The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
sixth Radio Bridge Game Of

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l. the season was popular fea-
ture of the broadcast from Station
WFBM Tuesday night, under aus
piceS of The Times.
Milton C. Work and Wilbur
Whitehead the New York experts
who play in every one Of the Radio
Games, were seconded ably by two
prominent players from Texas
Mrs. E. L. Bradbury, Dallas, and Jo-
seph w. Evans, Houston.
These were the hands: Evans,
dealer, South: Spades, A, Z, 6;
Hearts, A, j, 8; 5, 8; Diamonds, 9;
Clubs, j, 6, 3, 2.
Whitehead, West: Spades, K, @,
10, 5, 4; Hearts, 9, Z, 6; Diamonds
G. 8; Clubs, K, 10, 5.
Work. North: Spades, j, 9, 8, 8;
Hearts, @, 2; Diamonds, 10, Z, 6, 5,
Q; Clubs, 9, 8.
Mrs. Bradbury, East: Spades. 2;
Hearts, K, 10, A; Diamonds, A, e,
J.4,3 8; Clubs, A, @, Z, 4.
Evans, the dealer, opened the
bidding with one Heart, his only
means of showing his two Aces to
his partner.
whitehead, West, bid one Spade.
Though he lacked the two quick
tricks required for an original bid,
he had high-card values sufficient
for a following or defensive bid.
Work passed, as he had no bid
of his own or in support OF his
partner.
Mrs. Bradbury, South, went to one
No Trump. This bid operated as a
denial of her partners suit, and in
dicated strength in at least two of
the remaining suits, including a
stopper or shoppers in the opponents
Hearts.
All passed and Mrs. Bradbury be-
came Declarer with her coDtract one
No Trump.
EVANS South, for his opening
T. play led the 5 of Hearts, the
conventional lead Of the fourth best
card of his longest suit.
Dummy was spread, and Mrs.
Bradbury played from it the 6 of
Hearts. Mr.. Work, North, played
the Queen, and Mrs. Bradbury the
King.
! In planning the further play of
her hand, Mrs. Bradbury saw that
she had eight sure tricks-the Heart
already won, four sure tricks in Dia-
monds, and three in Clubs. She
needed one more trick for game.
She could take it in Diamonds, if
the adverse Diamonds were normal
ly distributed; or in Clubs if the adj
verse Clubs were evenly split. She
could, of course, have established a
Spade trick by leading that suit,
but such lead was out of the ques-
ton with the Ace of Spades out
standing, and the Heart suit Of the
adversaries fully established.
AS an incident of her analysis,
Mrs. Bradbury marked the Ace of
Spades as surely being in Evans,
South's, hand, since otherwise his
original Heart bid to no better than
the Ace-Jack would have been with
out Justification.
Having four sure tricks in Dia-
mondS and only three in Clubs, Mrs.
Bradbury first tried out the Dia-
mond situation. She led the of
Diamonds: Evans played the 8;
Dummy the Queen; Work the 2.
Dummy returned the of Dia-
monds; Work played the 5; Mrs.
Bradbury, since she had no partner
to deceive, false-carded the. Ace;
Evans discarded the of Sades.
II VANS discard was well made.
T. He knew that if his partner
held another Heart the suit was es-
tablished in his own hand and he
could take four tricks in it if he got
the lead in time.
He therefore did not want to dis
card a Heart, especially as he held
an entry in the Ace Of Spades. b..
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Bradbury, the Declsrer, must have
had strength in Clubs as well as in
Diamonds to justify her No Trump
bid. For this reason Evans did not
want to unguard his Jack of Clubs.
There remained only the Spade
suit from which to discard. AS be-
| tween the 6 and 7, Evans chose the
Z, anticipating the necessity of fur
Their discarding.
Had he discarded the first, fol-
lowed by the z, his partner would
have read him with weak Spades,
and later on, if compelled to lead
Spade or Club, would have selected
a Club.
Mrs. Bradbury, seeing that Work
held all the Diamonds against her,
decided to shift to the Club suit.
However, before doing so, she de-
cided to lead one more Diamond,
still retaining control of that suit,
but forcing one more discard from
Evans, which might serve to en-
tighten her as to the Club situation:
Accordingly, Mrs. Bradbury led
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