The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-01-30
WHIST TABLE,
THE WOMEN'S WHIST
TOURNEY.
Whist From all Parts of
The Country.
PICK-UPs FROM THE TABLE.
NOTES.


The chief event of the past weeI
In whist circles was the big mattel
between the Inter club League o
Brooklyn and the associated clubs o
New Jersey, which took place OF
Wednesday evening in the rooms o.
the Jersey City club. One hundred
and sixty players sat down at the
call of time, and twenty hands were
played at each table. New Jerse,
won by 81 tricks.
Harry Ambrose was away off las,
Friday evening for the first 10 hand.
but finally got down to business and
put up good game to Yerges and
won as usual,
The time was when there was only
one signal tor the player to look out
for. Now there are 80 many that no
man knows them all, or can see half
Of them, or knows what he IS looking
at when he does see them.
Last week witnessed an event that
is dc stined to play most importan,
part in the advancement of the game
Of whist. At Philadelphia, forty-four
women, divided into eleven teams of
four players each, contested from 2, sc
to 6 p. IN. for the championship.
1t was contest of women, and vet
for three hours and half, the only
sound to be heard was that made by
the card as it was played upon the
table, every contestant devoting her
self assiduously to the game.
The penalties of the game were a:
vigorously enforced as at an Ameri
can Whist League Congress tourney
and if the truth must be told, til,
standard Of play was about as higl
as when the men meet to decide the
whist fate of the nation.
The women of Philadelphia las
week, as in all the matches Of tht
winter, played a game of which they
and their admirers may well bt
proud. They have proved conclu
sively that whist is a game whicl
may be reduced to a science by one
sex as well as tho other.
What is the matter with Logar
having a duplicate whist contest?
Harry E. Rose, an old l.. W. C..
member, has been rechristioned anC
given new name, so we have beer
informed; his cognoman is Paderwes
XII. We are indebted to comrade
Davenport for the information.
Ell. Hartly is the Jonah of the Lo-
gan Whist Club.
What has become of Harry Sparnon:
He used to think he understood the
game called hist.
The American Whist League tro-
ply is still in Washington.
Sheriff Ryan plays pretty stiff
game.
The Court House gent emen ough,
to challenge the Logan Whist Club
John Nixon needs a little more
coaching before he attempts to trav
ell III fast company.
Charley Rose has been taking d
week S restin order to read up moderr
whist as it should be played.
Ysrges played bum last week, s
regular school boy game.
John Canty is coming out all righ
as whist player. He can put up ;
strong game when he has a good pert
ner.
We take the hint.
The Logan Whist Club will have
to give Gus Baird trial at the game
There is whist in Gus, if you dom
believe it, ask Yerges.
Hartly and Eberst beat the worlo
for holding giant hands.
Rose don't make many bad plays
but when he does make one, it ii
about as rotten as you can make'em.
Yerges says we are not so coward
ly in Cur play as W. were month ago
He says if our partner makes leae
and it gets around to US we will le
60 of a king instead of risking tel
pot.-The beauty of, and the science
in tn e game, is to know vixen to risl
a ten spot and when to let 90 of i
king, that is why we win so many
and lose so few sittings.-Ed.
1t has often been subject oI
warm controversy as to how many
tricks can be won or lost on sirglt
hand, through very bad or scientific
llay. Some have held tlat it wou'c
bs impossible to show difference o
more than seven tricks. To show yor
the fal acy of this idea, we woul,