The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14

plan OF QeIenSe TO Scheme Tor pre-
venting declarer from making dunn
my's diamonds. He figured that If
he removed dummy's ace of clubs
re-entry. he could block the dia-
monds by holding up his ace, unless
declarer happened to hold four dia-
monds, which was unlikely.
Therefore, at trick two, White
head, West, led the king of clubs,
sacrificing a sure trick in order to
save three future tricks IN diamonds.
Declarer played the of clubs; Fer
guson the 2; and declarer played
dummy's ace, as he realized that
holding up would merely postpone
the loss of the entry enc trick.
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DECLARER could foresee that
- his diamonds would be blocked,
but figured he could take two tricks,
as the holder of the ace would I'M
doubtedly hold it up as long as pos
sible.
Therefore he took his two dia-
mond, with dummy's king and
queen. Whitehead played the and
Z; declarer the and 10; Ferguson
the and 8.
Declarer now had three tricks,
with two more sure tricks in clubs
and 10 in spades in his hand. He
could also establish a heart by lead
ing that suit; but he still would
lack one trick for game.
An extra trick in clubs was pos
sible by a finesse Of the g.. More
over, if the finesse failed, Ferguson,
East, winning the trick with the
10, might make the error of leading
another heart, which would give de-
clarer two tricks in that suit and
game.
Therefore declarer led the Z of
clubs from dummy; Whitehead
played the 4; declarer finessed the
8; and Ferguson won with the 10.
Ferguson, however, was too willy
to fall into the net. He read the
heart situation from his partners
failure to continue the suit.
He therefore avoided hearts and
also the untried spades, and led the
5 Of clubs. Dummy played the 2
Of diamonds; Whitehead the 2 of
hearts; declarer the jack of clubs.
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DECLARER then led the queen
~ Of hearts to establish a trick in
the suit before losing control of
clubs and spades. Mr.. Ferguson
played the 4; dummy the 6 of dia-
monds; Whitehead won with the ace
of hearts.
Whitehead led the ace Of dia-
monds; declarer discarded the 5 of
spades; Ferguson the 2 of spades;
and dummy played the of dia-
monds.
Whitehead then led the 10 of
spades, which declarer won with the
king; Ferguson played the 8 and
dummy the 3. Declarer led the ace
Of spades; Ferguson played the Jack,
dummy the 4, Whitehead the 9.
Declarer then took his good queen
OF clubs and jack of hearts; Fergu-
son playing the 6 and 8 of clubs:
dummy the 6 and z of spades; and
Whitehead the 3 and Z of hearts.
Declarer's final lead of the 8 of
hearts of course was won by White
heads game-saving 10.
Declarer, therefore, scored only
20 points for his two tricks. There
was no honor score as aces were
easy.
CONTRASTING the new game of
~ contract with auction bridge.
Work said that the play of hand,
as a general thing. is the same in
both games, and the bidding is not
so different as many people sup
pose.
The inherent difference is that in
auction bridge a game may be made.
If enough tricks be won, regardless
OF whether a smaller number were
bid; but in contract a game can not
be made unless the size of the bid
is contract to go game.
For instance, a declarer bidding
two spades and making four tricks
would go game in auction bridge:
in contract he could score toward
game only the two tricks bid. There
fore the bidding at contract is in
fuenced by the desire to bid game
if possible
In this radio hand, therefore, the
contract bidding would be one dia-
mond by declarer, the same as in
auction; but West would bid two
hearts instead Of one, to show his
partner that he was stronger than
a one-heart bid would indicate, and
to urge his partner, if North should
pass. to jump the two hearts to four
if possible.
North, however, would bid three
no trumps, a game-going bid he
could, reasonably expect to make
with the help promised by his part
ner's diamond bid, and therefore
justifable.
North's three no trumps probably
would obtain the contract, as
neither East nor West have suffi-
cient strength to bid further or
double. The play at three no trump
in contract would be the same as IN
auction.