The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-21
AROUND THE WHIST TABLE
<IBtSY AND ST. PAUL BAI1LTH0
FORTHE WHIST LBAG UE TROPHY.

No Permanent Possessor or the Trophy
r,r some Tinn- Yet-The Latest Match
WA. Played Bndiy-Now Aihs.y Won.
ny defeating the Whist Club OF New York.
Albany won the right to represent the East
.rsin,t the West at Detroit yesterday. her an
,.rori,, being the ST. Paul Whist Club. which
.urr.nlered the trophy to the last congress.
r.. s.atcs was not finished whom this column
~.nt to press, but the result will DO found on
tho sporting page tomorrow morning.
From present appearances 1t Will DO year or
two before the trophy comes into the permanent
,,..ss.Ion Of any club. The conditions are that
Oh. holders shall defend the cup against all
rhnl-users. and the FIRST club winning 1t twenty
,n., exclusive Of tho result Of the annual
,or-ranrnts. shall keep it. No rar the Hamilton
,,it., rlub Of West Phi lad 81 ohia 10 in the lead
attn fourteen games TO its credit In four
war. Albany Is next with slight, then st. Paul
with Eve. ani Minneapolis with four. Those
b.,Ing two each are baltimore. Capital. Con-
,nentsl. Sartacansett. and Park. while New
y,rk and Philadelphia have one each. ST. Paul
Ina. never list the cup in . challenge match,
bs,ine held II uatil tho congress last year.
Nnrr A casual examination of the recorded
MAY IN III, match between New York and AL
bany 1t must be confessed that both teams
,la,rd very badly. but OF tho two New York
WIS several degrees the worse. Tho re~ult Will
rt,ssbly lie claimed BY some persons Ms due to
th.difyereuce In system. but II is too late 10
make any claims for difference In system now.
The old school has borrowed so many ideas from
the new and the new school has taught tho
o.hr- so many better ways OF managing
IN, old system that the difference be-
tween the two Is only that OF degree.
In the reports OF tho game between Albany
and Columbia which was supposed to be ultra
long suits against radical short suits. we ind
the following By an editor who had examined
al The recorded play OF the hands: The play
VA. very much after tho same order by both
teams; short suits were opened quite as often
by the Albany team. who have heretofore been
considered long suit players as by the wash
ington team. whose leaning has been toward the
more frequent play OF supporting cards"
twin take more than the result Of . match
or two to convince people that there Is anything
IN al system. The steady gains made week after
week by those who play in compass whilst
matches are much stronger arguments than In
Jlyidual games, the result Of which often
turns upon the play OF 4 singlo card In one hand.
-Four Of the most important matches for the
championship at the last congress were lost In
this manner. l.. the short-suiters lost by . sim
gle p'av Of this kind. the system was blamed for
the wNp's match; II tho long-suiter did It. II
was "r,,tcn whist" but tho system was all
rlsst. The pay OF one card, the club 400 In
bo'h case. lost tho New York match with Bal
tim IRE and tho Brooklyn match with the y. J.
Athletic. New York lost to Chicago by tho lead
nfa single card. q trump led up to . call The
Americans lost TO Hyde Park by . hnesse
against one card. System had nothing to do
wi'h any Of these results
The match between New York and Albany
wt~ q tie at forty -four hands, and the play
watch practically settled IL arose In . very sim
l,r situation which comes up every day. Both
side, had an established suit and the side in
the lead had four trumps TO the king and an acc
To get In with. At both tables the same situA-
ton came about and At both tables the player
lea trUmps. won by partner with the ace. The
Jack is returned. covered by queen second hand
aad won by king. Partner Is marked with
email trump. and II another lead of trump,
nnds those OF the sdversAries divided the plaJ
',ns every other trick. One player boldly tool
the chance OF dropping all the trumps together
the other did not and the difference In the re-
'uit was -four tricks. whereupon the whist Cd
tors throughout the country set up - howl
ahpat a short-suit Waterloo .
such things are continually happening IN
match play. Here is q hand from the ope nj . Z
match Of the tnterc!ub championships In PhilA-
u''1aia- played between the brst fours OF the
A.! and th,isdelPhia Whi,, Club in which
sur and at the other table he leads a difisr.n
one hyth being suits OF four cards to an honor
That !!ute difference settled the match. a, il
r,t Philadelphia six tricss Had they beer
playing he common'sensc game. 1t would hav'
Waterloo All are partners against w. z
dealt and turned the heart \. The underiinet
card win. the trick, and the card under IL is tn,