The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

"short suit SYSTEM so you may know how
pleased was 10 receive the advanced sheets of
this new book you so kindly sent me. hardly
know what to make of it. There are certainly
some good points in it and it looks reasonable
that every hand should not be run through
the same mill' as Foster says. l don't think
should like to be obliged TO follow Mr.. How
ellis system exclusively either. wonder why
he seems to think tn at he is always to have OPP
ponents that cannot understand his STYLE and
always partner that knows all his leads. If
all four at the table should play the same way
l wonder then who would be fooled the most?
Foster always writes the same way always tell
ing the partner the truth and at the same time
misleading the opponents. Such books stir
people up and set them TO thinking, so there
is some thing gained any way. To one like me
who only knows the A c. etc, of the game,
1t looks very much like whist wind. [Com-
ment: ga one-"-Whist Ed.
John T. Mitchell has q new edition of
his book on duplicate Whist in the
press of Ihling Bros. & Everard of Kala-
mazoo. This will be very interesting
work for all lovers of Duplicate Whist
and the game generally.
| The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia
| says:
The whist editor of the St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat is said to be a Jap" We cannot vouch
for the accuracy of this statement, but can for
the ability with which he manages his depart
| ment.
San Francisco was once the home of the
Globe whist editor. st. Louis must have
bad effect on him to transform him into
Jap"
The Vallejo Whist Club is about to
challenge again for the Rideout trophy.
| That's right, boys; it keeps up the inter
est in the game we all love.
Miss Rosella Trist, daughter of Nicholas
Browse Trist, father of the American
whist leads, is one OF the most successful
| whist teachers in this country. Her home
is in New Orleans.
There was lull in the very earnest con-
versation of the whist game, when one of
the players said:
Whist is a game imported from India, isn't
| it?
How did you get that idea?
From the rubbers. India bber you know.
| Town Topics.
! The Union League Club of Philadelphia
| comes into the whist fold. The following
IS from the Evening Telegraph of May 6:
The victory of the card-players at the Union
League last night is great triumph for whist
For years unsuccessful attempts have been
made with more or less earnestness to intro
! duce cards in this most conservative organizes
| ton, but the efforts have always been futile,
/ owing to the fear OF many members that cards
and gambling would prove inseparabe. The
! whist boom, however, has shown to all fair
minded people that this fear was groundless
and this combined with whists popularity
caused the tremendous sniff of sentiment evil
| denced by last nights meeting. 1t was veri-
table whist triumph.
The great objection to ever allowing
/
fear that whist might be played for money,
and if such a thing ever did happen it
would injure the high patriotic and
National character the club has always
enjoyed.
From letter from one of our whist
readers we quote the following:
We always have a wild scramble for THE
CALL every Sunday morning all on account of
your whist column. Everything stops until
that is read. We do enjoy it hugely.
Petaluma has whist club and the Trist
Duplicate Whist Club of this City is pam
fully aware of it, having lost two matches
! 10 them. But 1t Is not to be wondered al
that Petaluma can play good game of
! whist when they have such a brilliant
] little whist enthusiast as Mrs. +. H.
| Atwater. One of her letters to Whist
about two years ago caused great deal of
] discussion among the giants of the game
and the end is not yet.
We have stated several times that our
! Whist Column was for students. The fol-
! lowing table of questions was kindly fur
nished US by Mrs. F. H. Atwater for be-
glnners, and to encourage them in their
| study we will give one years subscription
to Whist for the best answers:
a-What would you lead in sui holding K
b-Whst would you lead in trumps holding
KQI063?
a-What would you play second hand hold
ing A X 10 3 on the led?
! b-Whet would you play second nand hold
Ing 10 on the led?
! a-What would you play second hand hold
| ing q j on the led?
BY lat would you play second hand hold
! ing 10 on the led?
! a-What would you play third hand hold
N1g ~ ro, : on ont the LED by partner?
ing j on the 10 led by partner7
! a-What would you play third hand hold.
ing ON the led by the partner?
b-What would you play third hand hold
] Ing A the q led partner9
4 a-What would you play third hand hold
ing in ,ramps K s 3 on led by part
ner and what would you return?
b-What would you play third hand hold
ing In trumps 10 on 3 led by part
mel ner and what would you return?
! a-What would you play third hand hold
ing in suit Q 10 3 on led by partner?
b-What would you play third hand hold
ing in, suite 10 on z led by partner?
! a-Name two ways OF knowing that your
partner is weak in trumps.
| a-Name two times when you return your
partners suit with the best your hand
! contains.
10 a-When would you discard from your
strongest suit?
b-When would you discard from Won
IgedkeSt suit2
IL a-What would you lead if your partner
sign Il. sti for tgumps and you held Q
b-What would you lead.if your partner
signaled for trumps and you held @ 4 3
trumps?
IL Aft partner led then OF suit what
ought he to have remaining?
b-If partner led what ought he to have
remaining?
Is What do you consider the most impor-
tant principle of whist?
Out OF the % answers we have received
so far to problem only one is correct.
Every one takes six tricks their way, but
| they can all be stopped.
At compass whist match in the Trist
! Club rooms the other evening the deal
given below had variation of five tricks.
North and South at one table made thir-
teen tricks. Was it good play or luck?
The play was as follows: West opened
with queen hearts, trumped by South,
who led ace spades, then ace clubs
! (trumps) followed by the 8. North, ex-
hausted OF trumps, returns spades, ana
! South takes every remaining trick.
| At the other tables the opening was the
same, South trumping; then South led
ace spades, following with king, which
West trumped. East and West making
four and five tricks.
| ST, g
HI, g.,
| C.-K, Q, 10, 8
do. 8, 8, 8