St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-19
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ten with North, for his play Of the eight at
trick indicates this holding to a certainty,
and the six and four with East for West
cannot have either unless he has played a
false card; even if West has played falsely,
and II the trumps evenly divided, North
VIII be bound to overtake jack Of trumps If
South leads that card, for North will net be
certain that the trumps will fall evenly, and
will overtake to lead again II either adver-
sary drops out. We thus figure that North
Will be in the lead at trick 4, and will have
no indication as to Souths suit; even If he
leads a fourth round of trumps, South can
get but one discard and North will still have
to guess between the two other suits. 1t is
proper to say that we should interpret
Norths four-card trump lead as indicating
three Of each plain suit and four trumps; !;
the only other possibility is an established
spade suit, but we consider this holding i'm
probable, for the reason that we must in
that case credit North with playing very
forward game In leading trumps from four
headed by queen, without showing his suit
first. The lead Of the singleton spade is
therefore to be condemned for If partner has
but three, there is very long spade suit
against and the lead may do a great deal Of
damage; besides this, 1t will induce partner
to think that spades is South's strong suit,
and unless the fall of the cards indicates that
1t is not North will return that suit after he
has exhausted the trumps. 1t is true that the
club lead is open to the objection that, count
Ing North for three clubs, there are but three
cards OF the suit with the adversaries and
one Of them has but one club and possibly
none and consequently that small trump
may be made by theml but in our opinion
this possibility is much more than Offset by
the advantage Of Informing North of the
club suit and starting its establishment, for
in no other way can this information be con-
Veyed.
AS matter Of fact, one Of the best players
| IN the club led the Spade, and the result was
most disastrous; North won with queen, ex-
hausted the trumps and led king of spades,
having nothing to tell him that South had
lead sneak; Westiwon with ace returned
the suit and East brings, in his spades with
the assistance of ace of clubs and ace of
hearts. Capt. Fiske's team lost the match by
only three tricks, and would have won had
it not been for the loss. on this deal. The
winning team is composed of Ward, Stoltze
Potter and Sanders, but they will not be al
lowed to hold the trophy long without g
struggle, as two more teams have challenged
Sargent, Mum, Fetter and Schurmeier have
have to play whist. Miller, Buford, Gordon
and Zenzius are next on the list, and ought
to put up a strong fight.
CHICAGO VS.. ST. PAUL.
We give below two deals from the Chicago.
st Paul match of April IL:
DEAL g.
The Hands
North-spades s, 6, 4, 8; hearts. X, 9, 8
| clubs, Q, 6. 5, 4; diamonds @, g. East
| Spades, A, 2; hearts, A. ], 10, 2; clubs, A
| K, z; diamonds, A, 10, 8, Z. South-Spades
| Q, j, 8. z; hearts, s, g. A.; clubs 9, 8, q; dia.
monds, K, s, 2. West-Spades K 10. 5
! hearts, Q, T. 5; clubs, ], TO- s; diamonds
J, s, 5, 4. Ace of clubs trump. Leader
| South.
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