Arizona republican., 1911-01-23
HERE'S A HAND AT BRIDGE.
Showing the Advantage of Not Being m
 Too Great Hurry.

Suppose the dealer at bridge finds himself with this hand: Hearts-king. eight seven; diamonds-queen. five, four. two: clubs-ace, eight, four' spades-ace. nine. three. Suppose he makes it no trumps, and the five ot hearts is led. Suppose, further, that dummy lays down these cards: Hearts ace. six. four: Diamonds-jack, seven, three; clubs-king. nine, seven, SIX. three: spades-queen, six.
 What sort of a plan of campaign would you outline as dealer for the management of the two hands?
 That is the problem proposed by the well known English bridge player, w. Dalton, in his article. Lady Claver- tons Bridge Class" in the current is sue of the strand. Probably the aver age bridge player would solve the prob lem as one of the members of the class suggests. She roposes 10 win the first trick in her own hand, and then to clear the club suit. keeping the ace of hearts in dummy as a card of reentry But MT. Dalton. posing as Reggie Holford, teacher of the class. demol- 1 ishes this plan at once. The dealer, he says, has two certain tricks in hearts, 1 four in clubs with ordinary luck and one in spades-seven altogether. But nine are necessary in CT1er to win the game. How is he to get the other two? | If the leader should happen to have ! five hearts. and should happen to get in with them three heart tricks with the ace and queen of diamonds would save the game from going to the dealer. The , leaders problem, then. is to stop the heart suit from making.
 Tt often puzzles mo." says Reggie, why so few players ever think of hold | ing up two commanding cards of their opponents suit They will hold up one-say the ace-as long as possible, but it never seems to occur to them that it is doubly valuable to hold up two. especially in a case like this where it is of vital importance to block suit.
 So the dealer passes up the first trick. letting the leaders partner win with the jack. When the two Of hearts is led back the dealer takes it with his king. figuring that the leaders partner lhas no more hearts to lead Tine dealer
 then leads a small club. Reggie explain ing that he is bound to lose one club trick and that he might as well lose the first
 Suppose I play out the ace and king" he says. and tLe dealer held three clubs originally, he must come in on the third round. whatever his clubs
 were He then clears his hearts and
 has the ace or king of diamonds to
 bring them in with. As it is. he cannot possibly win club trick unless he has four, which isn't likely.
 The leaders partner wins the club trick and eads a small diamond which the leader takes with the ace. Now the only possible card of TC-entry which the leader can have iS the king oi spades. If he has it he will clear his ilheart suit. trusting 70 the king ot spades for re-entry: if rot. he will re- turn the diamond lead. He leads dia-
 mand and his partner let's the trick go
 the dealer winning with the queen.
 He then proceeds to make his clubs
 leading the ace from his own hand, talk ing the nexttrick with Gummv's king
 and then making dummy's nine and seven. Now he can count the cars Oi the player on his right The king and one other diamond, and the king and one other spade Dealer leads the ace
 of hearts from dummy. The player or
 his right is at his mercy. for if he dis
 cards a diamond. dealer discards .