The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-24
WHITE PINE DAILY NEWS TUESDAY, DECEMBER a. 1907

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he wound up as waiter in a Bowery
restaurant.
But you cannot. regulate things
that way among women. While
women are very ready to talk and to
compare notes and even to name
people, they are never willing to make
charges to a committee.
1t was not more than a year ago
that woman's club caught one of its
members red handed with a pocket
book that she had taken from a card
table at which she was playing a
moment before. Did they do any
thing? Oh, no. OF course it was all
mistake, they said, even though the
same woman had been under sus-
picion of crooked practices for
months.
She is still a member of that club
in good standing; watched. of course,
and talked about, but never openly
denounced or asked to resign.
There seems to be something in
the game of bridge more than in
other games that tends to sap the
moral sensiblities. Strange to say,
playing bridge for money does not
seem to excite the cupidity of women
half so much as playing for a prize.
The thingsc that otherwise respect
able and highly moral women will
stoop to for the sake of winning a
prize in bridge tournament are
simply astounding.
One of the favorite tricks when
the game is pivot bridge is for four
friends to arrange their own table
and agree that they will double and
redouble everything, no matter what
the declaration may be, so that at
least one person at the table shall
have a tremendous score. The re-
suit is practically the same as if the
trick values We're s, 16, "a, 80 and
As instead of the ordinary series of
2, 4, 6, 8 and II.
In a recent game at which the play
lasted only two hours the winner un-
blushingly presented a card which
showed she was more than $4,000
points plus. In order to even things
up among themselves the same four
will go to another party, at which
some other member of the quartet
will make top score.
When there are not enough to
make up table, two playing as
partners will frequently take advan-
tage of their opponents in ways
against which there is really no de-
Tense While one deals the cards her
partner picks up her hand as fast as
the cards are given to her, and almost
before the dealer has time to sort
her hand dummy asks sweetly:
Did you leave it to me, dear?'
Yes, dear"
mo trumps."
If the question is not asked but the
cards are held in the hand dummy is
not anxious to make it. but has a
trick or two. If the dummy lays
down her cards there is nothing in
them.
Dummy can do a great many UNI
fair things to which it is difficult to
take exception because of the ready
excuse that the player was mistaken,
that is all But some things are be-
yond detection even.
When it was the rule to take a
trick for a lead out of the wrong hand
many women were in the habit of ar
some little private signal,
such as putting both hands to the
hat, to warn the dealer that she was
about to lead out of the wrong hand
and lose trick.
A very common practice is for
dummy to overlook the adversaries
hand, especially the one on the deal
er's right, and then when it comes to
n ouaction of q doubtful 6nacco ar
deep one, dummy can slightly ar
range the cards so that the first one
touched is the correct one to play.
they boldly push the card
forward, if it is simply an ace-queen
finesse, asking meekly:
did you say this one, dear?'
If some one insists that the sug-
gestion by dummy of the play of a
card entities the adversaries to pre-
vent its play of course she says she
did not suggest anything, but thought
her partner asked her to play that
card. If it was man there would
be a row: but what are you going to
do with woman in such a case?
When player has no partner that
is in her confidence there still many
little ways in which she can help her.
self. A very common practice is
the cards before cutting for,
partners in such a way that the third
Or fourth card from either end shall
be an ace, which will give the player
drawing it the first deal of the rub
Der. AS this is supposed to be worth
odds of 10 to 9 at least it helps bit.
Another common practice which
was actually taught to pupils by al
certain bridge teacher is to press hard
on the pack when spreading it, be-
cause that usually makes the cards
with less ink on them slip more easily
than the others. The result is that
the spread pack will have a number
Of breaks in it. and those cards which
have slipped far past the ones below,
are usually cards of low denomina-
ton. A knowledge of this fact en-
ables persons to get the first deal and
also to get together as partners.
Probably one of the most audaciousi
methods of cheating for it can bel
called by no lighter name, is that
adopted by wohan, erroneous can
collation. of scores.
1t is a common practice with some
score keepers to concel equal sums
during the progress of the game so
as to reduce the labor of adding up
at the end. If one side has an item
of SO scored it can be cancelled If