The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-10
NEW GAME FROM
AUSTRALIA
Call on the Ace is Better Than
Euehre, and is Gaining Ia
Popularity.

All The games which have lately be-
; come popular are OHshOots or 1aria-
tons of older genes. Peuuchle IS Ea
Fiety Of bczique, bridge is combiu
iion Of dummy whist and cayenne So
back ard cinch are developments vi
seTen-Up.
Amy new game. in order Co command
its share OF popularity in this country.
must have two things TO recommend IL.
must De easy to learn and it must o-
possible 10 play IT with an ordinary
pack or cards and counters, without The
addition OF special apparatus
That the game may be difficult Co.
play well does not matter So that its
elementary principles ear Zee briefly
stated 10 lh- beginner THE compiled
tons of such games as szat VIII always
DE bar 20 their general adoption b5
American players.
Among the new games, one which s
rapidly sFOWiug in favor. especially in
New York. is am Australian variation
OF eucnre, known as "Call on the Ace.
Like most games which have been
learned 10y hearsay and are passed
along 10y one person 90 another without
any definite or Established authority or
code of laws to guide them the new
game has been confused with others
more familiar and Is played i'm various
ways. SO that disputes frequently arise
as 10 the important details, The fol-
Blowing description Of call on the Ace
4 has been sent by one Of the leading ex-
perts at the game i'm Australia, where
it has become almost the national pas
time.
Cali on the ace is PLAYED with a pack
OF thirtE-IWo cards, all below the seven
being thrown out. Sometimes the joker
/ Is added 10 the pack. but it rather
srous the scientific points Of the game
The cards i'm plain suits rank In the
usual order from the ace. king. queen.
down TO the seven. IT. the trump suit
the jack is the best card and is called
the right hover. The jack of the same
color. red or black. is the second best
trump. and is called the left bower; So
that If hC-lrts were trumps the ranks
o. the trump cards would be. Heart
jack, diamond jack heart ace, king,
queen, ten. nine, eight ana seven When
the joker is used, il is always the best
trump and ranks above The right bower
Five or six persons is the proper pun
her 10 make up a table. six making The
. Detter game. The cards are either cut
o. thrown around for me first deal ana
choice of seats the highest card hay
/ inE the choice. In cutting, the joker is
+ the best card I'M tine pack but the JACKIE
rank between the queen and ten. be-
cause there are no trumpS In cutting.
Five cards are dealt TO each player
I two at a time the first round ard three
\ the next: or three the first time and
two the next. 1t IS a misdeal If the
same number of cards is not given to
every player including the dealer. on
I the same round.
/ The top card of those remaining i'm
! the stock is turned up for a trump. IL
this happens TO be the joker &c may
either be previously agreed that a GER
/ tain suit, usually spades, shall always
/ be the trump if the joker is turned. or
the dealer may be Obliged TO name
I suit before looking at any Of his own
cards. The first method is the better
+ The trump turned. each player iii
turn beginning on the dealers left,
must declare TO pass on to order up the
trump. If all pass. the dealer cam
either take 40 the trump card and dis
card one from his original hand or he
/ can turn ii down.
If any player I'm his proper tuTn.
orders up the trump, the dealer must
take ii into his hand and discard. ana
( the person ordering up becomes the
player for that deal.
/ If all pass and the dealer turns down
the trump. each player i'm turn, begin
ming on the dealers left has the priNl-
+ iege of passing again or naming any
one OF the three other suits for trump.
! IF no one viii name a new suit, the
hands are abandoned and the deal
/ passes to the next player
/ When a player has ordered up the
+ trump. or taken it mp. if he is the deal
e. or named a new suit after the frs.
has been turned down, he may either
play his hand alone against all the
Others at the table, or he may call on
I the best card of any plain suit for q
/ partner; he cannot call on the best
trump, and the player called on cannot
|-- go. -rs g.. g Feas s
that he holds the card called OLE.
+ great many MISUNDERSTANDING
arise from the confusion between the
name OF the game. "call on the ace,
and the actual fact that it is not the
ace but the best card of the suit, which
I IS called on. The ace may not De lu
/ play. although fl is IS TO I that it is In
J six hand.
! With only five i'm the game. there are
/ six cards left i'm the stock after turn
ing up the trump. ard Il Is not very
rare for the ace. king and queen of the
called suit 70 be all among these cards.
Tn such o case the player holding the
jack would be the one called On as the
partner, but, of course. he would have
no idea of il until the suit was led.
1t is evident that a player calling on
/ the best card of a suit may discover
that he holds the best of it himself.
This otter happens when the caller has
( q king or queen Of the suit ne calls ON
and the higher card is not i'm play.
( III is also evident that a person who is
NOT the maker OF the trump cannot be
I sure that ne is not the partner called
on simply because he does not hold the
see of that suit. His king, queen or
I jack may be the best out.
J III he faucies the ace is ont. he VIII
Dlav against the maker of the trump. or
course If he does not think Dc Is out
I he viii play as his partner, and the cifli-
Guilty of the situation often ADDS gTedl "
/ to the interest of the game.
I The player who makes the trump may
/ call ON the best card of suit of which
Z he has none himself SO that if the best
( card, played by his partner. is trumpet.
/ ne can CVeT-trump. IF IL Is not trumpeds
{ he may get rid of doubtful card
He may also call for the best of suit
{ when he holds the ace of IL himself,
( which is simply another way OF playing
alone. The result is precisely the same
I as If he had called. expecting TO get an
ace to help him. and found his own card
; the highest
: If the maker OF the trump does not cali
J ON any suit he must declare TO play
/ alone The difference in the result Of
! playing alone or with partner Us ln the
! scores.
( The object of the player who makes the
I trump is to get at least three tricks. if
/ me makes three or four. but not five he
! scores one point toward game. whether
Z ne has partner or not 1T he has d
( partner each of them scores one
If be and his partner get tive tricks
they score TWO points EACH If the PLAYER
/ is alone and wins all five. he scores q
[ number equal to the number playing. ilNe
SIX hald.
If the maker ol the trump and his part