Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

as those IN Ine kCfBuult Just BANGhf but
advance 100 points at a time for each ad-
ditlcual trick. regardless Of the suit we
shall get a table in which there are no
two bids OF the same counting value in
the score. Each bid will be twenty points
higher than the one before il, seven in
spades, for instance, being twenty points
full schedule:
No. of Tricks Bid. s 3 10
Spades .............. 10 140 $40 So 40
Clubs ................... CD 100 $50 $50 400
Diamonds ".'.''""'s''''. W ~ ~ ~ 90 10y ~
Hearts ..""..."'"."'i KY ~ f00 g91oo
No trump ..............1O go $40 40 b3O
This schedule has never come into gen.
eral use, probably because its inventor
made the common mistake Of copyrighting
It and so preventing others from using it.
The table Of values first given is the
standard, although in some places they
still play what is called the reversed
schedule, in which the suits rank clubs,
spades, hearts, diamonds and no trumps.
This is now quite out of fashion.
When the Avondale schedule is used
there Is no question as OF which of two
bids is the higher. but In the ordinary
schedule there are a number of CAPABILITIES
eight in diamonds, $40, for instance, is the
odiip dS HtNNh III iO Iuulpb.
The rule in such cases is that the player
who offers to take the greater number of
tricks to make the same number of points
shall have the preference. A smaller num-
Der of tricks in one suit will outbid a
greater number in another only when the
point value of the bid is greater. Six in
no trumps, for instance, is better than
seven in spades because 1t is worth forty
points more.
Bidder Takes widow.
The highest bidder takes the three cards
in the widow without showing them and
then discards three cards. face down. SC
as TO reduce his playing hand to ten cards.
He then leads any card he pleases for the
first trick. no matter who dealt. If no one
has made a bid no one touches the widow
and the player to the left of the dealer
leads first.
Each player in turn must follow suit II
he can, but no one is obliged to win a
trick IL he does not wish 10 and can avoid
1t without revoking. The penalty for g
revoke is the immediate loss of the amount
bid, IL 1t Is the bidder who is in error
and the hand is at once abandoned. The
bidder is set back and the others score
what tricks they have made up to that
time.
If an adversary of the bidder revokes
the bidder cannot be set back, ever II he
fails to make good. but he must be allowed
TO score what he bid. The individual
player In error cannot score anything. but
the other player may score for whatever
tricks he has taken up to the time the
revoke was claimed and proved.
II the joker is led in a trump declaration
II Is the best trump, and trumps must bs
played to 1t. Beginners should be careful
to place the left bower with their Other
trumps' or they may forget that it is q
trump and revoke.
II the Joker is led when there ia nc
trump the leader is at liberty to name any
suit TO be played 10 It, whether he hold,
any cards OF that SUIT or not. and even II
he had previously renowned in that suit
Failure to play a card Of the suit called for
on a Joker led, when one is held. is 9
revoke.
When four play as partners the one thai
makes the highest bid takes the widow and
leads for the first trick.
Must Play Hands out.
Every hand must be played out and each
Individual player must take in his own
tricks. The scores are kept on pads ruled
Tor the purpose, one column for each
player. and the result of the play is put
down at the end OF each hand.
II the bidder makes as many tricks as
no undertook to win he scores the value
OF his bid. He cannot score more thar
this unless he takes ali ten tricks. Ever
II he wins all the tricks he does not get
anything extra for so doing unless this
value OF his bid was less than $50. IN
which case he gets $50 instead of what he
bid.
Suppose the bid was eight in spades
worth 40, and that the bidder won ali ter
tricks lie would score $50. But II his bio
was eight In hearts. worth 300, and he wor
all ten tricks he would score only what
he bid-SO0.
Zach of the players opposed 70 the
bidder gets ten points Tor each trick tina
he individually wins, no matter what sui
may be trump or how many tricks wa
bid. Suppose the bid to be eight trick.
and one OF the opponents gets the two
other tricks, that opponent scores twent,
points for them, the other opponent OF tn,
bidder getting nothing.
All that the bidder can accomplish b,
playing on after he has made good his biz
Is to prevent his adversanes from scorinJ
too many OF these ten points. He csnno
get any ten points himself for the extrl
tricks. however.
II the bidder fails to make good his un
dertaking he Is set back the full amour
OF his bid, regardless OF the number o
tricks by which he fails. All he can do 1
TO prevent his opponents from scoring to
much.
Even when failure is inevitable the bid
der must continue 20 play so as to see no,