Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

always held until the last so that there
shall be no confusion or ambiguity either
In the echo itself or in the return leads, IL
such are made. Holding two cards only OF
the suit led, the second best, TO be played
on the first round, will be the lower of the
two held and II must be followed by a
higher card under all circumstances in fol-
lowing suit, In return leads or in dis
carding.
Suppose hat third hand hold the ] s q
He plays the 8 TO the first round and the
] to the second whether In following suit,
returning the lead or discarding. II he
holds four cards. such as ] 10 8 2, he plays
the 10 to the first round, the s to the next
in following suit or in discarding, but he
would play the jack in returning the suit.
In every case the lowest card. the deuce,
would be held until the last.
This system of unlocking and echoing
makes a clear distinction between the vari-
Gus numbers Of cards held by the third
ard I'm each case. With three in suit the
SECOND card played is higher h the first
one, showing only one lower than either
remaining. With four of the suit the sec
ond card played is lower than the first,
showing one higher as wewll as one lower
remaining. This method has the great ad-
vantage Of holding up a care which the
leader can easily miss on account of it's
small size and also of exposing the dealers
false cards.
1t is upon this last form Of the echo that
II is now proposed to build the convention
which shall indicate to the leader that third
hand thinks IL would be desirable to come
through dummy instead of making third
hand lead up to dummy.
Idea of the New EcMo.
Every bridge player must acknowledge
that there are countless hands in which
the third land would like very much to
get a lead through dummy, and that there
are probably just as many in which he
would prefer to lead up to dummy's weak
suit instead. The idea OF this new echo is
to distinguish between these cases in such
a manner that the partner shall understand
which is the better plan to follow. Many
a good card in third hand is killed by an
lead through dummy.
This convention is chiefly useful when
third hand holds so many cards of his
partners suit that he can manipulate II in
different ways. If he has four, for Instance,
he can show that he is keeping a card
which would win one round of the leaders
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This is as much as to say that he wants
the lead In order to play up to dummy's
weak suit. Therefore the leader may argue
third hand thinks such a course is better
than having dummy's strong suit led
through.
As a practical illustration suppose the
leader against a no trumper holds such a
suit as five to the A X Q, and third hand
holds J 10 3 ?. Let US first suppose that
third hand has nothing that would lead
him to wish for a lead through any of
dummy's suits.
The original lead is the king, on which
third hand plays his second best, the ten.
On the second round, when the queen is
led, third hand plays the deuce.
Now third hand cannot possibly have
held only the ten and deuce. or his play
would have been the deuce and then the
ten Neither can he have held the lack.
ten' deuce, or his play would have been
the ten and then the Jack. The leader.
therefore, is under no misapprehension
as to the true holding Of third hand, be-
cause third hand must hold a card higher
than the ten and also a card between the
ten and the deuce.
Reading the Situation.
II the original leader would like n
lead up TO dummy's weakness he can read
the situation as inviting him to put third
hand in the lead. II he does not want
IL, either because there is nothing TO be
gained by II or because he does not caro-
to risk IL, he goes right aIong vvfth tha Il