Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18

Another chance that A might take
would be to slip the club jack through
the ace. hoping that b held the queen.
Rut If n holds that card two clup
tricks are certain at any time, no mat
ter how the rest of the hand goes.
In the actual game A figured 1t out
that the worst thing that could happen
to him would be to have round OF
trumps, which would promote the clups
a trick too soon and cost A anu ID tilo
odd. SO he led the king of clubs, forc-
ing Y into the lead with the ace. rms
| effectually prevented u from leadlng
| another diamond and eXhausting tnal
suit. Y had nothing left but CLUBS
having discarded the spade, Whlcn ne
did not foresee the value OF, ana
had to win the club trick with the
queen. -. .ho dio-
mond now because it only makes the
fen of clubs good for a trick ana tne
onlv chance is that A. will make the
mistake of trumping third rounu OF
clubs. But A, seeing his only nope,
passed the club up to his partner, dis-
carding the queen of spades ana max
ing the last trick and the odd Win MS
Jack of diamonds, which Is sui
| trump at the end.
This is q game in which person
ability to count thirteen is sometimes
nut to a severe test, especially when
| it gets down to counting the trumps
in a suit that may have been dis
carded from before it had shown any
signs of being the trump.
The scoring for this game is by
tricks and honors and they do not dlt-
fer in value, ten points being a game.
To the tricks are added as bonus the
honors, which are always the three
aces. but instead of counting them TO
the side to which they were dealt they
always go to the side than wins them.
The ace of hearts is never reckoned,
as 1t must go to the holders, but each
1 of the other aces may be taken INTO
camp by a trump in higher suit. IL
is thus possible to go game In one
hand by making a grand slam, Wnlcn
must include the capture Of all three
aces.
The laws that are used to govern
the new game are essentially those or
bridge, except that all rules relating
to declarations and doubling are nee
essary. "a.
Should any one renounce to suit
and play card which he imagines TO
he a trump when it is not there Is no
1 penalty against him except to take
| the trick from him and to treat the
card played as If it ware discard.
But should a player renounce to a
suit and take back the card he cannot
substitute a trump If the card first
played was not trump.
Should a player not only take IN
trick through an error In his concep-
! tion of the trump suit but lead for
the next trick, or should his partner
lead under such circumstances ne is
| liable to the usual penalty for lead
| out of turn.
No player is allowed to. give any in
formation as to which Euit is now the
trump, nor as to how many trumps
are still in the play, under the penalty
of having his whole hand exposed ana
the cards in it liable to be called.
The penalty for a revoke is to take
three actual tricks from the side In
error IL they have so many.
Tootatoo has several virtues which
probably will recommend 1t to
large number of persons who are al
ways ready for something new in the
way of a game of cards for the COM
| ing winter. Not the least of these vir-
tues is that you can teach any one
how to play 1t in less than five min
utes-to play at it, that is. How much
there is in the game probably Will not
dawn on one until he has played II for
q year at leas