The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-29

DARED against Milton 9. Work
l. and Wilbur M. Whitehead in
this weeks Radio Bridge Game
broadcast from Station WFBM
Tuesday night, under auspices OF
The Times were two of the South's
star players-H. A. Lorick Of At
lanta, Ga, and Edward D. Finley
Of New Orleans.
Whitehead, the Dealer, South
opened the bidding with one Spade
on these cards: Spades, K, @, 10, g.
6; Hearts, j, 9, 3; Diamonds, @, g.
6; Clubs, A, 6.
Lorick, West. passed. His cards
were: Spades, A. J, 7, 5; Hearts. 7;
Diamonds, 10, 9, 4; Clubs, @, 9, Z,
3, 2.
Work, North, also passed. He
held: Spades, 4, 3, 2; Hearts, A, 6,
5, 4; Diamonds, 7, 3, 2; Clubs, J.
10, 4.
Finley. East, held support for the
other three suits, so he doubled the
Dealers Spade bid automatically.
His hand was: Spades, 8; Hearts,
K, @, 8, 2; Diamonds, A, K, ]. s.;
Clubs, K, 8, S.
On the second round Of bidding.
Whitehead passed. Lorick, in re-
Spouse to his partners double, bid
one No Trump. Lorick assumed that
his partner had doubled the Spade
bid in the hope of a response with
the other Major suit, Hearts.
Therefore, Lorick did not consider
his own singleton Heart a menace
to No Trump. Since he had the
adverse Spades twice stopped, he
bid No Trump in preference to his
weak fve-card Minor, Clubs.
Work passed. Finley also passed.
He construed his partners response
as indicating weakness in Hearts
and strength in Spades, and there
fore concluded that the hand would
play to better advantage at No
Trump than with either Of his own
suits, Hearts or Diamonds, as trump.
Whitehead passed. He would have
been justified in rebidding had It
not been that West, by his No
Trump bid, had shown strength in
Spades lying over him-probably
two shoppers, the Ace and Jack, with
one or more others.
Whitehead also considered it
futile to go on in the face of his
partners silence.
VXTORK, North, opened the play
w by leading the 4 Of Spades,
the highest of his three cards in his
partners suit. Finley's hand became
Dummy, and Declarer played from
it the singleton 8 of Spades.
Whitehead played the Queen Of
Spades, the lower Of his two high
cards in sequence, and Lorick false
carded the 7 to make Whitehead's
reading of Works lead of the 4 more
difficult.
Neither Whitehead nor Lorick
could draw any certain inference
from Works original lead of the
as to Works actual Spade holding.
A 4-spot might be led as the
fourth-best card of the suit; as the
lowest Of three headed by Ace, King,
Queen or Jack; as the top card of
three or two; or as a singleton.
Whitehead, from the fall
Of the cards and the assumption
that Lorick had the suit twice
stopped, reasonably concluded that
the was Works highest Spade;
and therefore that it was either q
singleton or the top Of two or three
cards
Thus Whitehead, placing the Ace
and Jack of Spades with Lorick,
could see that two more leads Of
the suit would be necessary to es-
tablish it; he also realized IT, at
he probably would be
forced to play his Ace Of Clubs
entry.
But having another possible entry
in the Queen of Diamonds, and no
good shift, Whitehead continued
with Spades, leading the 9 to force
the Jack. Lorick played the Jack;
North the 3, and Dummy discarded
the 2 of Hearts.
Lorick at this point planned his
play of the hand. Works plays of
the followed by the Of Spades,
clearly showed that all outstanding
Spades were held by Whitehead,
with the possible exception Of the 2,
which might remain in Works
hand.
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NNE more lead of the suit would
" establish it, but after such lead,
to enable Whitehead to bring the
suit in, it would be necessary for
him to get the lead. There were two
Aces outstanding, either of which
might serve for Whitehead's needed
entry.
However, Lorick was fairly con-
fident that Whitehead did not hold
both of these Aces, since, had he
held them. he probably would either
have rebid Spades or have doubled