Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09

are divided in two parties, each pro-
Tossing a profound belief in different
style of attack and defense of the
game. The more conservative ele-
ment, those who play the standard
game" greatly outnunlber the new
school players, and although the
claims of the latter are never ending,
it safe to assert that the highest type
of long suit game has always proven
that the new school has given nothing
that cannot be just as we'll accomplish
ed by more scientific methods. Those
who adopt the short cuts to top score,
which are at present SO much in vogue
hereabouts, give up great many aids
to trick-taking that short-suitism can
not from the very nature of its incon-
sistencies furnish. On the other hand,
no one who plays and understands
good whist would for moment under
rate the ability OF first class short
suffer. They play a style of whist well
calculated to puzzle the enemy, al
though in many instances doing the
same by the partner. The short-suit
player despises what he calls pip
counting" This, the bulwark of stand
ard whist, is treated by him with utter
contempt
One of the most valuable aids in this
pip counting" is the.appficatfon of the
elevenHrule, which, strange to scy was
given to the whist world by a player
who has since become chief of the
new school. 1t is without exception
one of the most valuable of the addi-
lions to'the modern game, and its use
has been~the means of winning many
match
A good illustration of the value of
the eleven rule may DE shown in the
following deal played in an important
match in whist congress, when a va
Ration of no less than six tricks oc-
CURED. The original lead was the sew
en- of diamonds. The leaders, partner
neld, diamonds ace, ten, eight spades
ace, hearts, nine, eight, six, four, duce,
clubs (trumps), ace, queen, nine, trey.
Second hand played small diamond
and the trick was won with the ace.
BY the application of the eleven rule
the player who held the ace, ten, eight
Of diamonds knew that his partners
suit was within one card of being es-
tablished. The rule follows: "By de-
Quoting from eleven the number of
pips on any low card led, the third
hand may ascertain how far his part
ner's suit is from being established
BY deducting the number of pips
(seven) ON the card led from the hand
in question, from eleven, four cards are
shown against the leader, of which
three, the ace, ten, eight are held by
third hand. Third hand knows that the
card unaccounted for must be either
the king or queen, for if his partner
held both of these cards he would have
lead one Of them. Therefore the seven
must have been led from either king,
jack, nine, seven, or queen, jack, nine
seven. On the chance that the partner
held the king, one or two players Oh
winningswith the ace of diamonds led
at.once the trey of trumps. The part
ner won the first round of trumps so
that two rounds were at once secured
the leader being obliged to play the ace
on the,return, as the king was marked
behind HIM on the left. By continu-
ing a third round which was warrant
ed as the jack fell from the left hand
opponent, marking him as having but
the king remaining, eleven tricks were
assured.
The player who won with the king of
trumps found himself in a position
where he was obliged to open with
SPADES and fourth hand, on winning
the trick with his ace, led the queen of
frumps, drawing the last trump from
his right hand opponent. The ten OF
diamonds then being returned enabled
his partner to take six tricks on dia-
monds, the queen of that suit being the
only card held against him by the en-
envy after the first round of the suit
had been played. This is case when
the original lead of the queen from
queen, jack nine, would be likely to
prove a trick loser, a saving of this situ-
alton would be if the lead of the queen
were made by a player who always led
high from this combination so that his
partner could depend on his holding the
jack and nine. The only question then
to be considered would be whether or
not the king could be captured after
trumps were exhausted. The difficulty
in reading the hand of a short-suiter
would be that the queen might have
been led from queen, and one other, in
which case there would be danger of
establishing the suit for the enemy.
There was some difference of opinion
expressed as to the soundness of the
~ NAiP iO1d III IAC NVdl duSclfCll Will
she chances that the king of diamonds
was held against the partner. 1t GER
tainly seems to have been warranted
under the circumstances. With the ace
of spades and the ace of trumps in the
hand the leader was in a position to
protect himself in case his partner could
render him no assistance in trumps.
The situation showed that there was
little or no danger from the heart suit.
This is but one instance out of many
where the methods of the standard
game prove winning. This is
what the current number of Whist has
to say in an editorial on the scientific
game There have been lately several
ill-natured stabs at the American
WHIST League system of play now be-
coming generally known as the stan
dard system. 1t seems remarkable
that those who decry the use of it
should be persistently blind to it's evil
dent purpose. Whist continues that
while the writer claims that no one
''cares rap for the standard system -
the facts show thai when the Secretary
of the Women's Whist League Con-
gress called for statements of system
from the teams entering the trophy
contests, at Detroit, it was found that
more than 121a per cent of them used