The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
AROUND THE WHIST TABLE.
suoRT-sUITERs DEFEATED BIZ JUsT 4
LITTLE SHORTER SUITERS

r..Ssv York whist Club'aT Team Wins from
che American whist Club of Boston
Analyses of Some Playa Swing "f Eight.
Ir.r A long series OF Victories the famous
p,r,mld tenn Of the American Whist Club Of
poston have lost the A. W. l.. challenge trophy.
a, shortsuiters In the best sense OF the term
,h.v have made themselves an enviable rec
.I h,t they fell foul OF n team that played
,bom lust a little shorter. and were not
n.mnered by a system which forces a player
80 make lot Of interior and other freak leads
IN crder to avoid deceiving his partner by his
nn.ninrs. There must be something wrong
vrh A system which requires a man to lead
,hs deuce from a suit OF 10 8 2 to show his
r,rtner that he holds six trumps TO the A X 10.
md does not know what TO do with them.
Icoording TO Howell. who was present at the
r,tch and gives a most interesting account OF
q IN the Boston Herald. tho team from the
what Club Of New York-Elwell. Taylor. Faber
,,d Neyman-won tho game on their merits.
hscsuse even II the Americans had not dropped
. angle trick they would still have lost the
r..,ch on the play. That the holders knew
,ho, had a hard game on rand IL evident from
On. fact that they took On Bouve instead Of
ph.,ns and the four that sat down to play
ward. Becker. MesseY. and Bouve-are un-
dorbtedly the best men in New England to-
dov Elvell says he could not help smiling
rbon he saw Bouve. the stanch defender Of
simon pure long-suitism. leading singletons
and ducking his partners supporting cards.
Init all the New York men agree that Bouv6
layed the modified game quite as we'll as any
man on the team and probably dropped less
tricks than any oil them.
BEFORE the New York men went to Boston
oripions we're very much divided as to their
A. n
they played tho game they can play. the supe-
riority OF their system alone. which Is common
sense In its widest meaning. would win the
dav. The Street attachment used by the
Americans was responsible for at least four Of
the tricks they lost, and their manner OF show
ing number OF 'rumps on the adversary's lead
BY echoing with two or four exactly. but not
with three, cost them several more. The New
York men seem to think the Americans were
tied down too much by their system in OPEN
Ing hands, because they cannot lead a low
card Of a long suit unless 1t is accompanied by
both reentry andtrump strength. This prevent
ed them from esding many short suits and also
from giving accui ate information to their part
ners as to how much establishing their suits
needed. Elwell thinks they lost several tricks
BY not using the trump signal. and that those
tricks we're not compensated for by the ad-
vantages OF the Street attachment.
The detailed score shows that the Boston
team gained nothing but singles during the
whole match and that they succeeded in get
ting only five OF them up to the forty-third
deal. after which the New York players. who
were twenty-five tricks ahead. let up a little and
allowed Boston to get in four more singles on
the last FIVE hands. New York gained nine
singles also. in addition to which they scored
seven doubles and a five strike. while twenty
two hands came out a tie. leaving the score %
10 8 in favor of New York.
There is something peculiarly fascinating
about big swings. and 90 per cent. Of the whist
PLAYERS In this country seem more anxious to
know how one first-class team could beat an
other out Of i've tricks in one deal than they
are to see how both teams played beautiful
whist on a hand which came out a tie.
1t is very sal to relate. but it is nevertheless
true. that the swing Of five in this. particular
match was brought about by the original lead
off singleton, which was responded to by the
return Of another singleton In the partners
Immediately after dinner. the time when Bos-
ton always made its biggest gains. Zdealt and
turned the heart :.