The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30
week as an example Of this sort Of thing
In duplicate:
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n dealt and bid a spade. A passed
and Y went no trump. This seems to
have been the bidding at every table.
the two that went back TO the spades
failing to 40 game. AS a opened with
the ten Of clubs and made two OF his
trumps.
Now look at the luck Y has at one
solitary table out Of nine by going
game at no trumps. scoring 1875 points
more than any other pair in the room.
Through VS. good play? Not at all.
All through BIS leading through the de-
MED suit. spades.
This allowed : TO make two spade
tricks with dummy's ace and king at
once. two tricks which were absolutely
impossible any other way. as Y cannot
lead spades and dummy has no re-
entry.
ON the two spades Y discarded two
small hearts and then he led n diamond
from dummy and was fortunate enough
TO make all four tricks In that suit,
simply by leading II. r follows suit
right along. but a discards the encour-
aging eight Of hearts and "a spade. This
gives Y the nance to lead the jack Of
clubs. so as to get a heart lead through
or from \, IL possible. The ace Of
clubs and two hearts gave Y the game,
for which he scored 1875 points in all.
At every other table Il opened with
n small club and Il was impossible for
Y to win the game. no matter how he
played the hand. but Y and Il had a
lively tilt at one table, where the play
went this way:
Y won the club ten with the jack.
and in order to force a lead up to his
other suits returned the nine. which r
won with the King. Divining the oh
iect Of VS. putting him back into the
Load IL wont right along utfh ono nf
his equals in clubs. the eight. Y let
II hold. Still sure that Y was hoping
y would shift. Il led the losing club. \
discarding the heart eight and a spade.
Y a the fifth club and b discarded
a diamond. As 1t was now clear that
Y had no spades 4 discarded another.
This forced Y to lead the interior queen
of diamonds. which went to AS king.
Feeling sure that Y had ace queen Of
hearts. ~ Il did not lead a heart. \
! went back with the diamond. but that
did not prevent Y from making both
ace and queen OF hearts later. This
left him just one short OF game.
The pair that made 1876 more thar
any others In the room on this hand
did not lead the spade queen. They
had nothing whatever To do with that
opening, yet they got the points for
IL. II this Is not pure luck. what is IL"
AND II II lis luck. why is this clement
allowed to persist in duplicate: why
do w preserve in a game supposed TO
ne "A test OF pure skill "A method Of
scoring designed for gambling purposes
only?
The first hand printed on April 16,
already alluded to. shows an opening
lead that gives the opponents 1874 points.
which no one else in the room could
make. no matter how well the hand was
played. II We are 10 provide "A bonus
OF 1875 FOR getting an extra trick by
superior play at any stage of the game
why not at all?
II sometimes happens hat an obser-
want player will seize an opportunity 10
make a pretty play hat apparently
saves one or two tricks. only to md
that he gets nothing for II. owing TO the
situation never coming up at any other
table. so that there was no occasion for
any special play.
Take this hand from n recent dupli-
cate match. II is remarkable from the
fact that two conventional plays. made
at different tables, largely affect the
result al each. although played on a
different deCls alton.