The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12

make a spade trick by leading a
spade from Dummy.
Accordingly Work led the ace of
hearts; Mrs. Streeter played the
two; dummy the three; Whitehead
the four. Work continued with the
six Of hearts; Mrs. Streeter followed
with the seven; Dummy with the
jack; and Whitehead discarded the
two Of spades.
XXTHITEHEAD'S failure to fol-
w low to the second trump trick
caused Work, Declarer, to revise his
plan of play. Mrs. Streeter, South,
still held two trumps, and should
Declarer draw them, he would ex-
haust his own trumps as well.
He could then take Dummys
three diamonds, but would be with
out any sure entry in his own hand
for tie making of the two diamond
tricks remaining in it; and he would
still be two tricks short of game.
After considering his situation,
Work saw a way out, provided that
the five diamonds outstanding were
divided 80. Even though this chance
seemed unlikely, since the outstand-
ing trumpS were abnormally divided
Al and the diamonds were likely
to be similarly distributed, still it
was the best chance remaining for
making game. Therefore Work pro-
ceeded to put it into execution.
He led the ace of diamonds from
Dummy; Whitehead played the 2;
Declarer the 8; Mrs Streeter the 4.
Work continued with Dummy's king
of diamonds; Whitehead played the
7; Work the 6; Mrs. Streeter the 5.
AS both adversaries followed to this
diamond trick, Declarer saw his
game assured.
He led the of hearts from Dunn
my; Whitehead discarded the of
spades; Declarer played the queen
of hearts; Mrs. Streeter played the
9. Work, Declarer, continued with
the king of hearts; Mrs. Streeter
played her last heart, the 10; Dunn
my discarded the blocking queen
Of diamonds, and Whitehead dis
carded the 8 Of diamonds.
Having rid himself of Dummy's
troublesome queen of diamonds by
his brilliant discard, and all the
trumps being exhausted, Work was
able to win the next three tricks
with the Jack, 10 and 9 of diamonds
from his own hand.
The final two tricks were taken
by Mrs. Streeter's two aces. De-
clarer won ten tricks in all-game
at hearts-scoring 80 for trick points
and 40 for honors.
DISCUSSING the bidding of the
- hand at Contract, Work was
of the opinion that South should
bid her clubs just as in Auction.
After this bid West and North
should pass.
Regarding North's pass, Work
stated that he does not believe in
any such theory as the one that re-
quires the partner of an initial club
bidder to raise the bid to two clubs
with a bust holding. A forced bid
is unfortunate in it's effect because
the partner can not tell whether
there is any strength back of it.
TIL bidding in Contract, accord
ing to Work, is difficult enough
when made as simple as possible,
therefore he deprecates any Sys-
tenn that is in the least confusing.
For East, Work recommended
bid of one heart, as the hand does
not possess the requisite strength
for more than one, and any other
bid (such as doubled would be
deceptive.
In his comments Work warned
Contract players against passing,
fourth-hand, after a one-club bid
by Declarer, with hand as strong
as East, as many players are likely
to do for fear the opponents will
arrive at game bid. There is very
little to fear, as rusel, from a side
that can offer only one club on the
first round.
A FTER East's heart, South would
L Y pass, and West would jump. A
jump to three would be tempting,
but not, Work, believed, justifiable.
He recommended two hearts. North
would pass. and then East would
have a choice Of going on with the
hearts or bidding diamonds.
AS rule, Work advocates the
showing of both ends of a two
suffer; but he would hesitate to do
SO in cases like this, where one suit
is major which the partner has
helped; and the other suit a minor,
much weaker than the major.
There are so many cases where
four-card major is bid first and
five-card minor afterward, that 1t
would be dangerous in hand like
this to mention the minor on the
second round, for fear partner would
INK the original bidder had only
four hearts.
Work was inclined to think, after
Vests heart jump, that East should
make the long leap to four hearts;
which of course would obtain the
contract. South would not be justi-
fed in doubling, as North had
passed every opportunity to show
any strength in his hand.
The play Of the hand at contract