Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-15
BRIDGE TALKS
By MRS. JOHN MuNcE. In.

In the hands given last week, to be
played today. dealer holds, in spades,
ace. king, 5; hearts, king, o, 8, z; dia-
monds, king, jack, S, and clubs. ace,
king, 10.
West, or second hand, holds, in
spades, queen, jack, 10; hearts, 6, S, 2:
diamonds, ace, queen, 10, 4, q: clubs,
Is.
North, or third hand, holds, in spades,
6, 4, 8; hearts, queen, 10; diamonds,
8. Z. 3, and clubs, queen. Jack, 6, 7. 2.
East, or fourth hand, holds, in spades,
9. 8. Z, 2; hearts. ace, jack, 4, 8; dia-
monds, 8, g. and clubs, 9, 6, 5.
The auction bidding was one no.
trump, and the contract bidding was
three no-trumps.
We will take up first the opening
lead, which, in this hand, would be
what is called blind lead. as the
leader has not heard from his partner,
and therefore has only his own hand to
be guided by. West would lead from
the long ten-ace suit, diamonds, rather
than from the short sequence suit of
queen, jack, 10 of spades. If the queen,
Jack. 10 headed a five-card suit, this
would be a more desirable suit to lead
from than the ace, queen, 10 five-card
suit. Therefore, West leads to trick No.
l the 4-spot of diamonds. Dummy goes
down and declarer plans his hands be-
fore playing from dummy on the first
trick and figures that he will win, in
addition to the first diamond trick, two
spades, and likely five clubs, but this
will make only total of eight tricks
and is one short of game. He can win
the second heart trick, but the position
of the ace of hearts will be the deter
mining factor in this game. Therefore,
it is up to declarer by his play to make
the holder of the ace of hearts believe
it will be better for him to play it on
the second round of hearts than on the
first. Declarer plays from dummy the
3-spot of diamonds, East plays the
9-spot and declarer takes the trick in
his own hand with the jack Of dia-
monds.
To trick No. 2 declarer leads the ace
of clubs from his own hand; West
plays the 4-spot: the 2-spot is played
from dummy, and East plays the 5-spot.
To trick No. 8 declarer leads from his
own hand the king Of clubs; West plays
the 3-spot, and by the play Of the 3-spot
finished the signal to his partner that
he has no more clubs. He played high
and then low. The 7-spot is played
from dummy, and East plays the
6-spot.
TO trick No. 4 declarer leads the king
of hearts from his own hand, trying to
locate the ace of hearts. If West holds
the ace of hearts and plays it, it Will
make very little difference, because the
next lead of diamonds would be up to
South, who holds the other high dia-
mond. West plays. the 2-spot. the 10
spot is played from dummy. East may
feel that the queen of hearts Is the only
entry declarer has in dummy, and
that by this play of the king he was
trying to force out the ace and make the
heart entry good. Should this be the
will lead to trick No. 5 the ace of spades,
West will play the 10-spot, the 3-spot
will be played from dummy and East
will play the 2-spot.
To trick No. G declarer will lead the
king of spades, West will play the jack,
the 4-spot will be played from dummy
and East will play the 7-spot.
To trick No. z. declarer leads his TO-
spot Of clubs, West discards the 5-spot
of hearts, and the trick is taken in
dummy with the queen Of clubs, East
playing the 9-spot.
TO trick No. 8 declarer leads from
dummy the jack of clubs, East discards
the 4-spot of hearts, declarer diScards
the 7-spot of hearts, and West the g.
spot of hearts.
To trick No. 9 declarer leads from
dummy the 8-spot of clubs. East dis
cards the 9-spot Of spades, declarer dis
cards the 8-spot of hearts and west dis
cards the 2-spot of diamonds.
This last trick gives declarer his book
Of six tricks and the three odd necessary
to go game, and he sees that all the
other tricks are due to go to his OPP
ponents from now on.
When declarer led the king of hearts
from his own hand to trick No. 4, II
East had taken the trick. and led dia-
mond back to his partner, he would
have saved the game, as they would
have taken in addition to the heart
trick, four diamond tricks, which would
have given them, the opponents. five
tricks in ALL and this would have left
the declarer just one trick short of