Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21
Radio Bridge Analysis
Being a Report of Bidding and Play Over
the Air from KWWG

played the Queen; Dcclarer the 3;
Mr.. Whitehead the =. Mr.. Work then
found himself in trouble. Should he
continue to lead trumps, Dcclarer
undoubtedly would take out tr.
Nhitehead's trumps; then by rum
ming Dummy's cards obtain Nalu-
uhIe discards. Mr.. Work therefore
Tea the Ace Of Hearts TO take the
trick before Declares remaining
Hearts could be discarded. Dcrlarer
riaycd thu A vi Hearts; nj. White
lend the Z: Dummy the Jack.
Mr.. Work then led the : of Dia-
nonds. Dcclarer played the hlnEi
MI. Whitehead the encouraging W.
Dummy the 3. At this point Deelar-
or could have ruffcd his losing
Heart. but feared I'd risk finding MT
M hitrhcad also out of Hearts and
able 10 trump higher than Dummy'S
A uf Spades. lie decided IN was bet
Tar IN stick to his original plan "a
d~iscarding the Heart on a long Club
in Dummy. in the hope that the out
standing Clubs were normally Ovid
ca.
Therefore Declarer ran his Spades,
lrodinr Acc. Queen. Jack and p. Mr..
W hitchead played the N, y and ~ of
Spades. then che > of Hearts. Dummy
played the I Of Spades, then dis
carded the Is and ! of Diamonds and
the T. WI Clubs. Mn. Work played the
y ~ Shades, then discarded the y and
. of Hearts and the 4 Of Diamonds.
Dcclarer next took his Ace Of Dla-
! monds. ali following suit then led
the . Of Clubs over 20 Dummy's King
and continued with the rest Of the
Clubs. Luckily. nc found the Clubs
divided favOrably 80 that Dummy
Clubs were all good, giving him a
Heart discard from his own hand on
the last Club, and winning for him
four tricks in Spades score OF is
points for tricks and 40 for honors.
In analyzing the bidding az this
! game hand at Contract. MIR. Work
admitted that there would be A diff
ference Of opinion among experts AZ
20 whether South, the Dealer, should
open witk one or two Spades. His
own choice. Mr.. Work said, would be
the bid Of two. even though ordi-
narily, when opening with a bid ~
two on u Major suit, he preferred
the suit TO be of six cards.
But there are many f~Ive-card Ma
ior suit hands with such strength on
the side that q bid Of one does not
nearly picture the strength Of the
thirteen cards for tine partner. The
partner will jump with less strength
when an initial bid OF two is mades
therefore when a Dealer has a Ma
jor suit-bid with q hand that assures
at least six tricks. a two-bid Is apt
TO be the more effective declaration.
/ The biggest risk that IL involves is
| that partner may jump with only two
| small cards Of the trump suit, and
this may work badly. However. even
after an opening bid ri two by part
ner. a jump should not be made
without normal support unless the
side strength be very considerable
\ Therefore. even with an unequal die
| vision OF the adverse trumps, the r..
suit is not apt TO be disastrous: IA
many cases the two-bid will produces
n game otherwise unobtainahle.
IN this particular hand. IN South
( opens with two Spades 10 Contract,
West would pass, and North would
be justified iu jumping 10 four
| Spades. North has a splendid Club
suit "a help the Spades: has only ~
/, doublcton IN Hearts. which may be
very helpful; and has the King and
one other Spade. King at the head
~ n douhleton M partners suit is
considered normal support when
partner bids one; obviously il IL
more valuable when partner bids
two.
OF course Spades would end the
bidding. as East could not think Of
bidding five Hearts after a pass by
partner. Consequently West would
not open the Queen or Hearts.
Without knowing what West
would lead-and this choice az a lead
would bc a trying orc-it was inv
possible for Mr.. Work 10 predict
what would happen in the play oi
\ this hand at Contract.