Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-28
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Trump Management Duplicate Whist Laws,
Which Mishtbe Read With Profit-A Trophy
Deal. Illustrating Opposite Tactics.

Trump Management Duplicate Whist Laws,
Which Might be Read With Profit-A Trophy
Deal. Illustrating Opposite Tactics.
A woman should not talk at whist.
1t Is ill-bred in her to parade her abil-
ity to do two things at once.-Puck.
This advice could be applied to men as
well as women.
Mrs. Henry E. Wallace, the noted
whist editress of the New York Even
ing Post, appears, in practice, at least,
to have espoused the short-suit game,
against the theory of which she has
warmly inveighed for some years
past. An exchange states that at the
congress she played short suits "for
all she was WORTH and to good pur-
pose for her success was Marked
Whist Opinion.
READER, DOES THE SHOE FIT?
Partners who wish to make as good
record as possible-that is, to play
their very best, will do well to keen
in mind the following excellent advice
and constantly practice it: each
partner is very careful to keep the 9th
er in an easy state of mind. Tc ac-
complish this he never fails to let
that person know of his appreciation
OF the good plays, while the bad cnes
hrd passed over, although not ex.
cused. He always has cheerful coun-
tenance, lays down his cards quietly,
and is willing to listen to his partners
question with respectful attention.
Persons who complain of the tricks
lost by their partners should remem-
Der these points. A harsh criticism in
the beginning of the contest may have
unnerved the player opposite for the
remainder of the evening. Sometimes
frown or sad facial expression has
accomplished the same result. One
can not do his best when i'll at ease.
The moment he feels that his partners
sympathy is waning, an element of
interest will depart. This lack of gem
s. erosity or encouragement betrays it.
self in the careless drop of card; a
resigned manner of recording the
score; slight moan or sigh; change
IN the expression of the eyes, and in
other ways too numerous to mention
TRUMP MANAGEMENT.
If any common sense player were
asked what he regarded as the most
important part of the strategy of his
game, the answer would probably be
the proper management of his trumps.
This is subject to which common
sense players are compelled to give
special attention, because they do not
use the conventional methods of show
ing number. either in their leads or
third-hand plays.
1t is a well-known maxim that with
an established suit and a certain card
OF re-entry you should always lead
trumps if you have four of them, but
many of our best common-sense plav-
ers now think it quite unnecessary to
wait for four trumps, so they lead them
regardless of number provided the ad-
yersaries have not shown a suit estab-
lished against them. With long-suiters
1t is cardinal principle always to lead
trumps from five regardless of the
strength in plain suits, on the assump-
ton that partner must have a suit of
something, and by getting out the
trumps you clear the way for its de-
velopment
NOW, this is one of the things that
common-sense players will not do, and
unless they hold at least six trumps
they are very slow to lead them until
they know which side is going to ben
eft by it. Another point on which the
two schools disagree is the continue
ton OF a trump lead. The long-suiters
insist that the partner should return
an original lead of trumps, no matter
what his own views of the situation,
but the common-sense players recog-
nize many cases in which it would be
much better to leave the question of
continuation for the original leader to
decide. This is especially true when
the third hand wins the first round
rather cheaply.-R. F. Foster in the
New York Sun.
DUPLICATE WHIST LAWS.
Either commit them to memory or
keep them handy for quick reference:
Last summer, when the new laws for
duplicate whist were adopted in Bos-
ton, the idea was to give them years
trial, and to correct whatever imper-
fections were to be found in them
after they had been put to practical
test. 1t was supposed that all active
whist players would at least give the
laws sufficient study to know the Diff
ferent penalties, and when to exact
them, but the whist player in general
is more interested in either deyising
new methods of beating the old sys
TENS, or in inventing the sure trick
winning game" that is always being
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