The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-28
SCHOOL FOR CARD PLAYERS.

Auction Drloge. II. j. d. says: A
leaos club, to which his partner. B.,
/ pays Two cards inadvertently, the queen
and the four. The deciarer saws he will
call the queen. and that the four must
be left on the table as an exposed card.
J b objects that this Is taking a double
! penalty.
This may be, but it Il the law, and It Is
oinicult to see how sufficient penalty
could be exacted. II the second card
could be taken back into the hand. Sup
pose the two cards were ace and king.
1t would not matter which was called TO
the trick. The knowledge that the other
was In the players hand.¬ subject to
call. might be very useful to the part
ner.
L. A. f. says: 1t 1. actually AS lead,
but plays a small diamond The de-
clarer tells A to lead anything he likes.
To this ieniency the dummy objects, and
insists that the declarer call a suit from
| A. Objection Is made to this, and A
bets that dummy has no right to sug-
gsst. Dummy bets he has. after the
question OF fact has been established by
the declarer's showing that ne knew the
lead was from the wrong hand.
The law allows dummy TO call the de-
ciarer's attention to any right that he
may have under the law. the fact that a
penalty has been incurred having been
established before dummy speaks: but
dummy has no right to insist upon the
exaetion Of penalty which the de-
clarer valves He may insist on a
he, ~,
concede tricks, which is what A is prob.
ably thinking OF in the laws
j. c. o. says During n game dunn
my leaves the table to get matches. re-
marking as he rises. "Fend revokes, +"
which Is club equivalent for the cour-
tesy OF the table. During his absence
A revokes, and the declarer claims three
tricks. These refuses to conced e
maintaining that there is TO penalty for
revoke while dummy Ia absent, as
dummy waived the penalty.
The exemption applies only to the
declaret. who is temporarily deprived
of a partner to watch him. and the
dummy entrusts the duty of preventing
revokes by the declarer to the adver-
saries. They are in no way protected,
as each has partner to ask him II he
has renowned in erroy Therefore IL
either Of them revokes the declarer can
exact the usual penalty.
r. T p. says: The dealer, a. started
with club. A. second hand bidding a
7 heart and Y spade. This goes on
until gets i up to three spades While
a Is thinking what to do his partner.
b. imagining that A had passed, bid
four hearts. Y says he will cancel that
bid. This leaves 1t at three spades. and
remarks that A. being the partner
Of the offending player. cannot take any
further part in the bidding. When Y
passes why cannot B bid four hearts?
II his bid out of turn Is cancelled It is
the same as IL never made.
According to the law. No. 40, A can
not be prevepted from bidding. as the
law states that the player whose turn II
was to declare shall bid and there
after the partner of the player in error
cannot participate in the bidding. This
Is qualified five paragraphs further on,
where no one would look for It, by a
statement that AS turn passes to Y.
There is nothing in the laws that says
the player WHOSE bid is cancelled shall
not bid again after both his adver-
saries pass
Poker. J. f. S. says We have had
some discussion as to the exact mean
ing OF a bobtail flush. Is it four of a
suit or three?
Four. If it were three It would
present the appearance Of having the
head as we'll as the tail bobbed
J. L. says: A opens. stays. C and D
come In and after the draw A bets a
chin. calls, y raises and all drop out
c then shows his cards to d, and the
opener, A. insists on seeing them also
stating that the whole table has a right
to see the hand II shows it at all.
AS the statement reads C called the
opener out OF turn, but II C did not
call BIS raise his hand was his own 10
show 1t or not TO whom he pleased
The table has a right to see the hands
that are in the call; no others, except
the openers qualification II he drops
out.
f. v. H. c. says: A opens, 3 and c
stay, and all draw cards. A bets.
| ia lSes ana - Calls. a uTOpS out. ID IneI
tells c to take the money. but does no,
show his own hand, and asks c to show
his, c refuses, as he has been told tC
take the pool and as he called B and f
refused to show up. but surrendered, the
pool is C's. no matter what he has Z
bets that as he put up as much as
he must gee C's hand.
Both hands must be shown to the
entire table. as they were both in the
call. 1t does not matter which player
makes the bet that Is called. nor wha
ia said about taking the pool. the othei
players at the table have a right to see
both hands.
Cribbage. T. Y. o. says: Playips
Ave card cribbage, A gets 3. 4. 6, z,
and has to lay out two for the crib. One
Of the onlookers bets that the correct
discard is the four and trey. to which
objects that they are close cards and
bets the right lay out Is the trey and
seven.
The onlooker is correct. The chances
for double run are better by keeping
the 6 and two is The chance for i'm.
proving 4, 6, 7 is very slight.
L. c. A. asks to have this hand
counted Three fives, a four and an acc
B bets It is worth IL holes.
Lay the fves in a triangle. and each
will make a pair. 8 holes. Each Of these
pairs will combine with the four and ace
to make a fifteen. 8 more. and then tn,
three hves themselves will make a fif
teen. total. II holes.