The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02
6 Greeting to the Women Minister'S
of America.
Rooms of the Trist Duplicate Whist Club,)

Rooms OF the 1TlSt duplicate w MIST CluD,l
Berkshire Hotel building,
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April %, 1879
To Mrs. 7. H. Andrews, Mrs. J. W. Hawley.
Mrs. Waldo Adams, Mrs. clarence Brown,
Miss Susan D. Biddle, Woman's League
Committee, Philadelphia, Pa.-DEAR MADAMs ::
The ladies of the Trist Duplicate
Whist Club of this City send you words
of good cheer and greeting, and desire to ex-
press their wLrm and hearty approval OF the
movement on foot to formulate q woman's
whist league; and they hope your efforts
will be crowned with the success they SO
richly deserve, and also hope its good
influences will extend from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from the Gulf OF Mexico to the
land of the midnight sun. Unfortunately we
will not be able to have represen tation at this
first meeting on account of the shortness of
time, and Mrs. A. Elizabeth Wager Smith of
your city has been invited to present this
communication, to speak Tor US. to act for US
and to represent US in any and every way that
may serve the best interests OF SO worthy an
object.
During the days and hours of this meeting
our thoughts and hearts will be with you, and
we hope they will ever beat in unison with a IL
other hearts whose one great desire is to I'D
hold and promote the interest of our noble
and scientific game; who will teach our chill
dren 10 love it, and who will keep it pure and
homes.
Wishing you joyous NEE ting, we humbly
subscribe ourselves the
Ladies of the Trist Duplicate Whist Club,
through P. ]. Tormey, president.
What Constitutes a Gard of Re-
entry.
Milton C. Work, in whist of To-day" saws:
"a card of re-eutry is one which is sure to
win. and therefore insures the obtaining of
the lead" This is, of course, the proper def
milton of the term "a card OF re-entry," but
how many whist-players there who grasp
the situation. An ace of an upplayed suit is
a card of e-entry. Are there any others?
A good rule 10 adopt in any system of play
is to consider you have card OF re-entry
when you hold ace, as above, or king and
. queen, or four trumps. You have only PCS
sible card of re-entry when you hold king
with one or two small, queen, jack and one
small and one or two other such holdings, but
it is dangerous to count on such holding as
certainty of ge ting in. So without the pos
sibility OF great gains don't take too many
chances. Play conservative. You will surely
win ore tricks IN the long run if you do.
Petaluma Wins from San Fran
cisco.
The San Francisco Whist Club met their
Waterloo Saturday last, the Oath inst, in the
challenge match for the Rideout trophy when
they ran up against the crack team OF the
Petaluma Whist Club. OF course every one
expected that San Francisco would win hands
down, but they didn't, and the score shows
they were not in it after the first round. The
Petalumas sent their regular team-Captain
John L. Camm, c. P. McNear, A. Morstadt
and Lee Falker.
In an interview with one of the Petaluma
players the statement was made that their
success and victory was owing to their good
team work. In nine deals ont of the forty
eight San Francisco gained with q total of
twelve tricks. In twenty deals Peta una
gained with total of twenty-nine tricks and
nineteen deals broke even. Our method OF