sss
The winner of each of the tricks is in
italics. A copy of "a Practical Guide to
Whist" by Fisher Ames, will be given for
the best analysis.