St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-09
NOTES.

Trick 1-Norths weakness in the diamond
slle makes an original lead Of trumps out of
strong spade suit making the regular Ameri-
can lead of ace. then Jack, from ace queen,
jack and five or more in suit.
Irlek 'sTWest~ opens -trnmps. notwthstand-
ing the strong spade development, IL being
MS only suit of more than three cards. A
short-suit leader would have made more
tricks in the hand, but this proves nothing.
Trick I've seriously question East's re-
turn OF the trump, though this will sound
like rank heresy to the great army of play
ers who follow bindly the adage that only
non no more trumps and sudden death excuse
Iallure 10 return partners trump lead. East's
diamond suit Is not commanding one his
clubs are weak and he can see that the
spades are all against. He can reasonably
count Vests trump lead for what 1t is a
lead from long trumps and two three-card
suits.
Trick 5-West cannot tell whether his part
ner has the two other trumps or no more
and wisely discontinues the trump lead.
Trick 6-South thinks that East may have
two trumps left: otherwise he would have
leo the spade We think the spade the bet
ter lead in any case.
Trick North easily place the trumps.
and plays to force West. Note that North
does not lead the best trump: 1t would be
suicidal.
Trick s-west hopes to drop the trumps
together. His play is bad. for it is based on
the chance that South had played a false
card at trick 4, and West could hardly hope
he might lose more. The rest Of the play is
very easy for North.
Table Q
Trick 5-The play has been the same ,p to
this point as at Table 1. Instead of opening
his three-card diamond suit West leads nine
OF clubs from nine and two small. West has
no indication as to his partners suit. If 1t
is clubs the lead had better come from West:
II 1t is diamonds. 1T cannot make much
difference where 1t comes from. The club
lead seems slightly better.
Trfn Ha- ~ L.
monds by discarding club at trick 8, and
West properly responds by leading ace of dia-
monds.
Trick s-North uses good judgment in not
trumping.
Trick 11-West makes a good play He has
carefully avoided the attempt to drop the two
trumps together until now, when the play
cannot lose. however the cards lie, and will
win if South has Jack of trumps
The latest advfces from Chicago are to the
effect that the team that had been chosen
to play against st. Paul for the A. w. l..
trophy are so much discouraged by the poor
scores they have been making in recent games
in the Chicago Whist club that another team
will be selected to play for the trophy. in
which the match will not be played for
several weeks. ST. Louis is next on the list
will come to st. Paul. Fergus Falls ranks
next to st. Louis, and 1t is more than prob
able that the first challenge game will be be-
tween ST. Paul and the strong team from
Western Minnesota.
The Gordon trophy challenge matches are
creating great interest in the whist club.
Capt. letters team lost the cup to Capt.
Countryman's team in the last match.
Last evening Capt. Bixby, assisted by Pri-
Yates Nelson. ZenZius and Sanders, made
desperate struggle to wrest the trophy from
Countryman's team, consisting of himself,
Hay, j. w. Smith and Vogel.
On Friday evening. Feb. IA, the whist club
will have It's first Ladies night" Every
woman whist player in st. Paul is cordially
invited to visit the club that evening and
take part in the game to be played, which
will be conducted on the same plan as the
Wednesday night games.
At the end Of the tenth game Of the pres
ent Wednesday night tournament the record
of the pairs having plus scores was as fol-
lows:
Bum and MetcaH ..............s0 go. "a
Briggs. ]. H., and Hudson As. 70
Sargent and Gordon. observation-disclosures "a
How and Briggs, o. Observation-Disclosures 30. "a
Hay and Nelson. .25