Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-12

OF the suit, ana you must lead losing
card. for here You sacrifice to fourth
/ hand any trump that your partner may
play; when one adversary will make a
small trump and the other discards:
when one adversary has called for
trumps, and the other is likely TO run,
for here you are forcing the wrong
| hand.-Proyidence Journal.
MY PARTNER.
Who when I've strength in clubs dis
played,
Makes la Ys on the trumps : sweeping raid.
| My partner.
When five trumps in his hand there be,
Who Climbs a doubtful card p. d.
| O., but aye forces me with three?-
| My partner.
| Who, when he has no trumps to play,
Smiles in a calm. exultant way.
And drops a four and then a trey
My partner.
When foemen. hold trumps two and three.
| Who swings four honors at poor me.
And them asks what the trumps may be?-
| My partner.
Who at the tide of our affairs
/
Now holds out mine, and discards theirs?-
| My partner.
who when I've toiled the game to win,
| And am succeeding, with a grin
TrumpS my long suit and brings his in?-
i My partner.
When 1 hold seven trumps or eight
| And Ace-klng in each suit. elate,
Makes misdeal as sure as fate?-
My partner.
Who, when we've just squeezed odd.
Instead of four by cards, unawed,
Ny partner.
Geo. T. Lanigan. in Whist Opinion.
~
There are no less than635 01S, $4,000
ways in which hand can be made
Proctor.
HOW SHORT LEADS SHOULD BE
TREATED.
A great many players who think
| that they understand the theory and
! practice of whist are at loss regarding
the treatment of short leads. 1t is in
tended here to cover this matter in
detail, giving certain rules which may
be followed to advantage by the sec
ond-hand player. A chief cause of diff
| ficulty is the frequency with which
| queen and jack are led when combined
with but one other card, and unless
one is familiar with the style of play
followed by the opponent 1t is indeed
| difficult to size up the situation. An
obstacle is that in most of the compass
games no one has the time TO study
the game of the enemy in the limited
| number of deals that are played at
| each table. Good general rules can,
however, be given regarding the COW
ering of honors led second hand. The
following apply to situations where the
secondhand player has had no indica-
ton of his partners suit:
The queen should invariably be COW
cred with the ace. 1t is mistake to
| false card the ace when holding the
king as well.
With king and one or two small cards
! it is a good general rule to cover the
queen led, with as many as three guards
to the king pass. A potent advantage
| in covering the queen in such case IS
| that. holding the king and two small
| cards, one is later in the position OF
leading twice through the left hand OPP
ponent in case one partner holds the
tenace over him.
Cover the queen invariably, holding
/ king, knave and one or more small
cards. This holding, known as the
fourchette, is understood by most play
ers. For the benefit Of those who are
| not familiar with the term it may be
stated that it means holding the card
] above and the one below the card that
is led.
| Always cover the queen, holding king,
ten, and one or more small cards. Here
| the principal of the fourchette again
+, applies. If the king is taken by the ace
| third hand the ten or second-best re-
naming is left guarded in the original
| and second hand.
| In ninety-nine cases out Of hun
bred, holding ace, queen, the knave
should be covered second hand
with the ace. There is one
exception to this play, and that
is likely to occur late in the
game when a forced lead may be sus-
pected, the lead being from king, knave
and one or more in an attempt to in
duce the play of the ace. Occasionally
an interior lead Of this sort is made
early in the hand from king, knave,
/! ten and two or more small cards. The
-crI THEY GROW SMALLER AS THE s