The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-23
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ding a four-card major, and then
had bid a five-card minor.
Since South surely had as many
diamonds, as spades possibly
one more diamond than spade :, {.
and as North was so much longer
and stronger in diamonds, the lat
ter suit clearly was the one for
North to assist.
After Mrs. Tubbs' diamond assist,
all passed. Work, South, became
the Declarer, with his contract four
diamonds, and Whitehead, West,
had the original lead, for which he
correctly chose his ace of hearts.
From Mrs. Tubb's hand, which
was then spread as Dummy, Work,
Declarer, played the eight of hearts.
Bruelheide, East, played the dis
couraging two. This discouraging
card plainly informed his partner,
Whitehead, that Bruelheide did not
hold the king.
Work, Declarer, before taking a
card from his own hand, determined
upon his plan of play. Having de-
cided that the queen of hearts in
Dummy would be more useful as
an entry than the king of hearts in
his own hand, he played the latter
to the trick.
Whitehead, West, having noted
his partners play of the 2 to the
first trick, interpreted it merely as
an indication that his partner did
not hold the king, rather than as
an invitation to shift suits.
Since Declarer evidently could
make Dummy's queen of hearts at
his convenience, and, since White
head, by a shift to spades or clubs,
might readily lose trick in the
suit let, Whitehead continued with
hearts, leading the 6.
Dummy played the queen Of
hearts; Bruelheide the 8; Declarer
the 4.
Declarer's two hands then were
exhausted of hearts; he also
planned to eliminate clubs, after
which, by an end play, he could
force the lead of spade from an
adversary, thus limiting his loss in
spades to one trick.
This one spade trick added to
the ace of hearts already taken by
adversaries. would stile give De-
clarer game.
THEREFORE Declarer started
i the club elimination by lead
ing Dummy's ace of clubs; Bruel-
heide played the 2; Declarer his
lone 8; Whitehead the S. Dummy
continued with the 4 of clubs; Bruel-
heide played the 9; Declarer
trumped with the 10 of Diamonds;
Whitehead played the 7 of clubs,
Declarer next led the 2 of Diamonds
to put Dummy in for another club
lead and inciden' lily to reduce the
adversaries' trm,ps. Whitehead
played the of diamonds; Dummy
the king; Bruelheide the 8.
Declarer then led Dummy's last
club, the 9; Bruelheice played the
s; Declarer trumped with the ace
Of diamonds; Whitehead played the
10 of clubs.
Hearts and clubs we're now elm
mated from Declarer's two hands.
Accordingly he led the of dia-
monds to draw the adversaries' last
trump and put Dummy in for q
spade lead. Whitehead played the
jack of diamonds; Dummy the
queen; Bruelheide discarded the 5
of hearts
Dummy then led the of spades;
Bruelheide played the 2; Declarer
the 9; and Whitehead won the jack.
At this point the adversaries were
beaten. Whatever Whitehead led,
Declarer would win all the rest of
the tricks.
If Whitehead led a heart or a
club, Declarer would discard Dunn
mys only losing spade and trump
in his own hand. If he led spade,
it would come up to Declarer's ace
queen, both of which would then
make.
AS his only chance, Whitehead led
the of spades; after which it was
easy for Declarer to show that the
rest Of the tricks we're his, giving
him five tricks. game in diamonds
a score of IS for tricks and 40 for
honorS.
XXIORK'S play of this hand,
wv would be the same both at
auction and at contract bridge, was
an interesting illustration of what is
! appropriately called elimination.
There are many deals in which,
if the cards of a certain suit or
suits are exhausted in Declarer's
two hands, and then an adversary
is placed in the lead, the adversary
will have to lead the suit the De-
clarer wishes led up to the hand
to which the Declarer wishes the
lead to come.
In hands in which elimination
can be worked, the adversaries are
helpless and have no way to cir
cumvent the scheme of the Declarer.
In discussing the bidding of this
hand at contract, Work stated it as
his opinion that the contract bid
ding would follow the auction
declaration. with the possible ex-
ception of North's second-round as
sisting bid of four diamonds.
In contract North probably would
feel justified in bidding five dia-
monds, a game goer, instead Of four