Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-23
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PiIlsbury's Wonderful Mind-Ths Study Of
Whist -AParody on tiumlets soIiIoquy-..The
Freak Deal in the Faber Trophy Contest
Another Whitfield Wonder-The Latest Cur.
rent Whist Literature Carefully CulIed For
Whist Readers.
PILLSBURY AT WHIST.

Pillsbury, the chess champion, at
tracted large crowd at the rooms of
the Citizens Club on Friday night,
when he gave a most remarkable ex-
hibition of the powers of his mind. He
played six games of chess, two games
of checkers and twenty-four deals of
whist all at the same time. He sat
south at the whist table, with S. B.
Morris as partner, and with Mr.. Ad-
ans, of the Boston Duplicate Whist
Club, who is in town on business, and
A. NJ Knickerbocker, as adversaries.
Behind Mr.. Pillsbury and arranged SO
that he could not see the boards, were
eight tables, at two of which experts
were playing checkers and at six were
the leading chess players Of the city
stationed. His play at chess and check
ers without seeing the boards was not
any more remarkable than his whist
play with so much on his mind. He
handled the cards like an expert, and
those who played at the table with him
were astonished at the exhibition. He
and Mr. Morris won the whist match by
two tricks, and Mr.. Pillsbury won five
of the six games of chess and lost one
and drew one of the checker games.
He began play at $3.50 and finished at
a. m. He plays the good old-fash-
toned long-suit game.-Syracuse Post.
THE STUDY OF WHIST.
A very small percentage of whist
players devote any appreciate time to
the study Of the game unless it be in
the form of an occasional perfunctory
post-mortem at the table. Whist books
have a smaller circulation in proper
ton to the number of persons inter-
ested in the subject than any other
form of class literature, and the same
is true of whist magazines, Notwith
standing the increase of whist players
in recent years, the sale Of publications
devoted to the game has decreased in
proportion, but this is due, in all prob
ability to the fact that the daily pa
pers have entered the field so extern
sively and with such success. 1t is not
unlikely, indeed, that they accomplish
more good in the aggregate than the
exclusively whist publication, for many
read the former who have never looked
at the latter. Some of these, doubtless,
are thus led to more serious study of
the game.
Women are much more given to
study than are men, and this fact alone
is sufficient basis for the belief that in
course of time they will display the
higher average standard of ability.
Considering that good play is within
the bounds of attainment of any ordi-
nary intellect, it is surprising how few
ever pass beyond mediocrity.
For the most part whist players are
content to go on year after year per-
petuating errors which the perusal of
any textbook would eradicate in a
week. Beginners are too apt to mag
inc that there is no more to learn than
what presents itself to their very linn
tied understanding. There is no great
or fallacy than this. A man may play
a poor order of whist for a lifetime
without even acquiring a conception of
it's deeper principles and possibilities,
for a considerable degree of knowledge
is necessary to discriminate between
good and bad play.
1t may be accepted as truth that
no one ever played first-class game
who had not devoted some time to the
study of whist observation-disclosures Opin-
ion.