The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-15
SCHOOL FOR CARD PLAYERS.

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Auction Bridge. NJ. T. asls II the
rule about taking the player out of 4
no trumper with a suit applies to the
nrst round Of the bids only, or to any
round. The bidding went: Y. dealer.
no bid. A n club, Y a heart, u no trump
and z passed. with his two winning
clubs A holds I'VE small spades. but only
one heart. Il bets he should have bid
two spades, to which A objects that the
no trumper was not an original one.
10 the bid was only for one trick and
A could show his Ave card spade suit
for a bid Of two ne should certainly do
30. b must have the hearts stopped 20
bid no tsumps over Y. and A can trump
hearts on the second round.
II. r. L says: When playing the
combined hands z has q habit of how
erins over dummy's cards. and some
times placing his fingers on one of them.
a. II considering. and then going to
another card. Upon one occasion as
soon as z touched a card In dummy y
played to Il. z insisted that he had not
played yet and that b must take back
his card.
II It was dummy's turn to play and
the declarer touched one OF his cards
without any predatory notice to the ef-
feet that he was simply arranging the
hand the card so touched is played.
and b was quite right to play to It.
J. II. X. and others ask where the
offciai laws Of auction for 1915 may be
obtained and the price.
Address the Whist Club. 10 West
Thirty-sixth street. New York. enclos.
ing % cents, and the secretary will for
ward a copy Of the latest evised laws.
W. II. j. says: The dealer starts tho
bidding with mo trump near no
bid" and the second player asks him
which Il is. To this u objects and bets
that h first bid must stand. Y bets
that as long as the next player has not
spoken the frst bid, which was not a
pass. may be changed. and quotes the
new law SO. which says that before the
action of the next player a no trump or
suit declaration may be changed. The
stakeholder paid the bet on this read
Ing Of the law. and now d bets $50 that
II Is wrong. THE SUN to decide.
II IL correct rs the law provides GER.
tain limitations in the changes that may
be made. II says that a no trump or
suit bid a be changed TO correct an
insufficient bid. which is not the case
here. or to correct the denomination
but not the sIxe OF a bid which the de-
clarer did not intend to name. II the
dealer says mo trump mean no bid
he Is not correcting either size or denoml-
nation. He has bid to win seven trick.
at no trump. He cannot correct thai
to win seven tricks at mo bid" so he
Is clearly In error. and his no trump bid
must stand II the ersar ies wish 10
inflow 1; TO do so. In which case neither
the dealer nor his partner can maxi,
any further bids. See Law so. section
"a"
NJ. C.. T. says: 1t being late a Offers
to take a flyer and bets $50 that he AMI
his partner will win the last rubber. Y
and Y win two games. but A and II have
several hundred In penalties and find
i+o points coming TO them on the bal
hn'C ~ uiSO CiHlul the OUTSIDE Dpt,
and quotes law 10. which says the side
having the higher score wins the rubber.
Y. who took the bet. says two games
out Of three Is the rubber.
The last paragraph OF this law has
led to a good deal of confusion. and the
object OF It's Insertion IL far from clear.
The first part of the law says lat tn.
end Of the rubber" the side that has
won two games scores $50 extra. Then
the rubber must have been decided before
those points were added, and therefore
before the scores were added. 60 see who
had the higher trick score. Again, la "
II says. ~ the rubber IL unfinished
the score is made up AZ it stands, This
must mean ~ two games have not been
won BY the same partners" and clearly
shows that Il Ia the two games and no:
the greater number of points won that
constitutes the rubber, Therefore y
VIM the side bet.
Euchre. Mrs. l.. says: The dealer
takes IL up n plays II alone. Her
opponents euchre her. DO they score
four points or two only WHY Shout
they not get four II she could have go,
four:
Two only. II il only In railroad
euchre that four points may be mad
against a lone hand by playing alon,
against It. Good players will order IN
to prevent lone hands at certain scores
II they could make four by defeating
the lone hand, one of the fine points OF
the game woul be lost,
J. C. G, says: We had a tournnmen,
AT the hotel for three prizes. A won
eleven games. b and c each got ten and
ID got nine. IL and G PLAYED on the Tie
u insists that this prize should bc hers
as she had a better score than n.
Il Ia correct, Tho playon is not only
TO decide the tie but to see who shall
have the choice OF the two prizes for
which they are tied. second and third. Il
was never in IL at all. because If there
are only three prizes they must 60 to the
three highest scores. and d IL fourth
highest only.
Poker. II. l.. Men. says: Three men
come In against the opener, but before
any cards are drawn the opener finds
he Is mistaken. What becomes OF the
artes put up by the others
As the others came in in ZOO faith
thinking they were plnyin's agains,
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