The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-16

Wilton. Mr. and Mrs. McCaDe-
Miss Ollie OBrien entertained inform
ally last evening at whist. Her guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cole, Dr. and Mrs
w NJ West, Miss Mary Thompson, Miss
Helen Moon Miss Frances Moon. Miss Mel
lie CIough. Miss Kate Gunther, Mr.. HI. 3
Morgan, Mr. S Stoddard, MI L: X; Pet Ter
Julius Wedding
this week at the First Christian
church, 622 Topeka avenue. The reg
ular dinner will be served at 6:15
o'c clock, and the program will follow
The meeting in the church is an ex-
pertinent with the club, and that place
was chosen for this meeting to deter
mine its desirability as permanent
place of assembling.
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Pirate bridge is the new game
which threatens to supersede auction.
] The name is appropriate, as every one
who sits IN the game is expected to
knife everyone else, whether friends
or foes.
In this new game every player bids
on his own account. There are no
partners except for the current deal.
/ The dealer has the first bid and may
make a declaration or pass. If he
/ passes the player to the left has the
same privilege, and so on. The vari-
! Gus declarations have the same value
as in auction. Whenever a bid is made
each player in turn may accept or
pass. After a bid is made, until it is
accepted, OF until three players have
passed, nothing else is in order. After
it is accepted it may be overcalled or
doubled. If the former, any player
may accept the overcall. When bid
! is doubled, the doubler forces the
fourth player-that is, the player who
is not the bidder or the accepter-to
be his partner.
r low lnIi, he
double to be a losing venture, his only
avenue of escape is to make a higher
declaration and to have some one ac-
cept it. Should it not be accepted, the
double stands.
/ When a bid is not accepted it is void
and the bidding starts again with the
player next in order to the left. If
| three players either make an unac-
copied bid OF pass, the previously ac-
cepted bid becomes the final declara-
ton. If at the beginning of the deal
all four players pass or make unac-
cepted bids, the deal passes. This
seldom happens.
When a bid is accepted and be-
comes the final declaration the player
who makes the bid plays the open
hand, and the player to his left leads,
unless that player be the acceptor, in
which case the lead passes to the left
of the acceptor.
The hand of the acceptor becomes
the dummy and is placed on the table
as soon as the first card is led, regard
less of the position of the acceptor at
the table; that is, he may either be op-
posite or to the right or the left of
the declarer. The play is just as in
auction. except that the partners play
one after the other when the dummy
is next to the declarer.
When the contract succeeds it is
scored by the declarer, as in auction,
| but the acC6DtOr who received tho
same number of points for tricks, hon
ors and slams as the declarer scores
them all in his honor column In
other words, the acceptor can not win
game. In addition to points for
tricks, honors and slams, a bonus of
fifty is allowed for winning the game
and an additional fifty is allowed for
winning a rubber. The latter fifty is
scored only by the declarer, as the ac-
ceptor does not win the rubber; but
the acceptor, tho he does not win the
game, is, equally with the declarer al
lowed the fifty bonus for doing so.
) The player who makes the bid that
becomes the final declaration plays the
!. dummy, even if that sa me declaration
has first been bid by the acceDtor.
There is. therefore, some Jockey
r ing for position, but not much as the
only difference between the decIarer
and the acceptor IS that whenever the
declarer has a game and the declara-
ton results in a second game, he
scores fifty for winning the rubber
and the acceptor is not entitled 20 this
bonus. This, however. is So small
score that is likely to run into large
figures.
3 The address for Wednesday evening
will be given by Mr.. Merren Gage.
Mrs. r. w. Coppedge will make the
address Thursday evening, and those
VINO will receive at that time are: Mr.
and Mrs Coppedge, Mr.. and Mrs. F
3 D. Merriam, Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Mer-
RAM and Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Snyder
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The Rotary club will have dinner
party tonight at the Chamber of Com
merce for the wives of the member:
' and for the visitors in town for the
il legislature. The dinner will be served
T. at O'Clock.
r small visitor in town today is lit
y lie Helen Jones of Lawrence, TIL
= daughter of Captain and Mrs Franz
f f. Jones' Captain Jones was with hi
= regiment on the border during tn,
r summer. and his family moved t,
= Texas during the time the troops wer'
y at Eagle Pass. They have now re
turned to Lawrence. Helen accom-
8 panied Miss Esther Clark to Topeka.
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: The Music Study club will NEE
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clocl
Q with Mrs. H. E. Lyman, 1892 Poll
d street.
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d The alumnae chapter of Sigm
u Alpha Iota will meet Friday afternoon
with Miss Gertrude HuckeI 153
Il West Fifteenth street.
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In behalf of Mrs Albrecht Marbure
h acting president of the Weman's Kan
. sas Day club, Mrs. F. w. Watson, 40
5. Topeka avenue, corresponding secre
IS .ary, is extending a personal invitation
= to as many pioneer club women as sh
;, knows and can reach. to attend tn
[. annual meeting of the club held il