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discard Of the club AZ trick 3 would have left
him with two aces for these tricks.
Here Is the play at the other tablei


Trick 1.-The intermediate card in this case
This Is a part Of tactics in which short.suiter.
do not believe. They claim that, while n player
f. ishing round for The doubtful ndyHntage Of
his partner as to the contents Of his hand by
leading irregular cards, and is neglccting op.
Play . Of the ace cameo sScOna !w 9Snd r Is pSr! Of 81
has never been considered In the. case OF
A 4 x x x second hand, the rule being
always to gsss; think this is wrong, and
playing acc when weak" This combination
has always been an exception to Fosters rule OF
be led. I"W6ist Manual, Second. Hand, p. iia,i
been that II pays to play ace secondhand, even
on n small card led, when there. are. four small
tShns VII II the the original Sri leader d n has f i "f in the
suit led II cannot 20 round twice. and tho ace
Trick q. Again We have this trick Of leading
the intermediate card. One OF It's advantages
is that partner has a better chance to- finesse
successfully in q suit in which all tho high cards
Trick 4. A could hardly be deceived as to the
position Of the ace: and passed to establish The
trick he forgot this. Why u did not lead
through the honor, as requested, is a mystery.
trump as the best chance to save his spade ace.
2 would have drawn BIS small trump, and then
spade ace would win. II he did trump, he Would
lose two tricks in diamonds and one in spades or
clubs at the end. which would give w seven
Trick 5. Y knows the lead of a losing card is
better than opening fresh suits In tho dark.
for the spade suit after his play at trick 4.
THE suoRT-sUIT LEADS.
In playing the high-card game the short-suiter
gives, no information as to number, and con-
fines his leads to two cards only, the ace and
the king. The ace is very seldom led with less
than six cards in the suit. and n weak hand or
to lead an ace, because it catches nothing but a
few small cards, and at. once betrays the fact
They recognize the value of an ace rs a Killer
and know that II they keep 1t they may kill one
of the oldest principles in whist is that high
cards which are not in sequence with other high
Clelebs, in 1851. called attention to the nd vantage
Of keeping quiet with the ace, waiting for it to
The king Is never led unless accompanied by
the ace. or 10Th queen and Jack. Suits headed
extensive analysis has shown thatto lead u king
to get the ace out Of the way is a losing game,
and x 9 10 suits are potential tenaces. SHOULD
the hand the small card is led, not the king.
The lead of the jack from X J Z x is entirely
stand the Jack asa as sSa n'ptrt ma card 4tTAH There usu aro
no doubtful leads in the short.suit game.
X s J, are h ss1sS By tsd 4 from g n; i 4 t Z 10, can a s. E. a * ! 20,
because such combinations are tenaces. and all
tenace suits are more valuable when led up to
than when led away from. The old writer's on
the game laid great stress on the importance of
not leading away from tenace suits, and of ceas-
ing to lead suits that become tenaces.
With a weak hand and six cards headed by
A y. A . j, or A Q 10. n short-suiter will some
times =" run =" with the ace for fear the suit will
be discarded and rufYed. Unless the rest of the
hand is strong enough to risk the loss OF the ace,
there is little chance Of gaining anything by
holding up tenace suits of more than five cards,
because IL Is very unlikely that the suit will go
round often enough for the tenace to make.
. The partner OF the high-card player makes his
differences from the drop of the cards. no num-
alw avs follows the ace il A q J is led from. re-
q ardless of number. Partner makes no infer
ences from the card led beyond the fact that the
ace denies the king, and that n king led is
accompanied by the ace; or both queen and jack.
II the latter has been led from. the queen follows
he king. regardless of 1t is useless for
the adversary to hold up the potential tenace, a
10, on a short-suit players lead of a king. II
has A ( only, he can safely play ace, and
either lead trumps or return the small card to
Invite a force, or get a discard.
As the high-card leads are confined to the acc
and king, it follows that the other high cards,
j., 10. and o. are never led from winning
com binations. They are supporting cards, and
he principles that govern their use will be con-
sidered next week.
OUR PROBLEMS.
The problem of April 8 10 solved by leading
The Club 4. $ trumps and leads trumps. y dis
carding a small diamond, s then leads diamond
was published In whist for January,
and a prize of any whist hook on the
market offered for Its solution. Only three or
four correct answers were received. Eighty
readers Of the sunday SrS solved It correctly,
Hearts trumps, N to lead. and N and S to take