The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25

z dealt on the rubber game with the
score - TO In his favor, and bid one
club He did not caro- to risk q no
trumper at that advanced score. but
wished to show his partner that no had
some good cards. Anything his partner
bid could support and any Ave card
suit should 20 game.
passed on the first round. refusing
to call diamonds without even one sure
trick In the suit The clubs suited Y
as well as anything. and r could not
risk royal with eleven losing cards in
his hand. so II was played at one club.
A led a diamond. dummy put on the
ten and r trumped IT, Hoping to get
A In again for another diamond lead.
u tried a small spade and the Jack held.
Another diamond was trumped and r
led another small spade. tHe should
have led the king)
won the spade with the ace and led
a third diamond. on which II made his
last trump. II being impossible 10 put
4 IN again on the spades. r led the kine
and made II. A discardns the Jack OF
hearts
and A trumped H. but that ended the en-
tertainment. as and z won the remain
ing six tricks. on the next deal A and
r won the rubber.
II Y had bid his hand according 20
convention. without any regard TO the
score. starting with no trump. which
would ne even more encouraging 10 his
partner TO cali any good suit than
club bid would ne. he would not only
win the game but he would have won
II AT any score. as no makes three odd
easily.
cannot afford 70 ask for spade lead
and A will start with a diamond. The
ten holds second hand eleven rule).
and dummy makes three hearts 2 gets
IN on the third club 70 make another
heart and the top diamond. Three by
cards and 30 aces. instead Of being set
for so and then losing the rubber.
Milton Work in his Auction Devel-
onments" gave Ia the world some very
interesting figures with regard 20 the
number ot hands In which a previous
score was OF any value toward winning
the game According 10 his figures I,
was only 100 times In 200 rubbers, or
1900 deals, that previous score was 81
any use.
Many persons think these figures are
too high and that preylou. score
would be useful much oftener than that,
but Il must he remembered that these
rubbers were played by those who were
not anxious 10 get IL or "a points on a
deal at the risk OF being set The aver
age society rubber would probably show
a larger percentage
Or. MacKay has been collecting the
ordinary score sheets that are usually
thrown on the floor in the card room and
has been counting up the hands that go
game In one deal He seems 10 regard
the consistency OF the average as re-
markable. He and his assistants gath
cred IN three different lots OF score
slips at various times and audited them.
In the first series there were 34S
games played and 3o6 OF them were won
in single deal. That IL. s7s5 per
cent In tho second series they found
that out OF 3e5 games 34s were won in
single deal, or 1888 per cent. In
third series there were 4l4 games and
367 OF them were won on the deal, or
SS.63 per cent. In fourth series. played
by those who were acknowledged to be
above the average. the percentage was
slightly over 90.
This would show that 10 or ~ per
cent OF the games took two deals or
more. This result agrees very closely
with the results found about year
ago. when some 500 scores were col.
lecte from two OF the leading clubs in
New York, The result OF their analysis
went 10 show that only about once in
eleven deals was a previous score OF any
value.
II the exact average could he arrived
NJ il should he a useful basis for de-
terminnig whether or not to play all the
time for game or 20 go for any points
that come ones way The argument for
the opposition IL that one might az we'll
have 10 or ~ points mp, and then IL one
wins 80 or more points on the next
Il a