The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-05
Radio Bridge Game No. f

king, unless one of the adverSaries
held only one spade.
These four tricks, her six solid
trump tricks, Dummys ace of dia-
monds and her own ace of clubs
would leave her only one loser, the
Jack of clubs.
But Mrs. Coffin was not content
with small slam. She felt that
grand slam was possible, because
the bidding had shown that the
king-queen of diamonds must lay in
Whitehead's, South'S, hand.
These two cards would form the
only possible side quick trick which
he must have held in order to bid
clubs initially on king-queen club
suit Mrs. Coffin therefore saw the
opportunity for squeeze" play
that would give her a grand slam.
Proceeding on this basis, Mrs.
Coffin led her ace and king Of
spades to tricks two and three.
Whitehead played the 3 and 10;
Dummy the and Jack; Work the
2 and 5. Mrs. Coffin continued with
the 4 of spades; Whitehead dropped
the queen, Dummy trumped with
the of hearts; Work played the
of spades.
The fall of the queen of spades
had made Declarer's Of spades
good; therefore there was no need
to use Dummy's second trump for
ruff1ng. Accordingly Declarer led
Dummy's Jack of hearts; Work
played the 3; Mrs Coffin overlook
the Jack with the queen, and
Whitehead played the 2. Mrs. Cof-
fin then led five straight heart
tricks, with the purpose of forcing
embarrassing discards from White
head.
PTNhus at the beginning of the
l. eleventh trick, Declarer, East,
was left with the good 9 of spades;
the 10 of diamonds; and the jack Of
clubs. Whitehead, South, had beeh
forced TO discard down to his king
Queen of diamonds and the COOL
Queen of clubs. Dummy retained
the ace, jack of diamonds and the S
of clubs. Work held the Of spades
and the 8, 7 of diamonds.
Declarer then led her good 8 Of
spades, which put Whitehead into
difficulty. He was fairly certain that
the Declarer had the jack of clubs,
since his partner had played the
lowest of at least three clubs on the
first trick, and had since discarded
the s spot.
Therefore, if he discarded his
Queen of clubs, he doubtless would
present the closed hand with trick
On the other hand, if he discarded
diamond Dummy ace and jack Of
diamonds would take the last two
tricks. His only chance was the
faint hope that his partner, Work,
might hold the jack Of clubs There
fore Whitehead discarded the Queen
of clubs. Dummy discarded the 5 II
clubs; and Work played the o.
spades.
Mrs. Coffin then led the jack Of
clubs, dashing Whitehead's hopes OF
breaking her grand slam. He was
forced to discard his queen Of
diamonds; Dummy discarded the
Jack of diamonds, and Work the z.
Declarer then led her 1o OF
diamonds, winning this last trick
with Dummy's ace, and achieving a
grand slam, with its bonus OF 100
points. She also scored 80 for honorS
-four in her hand and fifth in
partner'S-and SO for tricks.
n
A FTER the play OF the hand as
N auction bridge was concluded,
Work devoted the rest of the broad
casting period to discussion OF its
bidding at contract. He considered
it moderately close question as to
whether South, the dealer, should
bid one club or pass.
Quoting Works own words: I'm
questionably more caution should be
exercised in bidding four-card suits
in contract that in auction; but the
South hand has what I might call
a likely look King-queen-ten, even
at the head of four, is worth
while combination; and with a
king-queen-n in one-side suit,
and queen-ten with one small in
another, I believe the hand is too
strong to pass even at contract. I
would favor bidding one club; but
1 would not criticise pass.
West and North would pass, re-
CARELESS of whether South bids or
passes; and East under either con-
dition would bid four hearts, East
would count upon six tricks in the
heart suit, the ace and king of
spades, and the ace of clubs-nine
tricks; she also has fair chance Of
making another spade.
It takes much less in the West
hand to insure the extra trick than
would justify West in jumping to
four if East bid only three hearts.
For example, a jack and ten of
spades in the West hand would in
sure three spade tricks and game;
therefore the soundness of tt four
heart bid cannot be questioned.
Some players with Vests hand
would be tempted to oVercall the
four hearts with FIVE diamonds, with
the idea that it is proper to show
an ace for slam purposes whenever
the partner bids for game.
In this case it would be most adj
vantageous for East and West to go
slamming, but with no other high |
cards to support the ace, West would
not be justified in doing So 1t is
absured to contend that is is posi-
BILE to foresee and to bid for slam |
every time hand turns up with
which one can be made"