The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-04
NO BID RULE TRIED
AT ROYAL AUCTION
Adverse Criticisms Answered
by Illustrations From
Actual Games.
As TO MISSED A N

oue a - vrno1pal psanss in StdAans
eac0u q Uyal auction whSdh some
players sssm to fsAr M b aNonNy
eukGf6rs1 WIN b. ths oenpottep q ehs
NV Aw an0Wirg svesy - a. the eAole
TO pan without . bid 10 the conventional
refusal 10 make Q FREE I'd O. . suit
without me tops.
NE argumsnt - taae n . player passes
up a hand containing y or eix small
,trump9. especially six or more, which
ne would be perfectly willing to how
on te second round, there may
he a second round. and the hand may
be thrown UP and . valuable oppor.
tunlty may BE- io@.
first and most Important Ia that the
Az or sx smarl oafds are X trumps.
II they wers and Il was . certainty
chat they would remain trumps to the
END Of The 6dddtnS. - IN the mako at
bridge. thfnN would b different.
Some players never seem 70 get this
simple fact afArentiy fired In their
minds; that naE1fR . suit In the bid
ding does not MAXI Il tn trump. The
three other paayep AZ that. There 10
only one object In original or free bids
70 snow who're TRICKS a BE- won. 70
gardtess Of ne final DECLARATION.
INV VtAl0I oIISWoI 10 thot hsS III %
who wa accustomed to say On spade
whn - ~ . iUng sut without thA
tops y IN Dreoasely the sans position
when n says. no bd." beoAuse the
player mat would take HIM out Of the
one would take him out Of the other,
end X he got q second chance AFTER
bidding one spade he would get Il aftes
making no bid X al.
The second hand BIDS - n he wsrs
! the dealer whom the dealer bids a spade.
He does preuAsely the Ams ting when
the dealer mAkes no bid at ~. The
third hand answers his partners no bid.
Jus, as ne always answered a spade.
and the fourth hand WI, be Just a.
cautious about reopening the biddtns
when all three pass a. when Two Of
them paAsed up Q spade
There vas always the d~isadvantags
about the spade bid that II had nothing
TO do with the spade suit. and although
the dealer could not lose moro than
100 points that was frequently q great
deal more han his opponents could have
tion Of their own. wen 100 points
every nov and then in the course Of an
evening counts ~.
The writer has recently neon several
hands thrown down because no one
made . bid. which was followed by
some such remark a.. IF you had only
shown me hat suit I could have helped
you" especially when ono player has
I'VE Or sx small cards in hearts or
four Of the same suit. wtth q trick
or two outside.
But n these hands. which sppear u b
examples Of missed opportunities. are
carefully examined II WI usually be
found that the player who did not get
the opportunity no wished for to sup
port his partner was better Oh without
II. Many hands that look like . strons
combination are not % In fAot.
Eight or nine trumps and . couple OF
aces look big. but Appearances are often
deceptive. Il 10 not only mat the ~
suit would frequently be . disappoint-
ment II the hands were played on the
desired declaration but that suoh q
declaration would nav led to opposition
| from the opponents. who would then be
free to bid suits without the tops OF
anything that had . chance b Put up
Q defence. Once the bidding 10 started
the whole situation may be changed.
There 10 nothing - in0truotivo -
duplicate for bringing out u,ss differ
ences and many who may have paosd
up q board to the next table WIN . Ssh
Of regret for . missed opportunity may
ind that me declaration they think
they should have made ~ led 70 disas.
ter At any table At which II wa actu'
ally made.
Here Is q hand played in . soia
game OF three tables only which showi
how largely An opening bid may anec'
the nnal declaration. Incidentally thu
rand shows how different the result
would have been had the Dealers ortG1
nal declaration been conventionally Jus
tifia ble: