The sun., 1915-06-06
no trUWper come up IN these collected
hands. Here Is one Of them:
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Ill., ~z7;;|:;...
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Il deal; and bid no trump, which A
overcalled at some tables with two
hearts. This style OF bidding is prob
ably more matter of habit than any
thing else. due to long practice in look
ing at the cards In hand and paying
no attention TO the meaning OF the pre-
ceding bids.
A has In his hand exactly one sure
trick. and tina; Is In hearts yet he bids
to win eight tricks. with average help
from his partner. and against n de-
cared no trumper. which has perfect
right 10 expect average assistance from
its partner. In this case. as II hap
pens, A's partner has a better no
trumper than the dealer. yet that does
not help matters a particle.
A; one table Y passed and Y went
two no trumps. simply to heaC on Y
and take chance on going game him
self although he was sure OF scoring
his thirty aces whether he or Y played
tine hand. As result OF this enter
prising bid. based on his partners hearts
" was set for two tricks. Il leading the
heart Jack. putting the ten on the re-
turn Of that suit by u, getting In On
the fourth round OF nearts and leading
the ace and another club In answer
to his partners discards OF diamonds
and spades.
on the fourth club discarded the
encouraging eigh. OF spades and II put
up the ace when the spade came from
Y After that. z got in on the third
diamond and made the spade king.
At one table Y overcaled the two
hearts with three clubs. for which there
Is no justlfca .lon. When n player shows
minor suit over a major suit in this
manner IL should mean that II his part
ner can stop the major sult and go no
n
six sure tricks to the result The mos
that could possibly make Is three
clubs. and he has not even the com
mand OF that suit until the second
round
The club bid induced u to return to
the no trumper, as he could stop the
hearts and had the ace OF clubs. n
doubled. after which there was no place
to Jump TO unless Il doubled the con-
,rac. by bidding four clubs The no
trumper was set for 500; the clubs would
have been set for 400.
OF course A and B took the credit
to themselves for good bidding In push
ing the dealer up: but the truth is that
bad bidding on VS. part threw him down.
The play against Z's one no trump when
passed Il up. as he should have done
was about the same as when z went
to two no irumps after Y bid the clubs
The peculiar par, OF the play a; one
table was the way In which the com
mand of suits was held up.
A started with his fourth best heart
and Il won the trick with he ace
Judging from the eleven rule that u
had the hearts safely stopped and that
might have no reentry, B opened his
own suit, leading the Jack. SO as to beat
dummys nine. The queen covered. the
king won and he suit came back, but
refused to make the nine good In
dummy by leading a third round.
The heart seven was covered with the
ten. and A put on the queen. In order
not 10 make the Jack good in rs hand
led a club and dummy made four
tricks in that suit. Then he led a spade
and made the king. hut was shor; on
mis- contract. getting only Ave tricks on
the play. although he got seven whom
PLAYING against B's no trumper.
Here is another example. which caused
some discussion at the time II was
played. II was No. ~ on January "A
AT the Knickerbocker. and at various
tables was played at everything but
diamonds. The club was the only con-
tract that made good. winning four
odd