Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-21

! played the Qdccn; Dcclarcr the 81:
Mr.. Whitehead the Il. Mr.. Work thcn
found himself in trouble. Should he
I continue ~ lead trumps, peelarer
undoubtedly would take out sr.
N~hitehead's trumps, then by ran
ring Dummy's cards obtain 'alu-
| abIr discards. Mr. Work therefore
led the Ace of Hearts ~ take the
trick before Declares remaining
Heart. could be discarded. Declare
played the 4 of Hearts H Nhi's-
head tho III: Dummy the Jack
Nr. Work then led the ? of Dia-
I monds. ncclarer played the King,
Nr. Whitehead the encouraging lvi
Dummy the &. Al this point Dcelar-
IVY could have ruffcd his losing
Heart hlt feared 40 risk finding Nh.
Whitehe.d also out Of Hearts and
able wv trump higher than Dummy
| a of Spades. ile decided M Was bet
ter to stick w his original plan VT
| dtscardiny thc Heart on N hong Club
Ia Dummy. in the hope that the out
I standing Club, were normally dlFid-
ed.
Therefore Declarer ran his Spades,
IcOding Ace. Queen. Jack and %. Nr.
( Whitehead played thc hi. N and AM INN
| Spades. -hcn the , ~ Hearts Dummy
| PLAYED thc q Of Spades, then dis-
cardcd tho h and 4 "a Diamonds and
the y w club. Mr.. Work played the
z vi Spades, then discarded the and
J ~ Hearts and the . ~ Diamonds.
purlarur next tool his Ace vi nlh-
/ mcnds. all following suit; then led
I .N. U ~ fHNr.Eu wNmw NW lHmfraEN@ kNMw
and continued with the rest NJ the
CLUBS. Luckily. ~ found the Clubs
! divided fayUrahly so that Dummy =
1 Clubs were an good. giving him 3
| Heart discard from his own hand ON
| the last Club. and winning for him
four tricks IN Spades score 81 -
points ror tricks and 40 for hOnOrs.
I'm analysing the bidding ot this
game hand ~ Contract. Mr.. Work
\ admitted that there would ~ a dif-
I ference Of opinion among experts Nm
u whether South. the Dealer, should
omen with one ur two Spades. His
own choice. M. Work said, would he
try bii Uf two, even though Ordi-
narily. when opening with "a bid of
two On a Major suit, he preferred
the suit t1 br MI siN cards.
But there arc many iivc-card Ma
jor suit hands With such strength on
the side that "A hid of one does not
nearly picture the strength 81 the
thirteen cards for the partner. The
partner will jump with less strength
when an initial TIA W two is made;
therefore when "A Dealer has a Ma
jor suit-bid with a hand that assures
rat least slX trick. u tw0-bid is ant
10 he the more effective declaration.
The biggest FISK that ID 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 of two by part
ncr, a jump should not ~ made
without normal support unless the
side strength he very considerable,
! Therefore. even with an unequal di-
Vision ot the adverse trumps. the re-
suit Is not apt to be disastrous; in
many eases the tw0-bid will produce
q game othcrwia unohtainable.
IN this particular hand, ~ South
opens with two Spades Ht Contract,
West would pass. and North would
wv Justified iU jumping to four
Spades. North has n splendid Club
suit - HELM che Spades; has only q
d0ubleton in Hearts. which may ~
very helpful. and has tho King and
one other Spade. King III the head
of n dnuhlcton of partners suit is
considered normal support when
partner bids one: obviously III IVY
more valuable when partner bids
two.
M course Spades would end the
bidding. as East could not think nj
bidding five Hearts after a pass IVY
partner. Consequently West would
not open the Queen OF Hearts.
Without knowing what West
would lead-and this choice Of a lead
would be " trying orc-it was i'm
pusa hlc for Mr. Work tn predict
what would happen in the play Of
thi- hand at Contract.