The San Francisco call., 1898-06-05
WHIST MATCH BY CORRESPONDENCE


 WHIST MATCH BY CORRESPONDENCE
 Whist the journal that every whister in the country watches anxiously for each month, has started the long-looked-for whist tourna- ment by correspondence. We afraid it has made serious mistake at the start by asking us to be one of the contestants-as a long suter."
 The details of the tournament fol- lows. furnished by the above journal:
 Sixteen players take part in the tourney, eight long-suit players being opposed to eight short-suit players Four tables are formed. and at each table long-sut pair will meet short suit pair. There will be no change of position every player having the same partners and adversaries throughout the tourney.
 Each player will play loo hands, acting in turn as leader. second, third and fourth hand. A set of numbered whist blanks are sent to every player, and each blank will show the hand to be played a given deal and the po- sition of the player. These are to be retained by the player for reference.
 The tourney will be diveded into four tions GA. B. c and D) of twenty-five hands each, and with each section will be sent & duplicate set of blanks to be filled up and returned-thus, north at table l will receive the twenty-five diagrams that form section A, showing his cards and position each deal. At the same time he will receive an explanation of the system of play adopted by his partner and atyersa ries (as stated by tbemselves) and a separate set of blanks for those deals in sec ton in which 1t is his turn to play-in this
 
 He would enter his cards in the proper spaces and return the second set to this office in the stamped envelope enclosed for the purpose At this office the cards played by north would be noted in our diagrams and then transferred When received back the cards played by north and east are entered upon south set or blanks and sent away, and so on-always in sets of six seven at time.
 One person only will know all the players and all the hands; one hand in every ye four Is an arranged hand, the remaining Ss cards be- ing shuffed and mixed, till they as nearly as possible realized the ideal equivalent of being 'shot out of a volcano before they were dealt for the other three hands. Nevertheless we question if the most careful design could in some cases have produced combinations more curious or more likely to result in some ex- ceedingly interesting play:
 Every combination will be opened in turn by two long-suit teams against short-suit defense, and by two short-suit teams against so framed as to afford long and short suffers alike the best possible opportunity of proving which system gives the best results from supporting card or fourth best, a number showing lead or top O nothing"
 THE SILENT GAMES.
 This is the name of a new monthly rnaga- zine devoted to chess, checkers and whist We hate to see the head put onto the tall but 1t comes from Carthage. Mo. and that may be the way they do things down in the T reclSon'' country. This little work costs 50 cents a year. Sample copies sent free. Address The Silent Games. Carthage Mo.
 WHIST BY HARVARD, VAL BAND PRINCETON The intercollegiate whist tournament recently held by Harvard, Yale and Princeton was a great success. Harvard finished first, Yale second Mir Howard Rogers, whist editor of the Evening Journal of Albany, N Y, says:
 ''In their struggle for the chamr. nship the college boys showed remarkably good discipline and the match was of the most orderly and business-like ever played There was not a word of comment among the players that could be heard at the next table, and what little fault finding took place more in the way of good -natured regret than Of criticism. The players changed their places expeditously, kept their scores with remarkable accuracy, and attended strictly to the play In manner that would put many of our older organizations to the blush.
 'The Harvards undoubtedly the match by superior play. They were better strategists and seemed better able to read the cards than either of the teams from the other colleges