The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06
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following the one at which they had played the
double set. and proceeding as before. Howell's
way was to play the game in teams OF four, put in
an extra table and set of hands, and instead OF
passing the hands from any given table 10 the
next lower 10 pass them from the middle table o
the first, from the one beyond the middle to
the second, and on, and in this way playing
complete matches with every four in the game,
the hands coming so that each pair struck the op-
posie hands of the identical deals thut the other
pair of their four p aged against any given team.
The drawback TO this that there we're always
two tables idle and set OF hands unplayed by
each team.
Mr.. Clay's method is applicable to any number
Of tables, whether odd or even. His plan is for
the moving pairs to play one-half the mum Der of
trays and take them wit the m 10 the next table,
putting them under those remaining; then play
the top portion and carry them TO the next table
In the same manner until each moving pair has
passed twice around the circle. when it will be
found that they have played ali the boards and
against each of the adversaries equal number
Of times Strange to say, it has also been found
that 1t will AFFORD test for teams of four on
the same plan as the Howell game each playing
the same boards in duplicate as they pass around
the room.'
1t is to be presumed that an even number
OF trays must be placed on each table, and it
cannot be worked with an odd mum ber-Ed-
itor.
Whist and Gambling.
The following interesting article on the
above subject is clipped from the Boston
Transcript:
There was time, and that not very many years
ago, when great portion Of the An erican people
looked with disfavOr upon any game played with
cards. That is not much the case to-day. so far
as regards the game of whist The change in sem
timent has probably come about through recognl
tion OF the fact tn in this country the modern
game OF whist is practically never associated with
gam bling OF all the great whist organizations in
this country there is probably not which coun-
tenanC es gam bling in any way.
Inssmuch as the public disfavor in which cards
were formerly held arose from the fact that even
simple games of chance with piaying-cards some
times led TO gambling, the development OF the
purely amateur element in whist helped to gain
for that game public favor. 1t may be said in this
connection that games In which mental skill is
most required are not usually in favor with the
gam bling fraternity. Chess, for example and
whist are pre-eminently games involving mental
powers. Roulette, faro and rouge-et-noir are pre-
emnently games OF chance. Probably the fact
that gambler. maze their money by fleeing ig-
norant per,ons accounts for this contrast, as the
gamblers dupe wants to play in some game in
which he can imagine that he has an equal chance
against old and skilled gamesters.
Whist Amid Flowers and Re-
freshments.
Last Saturday, May %, a most enjoyable
evening was spent in the cosy rooms of the
Trist Duplicate Club. Nearly all the me bers
were in attendance and brought their many
friends, who par articularly enjoyed the beautt-
tul floral decorations, which were SO artisti-
cally arranged by members of the house COM
mittee.
Over the picture of "our whist queen" Miss
Kate Wheeloek, hung a beautiful bunch of
magnolia blossoms. Graceful snowballs and
modest white violets adorned the pictures of
n. B. Trist and the president of our club, P. J.
Tormey. A great variety of roses and other
delicate flowers, mostly contributed by Mrs.
Frank II. Atwater of Petaluma and Mrs. r. B.
Galley of Oakland, were very prettily arranged
in all parts of the rooms and were generously
distributed among the ladies' After the en-
joyable game of progressive whist. there were
prizes given to the lucky winners and then
delicious refreshments were served. With
every goodnight" hearty invitation was
given to visit US again.
Another Victory for Petaluma.
Monday last a team from the Trist Duplicate
Whist Club of this City, composed of Professor