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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-23
"OLO GUARD" ACTIVE
At G. O. P. MEET
(BuLLETlN.)

(BULLETlN.)
INDIANAPOLIS, April 23-Hugh
T. Miller was nominated for senator,
946 to 493 for G. H. Bookwalter, OF In.
dianapolis
Judge Quincy A. Myers was nomi-
mated by reclamation to succeed him.
self on the state supreme bench
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1900 REFUGEES ON CRUISERS

WASHINGTON, April 23.-'TWelve
hundred American refugees have been
taken aboard the American warships
at Tampico. Rear Admiral MAYO re-
ported to the navy department from
that port today as follows:
BY courtesy and energy of the cap
tains of the German and British cruis-
ers there are now on board our ships
about twelve hundred American refII-
gees. More are expected tomorrow,
coming from outside points, merchant
ships taking them on board"
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NEW YORK STOCK QUO.
TATIONS
VIOLATE WHITE FLAG.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Many OF
the American marines and sailors kill
ed and wounded at Vera Cruz were
shot down while under the protection
of a flag of truce, according to ad-
vices that reached the navy depart.
ment today. Intense Indignation was
caused among American officials by
this news, but official comment was
held up in order that there might be
no increase in the tension already felt
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Miss Ruth E. Getz. of Lancaster,
Pa, who was married to charles clark
recently. carried bouquet of flowers
whlcht was carried by a relative at
her wedding thirty years ago.
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forces the bid upon the weaker hand.
IL z bids no trump A will call two hearts,
because with his supporting diamonds and
ability TO run spades he may count on
only four losing cards in his hand. III
his partner can win trick he goes game.
AS Y cannot stop the hearts. his play
would be to bid two royals. When Il and
y pass A will push OF to three
royals. This will bring B into II, because
he will then lie justified In assisting the
bid. as his partner has rebid his own
hand without assistance. IL Il goes To
four hearts. A wins the game but " Y
or Y go as far as four royals they will
fail by a trick.
Y can make three by cards ruling the
hearts and letting u run the clubs. Sup
pose u opens the hearts and leads them
twice. as he cannot tell that Y is void.
Y ruffs and leads two rounds of clubs.
Then he trurnps heart and leads another
club, puts himself In with a trump and
makes dummy's smaI trump on the
fourth club. after which the ace and king
OF trumps will fall together on BIS trump
lead.
At no trumps. should a be timid enough
TO leave him with 1t or should u venture
to go on with II. all that Y could make
would be the odd trick, as a can run off
six heart tricks at once. After that Il
must make diamond. two clubs and four
spades.
Here Ia rather remarkable instance of
undertaking hand that came under the
writer's notice snort time ago:
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OLD WAY LED TO LOSSES

common mistake among average
| players in the, early days OF auction was
to rely upon the third hands taking the
dealer out OF spade and to wait TO see
what the take out would be. This was at
| a time when the spade call by the dealer
was made upon big hands and the object
| was to get information from tho other
| players before deciding on the winning
| declaration.
This system included a mistake that
| has lately been corrected by all good
] players. which was the assumption that a
| bid made on the second round had the
same meaning as one made on the first
The theory OF the bid was that the
dealer should never be left in with n
| spade. so that IL the second hand did not
| take him out the third hand was not
allowed TO take any chances on the fourth
| hand. but was compelled to bid something
| or other. IL he had nothing he had to
call two spades just to reopen the bidding
| for his partner.
Those opposed to the dealer naturally
| Fought shy OF giving any Information to
the strong hand and in their turn waited
Tor line on the situation by allowing
the third hand TO take Nhe dealer out SO
consistently was this system followed
that many players were In the habit OF
passing spade call second hand with
out even looking at their cards
The defect In this system was that
when the dealer had nothing and did not
want any Information he had to go no
tvmps. and II his partner did not happen
to have anything either the adversaries
got some heavy penalties
better understanding Of the possi-
bil'ties of the game has eliminated this
system of bidding almost entirely and
the dealers spade bids are made on pass
Ing hands, with no obligation on the part
ner to take him out. In the place OF seek
NORMAL ush t1I, kA
forced 20 give the dealer now gives in
formation himself II he Is not quite
| strong enough to make a winning declara-
| ton.
But the game cannot be played by ma
chinery and there are still situations In
which the dealer will bid a spade on a
very fair hand, but the test for such hands
| Is always. Can afford to be left in with
| srade?' The answer to this has been
| furnished by the figures published by
Milton Work in his auction Develop
ments,' showing that any score short
OF game is not OF much use more than
| once in twenty-five times.
This brings the dealer to a considera-
tion OF the probability Of going game II
| he bids his hand or OF being left with a
| spade IL he does not. The game golng
| part OF II Is based on the number OF
| tricks the partner can probably bring to
| the support OF the declaration. Calcula-
ton shows his expectation to be between
| two and three tricks. counting only such
rs are sure. Independently OF the dealers
holding IN the same suit.
| AS the dealer now usually declares n
| spade on spade hand and his partner IL
| not in any hurry about taking him out
the second bidder Is the one that will be
| left at the post unless he gets into the
bidding with anything worth showing. II
| he does not make n bid he may miss O
| game hand.
l SsNt
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dealt on the rubber game and bid
no trump No one having anything bet
ter to offer. no got 1t.
II Ii curious that r did not ask for
a club lead. but probably thought he could
get in on anything and start that suit
without alarming z, who might leave
him in.
A led the six OF spades. which n won
with the ace. He thought 4, better to
lead his own suit up to weakness than
than 20 return the spade. so he played
the club ten, the idea being to beat
dummy's six. put on tho Jack to pre-
vent A from finessing the ten. and A won
with the queen.
At this point A made peculiar play.
for which no reason is given. leading
through dummys hearts. II won the
trick with the ace and concluded that A
must have tho king OF clubs, which he
wanted led to. through what he probably
imagined 10 be the ace in rs hand.
This prompted i to lead the nine of
clubs. and Y held Off. hoping that IL the
suit were led again AS ACC would be
forced and the suit blocked. Instead of
that b came along with the ace next
time and picked up rs king, making ali
the rest or the clubs. so that was set
for 100 points
or course Y could have made two by
cards by putting up the king OF clubs but
II the ace had been behind him, as ono
would suppose II to be- he gould have
lost two tricks by such a play, wherea,
by holding OF and losing his king he
would stand to make the odd and his
contract.
The argument Is that II u had bid n
spade on this hand. In which there Is
only one sure trick. or Ave probable
showing that the partner must win fou, or
fve to insure game. A and Y would both
have passed, and II any declaration had
been made IL would probably have been
no trump. by b.
This would not be good bidding, because
would be undertaking too big a contract
with partner who has passed a spade
Against such n declaration Y would make
club. spade. two diamonds and nj
least one heart trick II he led small
spade originally After winning the sec
ond or third club trick ne would natu-
rally lead the hearts, so as to get his
partner In II possible TO come through
with the diamonds. up to dummy's weak.
ness.
This system OF passing with strone
hands Is not to be recommended as 2
general practice, but there are occasions
upon which II Ia certainly useful especially
under the management OF a good player
and every ono should be familiar with the
fact that there Ia such a system in com
mon use and that every spade bid by the
dealer does not mean that he has moth.
Ing at all
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dealt With game in and a large
penalty score in his favor he bid spade
instead OF calling the better OF his two
minor suits, the diamond His theory
was that the only thing an opponent could
call would be heart or a royal. at either
OF which n could save the game and per-
maps get in some more penalties.
But " did not anticipate or allow for
the possible irregularity OF an opponents
declarations. A should have bid three
spades. asking his partner TO go royals or
no trumps. This would have suited Y,
VINO would pass. and II u were to think
his spades too short to justify a royal and
DID no trumps rs scheme would have
been grand success, as he would have
won five tricks and saved the game be-
fore losing the lead.
But strange to say \ did not bid three
spades neither did he call a royal out of
hand. but went no trumps
had nothing TO say and n passed In
his exultation over the five sure tricks In
his hama. perhaps seven. IL the clubs
dropped. y entirely forgot that his orig
inal spade bid gave his partner no clue a 3
TO what to lead. The consequence was an
unpleasant surprise for H.
led his long spade suit and \ went
game on the hand at no trumps by making
five spade tricks and four hearts all in a
row. bringing rs hand down 10 two aces
and two kings.
Had bid "A diamond originally, az he
should have done. A could not have risked
the no trumper and would have bid five
spades or royal. Then would have
shown his supporting suit by calling two
clubs, and when A or Il went two royals
both and z would have passed.
The contract would be the probable
limit OF possibility against good PLAY 2
would lead two rounds OF clubs and then
two rounds OF diamonds. getting an echo
from his partner in each suit The lack
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Whit fAiechine, Q Places.

Cn n Alecfine calculated to draw by ths es-
chen nc he made a mistake as Iasker Is equally ~
bone either MS FIRST or second player In this par
ucular yarie ton Of the Ruy Lopez. and plays 10
Il, 1he same position occurred In the next round
In the game between Iasker and Capabhnca,
IAsker playing the white pieces then. Instead OF
the text move he castlcd ant immediately after
wards PLAYED P-kBt. obtaining much tnT eu
To- Il, An in renious move which at nrst sight sp-
pears 20 give white u c better game.
20 Ot course. II IS. .BSP. then IeP-kts WIN
% ii shoud be RENE mbered that at this stag
OF the contest Iasker was behind 'apablanca In
his score and that he was paying 70 win:
90 defending his pawn by u (k5--kS would at
leAst have given HIN an even game. but Alcchnc
wes now playing for q WIN. ..
(O) And al nrst sight hc appears 70 be Obtaining
on overwhelming superiority OF position. 49,,
nv asher howe yer Eys subtle trap TOR Dim.
" o o Over nVsrcokins lie .rsre. Ills bes, move was
10 play the II back to ks
~ y remarkable position. White has no WY
Of "a ing the loss OF the exchange. II ~ :k-B.
Kt-<t; CT. winning the " at o. and II y R-Kt1.
u -Q- oh. followed by kt-k6 Oh winning the
other r.
~ He had nothn q better.
~ Much better than RE, the reply TO which
move would have been P-B6.
I'M With two $ and a pawn al ainst r. kt and
Pawn. Back has now theoretically won game.
but the win IN not easy, and he has 10 play with
great patience. care ana circumspection 10 avoid
I'M For he can longer avoid the exchange Of
rocks. after which winning Is easy. u 90 ;k.B.
R--B4 CHI; OF no, ll-Qi and wins. u % h-B3,
R-Bl CHI: Of KOS, ROT oh: " K-B2. RxR
Oh; Us hXR, K-kti o. * moves. Rxkt: s5 kSR.
k-kt5A and wins.
PROBLEM NO AS. BY c. A. l.. BULL.
nj
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NEW ENGLISH CODE
FOR ROYAL AUCTION
Code Just Published Allows
Dealer to Pass and Makes
Other Changes.

The new English laws for royal auc-
ton bridge have just been made public
in London. In IN account of the re-
vised code printed in the London Daily
Mai, William Dalton says that these
new laws do. not really form new code
They are the old laws of auction bridge,
revised and brought up to date. so as
10 meet the requirements of the new
game.
They were drawn up by a very repre-
sentative joint committee, consisting Of
the card committee OF the Portland Club,
with representatives from the Turf, ST.
Jamess, Whites. Baldwin and Bath clubs.
The committee endeavored to make as few
alterations as possible. so as not to dis
turb the existing game more than was
absolutely necessary.
The following are the only points of
any importance in which the new laws
differ from the old ones
T. The new values OF the respective
calls are:
Clubs. points.
Diamonds, points
Hearts, 5 points.
Spades (RoyaD, Q points
No trumps 10 points.
The lower value of the spade suit il
done away with. and the dealer is allowed
to pass tsee Law 40.
Q. Grand slam now counts 100 points
and small slam so points, instead of 40
and 20 points as before.
Law IA Is new. 1t Is as follows: when
rubber Is started with the agreement
that the play shall terminate de, no new
deal shall commence) at a specified time
and the rubber Is then unfinished. the
score Is made up as It stands, 1876 points
being added to the score OF the winners
OF game. A deal. II started. must be
finished"
Law 40. Paragraph II. There must bs
new deal II any card Is faced In the
pack. or exposed during the process OF
dealing. whether II Is exposed by the
dealer or by any other player.
Laws 40 and Al are deleted and a new
Law Al is introduced as follows:
"A player may not look at any OF hi
cards until the deal has been completed
should he do so. and n card be afterwart
| exposed. the adversary on his left shall
have the option OF allowing tho deal e
| stand or not"
Al. There is now no obligation on tn,
| dealer TO make call unless he wishes I,
| do so. He can simply pass, instead o.
being obliged to declare "one spade" n,
| under the old law.
Law 81 limiting the loss on n declara
ton Of zone spade" Is deleted, and tn,
following new law takes its place:
"bl. II a player makes an illegal dec
laration. such as declaring an impossible
number OF tricks. the adversary on hi
left may demand n new deal, or ma,
| treat such declaration as not made, O.
may permit II to stand. The player Il
error cannot be penalized for more tina,
grand slam"
b2. If player makes declarat!o,
tother than passng) out OF turn, the al
versary on his left may demand mes
deal or may allow the declaration 81
made to stand "or," the new code saws
The may refer 1t to his partner. who's
decision must be final"
al. A declaration once made cannot h
altered. except as provided by Law SO
The new code adds. but II a declaratio
8 obviously misnomer and is amende,
practically in the same breath Il stand
as corrected"
Law e5 Is new. II says: TT the de
clarers partner call the attention OF tn
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White to play and win.
The distribution OF the men is: Black
men on IL, is, II: kings on l6 and 81.
White men on 6. 81. 2s and 80; king on o.
CHECKER HONOR LIST.
The problem that stood between a num-
Der of clever players and the white card in
THE SUN Checker Club In this series was
No. 27S, although solvers had four full
weeks in which to analzye the position.
What they could have done In actual
play against an opponent Of Wyllie's
reputation may be imagined.
AS two problems appeared on April D
the full set OF ten checker problems was
submitted for solution. There were in all
eighty-three who tried for the honor list
In these ten.
II has finally been settled after a care
full analysis of all the solutions and varia-
tons submitted for No. 27s that only
three really solved the problem. These
were John Daily. =. ii. Joyce and John
Ryan. The play will be given In full next
week. In the meantime here is the honor
list:
Those who solved all ten were John
Daily and John Ryan. and they get the
white cards for membership in THE SUN
Checker Club for the summer. the honor
list being suspended during the hot
weather. so that these cards are good
until September Is.
Those who solved nine were H. Atlas,
]. p. Goss. James Hyland. James Murphy
and j. II. Noremac. These are entitled
to the red cards. One of them, ii. Atlas
ia the only person in the tournament vino
held his place, all the others having either
advanced or gone back.
Those who solved eight were Ralph
Diamond, Harris Burg. l.. 3. Hart. Jr,
p II, Joyce, Z. Mesner. y. ]. McManus
A. w, Warwick, d. A. w. and George
A. lander They get blue cards.
Those who solved seven were O. IT
Boston. ]. =. De Croft, Frank Eagleton
Oscar Erickson. c. l.. Lynn, Judge J. +
McCabe, p. J. McGarry and f.. J. Walker
They get the green cards.
Cards will be forwarded on receipt o.
correct name and address
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rwENrY.sEsrNrH HONOR LIST.


The four problems selected for this
series were Nos. 273. 27s. 27e. and ESQ,
each OF which presented an entirely
different aspect of the strategy OF the
game and furnished an interesting test
of the varying abilities Of the solvers.
No. 213. by Capt Frank Roy. had the
trap in the very first trick. where very
few persons would look for II. Many
thought that AS discard was not impor-
tant enough to mention In view OF rs
continuation. so the matter was submitted
to the composer, who agreed with the
writer that such an important step In the
preparation for an unbeatable defence
on AS part must be given or the solver
could not be credited with having analysed
the best defences for A and as
thoroughly as those who pointed out the
necessity for this discard from AS hand.
No 276. another OF Frank Roy's. pre-
scented a very interesting situation In
which the declarer wanted only two tricks
out Of eight to get his contract, having
already won the first five. This was a
very pretty problem and its difficulty was
evident from the fact that out of the six
teen who solved II all but one had been
on an honor list.
The composer OF No 279 Is unknown.
In some respects 1t resembles Whitfeld's
famous eight carder, the solution of which
IL printed to-day. but In the management
OF the play, surrcndcring the winning
cards on the first two tricks. Il Is unique.
No. $50. Jay Reeds very pretty nullo
situation. is probably still fresh in the
minds of readers of THIS SUN. Several
advocates of the nullo declaration have
written 10 say that 1t is one of the best
illustrations OF the principles OF play
against that game that they have ever
seen.
owing to the care required in solving
these problems there are only eight sur
vivors on the list. although nearly n hum
drcd persons tried for II from time to
time. Four OF these eight rank as ex-
perts. having held their places at the
top I'm all the previous tests. These have
three stars after their names. Two stars
indicate that ono honor list has been
missed. one star shows that the person
has been on one previous honor lis.
There is only one newcomer on this list,
G.. Il, Glover. having been on several
honor lists in the past.
Miss l.. NJ. Frost. go. Washington
George B. Glover. Brooklyn: Harris Burg.
Harrisburg. Pa. l.. S. Hart. Jr.. go. Dun
cannon. Pa. Walker Martin, 80, Johns
town. " V: c. II. O'Connor. .. Mont
clair. y. j.: u. A. w. 80. Fort Plain.
n. y; w. J.. w, zee, Elizabeth. n. J.
Following the usual custom the honor
list will he suspended during the sum-
mer months. so as to give all a chance
to retain their places. as many aspirants
FOR this list are away on vacations. In
the meantime the problems presented will
be such "a 10 furnish simple but essen
tial lessons In the proper management NJ
various situations that continually arise
at the card table. especially at summer
hotels.
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The second move OF whites Is probably
about the last thing a beginner would
think Of and the move that follows II
looks as IL he were making as quick a
finish as possible OF lost game instead
Of obtaining a winning position. AL
though the men are equal, white has a
winning position, as Will be seen II II
IL PLAYED out Many who are not well
up in problem play imagine that one must
be n man ahead to win, but this Is seldom
necessary in n well constructed problem
Correct solutions from:
Isaiah Spector. Harris Burg, +. j. Nc
Garry. A. j. L., George A. Zander. Henry
Lowe, John Ryan, L. Melsner, l.. $. Hart
Jr.. Il. j. Walker A. w. Warwick. james
A. Green, Robert r. Blair T.. w. g.. Ralph
Diamond. J. +. De Croft, J. j. +. Bronx
ID. A. w. George Il. Dyer, II. Atlas
George Bauer. ]. IL. Noremac, c. L. Lynn
Patrick Walsh. Thomas Foy, A. II. c.,
julius olstein, John Daily and o. II. Bos'
ton.
Here il the other problem by the same
composer. II will be found quite as In
terestlng as its mate. and perhaps even
more ingenious.
PROBLEM NO. 2S3-cIIECRERs.
BY NJ Fl. Brennan.
Black.
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u dealt. and instead OF calling no
trumps or a club lie bid spade. He
counted UP four sure tricks in his own
hand and saw that five more would be
necessary an his dummy II he expected
TO go game at no trumps.
That these FIVE tricks are highly i'm
probable any one must admit. but II
must also be admitted that II the partner
has them he will probably bid on them
no. matter what the dealer starts with
on the other hand II he has no such
strength the opponents viii probably
take the dealer out OF n spade, but will
not be able to so game II they do unless
the situation Ia IA peculiar one. There
Is always the chance, OF course, that the
partner may have a suit that he would
not call unless the dealer encouraged It,
When z bid the spade A said one
heart. and h both passing. Y let It
stand, as no saw no chance OF going
game against the declared strength In
AS hand. The closer A could come to
going game himself the less chance
there was for u to do so. A could have
won the game had he not played the
hand badly.
led the king 81 spades and A trum3ed
It, with view TO making one Of
dummy's trumps on the small diamond
A led the king OF that suit Y won It
with the ace and led tho trump, as n
club would probably establish the queen
and Jack for dummy.
A could have played the band in sew
could LEI dummy win The trumn tr,cl, ,nd
lead n shade niavina Tor tha run hir,.e,r
hafore hs gave dummv Tho ruff and ,ban
nlaylne the cluhs: or he could have won
the tr,,mn bimsnIf given dumn,v r,,e,
and led clubs after the diamond. were
ali good; or he could have won the trump
and given dummy ruff after he had
made his two winning diamonds
The curious part OF n liz that Il does
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7. VII, NC.
Correct solutions to both these problems
received from Prof. y. l.. Perry. Brooklyn.
" ": c. Mate. East orange y. j.; James
Roberts. Philadelphia; Pa, James +. Court.
y. j.; Robert H. Hxon, New York city:
Daniel r. Brand. New York city; Addison
kavanagh; New. York city: William Runk.
Correct solu,bn received to No. 473 from
Addison Kavanagh. New York city.
Fred Pfelner. Brunswick. Ca; w. r. Neal.
Savannah. Ca: John Wagner. New York
Dyer, Greenfield. Mass. stephen c. Bartha.
New York city: W. - l.. r., New York
city; s. H. Chitenden, New York city: Will
lam Mason, Rye. n. v; Daniel Breeskin.
Washington: D. G: IL Atlas, Far Rock
y. j. Lane. New York city; +. ~ burr, An
sonia. Conn; John W. Tarbox. New York
city: G. r. LoveJoy Hampstead, l.. l.
Nos AZ and 472 from Louis Angeloty.
Briarclln Manor, ". Y.