The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19

| jack from any combination is call ipso-
tacto, and the old rule applies to any other
irregular lead. The only possible objec-
| ton is that the partner cannot when an
honor is turned get much information from
a king lead, as IL may be from a variety of
| com b1naf1onS, and does not show numb ber.
On the other hand. 1T seems probable that
| rne imperative trump information more
| than offsets this. The idea has not yet been
put In practice, and therefore no practical
statistics on the subject are available.
! we offer the suggestion to our readers
with the thought that it is we'll worthy of
| careful consideration.
| ANSWERS TO QUERIES.
When the leader has two four-card plain
suits exactly alike, in playing duplicate
whist, there should be a new deal-which
suit to lead from is guessing pure and
| simple. and the deal should be thrown out
| and q new deal ordered.
The first illustrated hand at whist was
published in Cavendish, fifth edition,
! 1862, and is the hand that is engraved on
the "Rideout trophy" in the rooms of the
San Francisco Whist Club.
The first copy of "Cavendish on Whist"
was published in May, 1862. The demand
was so great that inside OF one year five edi.
| tions were printed
Our Whist Column was started Sunday,
|
| hereafter
Yes, and we will in the near future give
full description of that style of game
called "Foster, or kangaroo whist"
The Orndorff system" of duplicate
whist has never been played in any of the
whist clubs of this City. It got that name
| in one of the clubs, but the system was
never used-it is obsolete.
WHISTLES.
John Hare, the great English actor
who made his debut before an Amer
lean audience about three months ago,
was whist pupil of James Clay. He
writes us, on his next visit to this country
he will come to San Francisco with
Pair of Spectacles" and give us "Quiet
Rubber"
Adjoining the walls of the Trist Club
rooms of this City is quintet of the five
most celebrated whist players and writers
OF the past fifty years: James Clay, of
pleasant memory; Henry Jones. "Caven-
dish; Sir William Pole, the octogenarian;
Major General A. w. Drayson, F.RA.S.,
| the originator of the penultimate lead,
now called "the fourth best, and last, and
greatest of all, Nicholas Browse Trist, the
father of American leads and the patron
saint of the club.
Richard Mansfield, who opened in
"Beau Brummelr' at the Baldwin last
Monday night, has the reputation of being
an expert whist player.
E. LIE Roy Smith, director of the Ameri-
can Whist League, is the whist editor of
the Albany Evening Journal of Albany,
n. Y. Mr.. Smith and partner won the
Pair championship trophy at the congress
in Philadelphia in 1894. and again in Min
neapolis in 1895. He is one of the s'old
guard"-"all wool and yard wide."
new whist club will soon be formed in
Centerville,. Alameda County, with Mr..
Emerson, MIR. Dusterberry and Charlie
Riser at the head of ii. If Mr.. Riser can
play whist as he can cast fly he can
come right down and take the "Rideout
trophy" without playing for it.
Members of any club that belong to the
American Whist League can join the Trist
Club without having to pay any initiation
fee. Dues for all, 81 month.
The following notice appears in the win
dow of an enterprising store on Market
street:
Everybody can go to the Brooklyn Whist
Congress, in June next.
Modern scientific whist taught in five lessons
money refunded.
With the long and short suit playing cards.
(Patent applied for)
Every pack contains four cards for short or
sneak leads.
Also pamphlet giving in detail the new
system OF cathode leads and "X-ray dis
cards." Price two bits.
The Brooklyn IN. W Whist Club has
fallen into the line of having Ladies'
nights" Last Friday evening was the first
night. Ii was grand success. Two even
ings month will be devoted to the fair
sex.
President George E. Bates of the San
Francisco Whist Club is taking step in
the right direction about playing whist for
points in his club. He should have the
hearty support OF every lover of good whist
in this City.
The winner of problem No. 2 is George
II. q Arcy. Correct solutions were made
by Mrs. T. H. Atwater, Petaluma. and
by Mrs. E. R. DaingerfieId of this City.
The lead of jack Of clubs by South marks
king queen and ct least two small North
winning the trick with the ace, and re-
turning the TO- says have no more clubs
also weak IN trumps.
South, by the play of the on his part
ner's return lead of the 10, calls for trumps
"a one card call-for South must have a
lower one in his hand than the 8, conse.
quently it is unnecessarily high, and the
call asks North to lead his best trump re-
gardless of number through the honor
turned.
The above is the essence of problem ..
Mr.. d 'Arcy giving an exhaustive analvsis
of the development which entities him to
the prize.
PROBLEM NO. 4.
This problem that we give to-day is a
good one. The situation developed in a
deal played in st. Paul few days ago.
Ii comes from the pen of George L.
Bum. director OF the American Whist,
Leag que, and whist-player who is recog-
nized as one of the greatest in this cou6-
try. He says East "can practic ally alb
solutely place the mum Der of cards of each
suit that each player holds" at trick six.
We will give copy of Modern Scientific
Whist, by c. d. 2. Hamilton, to the one
who sends us the first correct solution of
same or correctly places the suits.
BY GEORGE L. BUM.
East hand