Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-07
II WHIST TABLE.
REVIEWED ACTIVITY IN THE sCIEN-
TIFIC GAME-CoMING MEETINGS.
WHEN 70 TRUMP A DOUBT =
FIJI TRICK SECOND HAND.
A coon RULE TO HE
OBSERVED. ~

OiSENN red. a.
The approach of the first Of October
shows renewed life and activity In the
whist clubs. Players are returning
from their vacations, and there is every
evidence that there will be even more
than usual interest in the game during
the coming winter. The season will be
opened with a contest for the Travel
ing Trophy between the Woman's and
the Long Island clubs of Brooklyn.
The trophy is to the Woman's Whist
League what the American Whist
League trophy is to the League, and
much interest is felt in the coming con-
test. The Woman's Club will be rep
resented by Mrs. T.. T. Baker, Mrs.
Charles r.. Harriss, Mrs. E. j. SeymouI
| and Mrs. c. It. Whittier. Mrs. Whittier
formerly Mrs. Waterman is a recent
! addition to New York whist life; she
Is a player OF national reputation, and
| should be an element in the successes
OF the Brooklyn team during the COM
ing campaign. The Long Island Club
will have a new team which is not quite
decided upon. Mrs. +. A. Irish will
probably take the place OF one of the
team last year.
On Friday, October 5. the annual fall
meeting of the directors of the Metro
politan Whist Association Will q
place at No. 4 East Sixteenth street at
IL a. m. This is the most important
meeting of the year, as at that time
challenges are filed for the two trophies
of the association that are played for
weekly. Other matters of Importance
that will come up before the meeting
are the place at which the contests OF
the coming winter shall be played and
a change In the constitution which VIII
permit a club TO be represented by one
delegate as well as by its president.
1t has been decided to hold the No
vember meeting OF the New York State
Whist Association again in Syracuse,
that city being anxious to entertain
the organization for the second time.
The Syracuse meeting was most sue
~cessful, and the players from through
out the State will be glad to again hayo
that as a rallying point. In addition to
this assembling there will probably be
a second meeting held in this city some
time in February. This will give the
members of the State Association a
double opportunity for practice. The
increased activity indicates a healthy
growth in the association.
To trump or not 10 trump a doubt
full trick secondhand on the second
round OF the suit Is a serious difficulty
with a majority of whist-players. Now
there are certain rules, which, II sys-
tematically followed, Will be found OF
advantage in this situation. No n
utth a arafp ~ Whtaf GaFaa uyOftiI haa-
itate. holding as many as six tFumps,
to at once get the lead and lead the
trump. 1t is when holding four trumps
one may trump reckiessly, because
they are OF no value for any other
purpose. A third situation is when you
have strength in trumps (that is 10
say, three high ones, such as ace, king,
and one other king; queen and u
other queen; jack, ten, or four OF any
slze1, and also hold one plain suit in
your hand established or worth trying
for. In this case you should
pass the trick, and your partner should
govern himself accordingly. a great
many players, when their partner pass
es a doubtful trick, read him for foue
trnmps. Now this is altogether wrong.
Another disastrous failing " many
partners Is when you take a force by
trumping a sure trick, and do not i'm
mediately lead the trump. they take I.
for granted that you are aching 70
ruff again, and will go out of their
way TO force you, often 70 tue utter de-
strnction OF your hand.
A situation that Is grasped by but
few players is the following, No mat
ter how many trumps you have, II you
have extreme weakness in other suits.
that Is 10 say. absolutely nothing. O
should trump on the second or even on
the first round. By the third round you
should be able TO read where the win
ming card IS. IL II has not been led Il
is probably I'm your partners hand,
when o would not trump, OF course.
The claim has often been made that IL
a player has no long plain suit. but hap
pens to hold four or five trumps, II IL
two IS one that his partner has a long
plain suit and that Il is worth while to
try TO establish It by leading the trump.
Nothing could be more unsound than
this reasoning. It Ii true that the
| chances are two 10 one that some one
has a long suit, but remember that you
are figuring on an imaginary long suit
in the hand Of pour partner. you may
find one In reality In the possession OF
the enemy.
A rule that is foand IN all whist books
and practiced BY ali good players Is the
accepting Of the passing of a sure trick
az a p~eremptory trunp call Doing
iris has often been compared 10 or
dering ID up in esichTe, that Is. II two
games so dIssimilar can be compared
All least what passing a doubtful trick
mnst say TO the partner Isl viii take
- 49,
new II you will assist me ut once by
getting out the fTunaps for my benefit"
Il a case OF this kind the partner, IL
Ne ii leading through an honOr. should
do 30 regardless OF nuulber.-NeW York
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