The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

Inc play at Table 2
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Score, North and South, 10.
COMMENT.
Trick I've approve South's lead of
trump. 1t is his only four card suit,
and the balance of his hand is fairly
strong. We should be pleased to have
Mr. Works opinion of this lead and to
know whether he defends the lead of
seven OF diamonds which was made at
the other table by a member of his
team. There is hardly a question in
whist about which there is so much
difference Of opinion as the lead from
hands containing four trumps and
three three-card suits. We suggest
this hand for use in one Of the Tele-
graphs whist contests.
Trick 6-South leads queen of hearts
to his partners suit. which is fairly in
d1cated by East's club lead and Vests
diamond discard. West rightly covers
with king to prevent finesSe by East.
Trick NORTH returns his fourth best
heart Cavendish would return the
lowest of four or more remaining, but
we find many advantages from re-
turning fourth best
Trick 8-South. GanEsee that North has
the remaining hearts with the excep-
ton of the ten or nine. This card may
be the ten, ands if so, may be either
with West or East, for West may have
covered from king tten, deuce. South
leads the losing trump, giving a clear
trick over any other play he could have
made. South isosentftled to credit for
the play, but it is doubtful whether it
was sound. If hes could have placed the
ten of hearts with North, the sound
ness of the play Funquestionable; but
he can not do SO; if It is with East, the
losing trump lead can gain nothing and
will lose a trick ovef the heart lead if
the diamonds are distributed as they
actually are. If the entire command
in diamonds Is with North and South,
or il North holds the king guarded, the
lead loses nothing. II II ten Of hearts is
with West, the losing trump lead may
lose nothing, or 1T may lose one or even
two tricks, depending on the lay of the
diamonds. as they actually lie, It would
lose one trick, providing West leads
club on winning the lead of a heart
by South, and plays king Of diamonds
secondhand on lead Of a small dia-
mond by South. The position is an in
teresting one, and will bear close anal
ysis.
Trick 9-South again plays on the
assumption that North holds ten of
hearts; to gain any advantage from
. the losing trump lead, he must put UP
ace Of diamonds here, and he does it,
knowing that he can discard his two
small diamonds II the hearts lie as he
appears to consider most probable.
Trick 10-South guards against the
possibility of losing his ace Of clubs
by making it before leading the heart,
tn a 40 OIL frif
with diamonds if he or his partner
holds ten Of hearts.
COMMENT BY MR.. WORK.
We published last week a deal from
the Hamilton-St. Paul match at Brook
lyn which contained two features Of
unusual interest,"; the low lead from
ace and five others, and the play third
hand of ace of trumps and the return
of small one, holding ace, queen and
two small. The Philadelphia Telegraph
publishes the deal with our comments,
and adds some interesting notes which
we give below. We are pleased to learn
that we were mistaken in thinking
that the Eastern expert would not
commend the low,lead from the hand
Following is the Telegraph's comment
I'VE cannot agree with Mr.. Bum
that few experts outside of the Twin
Cities would lead fourth best heart
with Vests hand While with weak
trumps we consider it dangerous pol
icy to make this opening, and think
our opinion in that respect Is generally
shared with as. strong trump COM
bination as ace, queen and two others
we favor Mr.. Bunn,s pet opinion, and
believe very general sentiment of
the best players.dn gthe East, at least
is in accord with this judgment. We
are surprised that in this particular
deal, the Hamilton West played as he
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would have supposed that any one
of the Hamilton, four would, with the
West hand, have opened the fourth
best heart, and we would further have
expected that euenssif he had failed
to make this opening he would have
at trick 2. If He had done this the
disadvantage OF the ace lead would
have been entirely remedied The
chances are that, owing to the calibre
of his opponents, he was more conser-
vative than his usual policy dictated.
THE situation at table 1, trick 2,
seems to emphasize the need of the
adoption OF the ace, queen echo to show
four trumps, as suggested by this de-
partment last year. AS the situation
stood, without that convention, if West
wins with the ace and returns the
queen, instead of the fourth best there
is grave danger that his partner will
all his trumps. The proposed play
which we propose to discuss at length
in the near future would have been
Of the greatest value In this instance"
THE GRAND COUP.
Cavendish says that the opportunity
for making the grand coup will occur
on an average not more than once in
| twenty thousand games. We believe
that this is no exaggeration; we have
seen the play made but once in our
whist experience prior to Oct. IA, 1895.
In the progressive game, at the st. Paul
| Chess and Whist club last Wednesday
night, the opportunity arose and was
promptly taken advantage of. We
give the deal and play below; Messrs.
Briggs and Bunn were the North and
South players The grand coup is not
| in itself a difficult play; it requires only
careful attentionfto the fall Of the cards
| to be able to perceive the chance when
| 1t arises, and noimore whilst ability to
| take advantage of oithe chance than
many other situations require. The
| bird Is priced for It's extreme rarity,
rather than for any difficulty In captur-
| ing it after 1t makes its appearance.
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