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/ passed led the Jack of diamonds
/ from his two touching honors Dummy
put on the ace and held the trick At
one table Il came right back with
small diamond and trumped 1t. y play
/ ing the nine. He then led three rounds
of trumps. dscardng n club from
dummy. and then ne underplayed the
spade, leading the three
X won the spade ten with the queen
and returned a small one so as not TO
esta blish the queen Of diamonds in the
dummy. 4 won the trick with the ace
| Of spades and led another round. which
| put Il In with the king
| This forced Il to lead the clubs, which
\ held second hand with the Jack. 4
fourth spade compelled Il TO trump with
his last trump. after which + made two
club tricks and the king OF diamonds.
holding down to his contract. just the
| odd trick
| This hand presents a situation that
! frequently arises at the card table. Y
! has nothing 10 play for In the plain
suits. and there is therefore no reason
for leading trumps. But whenever
there are four cards Of suit in eacn
| land. no matter how small, there Is
always the chance that neither adversary
has more than three and that q trick
may be established on the fourth round
this theory OF playing the hand. and
upon winning the frat trick with the ace
OF diamonds Immediately led a small
club from dummy. The student will oh
serve that IL the suit does not develop
favorably no harm is done, as there Is
nothing In the hand anyway.
, A overlook his partners ten ~ clubs
with the jack and led another diamond
, through dummy's queen. Dummy played
a l.. n i
Another club from rs hand went to
AS king, and once more the diamond
came through dummy's queen, dummy
st'll refusing TO put II on. had to
| play the king this time and z trumped e..
Now Il sees that the ace of clubs
must fall. and the dummy holds the
commanding diamond and z himself has
the spades surely stopped with the as
slstanCe Of dummys ten II is time 10
lerd the trumps, so z takes out three
rounds. dummy discarding a spade.
, The trumps gone. third round of
( clubs brings down the ace. leaving the
nine In Us hand to reonter and make
the queen Of diamonds. II led the queen
OF spades. hoping his partner might
have two honors, which would allow him
TO establish the diamond and make the
|, NTH.
When Il put on the king \ won II with
, led from queen and Jack. hut and IL
got all the rest OF the tricks. winnine
three 10y cards. or two tricks more than
AT the other table. where the trump lea d
. was premature.
As an example of how differently a
! hand may he played at one hlc \ did
, not lead either OF his touching honors
in diamonds. but the small one. and u
, played the king When this held, he
did not care TO lead up To the teuace so
!, he played a small spade and the trick
, went to AS ace
, The diamond lead was won ny the
queen in dummy, and spade came
! through At once for the fnesse. after
. dummy had made the ace of diamonds
and Il had taken two club disCards. This
Z gave three by cards without much
, effort ON his part. the trick being lost
To and Il through bad opening lead.
, Any suit headed by two touching honurs
, is always worth trying, but lead the
tops.
/ Considerable interest having been
manifested In the little ConunGrum hand
, published in this department some weeks
; ago, here is another one, which is not
, only interesting from the expert point
I of view bu; is peculiarly Instructive
The dealer holds the following cards
1 H. A X Q 10 7%3.
g, None.
u. None.
$ A Q 10 s.
ON this hand he cautiously bids one
heart, Second player bids two diamond .
Third hand bids two spades Fourth
, PLAYER supports the diamonds, as he
holds ace and small and has also acc
. king of clubs. The dealer drops hi
hearts and bids three spades, and t,e
player OF his lef, four diamonds.
The dealers partner passes so does
the fourth hand, The dealer then bids
seven spades, which OF course holds the
contract, The second player had eight
diamonds to four honors, one smalj
spade and heart and three clubs. The
dealers partner had no hearts, hut fvc
spades 10 the king Jack, with a string of
little clubs,
The conundrlm Is to say who made
the best hid that was made on this deal
When you sec IT, 1t IN very clever. Alfred
Tarlor. who used to h. t,ivcll's fa,orite
partner in the old whist days, says i,
is one OF the best ne ever heard Of,