Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
BRIDGE TALKS
BIZ MRS. JOHN MuNcE. JR.

All Of you who play bridge naturally
want to play better bridge, and 1t is well
to remember that many hands have
more than one bid in them, and it is
I'D to the holder of such hands to decide
which is the best bid to make. have
often stated in my talks that it is wiser
to make a major suit bid in preference
to a no trump, and no trump in pref
er-nce to minor suit, but II the hand
contains only q minor suit bid, never
fail to make that bid. Always bear in
mind that you are playing partnership
game, and that every bid or play you
make gives your partner information. II
bids are properly made and plays are
properly played.
The following hands illustrate the
above, namely, hands In which there Is
a choice of bids.
South, the dealer holds:
spadesK. Q. 10, 8. ,.
pismonds-J- ., 9, =.
CiubS-A, 4, q.
West, or second hand, holds:
SRssais:5as: : !; "a.
ciubsWK, 9, =, S.
North, or third hand, holds:
Spades, 4.
piamonds..k, g. 10. 4, ?.
Clubs, 8, 6, 3.
East, or fourth hand, holds:
S SS;ss;s:ass I ;ilo.'s.4
Clubs, 10.
We will take up first the auction bid
ding and then the contract. When you
are bidding be very careful not to bid
out of turn, as the penalty for bidding
out of turn Is that the partner Of the
out-of turn bidder is excluded from
further participation in the auction, no
matter how strong hand he holds.
In bidding the above hands at auction,
South would bid one spade. A five-
card suit headed by the king and queen
with one trick on the side is one of the
required holdings for dealers bid Of one
of suit, and as this hand contains the
necessary trick in the ace Of clubs, 1t is
easy to understand why the bid would
be one spade. This would have been
sound one spade bid If the hand had
contained small spade in place of the
10-spot
Coming to Vests hand, we are aware
that this hand is too strong to pass.
Here we have a hand strong enough to
double. There are five high cards likely
to take tricks, which Is the requirement
for the double of a suit bid. Then, too,
this hand is strong enough to bid one
no trump, as the ace of spades is an
stop In the suit bid by
the opponent. There is still another
bid in the hand-namely, that OF two
hearts. A five-card major, headed by ]
the queen, with three quick tricks on
the side, makes this strong enough for
a following bid of two hearts. West,
therefore, with choice of bids, decides
it will be better to bid the two hearts
than either of the other two bids. That
Is where the bidder has to decide which
bid he thinks best fitted to his hand.
Other bidders might have preferred the
double, which would be informatory,
while still others might have preferred
the no trump bid.
North, the partner Of Dealer, holding
the ace of the suit bid by West and
quick trick in diamonds, wanted to raise
his partners spade bid, but lacked nor
NAL support in trumps, so did not raise
the spade bid, but bid three diamonds.
East raised Vests bid of two hearts
to three hearts, as the hand contained
two doubletons and five trumps headed
by the king, jack and 10. This one was
all the hand could raise.
Coming again to South, realizing that
North, his partner, lacked normal sup
port in trumps for the spade bid, but
did have a strong diamond suit, South
abandons the thought of playing the
spade declaration, and as his hand con-
tains more than normal support in dia-
monds. he raises the bid of North to
four diamonds. With the singleton
heart. his partner should be able to ruff
the adverse suit.
West now has the chance to bid
again and bids four hearts, due to the
raise from his partner. After this bid
there are three passes and the auction
Is closed.
The contract bidding would be for
Dealer one spade and believe most
players would prefer an infor-
matory double by West, which asks for
4 major suit bid. North would have
The choice of passing or of bidding the
but whatever North did,
East, the partner OF the doub1er, would
bid the hearts, and If North bids the
Dealer will raise the diamond
bid and West will bid four hearts, get
ting at game bid in this way. The
leads and play of these hands will be ]
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