The sun., 1916-09-03
SCHOOL FOR CARD PLAYERS.

Auction Bridge. q. II. W. says: The
dealer bids two diamonds originally.
holding eight TO the queen Jack ten, the
ace ten smal! in spades. and two small
hearts no clubs. Her partner criticise.
the bid. What IL the right thing "a do
with such a hand"
The conventional rue 4. TO ,a., with
out n bid. and II Il seems advisable 70
do so 10 bid two or three diamonds or
the second round. Tiis makes Il quite
clear to the partner that while YOU ar.
willing 20 play the hand at dinwonds
the suit T. OF no use as a help to any
other declaration that .hc nigh, mnL,
To bid two diamonds originally lq to NJ.
Yer the partner six sure tricks in IL.
suit. whereas there Is not even one sure
trick in diamonds In this hand.
y g " savs' Th" ~rr.r-r. 9" .,.,~
spades. The deciarcr rnaacs only *
tricks. nut detects a rcvokc against hin.
and takes hts four odd. insisting tina. ~.
bidder cannot I've set back by a-d,c;satfe.
who have revoked. That is 70 say. -,
scores th'rty-s!x toward game. and takes
nothing az a revoke penalty. HIS pn,t-
ner insists that he gets some pcnali,
should he score
No declarer. or bidder. can score for =.
contract that h" does not fulfil. 10 matter
wha, the opponent. do. As .cyo,;.
penalty he could have taken three ac.uu'
tricks from the opponents ard addci
them 10 his own. but that would not have
fulfilled his contract. and re would have
scored nothing bu, honors ne held. The
best thing he could do was 20 take the
100 points IN honor and add honors as
held. He ANNE score anything toward
game,
F.. 7. II. v wo should like to know
why n player holding nix hearts and I'VE
spades. neither OF them \ legitimate suit
hid by Itself. should not hid the higher
value suit first. Tho discussion arose
over the ham published July 80. on
which u Kn!ckerboclter player bid the
heart first.
II IL conventional TO bid the higher OF
.wo equal suits frs, 40 as to give III.
partner the choice. but a six lard suit
and a Ave card sui. are not equal. and
most players would regard the six card
suit as the one O: greater value. the
other as a supporting suit. the whole
hand heing n two suffer. When . player
drops from a major suit declaration tor
no trumps) 70 q minor suit the second
bid indicates greater strength in high
cards than the suit frst bid. To shift
from one suit 10 another OF the same
class indicates equality. This Is not true
OF the hand given.
II ", says. Tho hand Ia half way
through when the dcciarer leads a spade.
over;ak.ns IL wiki II higher spade In the
dummy. bu' pulls GU: "A card as II about
10 lead again from hts own hand.
bunlm! taps the cards on his side as an
Indication that The lead is there. Have
IN" opponents any remedy" We find no
a.lusIou 70 T. among the things cnuntr
atcd that dummy may do.
A l!'tle further on in 'he laws (6caI
i is stated thai IL dummy calls to the
attention of the d~rclarrr tina. he is about
20 lead f-oNt he wrong hand either al.
vcrsa;v may require the lead 10 he made
from that hand.
4. T. :. says: The score Is - - -
'or The - al'r, rIba,r g.ur He BIDS
70 trump, -" 'rd Lfud passes Th!,t
hard holds ave diamonds To- tile ten. tro
ma" hearts arl four small rlihs. ql,c
."i ga :, If spades. lie .aH-cs. and "
contract ts srt Tor or' :-''k. \ ho's ne
Should EINc hld ,Nu diamonds. - IT,,
sao.c.
\ - ,u.icr'. bat 90, or n|r.,u,' ~
he s.orr. Tac Md * !, WIN ne pa
Hcr ,aa' d." Vs. rwi 800 as>.s'nne" iot .