The sun., 1896-10-11

CLrB HorfS.
The season has now IA ri" opened for tour.a-
mcnt play. From every important city we have
notices OF the beginning II weekly cub meet
lngs for indIvidua! and pair chRmpOnshius 10
On the club teams. New Iyr.ey i, b,,.y Us usual
And several minor tOnrn4n.en:, viii keep those
engaged who are not quite strong enough to
60 into the state championship iches The
Philadelphia clubs have started their regular
whist nights: Bal fillmore is hard at work. and
there is II renewed interest in whist in Washing
ton. owing to the detection of some of the Capt.
toi bicycle team TO the Columbia Athletic Club.
'hr latter beng among the challengers for the
In New York the season was opened Yesterday
by the first match f"r the Challenge TROPHY
which was won by the New urk Whist Clubs
team Ut The last congress. The match had not
begun when this col lumn went to press. and the
result cannot be given until next week. Can't
Henriuucs Is not Al all confident of success IA
h- team have had li'le or no practice. OWN. To
mculbers. The whist editor OF n leading Phila-
d"iphia paper states lhA' the Challengrr-. tho
Philadclphia Whist cub. will not adhere too
strictly to the long. suit game. nor use too many
mum nher showing leads. hut will try little
horse.sen-e" whist The New Yolk men nat
urnsly regard this as II frank confession OF the
weakness Of tn" Information game when on
posed 10 tie leads OF supporting cards. The
SlT hopes to give its readers some Of the hand ;
they can then Judge for Themselves rs 10 the
respective merits OF cOmmOm-scasc" and
orr CORRESPONDENTS.
w. II. =. calls attention to a letter in Whist
the official organ stating that the editor of that
paper did not agree with THh SUS with regard
To 'hu proper lead from certain hand played in
krarney. N"b, bat that the PLAYER had followed
THE SuN'S advice, and gained TWO tricks by H.
MT. Paine very kindly add. in explanation Of
his deris on. that L was made on general prin-
ciples. but that II lie ad been playing with a
person who underSt pud THE SuN game. lie
Tx, shows Mr.. Paine to have II liberal mind.
We hope that those OF our correspondents who
have been urging Us to reply to III" attacks of
our evening contemporary are now satisfied (
people rope cnongh they Will hang themselves.
The article OF OcI. y furnishes AN excellent en-
ampio of the false ana misleading statements
with which the prophets Of the long-suit school
Themselves to the junglcI OF personalities. Bill
lingsgate. and doggcrcl verses, they are com
phratiycly safe; but the moment they venture
into the open plain or facts their ignorance and
prejudice are revealed. In the, article re-
ferrcd to there were less thar six alb
soiutcly false statements. The New York
team did not win the trophy by ono trick:
for tricks Ind nothing to do with II:
matches decided the contest. They never
played the NcwtuIs. not being drawn in tho
Same section. They wCrn not IN the weakest
section but in the strongest aS II - evident when
II is remembered that they had to meet Chicago.
holders of the championship, and Baltimore, tho
club that STAYED IN until the very last hand IN
the contest. They have not played together two
nights u week all summer, but only three times
Ia all. In September. The shOrt-suiters favOrite
game IL not rutf but supporting cards. Run Isl
mere incident in their game. This lamentable
display az ignorance and prejudice winds up by
stating that the Manhattan team were beaten
I me and time again last winter AS captain
of that team. and a. having played In every
match and against u comers during the entire
wishes to say that this last statement is an un-
truth, The Manhattan team never lost u match.