The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09

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editor OF the oficiai oraan and one OF tho most
conscientioue and impartial writer's on tho
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WORKS list. For Cavendish and Pole, for Fisher
Amnes. Tormey, Coffin, and Hamilton, none Of
private conventions with the august W 'opRSs', He
- unfortunate In including Howell among his
dey, last Howell expresses himself as sick
o. the whole business. and longing for the
table ANA Amen save NO !Ssnt ss down . a. the w whilst
yentionalities Of any kind, unless It is in follow
Ing out tho principle that 1t is folly to open q
long suit unless you can do something with It,"
he Is also q little too %trustful Of Tracey Barnes,
who is az straight as q string, and comes out
boldly In the Toledo Blade with his disapproval
Of Works methods. Work compliments THE
SUI and tho Rochester Post. Express by con-
ttsS,Sn t@ neob ,ns Spay Sns S;lsno he can IL MAKE foEs, 70
that csvendish decided long ago that silence
Players arc not always the best Judges of the
theory and practice of whist. Lockers on are
proverbially better able to form opinions than
L. a seIEconfessed failure as a theorist. As a
player nc has been fairly successful, in the use
is no evidence that he can play whist acceptably
without the assistance OF such adventurous
aids;, tricks which he and his partner under
only specifically.
Til fact of the matter is that the victories
won By methods more or less Unfair. Their
skill 10 chiefly due to their long practice, in the
use of certain conventional plays which have
hnC0mn M HN0d m Tn nnlnnnt I'm nrivnta rnhar-
standings. Their intricacy. is evident from the
fact that IL sometimes takes the players Eve
Of the complicated signals that have been
made during the play Of the first half
81 Srtfa Inc do Ssse; Ah ten 'o or tw W s'ks hours sh' to
play q match of forsy.eight hands. As
hd .nls.9 on b truly sa y a,t "rhe = ! man no who . connGs
is not q whist player. and his mind must be occu.
pied with. something totally foreign to the
That this is the generally accepted opinion is
evident from the fact that most persons look
little lodges Of their own. which it is Just as
hopeless to contend against as 1t would be to
stack up against professional gamblers at the
There is no necessity for these conventions.
There are dozens Of people in this, country to-
Scores frequently. who now never use conven-
tionalities of any kind. not even the trump Sig
of The sn Eam 1nsy yS Ssni they 70 e ger d mGf Sef SnaosTTfha ere oq IS
q wholesome tendency to get back to the simple
strategy Of thirty years ago; and to play to the
direction Of private signals. Take the following
beautiful example Of strategy, played in the
Westminster Whist Club thirty years ago. and
tary discards would improve rs play in
the last i've trlcke. which are the ones in which
long-suiters tell us the real struggle takes place.
2 dealt and turned the heart seven. A has tho
lead for the first trick. The underlined card
wins the trick, and the card under 1t is the next
one led.
Interest 10 added to the play by the fact that
tho game wae English whist. counting honors,
and that tho score was love.all. At trick 8 1t Is
evident to z that II Alb make three by cards
they win the game, as they have shown two by
honors. The manner in which Y saves the game
10 worthy of careful study, and is considered
one Of the finest examples Of successful false
oarding ever played: