The sun., 1916-10-01

At most Of the tables z started with
q club, as he could not support a take
out II he bid no trump. A usually bid
two hearts. holding four honors In ono
hand. and at several tables 1t went to
four clubs. but none Of them was able
to go game.
The student may be interested IN OBJ
serving that II does not matter whether
opens the heart suit or not. Al two
tables he did and z made the king on
the second round ard led two rounds OF
trumps. leaving dummy In. The dia-
mond f1nesse held, and a spade was led
through TO dummy's king queen. A
played the ten. SO as to hold tho ten ace
against a return. Another diamond, won
ht the acc ard another spade. wor by
a Now n third diamond saves the
game.
A. several tables would not lead
'hc hearts. Some led tn" trump. some
thc diamonds aud some the acc Of
spades. In some cases n discarded the
losing heart or tho third round Of
spades. In others he 10, 60 the diamond
Whichever he did. he lost two heart
tricks and n spade. or heart and n
diamond and II SPADE
\: several tables this hand was played
nS no trunpcr. but In only one case
lid Tho der,nrcr W.T. Tho game The
npint upon which the winning play turns
IL Instructive. especially in contrast with
40 hard that ~ TO follow this one.
y started with n cluh. 4 two hearts
and V three clubs n and Il passed A
wrr. to three hearts. and = passing.
and z then wen, TO three no trunps.
trusting his partner for the ace Of cubs
and hop'rg for n heart lead up TO his
guarded king. Had 4 bid further hc
would lavc been doubled ana set. MS all
we can mate II two odd
4 opened with the ace Of hearts and
followed with the queen. AZ every table
hu. this one 2 wen. right ahesd and
made all his clubs and then led n spade
20 du;n'nys king queen suit
ny this time \ was down 10 four
hearts md tho ace Jack OF spades, hsv-
irc discarded all h's diamonds on the
clubs This allowed \ To- make I'VE
tric.'s ana save the game - one table
Il led the ace of diamonds before trying
the spade. but this did ',ot prevent \
from getting III. f've tricks.
Al the table a. which Y went sa,nc h-
lcd only three rounds OF clubs. dummy
winning them all Re then saw that as
\ discarded the encouraging ten OF
spades. unless the king OF diamonds lay
with Il neither contract nor game was
possible. - he quit the club suit aftor
three rounds and tried the diamond
Nnesse while he had the chance {" lead
the suit from the weak hand TO the
strong. This iinesse won the game.
one OF the opponents points out that
" the diamond nnesse lost mt this stage
Of the play. z would have 20 throw away
every one Of his remaining clubs In
order to stop A from making both ace
nnd Jack OF spades. his contract being
set for two tricks at least. whereas he
had u certainty Of two odd in his fingers
as long as he kept right along with the
clubs.
rs answer 10 this is that he !- alb
solutely certain TO be set for one trick
u lie does not take the diamond inesse
just when he does. az dummy will never
We In the lead again. and that tho risk Of
losing another 100 points ie more than
compensated for by the 1870 he get- ~
The finesse holds The situation is well
worth studying.
Tho other hand presents u peculiar
situation IN which the declRrer Is sure
~ five odd, no matter how the cards lie
but risks the loss of five or six tricks
lust TO make so extra points with a 1T
,ie slam This II certainly not good
bridge,