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sary to go two tricks in diamonds to get
out of it.
Having no sound declaration in no
trumps or red suit such as would be
made by the dealer at bridge. as the
dealer cannot pass, he must declare one
spade, Which amounts to the same thing.
But With great strength In spades, sUch
as i've or six OF them to the ace, king.
queen, but not enough support for even
sporty no rrumper. the dealer should
bid two spades to distinguish it from the
usual one-spade call This is practically
an invitation to the partner to go no
trumps If big spade suit will help him.
The dealer never bids clubs on the first
round OF the declarations except from
the same unusual strength that would
justify BID OF two spades. 1t is never
necessary TO bid two clubs, as one trick
in that suit is sufficient 10 indicate its
strength. If the club suit is long and
weak. useful only as a trump suit and
not as part OF a no trumper. such as
seven or eight to the king ten. the dealer
should wait until the bid comes round to
him again, bidding one spade at the start.
and then, If he thinks it advisable, he
may bid two or even three clubs. His
partner will know. from his not having
bid clubs at first, that the suit is simply
long.
The same principles are followed by
each player round the table in turn. but
of course. any but the dealer is at lib
erty 10 pass il he has not sound bridge
declaration that will overcall the previous
bid. player who cannot support his
partners bid should overcail him il he
can. SO as to warn him. Suppose the deaf
er starts with one diamond and his part
ner has nothing in diamon<sssAbut i've
good hearts. He should bid EE heart,
because, while he has no -dtaSa lpnds TO
help his partners diamond eau, his part
ner may have a few heartSsto help his
heart call. IL the partner does not like
the change he can so back to his own
suit or he may shift to no truinps.
In this system OF bidding 1t is conSid-
cred conventional not to bid more than
one trick in no trumps unless You can
stop any suit declared ahead OF you by
an adversary. II the dealer starts with
one heart and second player bids two dia-
monds the third player should not bid
two no trumps unless he has a stopper
in diamonds. He should rather support
his partners heart bid.
Doubling is an entirely separate affair
in auction which we shall come to later.
Next week we shall take up the theory OF
bidding with a. view to getting penalties.
The solution of bridge problem No. ..
printed last week, is for Y to lead the
Jack OF diamonds. putting w in. If w
leads a spade It is all over at once, as f,
must make two discards. so W leads a
heart n wins this with the king and
leads tie queen Of spades. Whichever
suit + discards n leads, and the rest is
obvious
IJere 10 another al pI,t- rdar-
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COLLINS IS GREAT"
Said Connie Mack When He
First Saw Him.
HIS POSITION A PUZZLE
Athletics Leader Knew He Had
Great Youngster, But Could
Not Place Him.
HIS POSITION A PUZZLE

Historians of the national pastime have
gloated over the fact that the matorit!
Of the stellar figures in the game had
been passed over and banded about until
some accidental happenings came to fling
them with one throw into the limelight
of popularity, there to remain for nu-
merous easons.
Reams have been written about how
Tyrus Raymond Cobb decorated bench
until one day an outfielder was taken i'll and
Tyrus was drafted for duty. The original
tenant Of the outer plot never went back
on the Job. One has read chapter after
chapter in this tenor and strain. and all
Of them were true.
Taking the stars who have been turned
up through the merest accident Of chance
as a basis, experts have figured that the
great youngsters are largely gifts of
fortune. and that manager earns no
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great amount of credit when he plucks

great amount Of credit when he plucks
one from the branlbles.
However, there are exceptions that
prove the rule. The case of Edward
Trowbridge Collins is a case in point. The
history of the great second baseman has
been written so often that it now lacks
even the interesting safeguard of any
originality.
Collins record of achievement and
deeds of base hall speak for themselves.
There is but little left for the man with
the pen to tranScribe. But this little yarn
may carry need of interest to the fans.
as 1t reveals a striking characteristic Of
Connie Mack-his absolute belief in the
worth of his own valuation and judgment
Of a player
Eddie was playing with Columbia, as is
we'll known, and afterward went to the
Athletics. He went around the circuit
before he had left college under the name
of Sullivan. The college authorities found
that he had become professionalism and
cut him off the ball team.
Edward then went to McGraw and
asked for an opportunity to play with
the Giants. The screppy mana ger looked
over Edward T. and shook his head IN
a decided negative. David FultZ, at this
time, had watched Collins at shortstop
and he saw that the kid knew base ball
like he did Euclid.
Dave, always with tender spot In
his heart for his old teammates and
manage tripped over to Philadelphia and
apprised Manager Mack OF the fact that
a jewel In the rough was in Collins.
Connie Mack slipped over one day to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-12

Bridge players, taking up auction for
the first time, usually start with an en-
tlrely wrong Idea OF the objects of tie
game. The prevailing impression seems
to be that the difference lies in the fact
that at bridge only the dealers side can
declare and that any declaration is final,
while at auc--on each player in turn
has an opportunity 10 name the trump
and that the one with the best hand
gets the privilege OF playing the dunn
my. Following out this theory, they as
sumo that as it is only the partners who
make the winning declaration that can
score toward game, all the players
energies should be directed toward win
ming the game and rubber.
This is entirely false, because the ots
feet in auction is not TO win the game
or the rubber. but to win points. In
bridge 1t is very rare that the losers
OF the rubber win any points, and when
such thing happens the gain is in
f1nitesimal. In bridge. to win anything,
VOC must lin the rubber. In auction, on
the contrary. it is easily possible to lose
the rubber and yet win four or five
hundred points on the balance. That
happens every Gay.
The limit Of value of the tricks in
bridge is twelve points each, and the
average is SIX. doubling and reuOublln s
will bring them up to four times as
much. but their value is always the same
for either side. In auction, each trick
is always worth fifty points to one side
and may be worth as much as 200 if
doubled and redoubled.
The chief object in auction, there
fore, is not TO win the tricks that score
toward game, because of their trifiing
value, but to win penalties, which are
worth great deal. Accordingly, the
declarations made in auction are not
necessarily to get the dummy and go
game but to win points: because it is not
the player that wins the most rubbcrs,
but the one who wins the most valuable
rubbers, that comes out ahead in the
end.
The first principle underlying the decla-
ration at auction bridge is that it is al
ways better to defeat the adversaries
than to score toward game yourself.
Let us illustrate this: Suppose that
A and B win a rubber in two deals out
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years ago catchers began working close
behind the batsman throughout the
game.
IL the bases were empty. until two strikes
were called on the man at bat. Even
then It was necessary once In While
to catch close UP when one OF the few ex-
pert hunters came up with no one on the
bases. This was to prevent those ex-
perts from dropping the ball close to the
plate and reaching first before the catch
e. could get It. How many players in
either major league today could not lay
one out Of three attempts. IL the catcher
would stay back as he used to-:
Great Progress Of Team Play.
Team play. which is the corollary >oc
inside base ball. has progressed wonder-
fully in ten years. Not that there was
no team play before that. The old stone
wall infield Of Chicago in the SOS and
the Baltimore team of the middle Ws
were brilliant opponents of team play
in the past There are more teams and
more players using their stuff now than
then. In proof Of the moro wide dis
tribution and the greater perfection of
team play, is the fact 1t now is necessary
to carry substitute for nearly every po-
sftion.
team particularly to put a catcher on
the infield or pitcher in the outfield.
In fact, it was not so many years ago
that the change" pitcher always played
in the outfield. Today the development
of inside play has turned out lot OF
specialists instead Of all-round players.
Even in the outf1eld a crack left fielder
may be at sea for while in right. The
injury OF an infielder is more serious
than formerly because it removes ore or
the regular cogs of the machine and the
substitute has much to learn and think
Of aside from his own individual work.
All-Around Players Scarce.
Twentieth century base ball does not
develop many men like Artie Holman
or Larry Lajoie, who will fit in almost
anywhere outside the battery. In an
other ten years We may have training
schools and universities with special
courses for second basemen, right field
ers. catchers and so on, turning out
bachelors of shortstop and doctors of
pitching. with summa cum laude->honors
and all that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-12
PALM BEACH REGATTA.
Will Be Held on Lake Worth March
Ia. Is. 16 and IL.

PAIN REACH, March 1.-THE seventh
,n,,,a, repatta of the Palm Beach Power
Pot Association will be held on Lake
worth March IL, IL. 16 and Il. Eighteen
motor boats will contest in the several
events during the four days. The speed
contest, which takes place on the first
day, will have several starters; all OF
which are expected to accomplish better
than thirty miles per hour.
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DICK HOBLITZELL IS A
VERY YOUTHFUL STAR
Cincinnati Player Is Only D Years Old, But
Ranks With Best First Sack
ers in Country.

professional education He took one year
in dentistry at the University OF Pitts
burg, and is now completing his second
year at the University of Cincinnati. He
will graduate this spring with honorv.
and will go into his brothers ONCE in the
Andrews building as soon as the base bali
season is over.
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think you are going TO do a thing one
way and doing the opposite. Keep them
crossed" is the mu,tered command or
the foxy manager whose men have the
other team on the run. I'VE crossed
them there" is the cheerful chlrp OF the
PLAYERS to each other on the bench when
. run. or two, or three have been scored
by an unexpected and versatil, attack.
One does not hear that shouted from the
coaching lines and not one in hundred
OF the spectators probably has a def1n,te
idea of how or why specific result was
acc0mnliShed
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Teams Play Close Ball.

The score was TO o in Chicago's favor
and both teams played Close" careful
games in that series as rule. OLeary
Led in the fourth inning with a single
and Crawford made another. O'Leary be
ing stopped at second. With nobody on,
and one OF the sweetest hunters in the
world coming TO bat. there was only one
play expected by every one Cobb knew
what he was going to do and so did
Brown. So fast is the Detroit star that
ar he can lay down a slow bunt along the
third base line IL is almost impossible &c
throw him out at first. Consequently
pitchers try TO deliver the ball so that II
cannot be placed there with any degree
az certainty. Brown reversed that sys-
tenn and pitched a ball right where he
knew 1t would be the easiest Cor Cobb e
poke IL just inside the foul line. He
actually tempted Ty 20 try IL, even IL he
had not intended doing 1t. But the in
slant the ball left Browns hand on its
way TO the plato he started on the tumI
for that particular spot, half way be-
tween third and home.
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Brown outguesses Cobb.

That was just where Cobb laid down
the ball With the start he had. Brown
was able to throw to third in time TO
force O'y>eary out. thereby not only de-
1eating the intended advancement of the
runner To third, but accomplishing
putout. And It would have been extreme
ly difficuit TO retire Cobb at first on so
perfect bcnt. even with the start Brown
had. So astonlshed were the Tigers a;
shis magnificent bit of strategy that sam
CRAWFORD went on watch. thinking II
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Athletics Surpass Cubs.

Knowing their opponents in the last
worlds series would expect them to play
so-called American League base ball, the
Athletics cut away from ii in consider
able measure. and played the slashing
eake-every-chance style which Is more
characteristic OF the National League
The Cubs were quite naturally taken
by surprise by tactics which they sup
posed their rivals had forgotten how tc
use. Although Chances men had COPIED
with and checked similar attacks many
times in the past. the element of surprise
was just enough 10 incline the balance
su favor OF the Athletics. Once started
Mack's men jumped on the scales with
their whole weight in unison and kept
jumping.
OF an entirely different sort and per
haps a more. Ineligible illustration of the
application of the double cross in inside
base ball was a play made in the earlier
worlds series. that of 1905 between De-
tro!t and Chicago. In the fourth game
Of that series Mordecai Brown STAYED
OF possible defeat by outguessing Ty Cobb
N critical situation and by q play SO
desperate that il probably would have
lost the game IL Cobb had guessed what
Brown was going to do and had crossed
Nor6ecai.
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Scientific Teams Meet.

Two Of the greatest opponents OF scien-
the base ball in the country met In the
worlds series of 1910. What ordinarily is
understood to be inside or scientific base
hall had less to do with its result than in
any previous battle Of the kind. Chica-
COS Cubs had opportunity to put their
Justly famous system in operation in few
Of the games because the scores were too
lopstded. They were put on the defensive
early In the series and kept there. The
Athletics did not often resort to foxy
methods and frequently discarded natural
plays which certain situations seemed al
most to command.
Nevertheless. the Athletics won the
worlds pennant by a gigantic double
cross.
American League teams for years have
resorted to close" persistent methods on
account of the evenly matched teams
Because OF the great value OF one run in
q game they used the surer, less risky
means OF making runs. They took fewer
chances than were possible and advisable
an the National League. where the tall
end team usually was troublesome rather
than dangerous IN a game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-12
Here Is Why Our Suits
Are the Best You
Can Buy

THE CLOTH is every
yard "cold-water shrunk." This
costs us a good deal OF money
that the cheap tailor and the
"ready-made' man saves, but
it prevents the goods from
shrinking either in the making
or after you put the suit on.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-07-28

ORCE, picturesqueness and abil
tty in congress knows no Sec
lions. Northerners, southern
ers, fasteners and westerners
have their strengths and their
weaknesses, their likes and their
dislikes, their physical manner
isms and their mental idiosyn-
crasies just like all other human
beings.
There have been men in con-
GRASS who wear In and year out
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sudden glory arising from sudden
conception of some eminency in our
selves by comparison with the inf1rm-
ity of others, or with our own for
merly."
If laugh is a benefaction and the
provoker of a laugh benefactor, why
are there more statues to dull people
than to witty ones? Who was the
greatest laugh promoter in history?
It was said of Sidney Smith that he
was the father of 100000 laughs.
Laughter, said Lord Rosebery re-
Gently, SIS physical necessity. We
live under sunless sky, surrounded
by melancholy ocean, and it is
physical necessity for the English ma
tion-even for the Scotch nation and
the Welsh nation-to laugh. It ex-
hilarates all social relations. Was
not his lordship added, ''the laugh
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crease of pension for the widow of a soldier.
There papers forwarded to him which bore
on the case, and these he turned to the
committee ON pensions after his bill had been
introduced.
The widow did not get her money and it was
not long before the whole house knew why. The
member who had espoused the widows cause
had been in congress for years, and the joke at
his expense was too good to keep, and after
another Of his colleagues walked up to his desk
and congratulated MIN the wisdom shown in
the plea which in written form, he had
turned in to the committee to win the widows
case
1t is perhaps needless to say that the mem
Der had never read the plea. It set forth the
fact that while the amount Of pension increase
the widow of the soldier hero asked for
large 1t must be understood that she came of
good family moved in the best social circles, and
was in need of large sum of money to keep up
appearances
Upon occasion senators and representatives per-
NIT their constituents to do their talking for
them in congress. Petitions come in floods at
times, with the object of securing legislation by
external pressure. In the Smoot case, and in
the pure food and army canteen matters the pleas
of the people in by the tens of thousands.
The members of both houses present these let
ters call attention to their import and then allow
the petition to do the rest if they are potent
enough
Senator Latimer of South Carolina once intro
d
ture of government millions for the Improvement
Of the highways. The automobilists all over the
country began sending letters of approval They
pressed their friends into the writing service but
that they did not always pass upon the persuasive
merits of the friends productions is shown fair
ly we'll by letter the good roads subject
received by Senator Cullom 1t read like this:
Dear Mr.. Cullom Please vote for this id
bill, and you will oblige fool friend Of mine
who runs an automobile Yours more or less
sincerely, ---
1t was a Chicago who wrote this appeal.
There were others like unto it. The good roads
bill still sleeps.
In the older days the school readers contained
the story of I'll Try Sir Miller" Probably
everybody knows who 'Ill Try Sir Miller"
Certainly everybody ought to know Gen. James
Miller then a captain, the hero of Lundy's
Lane. He said he would try to do the thing
necessary for the thrashing of the enemy, and he
did it. and "Ill Try Sir took the place of his
Christian name James.
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For years several representatives in congress
tried to secure appropriation to be used for
the building of monument to General Miller at
Peterboro N H., which town "Pll Try Sir"
lived on farm before the of 1912, and for
years after it's close. The representatives who
had the matter of pushing the bill in hand used
the words of Captain Miller at Lundys Lane to
express their own determination to VIC
tory They certainly did try and the speeches
that made before the library committee OF
congress held patriotic appeals in every sentence
Apparently, however, it was easier for Miller 10
capture battery against odds than 1t was LOT
members of congress to capture the dollars neces-
sary to build monument of enduring stones
to his memory.
It was case of try and try again While the
cause of Miller whose herosm was worth
dozen monuments, was being pleaded, congress
voted money for memorials to other men less de-
serving. Finally, however New Hampshire
member who had been digging into history found
out something about "Tl Try Sirs" career which
not generally known. Congress had been
told time and again that Captain Miller not only
had shown conspicuous gallantry at Lundy Lane,
but that prior to that fight he had thrashed
superior force of British and Indians at Managua.
Congress had also been told that Miller had COM
manded the center column Of General Browns
army which routed what apparently
overwhelmingly greater force Of the British at
Fore Erie.
These things didn't make impression. Con-
gress seemed to think that inasmuch as Miller
soldier that it his business to defeat
superior forces Of the enemy every day in the
week without imposing any monument-raising
duty on posterity. The New Hampshire member,
however, found out that after the of 1912
Miller went back to his farm near Petersboro,
plowed fields, chopped wood and MIXED the
instead of going to Washington to ask the gov
eminent to do something for him on account Of
his record.
Miller's popularity such after the treaty of
peace that the government probably would have
been glad to give him anything that it had to
give. When I'll Try Sir asked why he
was playing Cincinnatus instead of taking a job
in Washington, he replied: when men begin
leaving the farms for the cities the nation will
begin to decay"
Congress was told of this saying of Mers
and either admiration for his choice of farm
er's life or else belief that he was a prophet
who before long might have the truth of his
prophecy proved, brought a favorable report
from the committee library in the matter OF
the monument at Petersboro.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-07-28
FOSTER AND HIS MODEST FEE

John w. Foster, ex-secretary Of
state and known the world over
through his connection with the dip
lomatic corps of the United States,
has come into the limelight through
the publication of alleged facts con,
corning the collection of a claim
against the Chinese government II
was the claim of the heirs of Freder.
ick T. Ward, an American soldier Of
fortune, who was killed in 1862 while
in the military service of China. China
paid to the United States more than
$24,000,000 indemnity for outrages
during the Boxer outbreak. OF this
less than 100000 was awarded to
claimants by this government and the
remainder was returned to China
with the exception of $2,000.00O re-
served for belated claims.
Mr.. Foster received for this work
a fee of $180,000. The matter is now
in the hands of congressional com
mittee for investigation. The amount
paid the claimants was $36S,237
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The Shepherd of the Black Sheep

more intense form of the smile In
extreme cases the eyes are moistened
by the effusion from the lachrymal
glands"
There you have scientific defni-
ton. But it is clear that mankind
would hardly take the trouble to go
through that experience If that is all
that laughter consisted of. They
would not regard a Dickens or a
Mark Twain as benefactor merely
because a perusal of their writings
produced that. No; even the philoso-
pliers know that laughter Is something
better than that-something internal
that there is such a thing as silent
laughter Hobbies calls laughter "a
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Professor Sir Charles Bell In the
Strand Calls 1t a Convulsive Ac-
ton of the Diaphragm.

Laughter" says Professor Sir
Charles Bell in the London Strand, is
q convulsive action of the diaphragm.
In this state the person draws full
breath and throws it out in interrupt
ed, short and audible cachinnations.
This CONFUSION of the diaphragm is
the principal part of the physical man
Hesitation of laughter; but there are
several accessories, especially the
sharp vocal utterance arising from the
violent tension of the larynx and the
expression of the features, this being