The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-06

W get ten tricks, q gain of three.
Although Y knows from the fall of tho cards
that the 9 Of trumps is the top Of nothing, and
Justify such an attack. he carefully avoids lead.
Ing away from the suits in which he will have
%tenace, in the other a single honor. Every time
ne get9 led up to In his good suits no goes on
inR. No S's io @shnes rirb rhe Ere is the NO i misao of aSSsrs.
tenaces, nothing but perfect confidence in the
system and in its results.
PLAYING PAIR MATCHEs.
w aH riE sTS ! p ssstsn 1hd 5p5 PIha{ yess on p@WaE e %ssehss
last by four OF the best memory.duplicate play
ers in !. this part Of the country: President I; +.
deals up and. back against J. b: EEiwselGI. captain
Of the Brooklyn team. It was understood that
the players were to use every effort to memor.
recollection lice aona on Gaen oVe n r 70 AS prG al four oy m see
are noted for their memories. Eiwell being simply
q prodigy IN this respect, the outcome was
spent discussing the system. the players com.
play. TSey we're Unanimous in s Syir the
S yyit , was naiGdt, only a great success" but
factory test OF pair playing ever suggested"
President Otis said it was as nearly perfect as it.
seemed possible TO get it,. Elwell said it was
method Of playing for the Utica trophy. and
Aymar seemed to think Il not only destroyed
much OF the advantage. of memory. but posi-.
lively handicapped the player who tried to re.
mixed.
The mechanical details of the system. trans.
north. even for the everyday. made it very dif.
icult to recall the hands. In tine usual form OF
,sPI 10 sba d; Gsptliieate ., the ,S. players AYERS. can aP. always
on which sac q them are tho cards witch they
makes 1t practically impossible to recognize the
hands until the identification is too late to be of
a any pIs sseri has II re s1xnElea the fH:trf honn Of ar t6e
10 quite, at sea as to which OF the others
Is now the one that was. let us say, clubs on
the original. play; This particular difficulty.
President Otis said. cost him several tricks. be-
fused by the transposition Of the suits. One
hand he recognized about tho sixth trick AS
S psins one On IN ab S orIEin on pi Iavf s r era b hsId e : sini
It was n club. On which side OF him It now was.
and what suit It was, L was impossible for him
been played. He said that il he ever played
fully avoid any attempt 10 recall the hands, as
1t Invariably lost tricks.
Aymar lost two tricks on ono hand which he
thought he recognized as one in which the
player on his LEFT had held a singleton king.
which he could catch by putting up the ace sec.
was not until two tricks later that he saw tho
denl was ono that had not been played before.
OF The hands as overplays. il was not until al.
most the last cards had fallen that he did so. In
the few hands that he recognized earlier Il was
too late to take any advantage OF his knowledge,
and the hands were recognizable simply because
the situations in them were very
such as ace lead bringing down the queen. ten,
There was one hand in which, the original
his partner having ace and two small, two sure
and four good trumps. II third hand
sharply on the lookout for this hand on The over.
play. bu, il was not recognized until six tricks
The %sehanieai "details q 'THF suns system
iishea Feb. g. Which has been very widely copied.
first place A. the first issue OF the new iortnient-
more ~ 9spefT The postess Of the ifonesaitor !" quietly
appropriated the whole scheme AS 4 it were her
truth In the edaRe that people VINO have no
children of their own arc, usually wise, in their
selection OF those that they adopt The Phila-
THE scheme is scarcely worth the energy re-
CURED to manipulate 4. The promoter Is cyl.
MIND. or oyerlooks that factor In the absorption
brought about by something apparently novel.
that in quo iion would Undoubtedly be success
full. but with The full-iedged man cards or their
situations. combinations, and the keys to them.
A black tenace Is no more deceptive than a red
one. and should a player know that certain
sombre combinations are to reappear In red he
would surely dismiss the idea OF color as means
OF Identification, except ms IL may be reversed or
TO the other. either black or rcd.
Then, too. think of four kindly disposed
cranks who are willing to sit in another room
and transpose for an evening""
The Press forgets that the changed combine
lions arc In another hand, and that oven II Two
suits are placed IL is impossible to rocoilect
which OF the remaining two is the one that you
want to recall. As to the -four kindly disIhNled
cranks who are supposed to spend the entire
evening transpOsinE hands, THE SUN represen-
tative took charge OF sill that on Wednesday
night, unassisted. and II took him just forty
minutes leaving him nearly thrce hours to
watch the play. Fonr mon could do all ting
work In ten minutes.