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T. dealt on the rubber game and hid
no trump. having seven tricks m hand.
solid suit and rcouiry \ bid two no
trumps. which Y and Il passed. In order
to get the play must now bid three no
trumps. which IL clearly an impossible
contract and would be doubled Mt once.
According to modern conventions the
only way In which u can step down and
out gracefully ~ 10 let \ play II and
perhaps make il. or declare his diamonds.
bidding three. In the actual game this
Is what lie did
The momen, the diamond suit * shown
drops the no trumper hut h" does not
double for fear nigh, get his contract
and go game. No one having anything
more to say. \ led the trump. having
every suit stopped. and u got m.
As dummy could not tramp anything
and there was no suit To- rlaN for except
tn get the king Of clubs led w - II
possible u did not bother about getting
out the other tIumps. but led 4 spade
4 won the tricks and led another trump
for the same reason as before Another
spade and \ was in again. with no more
trumps to lead
At this point \ made mistake In
stead of leading the ace Of clubs. which
would make sure uf saving the game, and
following II with "A queen, 50 Is to put
dummy in and force him to lead away
from the hearts. y led the king Of hearts.
This allowed u to win the trick. pull rs
last trump and then lead a heart through
A. as both \ and Y had discarded clubs
on the trump
Whether A puts on the queen or allows
the Jack TO win. dummy mast get two
| tricks in addition to the seven in rs hand.
because he will either make the spade
| jack or the heart jack, as he still has the
club king to get in with. This let get
his contract.
AS proper PLAY at the fifth trick was
two rounds of clubs. Dummy would then
have cleared the spade suit, hut he could
never get In again as \ would cover any
small heart that y might lead forcing
u with another club 50 as to hold over
| dummy until the last This would set
| the contract for 80 points against 81 in
hOnors.
Whitehead proposes a convention To
meet situations like this which IL some
thing on the order Of the old heart and
| strong. or weak and weak" in straight
| bridge. Whenever II player is taken out
| OF no trumper with two no trumps and
| the original declarer cannot afford to
make game going declaration, but
doubles instead his partner should lead
| him the top OF the weaker Of his two
| losing suits but should never lead Win
| ming suit.
The theory OF this is that the original
! no trumper must have been a two suffer
| 10 Justify both the declaration and the
double and that the hend against it is
| d three suffer. which VIII probably 20
game unless the weak SPOT in 1t is at
| tackled at once. II is therefore better "a
let the no trumper alone than to take It
l out with losing suit that cannot pos
| sibly go game, provided that losing suit
| can be led.
| II the preceding hand is Examined I,
| will be seen that A cannot make two
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| his loss will not be serious unless Y leads
a red suit If he does no, pull himself
| out OF the double and leads his woaker
| losing suit goes down for 800 at least
| perhaps 400. because will discard the
encouraging eight OF clubs and A will
| have to keep two hearts. two spades and
two clubs and will lose two OF them.
II A pulls himself out with three heart,
he will he left to play it, and against the
trump will surely lead his short suit
and making two diamonds, two
| trumps and the king OF clubs. II A rlsker
three royals he would be even worse off
as the same opening would force A &c
pass the third round OF diamonds, so tina
and would make three diamonds q
heart and the king OF clubs, perhaps more
number Of interesting letters hay,
come to THE SUN from persons who hay.
been experimenting with the system o
calling losing suits which was expla inoc
In the article printed on February /. Sew
| eral OF them express astonishmcnt tina
nothing seems TO be lost by the declara
tion even when there IL not another pos
| sible trick in the hand but the two show
by the bid,
Tho only danger which tho opponents o
this system can suggest is that the part
ner will support tho losing suit when h
has good cards in the winning suits blu