The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-11
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Among other things We find this astonishing
statement Good long suit players, from the time
Of iIoyle down, including Mathews, clay. poln,
Ben'inck, Bulwcr, Tavendish, TriSt and Ilamll
ton, have used short suit openings when The
hand contained no good long suit. let these
self satisfied fellows rejoice in their common
sens, but plon>a do not l"t ~, unchallrnged,
tn false assertion that IN" long suffers invariably
open III" long suit"
There is nothing false about the assertion
tina, long suit players Invariably open a long
suit. II is Just this invaia!l' opening. and
nothing else, that makes them long suffers. b.
cause II they occasionally find q hand in which
they think II would br better To OPEN short they
are common sense players. There is no other
difference between the two schools The one
Is hiiabound and has no higher conception Of
whist strategy than 10 count the number II cards
In each suit and then To- leal from the suit con
ming the greatest number. Tn" other reserves
the night II private iudg men, in the opening
Fisher AmeS wants us 10 believe that the old
masters used short suit openings when N" hand
contained no good long suit What l. a good
long suit. as listing uiShed from a had ONE The
goodness OF a long suit is its length and the only
possible badness is ShortuesS, and when II is short
1t IL no longer a long suit. II would seem that
Fisher Ar's has not the courage 30 come out
Nat footed and confess that he IL continually
seeing hands that contain long suits vhlch are
bad ones e. open, 50 he puts the blame ON the suit
itsolt and says il is a bad suit, leaving us 10 guess
what he was trying TO think about when he wrote
that sentence.
The fundamental principle Of the long suit
game is that it is uniformly practicable, because
every hand must contain one suit uf at least four
cards and that suit should invariably be- opened.
The moment you drop that working principle
you drop the long suit game and the difference
between sou and the rankest short suffer in the
country is only one Of degree. You may not
go 50 far as Ia open always top Of nothing or
trumps, but if YOU exercise your judgment MS
20 when you shall depart from the lnyarlablc
opening Of the long suit, no matter how seldom
you do it, you are a common sense player and
not a long suiter.
one If the strongest argument in favor Of the
long suit game, and the thing that especially
recommends il TO persons Of only average intolii-
gence. is that the pa rtner can absolutely depend
on the suit opened being the longest In the hand,
and, II 1t is not a trump, that the leader does not
hold Ave tuImpS, II You reserve the right 10
open : me hands short, every card led may have
q double meaning and that confidence, which
Is tn foundation upon which the whole game
~ built, is destroyed.
In stating that no good long suit player in
v~arably opens his long suit, Fisher Amrs either
classes himself as a bad long suit player or admits
that h. has gone over to the common sense school.
According to his testimony he believes that there
are no lung-suiters left and that he IS no longer
one himself In this he is mistaken however,
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