The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-08

here IN the West We cali Il whist playing. The
MathiAs brothers open the top OF n long, worth
with fourth best. That procedure may be called
short.suit whist, top of nothing or anything
way We cali IL a iong-suit opening from the top.
Tho Matthias brothers played In Elk sittings
during the Minneapolis trophy contest In just
Ing card. He held three small trumps, four
small clubs seven high, four small diamonds
Hearts trnmpS. He led the spade queen, and
saved ono trump, Are the Matthias brothers
players, and their experience teaches them that
American leads are winners In the long run.
In tho A; "; / trophy contest the Toledo
open with a short;suit lead or supporting card
lead. They played, plenty OF supporting cards to
the hand, and opened with the top OF n long
weak suit, when they had trump strength or
fw Tr1bsrm a lead , through Iou a t tnTnSd ,b hSnG sbey A nTc
strict long suit players and owe their nreat vic.
tory to that system, which they stuck, to all
through the long siege for the championship.'
boon any Misunderstanding about this. 1t is
Blade on July 25. No ono ever said that any Of
thu Toledo players were short %suitors, but every
Ing very shrewd players. well disciplined, and
not afraid to use some OF tho common-sense at
tSeh% ,Sak to X, lhc I. old l,I Ipnai;snit Ein s:m TO . say
which that game rests: Tho top Of nothing
as lIt lChu VI luO tbp VI ~ iulk Wthh ulI IL NV
called. is not the ~long.suit game. but u fat contra-
diction OF It's fundamental principle. The object
al and 5e pTotsct te the top psp ct e lp BY SHOWING TeSf sun him rs that To Ta iho
suit contains no trick.taking cards, at the same
time offering him n, finesse with those hc mny
Theory OF Whist" He never dreamed Of such a
thing. The ~long.suit theory does not play for
start with the small cards Of your long suit, 30
as to get all the higher ones out OF the way, and
sD p the best q Sp them DT may !t BE-. no matter no"
There is nothing in the long-suit game about
calling through honors turned: and the practice
OF leading supporting cards to your partner. even
In the middle OF q hand, is not mentioned by any
longsuit Huthorities, except as = desperate re.
have led out all the trumps.
The simple fact Of the matter Is that tho ex-
R Fse IoS of ,his Soan.TI r. G sst r%ei an yf 6ns asEss w sass
strict long;suit game - they should read Pole,sex-
Ris lsses st t work lns o @f6 %, EVE Gvo S y as 81 SCI % tSfds n
They will probably be surprised to ind that they
do not agree with n tonth part of 1t.
There woro plenty Of so-called " strict long
suit teams at tho seventh congress who were
S Ssxil g the aom dso Vi T Wbiob 1hS stump s,Is n in yssi0e Us
call attention in future articles. One OF the
most amusing was the way they got out Of be;
to lead a sneak and had an ace of another suit.
they led tho ace first. 30 that they could say they
followed With iVtiRs the singleton emn i Is there rn1 "nythinss
about that IN Polef Is that establishing, dc.
Tending, and bringing in the small cards OF o
long suit Not a bit OF IT., 1t is going back to
good common.sense, whist to-day. and The Sun
Is glad to see such players as those on tho Min
neapolis team adopting 1t. They are supposed
to no Northumberland long suffers, but, judging
from their play nj the congress. they use about
as much common sense MS any of them. An ex-
ample OF their play will be given next week.
OUR PRoBLEMs.
Several correspondents have asked THE sun
to give some OF the hands from the seventh con-
gress as perception problems, in order that they
may test their abilities in reading the cards and
see IL they can figure it out as well as the ex-
perts. Hero is a situation that came up in one
of the matches for the Hamilton trophy. n
leads, and w has turned up the heart 5. s
holds tho following cards:
H-QS76
Coo
D-Q963
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