The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
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dealt on the rubber game and bid n
spade because he had not the tops Ia
hearts TO Justify his naming that suit on
the first round. but he intended to bid L
on the second This is taking 1t for
granted that the opportunity to bid hearts
Will he offered and it is losing sight OF
the opportunity 10 show the two sure
tricks In diamonds. something that the
partner can depend on to win tricks.
There are some old style players who
will not bid a diamond or club unless
they have enough OF the suit to make it
the trump; but that IL taking an entirely
wrong view Of the bid and its object
No good player ever wants clubs or dia-
mo>lds for trumps ON the first round OF
bids II he has only Ave of the suit The
winning cards are the thing and the
greater the number of small cards with
those winners the weaker the suit because
OF the lessened probability that 1t will
go round twice without being trumped
II the opponents get the play.
bid royal, and Il both passing u
then bid his two hearts. A overcalled
with two royals and Y correctly Inferred
tina. had not the tops In hearts and that
his cards would be better suited to save
the game against the royals than to help
his partner in hearts. so he passed
did not give up so easily and In
spite of his partners silence bid three
hearts, which drove A to three royals
There seems "A fair chance for A to make
this contract II his partner has n tricl,
anywhere and Y thought there was still
a chance to save the game against the
ais SO the bidding ended there. Now
for the play
led the singleton heart so az TO
have chance to run that suit as he could
stop the trump lead on the first round
\ won the trick with the ACE over rs
zen. so az TO give Y the impression that
l.11 ,a1I i.
he led a high trump and won II with
the ace.
The question for row IL how to get
into the lead 80 as 20 get that RUIZ
In hearts. did not like to lead away
from the queen ten of diamonds and
thought IL better TO go through the king
Of clubs with the supporting jack ten
suit
A let the club come up to his ace.
pulled all the adverse trumps. dummy
discarding diamonds. and then made his
two queens. The small heart put dummy
In 10 make the king of clubs and give A
n diamond discard. so that the two top
diamonds and the ace OF trumps were
the only tricks for Y and u. leaving A
four by cards game and rubber.
In spite OF the fact that Il intended to
bid hearts on tho second round, no mat
ter what was bid ahead of him, he was
not sure that hearts would be trumps.
and he should have bid the diamonds at
the start in order to show his partner
where he could win tricks in case the
heart was not the winning declaration.
Had he done so, he would have set
the three royals for 100 points instead Of
losing the game and rubber. as would
have known exactly how to play the
hand VS. idea from the first. it must
be remembered, was to save the game
against the royals
Let start with one diamond, and A
will bid the royal Just the same. Will
pass for the same reason as before. as
he sees chance to save the game
against tho royals, hut will not persist
with a minor suit for the trump. even N
he has four to two honors u would bid
his two hearts on the second round and
A would go two royals
The sure tricks In diamonds shown on
tho first round by u would not alter VS.
determination to let A play the hand. as
he would know that the tops in hearts
were against r. but Y would probably
make another effort and bid three hearts.
just to save the rubber, even at the ex-
pense OF n sting. A would go three royals.
and there II would probably stop. as In the
actual bidding. Y dare not double as
there are only four tricks In sight, two
diamonds and two trumps. just enough
to save the game, but not enough to de-
Itat the contract
When we come to the play after this
bidding II Is quite a different story Y
would have a clearly mapped out plan
of action. He would start with the
singleton heart. Just as before, because
ne can stop the trump lead at once and
Is certain of being able to put u in with
a diamond. so as to get the rum
A would win the heart and lead the
trump When Y won the trump and led
the diamond II would he an easy matter
for u to divine his object In having led
tho heart first. and instead OF making
his second diamond ut once u would
give the run In hearts
Another diamond would give y n chance
to force Y again and then would find
himself with the top diamond and GER
tainty OF being able to force a In case
had the unplaced diamond in his hand
The fourth round of diamonds would
compel a To overtrump rs ten after
which two moro trumps and two clubs
are good but that is only the odd trick
instead of four by cards.
Another phase OF the situation which
some players are slow TO learn how TO
HI ndla IA when the dealer can call tina