The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-06
The Rideout Trophy Ninth Contest.

The Rideout Trophy Ninth Contest.
The ninth challenge match for the Rideout
trophy took place in the rooms OF the San
Francisco Whist Club last Saturday afternoon
and evening Mr. f. F. Freeman OF the Trist
Duplicate Whist Club acted referee and
conducted the match. For quick work this
match beats the record. Forty-eight deals
were played in hours and 10 minutes.
The oaklands gained on nine deals, the San
Franciscos on nineteen and twenty broke
even. Total score, San Franciscos %, Oak
lands ID, the San Franciscos winning by net
gain OF 10 tricks. The players representing
the Oakland team were Messrs. Nj Eyre, y.
Halton. S. NJ. Haslet and A. n. Brown. The
San Francisco Club was represented by t. G.
Richards, the veteran captain. and Messrs.
G. A. Singer, A. Moreton and W. T. Blayden,
the latter acting as substitute for Mr.. Hantfin.
The Linda Vista Club of Oakland was next
on the list, but owing TO the Inability OF
President Galley to play in the team the chal-
lenge has been withdrawn.
The Oakland club is next in order. and will
play on Decem Der II and Ia if no objections.
are offered.
President Bates OF the San Francisco Whist
Club has the right idea of not allowing-other
things being equal-the same players to con-
stitute the team in defending the trophy. If
some of our Eastern clubs would pattern after
Mr. Bates more interest would be taken IN the
games. What we want is team work.
Teams Of -Four.
Milton C. Work, whist editor of the Evening
Telegraph OF Philadelphia, says: Four men
cannot get along together successfully In a
long series of whist encounters unless their
ideas are in perfect harmony. Ideal team work
can never exist where one or more players
have adopted "a system" under compuision,
where one man plays one way and another
follows theories that are Numerically the
opposite, where one man Is star, ofhcious
captain, or coach, who dictates TO the others
what should and what should not be done,
where the players so jealous o + each other
that they watch more closely for partners
errors than they do Tor tricks, or where a
player is hauled over the Goals by his partner
for each mistake he happens to make. We
agree with the Sun in believing the team work
OF the Hamilton four, while far from perfect,
is rather above the average, and we are in
clfned to assign for this the following reasons:
(d) Long experience together in match play.
~ Absolute satisfaction with the system in
use.
(c) knowledge of each others ideas.
(d) No "bossing" or offcious coaching"
(e) No stars, the four players being as nearly
even in playing ability as it is possible for four
different men to be.
% An absence of over-confdence.
Wanted-Name for a Whist Plan.
IN the playing of hand at whist 1T often
occurs that you play higher and then lower
card. This play is made 10 ''csll for trumps,
TO "echo," to ''sub-echo," 10 "change the suit, -
TO reverse" the meaning OF the discard, TO
show command" to show four trumps, and a
number of other things, and there is no name
for the play, excepting "ealp' and "echo' in
1 this country, and neither one can apply to the