The sun., 1913-12-28
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dealt and bid n space. winch y
passed. heinz N no hurry To show a weak
club suit and at the same time take he
opponents out Of n losing make, y bid
royal and u two clubs. z then declared
the weaker OF his two suits, bidding two
dia nlonds
rs ALREADY PORTED out in t1osc articles.
this bidding Of the cheaper suit first is
usually II mistake under modern practice.
in which overcalling is more common
tnan doubling The reason for showing
the stronger suit first is that when il is
overcalled and the weaker suit j. shown
for two tricks the partucr can go back
tn the stronger suit, II IL suits him the
better. without incroa"ing til" contract.
on the second round OF the bidding two
things are clear to \. The first is that
his partner must hold ace and King of
clubs 10 five or six IN suit, o. h" would
not show losing suit when he had the
lead against the declaration. The see
, ond is that u must have the spades bot
, tied up. as Il denies anything iu that suit
| by taking his partner out with losing
| suit. Therefore \ bids three clubs.
dropped the royals and went three
diamonds. which confirms AS Inference
| as to the spades In RS hand. l. pussei
| having shown all he had to show and
not caring 10 push q losing suit against
a losing suit when il would take either
| Of them eleven tricks To go game. This
left u free to take his partner ont H.
| showing his other six card suit, bidding
| three hearts.
by this time A knows it all aud has T.
| on the hip. but il is not yet time To
! double hearts, as the penalties would
| hardly be worth i; and two sut"r "a
always dangerous. Having no winiiur
| suit to fight with there is nothing for \
hut TO go on with tho clubs. bidding -four.
This Y and b pass. but 4 goes four
hearts. depending on his rnrtner for The
hllers in diamonds TO support him.
| Even at this stage there is nothing in
the double for A. but IL his partner
holds a trick or two in spades and long
string OF clubs he must be short In
| both the red suits auu there il - IA,
chance to go game in clubs. 50 bid.
six clubs. This goes round to T., who
| doubles. trusting his partner for spade
| ana high diamonds. "a V hid royals and
| afterward assisted Diamonds
| u led the diamond and Y put on the
| ace. dropping the jack from H. lie la
Il chance here IL he had led a spade. but
| apparently he did not like to lead up tt
! The guarded queen in dummy. as bots
| queen and ace would make II y had tn,
ace. so he went back with the diamond
| and trumpcd IT,
| took Out one round OF trunps wiz
| the ace and then got rid OF the king o.
hearts. \ losing trump put dummy i,
to lead the spade queen. covered With III,
l hiiB' 81 tuut ace anu JACK lllduc, Dummy
| rufed the next spade. led ace and an
other heart and the cross ruff complete,
tho little slam.
| While A took y chance in going a.
high as six clubs simply on his inf,renc
MS TO BIS spades. 1t was a better chaus,
than doubling four hearts canno
have any clubs but might have the KIN,
OF hearts. Had tho hand been playct
NJ hearts doubled 4 and B would hay,
made only 100 In penalties IL z playc,
well.
| would probably lead the spade queer
through I's declaration. covered By kin,
and ace and then trumpcd by u. The mex
thing would be to put dummy in witt
the diamond so as TO lead the truml
from the weak hand and get n line OF
the situation When Il put the king OF
the deuce he would he marked with II,
more. II b led another spade Il woul,
RUIZ il and continue the diamonds Thu
would force a to trump and lead t,umps
so as to prevent dummy from maxim,
The nine OF trumps On the club. n ca,
then pick up AS last trump and mak
! AL the diamonds. He has Il typical tw,
| suffer