The Washington times., 1927-02-16

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Mrs. Douglass had four hearts and
each OF the others three. He de-
duced this from Mrs, Douglass lead
of the OF hearts, undoubtedly her
| fourth best. The spot In Dummy
at once played Mrs. Douglass with
four hearts only. He and Dummy
each had three; therefore, Mr..
Whitehead also had three.
Dummy played the 2 OF hearts to
the first trick; Mr.. Whitehead the
queen; Declarer the king.
Leads Out Spade
DR.. Levi then determined to run
his long spade suit, Ia the hope
that the opponents discards would
give him helpful information. He
led the ace Of spades; Mrs. Doug.
lass played the 2; Dummy the s; Mr..
Whitehead the 4. DR.. Levi con.
tinued with the queen Of spades;
Mrs. Douglass played the s.; Dunn.
my the 8; Mr.. Whitehead the 10.
DR.. Levi led the Of spades; Mrs.
Douglass played the z; Dummy the
jack; Mr.. Whitehead discarded the
Of hearts. Dummy led the king
OF spades; Mr.. Whitehead discarded
the Of clubs: Declarer played the
3yof spades; Mrs. Douglass the 3 Of
diamonds.
DR.. Levi was not very successful
in obtaining informatory discards.
i Mr.. Whitehead had apparently
shown weakness In clubs and Mrs.
Douglass weakness In diamonds. It
was impossible for him to deduce
the holding OF either adversary. He
determined to put Mrs. Douglass in
the lead with a heart, as he knew
Mr.. Whitehead had only one heart
left. He hoped Mrs. Douglass, by
| playing out her hearts, would force
Mr.. Whitehead to discard his dis.
advantage. He led the Of hearts
from Dummy. Mr.. Whitehead
played the s; Declarer the 10; Mrs.
Douglass the jack.
Mrs. Douglass saw through DR..
Lewis plan, but decided 1t was best
to take her sure heart tricks and
watch her partners discards for in.
dication Of which suit her partner
preferred her to lead next.
Therefore she led the ace Of
hearts; Dummy played the z; Mr..
Whitehead discarded the OF clubs;
Declarer played the 8 Of hearts.
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Dummy discarded the of diamonds;
Air. Whitehead was squeezed" He
did not like to part with his 10 of
| diamonds, yet IL he discarded another
club he would unguard his queen.
From the discard Of the diamond by
Dummy, It looked as If Declarer
were trying to protect his clubs.
Therefore, Mr.. Whitehead decided
to keep his defense in clubs. He dis
carded the 10 OF diamonds.
Could Read Holding
DR.. Levi was now In q position
to read Mr.. Whitehead's holding
fairly well. The reluctant discard Of
the 10 OF diamonds showed that he
probably held only three diamonds
and that the other two probably
were the king.queen. As he held
| three hearts and two spades, he
probably had five clubs originally.
Consequently. he probably still had
three clubs and two diamonds.
Therefore. DIR. Levi discarded the 6
OF clubs. Had Mr.. Whitehead dis.
carded another club instead OF the
diamond, DIR. Levi would have dis.
carded the Of diamonds instead Of
. club.
Mrs. Douglass led the 5 Of dia.
monds. the suit that her partners
discards had indicated he preferred.
Dummy played the ace; Mr.. White.
head the queen; DR.. Levi the 3.
Dummy led the Of diamonds;
Mr.. Whitehead played the king:
Or. Levi the Z; Mrs. Douglass
the 9.
NEr VUh0toho.l "a A. - =.
DR.. Levi played the ace: Mrs.
DOUGLASS the 4: Dummy the 3, DR..
Lewis king Of clubs and jack Of
diamonds were good for the last
two tricks. giving him game in
no.trump and 30 for three aces di.
vided.
Won His Game
After the lead Of the thirteenth
heart, the cause Of the advergaries
was hopeless. No matter what hap.
pened then, DR.. Levi had his game,
which he cleverly earned.
It In quite true that had Mrs.
Douglass permitted her thirteenth
heart to die and led q club, in spite
Of the fact that her partner had
discarded two clubs without show.
Ing strength in the suit, she might
have saved the game; but that sort
OF play would be justified only in
a double dummy problem, in
which all the cards were exposed,
At the table to give up q thirteener,
and to lead q suit In the face Of 8,
request from q partner not to do
so. would be most unsound and un.
wise. and would generally result
most distressingly.
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