The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28

Trick 4-North must discontinue the
spades, as one opponent will trump and
the other discard.
Trick 6-West makes an effort to obtain
the lead. He evidently located the K
hearts with his partner.
through the strong club suit. West must
take his partners trick as the ace clubs
is marked with East.
Trick 8-The 10 D is only variation of
the tactics used at table l. to lead through
the king. North, however, plays the king
and gains two tricks by the play. North
noted that East had not asked for trumps,
although he had opportunities to do so in
both spades and hearts.
WHISTLES.
George L. Bum, in the ST. Paul Globe,
thus describes pretty trump plav:
Another pretty point in trump play
arose in a practice game the other night;
small club is turned by West; North
leads ace of trumps; East plays five; South
has the following hand: Spades jack 3;
hearts. 6, 5; clubs, K, Z; diamonds, a, X,
@, ], z, 6. 4. what should South play on
his partners ace of trump? Clearly the
king, for in all probability North has
both queen and jack of trumps, as with
out them he would not lead ace unless
| he had seven trumps at least;
by throwing the king, South gets
out of the way and enables North to get
three swings and thereby probably to ex-
haust all the adversaries' trumps, South
meanwhile indicating his great diamond
suit by his discards, while If South plays
his small trump his king wins the next
trick and he must either lead his diamonds
and have the suit shut out by an adverse
trump or he must lead one of the other
suits, taking the chance of losing several
tricks in those suits by the attempt to put
i i
four tricks are gained by throwing the
king. as North held six trumps with ace,
queen, jack and was thus enabled to draw
all the trumps before his singleton dia-
mond was taken away from him.
The question of woman's whist league
is being discussed. The Philadelphia Tel
egraph thus comments on the subject:
The large number of women minister's
from Philadelphia and other cities that
will attend the Brooklyn congress fur
nishes most conclusive evidence of the in
terest taken by the fair sex in the game,
and proves beyond doubt that IN the future
women whist is question that must be
seriously considered by all interested in the
game. Women in whist must
therefore be recognized either by giving
them co-equal rights with men in the
American Whist League or by the forma-
ton of an associate organization, which
will act in conjunction and harmony with
the A. W. L. upon all subjects of legisla
ton, and which will hold its own tourna-
ments, awarding the women's champion
ship of America to It's champions.
For many reasons the latter plan appears
to be by far the more feasible and advan-
tageous; that it snonld be got under
way few will question, and that the time
for launching IL is the Brooklyn congress
there can also be but little dopbt.
1.-The following end situation occurred
cards are in each hand and trumpS are
out; North has king, nine and five of dia-
monds, East queen and six of diamonds
and jack OF hearts; South seven and three
of diamonds and queen of hearts; West
ten and eight of diamonds and the thir-
teenth spade North leads king of dia-
monds and East throws queen of dia-
monds enabling West to win the next
trick with the ten of diamonds and make
the thirteenth spade; whereas, by playing
low, West would win the next trick and
would be compelled to lose his heart to
South's queen"
All the writer's of whist news in the
Eastern papers say that in local whist cir
cles matters are very quiet Just at present.
All the ''stars" are in Brooklyn, and many
other PLAYERS have gone to the country on
outing trips.
Hereafter the Tuesday Thursday and
Saturday night games at the Trist Dupli-
cate Whist Club will be started promptly
at 8:15 o'clock. The contest committee
propose to enforce this rule strictly if it is
possible to do so, and players arriving at
the clubrooms after that time will not be
given chance to play if the tables have
been made up.
"You cannot favorably impress gentle
men with your game by humping the
table upon the delivery of certain winning
cards that you happen to hold. You add
L IL.
Just as surely if thrown with quiet dig
nifty. G. D. P. II"
The Newark Call has this advice to
players training for match:
1.-The whist brain of a player should
have complete rest for at least ten days
previous to the game; in that time no
whist should be played; no debatahle or
knottv questions should be entertained;
no study nor solving of problems should
be INDUCED in. In this manner one COM
mences with fresh, vigorous mind, and
is much better able to retain his powers
longer than when he is whist STALE"
The whist editor-in-chief of THE CALL
started for the Brooklyn congress, but has
not been heard of since he met President
Schwab, and report has it that he is lost in
Robinson County.
To students: In the middle of hand
South leads the of spades, second hand
plays Z; North holding K, 8, 8, d, plays K,
and the trick is taken by fourth hand with
the A. Five better than the are ac-
counted for. If you were North and strong
in trumps would you exhaust trumps and
give your partner spadeP
If you hold A, Q, 10 and of trumps and
our partner leads the 8 of trumps, second
hand plays 2, what would you do2
If player leads the ace and follows
with the 10 how many cards has he in
suit; what does he show and what does b e
denyP
If he leads the king and it wins and
he follows with the knave what does he
show and deny?
If he leads the ace and follows with
what has he and how many cards in suit?
If he leads the knave and follows it with
the ace how many cards in suit has he?
II he leads the knave and follows it with
the queen what has he?
If you are second hand holding A, K
and 10 of a plain suit what would you
play on a led?
Holding K, Q, 10 and what would you
play second hand on led2
Holding K ] only, what would you play
Sc cond hand on an 8 led2
An ending for students.
A trick is often lost by careless play at
th e end of hand. Here is an iliustr alton
of an ending which came in local nIav last