The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-21
FOR WHIST PLAYERS.
FOR TIRE ANNUAL
MEETING AT TACOMA
To BE Held April 4, and S-Teams
to Compete and List of Primes to
He Dfstribufed-Ruies and Regu-
Iaffons te Govera the Contests
How the Tacoma Gibbs VIII En-
terrain fhe Visitors.

The executive committee OF tae North
Pacific Waist Association has Issued two
neat little booklets OF particular interest,"
70 whist PLAYERS One contains the con-
szif4.ion CT TIE league, the rules for chal-
I@urA contests for the North Pacific wis.
trophies and ether Information. togethe-
vita tire complete code Of laws, as promRl-
gated by tae American Whist League the
other pamphlet gives the programme and
rules governing ire fourth annual tourna-
rnsrt % the association 10 be held IN Ia
coma Anrfl / and s These booklets can
be secured on application TO the secretary.
George Lewis Cover. National Bank OF
Con- nerca. Tacoma
A recent article in the Tacoma Ledger
saws. that whist players who do not ap-
preciate duplicate whist are few and Tar
between and they usually do not know
what duplicate whist IS. az least they new
er saw anything hu: the single table game,
and know nothing of the form now in
vogue. There are several kinds OF dupii-
cate Az first the only game played was
observation-disclosures. In which there are
only four players After one pair has
played tha north and south hands, the
boards are reversed for the over play. and
the same players play the east and west
hands OF the same deal A player can
rnemorize the deal on the first play. and
take advantage Of the features remem-
berei on the second play, and for this rea-
son the game is justly condemned by all
levers OF whist and II Is never made use
OF 10 decide a match. At the coming con-
tests no singis-table-duplicate will be
played
There are two forms of duplicate now in
general use: club progression" and two
table duplicate" and the Tacoma contests
will be played upon either one or the other
or a combination Of both OF these systems
The principal fight Will be for the club
80 Aa-r -
played entirely on the two-table duplicate
system, the usual method OF playing i'm
portant trophy contests. Each club IS
restricted TO one team OF four, so each
club picks out its strongest team and a
battle royal snsues. There are twenty
two clubs in the association. At Portland
fourteen and at Seattle fifteen clubs enter
ei in this contest. II Is played on the lose
and-drop-out or tennis plan; teams from
the same city are not drawn against each
other in the first round. and as soon a
club loses a match IL Is dropped out.
Matches consist Of twenty-four deals. ex-
cept in the final round. which Is thirty-sIx.
Half OF a team sits north and south at
one table. the other half east and west at
the other table, and after one pair plays
the north and south hands, the deals are
passed to the other table, where the other
pair plays the east and west hands The
four players making the most tricks out
of the same set OF hands win the match,
which Il. in all respects. as free from luck
and sure q test of skill as Ii Is possible
TO secure.
Tacoma will be represented in this con-
test by five teams, which Will probably
be made up about as follows: Tacoma
Whist and Chess Club, r. W. Clark
Webb. Goodman and Summerfeld: Bach
elors' Cub, DR.. Gobie, Sahse. Devine
and Patterson. Chamber of Commerce
rlszh all Id
Ryder and Prof. Dewey: Tacoma Athletic
Club. Ralph Metcalf, f. u. Nash and
others; Deschapelles club. Richter, REM
ington. Kershaw and Keith.
X is expected that there will be at
least one team OF four from Olympia.
Everett Fairhaven and perhaps Afrom
Montesano. Victoria ard Spokane. Seat
tie VIII send about four teams. II is said.
Including all the well-known PLAYERS OF
that burg. and Portland will send three
teams. Richard Nixon. president of the
association. captains the Trist Club
team. and DR.. Nichols the Portland
Whist Club team. and IT il not known
what club the other team plays for. The
winner OF the match secures first possess
sion OF the championship cup. which has
been held az Tacoma for the last two
years by the Deschapelles Club. Probably
the six strongest teams Of four In Wash
ington and Oregon are the Nixon and
Nicholas teams. OF Portland the Pres
ton and Young teams OF Seattle. and the
Clark and Richter teams OF Tacoma. and
as Portland. Seattle and Tacoma each
have two good representatives. II ought to
he very pretty contest. Victoria aud
Spokane are uncertain quantities. never
having sent In a team, and they, or even
some OF the smaller places. may send in a
dark horse.
Almost equal interest is beginning TO
center In the city contest for the Tacoma
trophy. which VIII be inaugurated this
year. II viii be PLAYED between teams
Of twelve. representing cities on a round
robin schedule: that IS. each city pIaya a
match against each Of the other cities
IN the contest. A cut OF this fine trophy
which IS presented by the business men
Of Tacoma as gift of the city 70 the
association, appeared IN the Ledger a
couple OF weeks ago. and IL viii be the
handsomest ard mos; appropriate whist
trophy west OF the Mississippi. This con-
test will be played on he progressive
duplicate plan. as usually niavAd IN in
ter-city or large lnrer-ciub matches There
are a number OF diTeren, WAYS OF PLAYING
progressive dup,icate but the essential
feature of all systems IS number OF
tables. and only one set az deals which
are Played successfully at all the tables
hy al the players IN the match. Each man
plays the same deal bllt once ara thara
IS no possibility OF nArnoriEing he hands.
that Is, he PLAYS only the north ard south
or the east and west side as he NAV han
nen 20 be assigned Il IA a very social
form Of tire game, for every pair on a
tesrn p'ays a few deals agains, each ~
he opposing pairs. and then moves on
the progression OF players and deals he
Ing 50 arranged and when the match -
completed. an equal number OF pairs on
Both teams have played all % the deals
while opposed 10 a pair % the onpoefsn
team. hence the team taking the greatest
number % tricks wins the match. The
trophy. however. viii Re held subject -
challenge during the year. and remains
the property % the association. Seattle
Tacoma. Portland and probably 0ivranis
VII enter teams FOR This contest. each a.
which will - composed of the strongest
PLAYERS chtainahle- Tacoma thinks she
can wiz this matcA.
The third trophy contest IS the chan
rionshtp for pairs. which vas tried rr-
the frst tine last year and proved a graa.
success. rev trophy q dne silver run
called tia Seattle trophy was offered
There were about thirteen tables or
fwerty-six entries at Seatt9a ara the
finals wsrc very hotly contested. Therkei
sea and Jo1nson. % Portland. winning ~
Two tricks over elise and Young % eea =
year tAe contest will he rnucA larger. az
ths arrangement os the schedule permits
thres-fourtnx az all entering IN the Gun
contest 20 Afterwards play in this match
TIE preliminary play Is on the club pro
greSsiv@ system IN two halves ire frs
hsls 20 - played Friday evening and fh~
last ~sIs Saturday afternoon A. e. n-a