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Suits led bp
Tricks Won by

In the las: but one the Manhattan player
led the 3. the Continental player led the X.
Perhaps Mr.. Work can reconcile these facts
with his statement that Hawkins and Hen
riques did not play the short SUIT game at all.
They seem to have led four singletons and six
two-card suits in "a hands. The second col
umn shows what else they held, and what the
long suffers led on the everyday OF their hands.
Mr.. Works sta. enent that The game played by
the captain of the Manhattans was not worth
consideration or criticism is also unfortunate.
for the records show that he lost less tricks
than any other player on the team. dropping
two on one hand only. by discarding from his
long suit on an adverse trump lead. The play
ers that Mr.. Work picked as the stars of the
team dropped seven of the eleven tricks lost by
carelessness. A glance at the number Of
tricks won will show that the claim made by
THE SUN is true of this, as of all similar cases:
the short suit game is a steady trick winner.
AN EXAMPLE HAND.
As a sample of how much long suit play Hen
riques and Hawkins are guilty OF. here Is a
hand played last week In the inter-city tour
ney, from which every player in the room but
Hawkins led the fourth best club. A and b
turned the heart o. The underlined card
wins the trick. and the card under it is the
next one led. There is nothing gained by the
play: but 1t is a beautiful hand, with strong
marks of individuality and imagination. Such
hands are rare, even among short suffers.
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played by the best teams In philadelphia" 30
Mr.. Work says.
A TRuMP's VALUE.
In the problem presented for solution on
March \. the question was to ascertain the ex-
act value of an extra trump. Convent Aven-
We must suppose that the trqmps are some
s s,%ss P II ali II '9 sr1m 1H"! we're IS; Isa stff IN p snit'
the player holding 3.H2o trumps would nave
200 remaininG, al Of which would take tricks,
But in the 5000 tricks in which trumps are
led 1t is evident that he will take a number
proportional to the number of high trumps he
holds. % the 1000 aces of trumps. for in.
stance, his proportion, as COMPARED to that OF
any other PLAYER. will be as $3.50 to 1850, or
or the tricks In trumps he should take 2O4 out
Of every 1000: each Of the other PLAYERS get.
he will take 400. nearly; each Of the three
other players taking. go. The player having
500, or 1860 tricks; each of the others taking
"The plain suit cards will be distributed so
that 9,l80 fall TO the player with the extra
trumps, each of the other players hav ng $3.50.
As the number Of high cards and tricks won
win 2,1el tricks IN plain suit TO any other
players 2,34o;, So the player with the go ex;
2.l6i In plain suits, or $3.50 in all, Each of
the other players, will AXE go IN tTumps, and
player with the 100 extra. trumps just 100
TRICKS ahead, which is exactly a trick for each
The gist OF this argument is thai what the
player gains by holding more tlan his proper
tion of high trumps, he loses by holding less
high or trick-winning cards in the plain suits.
What he loses on the swings, he makes up on
the merry go rounds.
The number of trumps that each player at a
whist table should hold can be easily calcu,
lated. Pole gives both method and results in his
PHILOSOPHY OF Whist, (" y, 13l. The proper
lion is 800 for each of the non dealers and arg
for the dealer. As whist IL. a partnership, this
will make the expectation for the leaders side
twice 3.O6, or GIG, and for the dealers side
800 plus 3. S2, or 6.SS. This will give the deal
er's side an ADVANTAGE OF 20 trnmPs IN every
time everything else will eGuali2e Itself, even
the errors in the play, the dealers side must he
every 100 deals,
II remains 10 be seen how this assumption
agrees with the facts, There are only 2,054
deals at hand on which TO base calculations;
Ls666 are given In Poles work. and there are
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The exact number that Is wanted to balance
the account. "a. is the number of tricks lost
by the leaders side through opening long un.
established suits. This is n surprising coincl.
denCe, but IL Is nothing more. 1t remains
to be proved that the dealers side got "a
more tricks than they were entitled to simply
by having suits led up to them. II this can
by the adversaries Of the original leader of un-
established long suits are never recovered.
But IL they are recovered. the "a tricks must
have been gained in some other way. What
way2 That is the great conundrum OF mod
ern whist.
OUR PROBLEMS.
The solution Of the problem on March Is
Is for y to lead trumps twice, : disCarding both
his diamonds. y then leads diamond s. and
the adversaries are forced to discard to their
disadvantage.
Hearts trumps. n to lead, and y and S to
take all five tricks.
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Jss in the I'VE trophy matches. In these s, os4
hands, ". our calculation IL correct the deal
er's side should win 40 per sent. of this num-
Der (2.O54l more tricks than the leaders side.
This would give them 1851 extra tricks. As
n matter VI fact, the actual count shows that
they did get 1904.
Here tie question naturally arises. did the
dealers side hold the number of trumps they
were mathcnntlcally expected TO hold. There
are no statistics. OF this. In Poles work, but IN
our 3ss trophy hands the dealers side should
hold 3SSxB. SS- ., 1863. Actual count shows
they did hold 1912.
Now comes the great conundrum. II a trump
Il worth a trick, which all the foregoing. would
seem to prove. the dealers side should win
3SSx. 10, or 2O4 more tricks than the leaders
aide in these nSS hands. Here are the numbers
they actually did win:
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BALI.IST FOR DUCKS.
q Scientific Discovery that E~iucidSted IA
PuzziIng Mystery.

From me Nr,r OricnuS linrs Democrat.
Few people credit IA duck with the sense he
really possesses" said Fred OHennc, a disciple of
Nlmrod. For years | had been wondering
what had caused the presence OF n good sized
pebble bank on the shore of the lake in the
Grandivola section OF the Louisiana marsh.
Had 1t been n sand bank | could have under
stood 1t. but il was composed Of pebblcs. all
yer. much alike. rounded and smooth almost to
a size. and apparently differing from the small
stones found in the gravel beds of the South.
Several OF the hunters in that section had seen
the pebble beach and, like myself, they could
not understand II. All winter long it seemed
freSher than ut other times. and during the
summer the grass wonld kinder cover its upper
portion and the mud from the fresh water dim
the lustre of the stones near H." edge. There
was not another beach like it in the marsh.
zone winter, in fact II was just when the first
cold spell had struck Ms, was hunting with n
friend In the lake spokc ~, II was. one of the
finest ducking pots in tho State. This wa he
in Canada. When "" reached tn" !ak" there
was not ~ duck to he seen. The next morning |
wH. hI1,mS NJ ~ lnr G GG 6T mar 1T% H"n ,r,. 'G Goc.
~ wallard settled near me. Before | could
rniae my gun ~" entire lpt walked out on the
p"hhlc bank and, % my, astonisl ment' hogan I"
disgorge a lot % small stones like the ones al
ready there, This occupied hut q short
time, and the flock hegan QnockinG and
This settled the mystery OF the pebble
beach In the spring was again hunting in
the lake, and when the IN st warm weather came
the ducks began To 90 home. They would come
To the beach, and after n few preliminaries
swallow "A lot Of the pebbles. then fly ar 1und fOrR
few minutes in order 10 soc II their balance was
all night. II they were too heavy they would
dispOrge n few stones. or II too light swallow a
half dozen more.
- found hy observation that in order fOI the
ducks To make long flights IL was necessary for
them to I'LL up with a certain number OF stones to
secure a proper equilibrium for the return trip:
After l found this out ! always had plenty OF
game to show my frlendA" :
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THE INTER-CITY TOURNEY.

This tournament came to an end last night.
The final result will be found on our sporting
page, as the game was not finished when this
column went TO press.
Few events have attracted more attention
than this. and the interest In the struggle, for
that an entirely new element in tournament
play was introduced "A team of Philistines who
believed not in long suits nor in American
leads throwing down tho gauntlet to fourteen
orthodox clubs.
So successful has the play been as practice
for the coming congress, that another and SINH
lar tournament will be started in the rooms of
the Brooklyn Whist Club next Saturday. and
will continue until May 80. 1t will be open to
teams of four from any reputable whist club.
The same system Of scoring points and tricks
will he followed. although many think it would
be better to call each hand a match. and to give
the team gaining on any hand credit for one
point. whether they gained one trick or seven.
This is the score at the end of the seventh
round of the present tournament:
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The two highest Individual scores to date
are Hawkins. plus "a, and Henriques, plus II,
both Manhattan players.
In the Brooklyn compass whist last Monday.
Rowe and Scrimgeour made high score, y and
:, IL plus; Henius and Stevenson, + and w,
8 plus. There has been quite "A change in the
positions of the leaders for the individual
scores. They now stand: Taylor. l01; Rowe,
90: Henins and stevenson, 49,; Baker, ~.
of New Jersey and all the Brooklyn clubs was
played in Brooklyn last Wednesday. One
hundred and ~ffty-six players took part, and
the result was a victory for New Jersey by s
tricks,
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from NE DeHrer Republican.
James c. Wiley. formerly n ranchman of
Greeley. was arrested by the police yesterday
and locked M on II charge OF vagrancy. but
when city ,laiIer Hobart searched him he found
money ia every pocket, the total footing up the
very. nnvagrant-ltkc sum OF, S7,7hl.5 80, I'm
meGiatrly the charge OF "vagrancy" was
scratched off the police record and "ooncealed
weapons " substituted. for Wiley conveniently
had IA biz revolver in his pocket.
Officers had noticed Wiley for several hours
l%ounging on Larimer street, and his actions had
looked suspicious. lie was dressed very shah
lilly, and he seemed To spend his time GLOWING
people and staring nj them. lie followed Officer
Hendricks two blocks. looking at his brass but
tons. officer Kovsky'~ uniform caught Wiley's
eye Yesterday mnIninp, and when he followed
kl.orsky the ohcer determined To arrest
him. Wiley went to tho station meeklv
scnrch him he resisted and help had
to be called. IL" lad money in nearly
every pocket. There were certificates OF deposit
on Denver banks HEgregating $1,000 and gold
and silver currency TO MAKE the total 81. 16l.5 so.
In answer To the surprised questions Of the off,
GERS. Wiley said he used "a be n rRnCnman at
Greeley, where he and his brothers had made a
fortune out of their farm aud lad retired from
business. II" said lac had been stopping at tho
Western Hotel, taking thing. easy.
When Wilry's money had been restored to
him he was taken M To the Police Court and
fined SD for carrying concealed weapons. This
he paid without n mnrmrr aud WAS allowed to go.
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Since II War,

Rheumatism and Gout cured in cy.ry. case since
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Half OF this amount may be called 10 tricks.
which, deducted from our o.. still leaves "a
tricks to be accounted for. In our article on
March 4 this table was given:
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This Is much the way the hand would bo
played by the best teams in Philadelphia" 80
Mr.. Work says.
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This number, 1856. is o2 more THAI they are
entitled to. They did not. get them because
they held more than their share of the trumps.
for IL has Just been shown that they held almost
exactly their right number. The difference In
skill may account for some OF them. Each of
these five matches was won by a certain mum.
her of tricks. and M the winners were half the
time on the dealers side, they may be credited
with half the total, the results of the matches
M fplInya.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-03-18
hin, .6ul,1I

Poor baby! Your pity goes
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Half of
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Docs Not Wonder the british want It

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.-L. W..
Adams, of San Jose, who for year
past has been general manager of the
New York and British Guiana Gold
Mining Co. in Guiana, is in the city,
He has just returned from the wild
country bordering ON Venezuela.
"There is lots of gold down there" !" he
said. "The mines are on some of the
disputed territory, and ] don't wonder
the British hate to give it ZIP. l judge
tho mining district is about 100 miles
square, and the ground is good all over
It. The mines are rich beyond any
know Of"
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A Constant Visitor.

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A FIGHT IN SCHOOL.

"Orderl Orderl' cried the teacher,
But the naughty thing was done
Eddie rubbed out Tommie's lesson,
And the fight had Just begun.
Little chubby hands were clinching
Jackets torn and rumpled hair.
They could never sit together,
They were such a naughty pair.
So the teacher straightway stood them
In the corner, with high caps,
And two little outstretched palms
From her ruler got ten slaps.
"Now. then, tell me all the trouble
Said the teacher at recess,
But they both talked loud together,
Each one anxious to confess
"Hush, now, children" said the teacher
"Let Eddie speak; one at time"
So Eddie answered, all defiance.
"Tom said his ma uz prettier'n mine, ;
Ida Hammond Clark in Kansas City Star
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An Amdayit.

This is to certify that on May 18th, l
walked to Melick's drug store on pair
Of crutches and bought bottle OF Cham.
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After using three bottles ! am completely
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Sworn and subscribed 10 before me on
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Was stranger story ever told,
In either prose or rhymeY
They pulled his leg, and still the mi
Got shorter all the time.

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He Made Books.

Miss Rosebud Cat her first race And
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Mr.. Straighttip-Oh, that is S., the
bookmaker.
Miss Rosebud enthusiastically )-Do
bring him up and introduce him. You
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sUNBEAMs.

fear my wife does not love me, said
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l had such cold, she didn't offer to do q
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one with the amphorodorous flannel
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what tresure you have won.
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It doesn't take much medicine to cure
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Binks-There really is some honor
about thieves. Waglets-How's that9
Binks-A burglar tried to break into my
house last eight. / fred at him. Waglets
--Welli Blnks-.With keen sense of
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promptly returned the fire.
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Consu II, pit ion
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ID e IN les. Fully
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b o d y. 1t is in
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When baby was sick they gave her rub.
bibg,
When baby was grimy they gave her a
scrubbing.
When baby got older, doll made of
nankin,
And when she was naughty they gave her a
spankin'.
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During the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin,
of Long Reach, W. Va, contracted q
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In speaking of how he cured it he says:
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DeWitt's Sarsaparilla prepared for
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