Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-23
Radio Bridge Analysis
Being a Report of Bidding and Play Over
the Air from KWWG

, own hand, he played the latter to the
trick.
Mr.. Whitehead, West, having noted
his partners play OF the : to the first
trick. interpreted it merely as an In
6ication that his partner did not hold
the King, rather than as an invitation
10 shift suits. Since Declarer evil
IDENTIFY could make Dummy's Queen Of
Hearts NJ his convenience, and since
Mr.. Whitehead. by a shift TO Spades
or Clubs. might readily lose . trick
in the suit led, Mr.. Whitehead con
tinued with Hearts, leading The 9.
Dummy played the Queen a. hearts,
Mr.. BrueiheIde the ~ Deelarer tne 4
UecIarer's two hands were thea eA-
hausted Of Hearts; he also planned
10 eliminate Clubs, after which, ~
an end play, he could force the ieAe
Of a Spade from IN adversary, thus
limiting his loss IN Spades 70 one
rrirk. This one Spade tries added 70
~ Ace VI Hearts already taken by
aayerSaries, would still give Deeiarer
game.
Therefore Declarer started the
Club elimination by leading Dummy ;
Ace OF CLUBS; Mr. Bruelhelde played
the ?: Deciarer his lone 81 Mr. nite-
head the ). Dummy continued WIN
the 4 vi Clubs; Mr.. BrEelheice played
the q; Declarer trumped with the ~
Of Diamonds; Mr.. Whitehead played
the ! OF Clubs. Declarer next led
the , of Diamonds TO put Dummy IN
for another Club lead and INCIDENT
ally ~ redace the at~versaries
trumps. Mr.. Whitehead played the 4
III Diamonds; Dummy the hing; Mr..
Dummy's last Club, the 3; Mr.. bruel-
hcide played the 5; Declarcr trumped
with the Ace of Diamonds; Mr..
" hitehead played the 10 Of Clubs.
Hearts and Clubs were now eIimln-
ated from D~eclarer's two hands. Ac-
cordingly he Ted the . or Diamonds
TO draw the a~dyersaries' last trump
and put Dummy in for n Spade lead.
Mr.. Whitehead played the Jack OF
Diamonds; Dummy the Queen; Mr..
Bruelheide discarded the , OF Hearts.
Dummy then led the ! Of Spades;
MI. Brueiheide played the y Deciar-
81 the D: and Mr.. Whitehead won
with the Jack. At this point the ad-
versaries were beaten. Whatever Mr..
Whitehead led. Declarer would win
NH the rest Of the tricks. II Mr..
Whitehead led a Heart OF a Club, De-
clare- would discard Dummys only
losing Spade and trump in MS own
hand IL he led a Spade, it would
CONG up TO Declarer's Ace-Queen,
both Of which would then make.
AS his only chance. Mr.. Whitehead
led the . az Spades; after which il
was easy for Declarer to show that
the rest " the tricks were his, CIV
ing III mfive tricks. game IN ma
monds-a score Of 80 for tricks n
30 for honors.
Mr.. Works play Of this hand,
which would be the same both AZ Auc-
ton and At Contract Bridge. was an
interesting illustrtaion Of what u ap-
propriately called Elimination
There are many deals in which. il the
cards of a certain suit or suits are
exhausted in Declarer's y hands,
and then m adversary is placed IN
the lead. the adversary will have 70
lead the suit the Dcclarer wishes led
IN u the hand to which the Declarer
wishes the lead to come. In hands
in which elimination can be worked.
the adversaries sre helpless and have
70 way to circumvent the scheme q
the Declarcr.
In discussing the bidding or this
hand al Contract. Mr.. Work stated i
- his opinion tina tthe Contract bid
ding would follow the Auction deelA-
alton. with the possible exception o
North's second-rourd assisting bid Z
four Diamonds. IN Contract Nortf
probably would feel justified IN BIT
ding five Diamonds. q game-roer. IN
stead or four over Vests three
Hearts.