Evening star., 1931-12-24

$500 points during
the session and our
total minus score Is G
now 14,505 points. ~
Hand Brings I
Argument. j
On the first hand Sidney I.r,
we bid two spades
and made three. The next hand was
the cause of a long argument with Mr..
Culbertson. The hand:
LEM (NoRTH).
So J
HI 2
Do 10 IS
CA @ 6 80
cULBERTsoN L1GHTNER
WEST. (EAST).
SIS Z 4 SIX 10 6
H-9 6 4 8 H-A @ 1913
D.-9 3 2 D-J 6
C.-K l05 C-J 97
JACoBY (SOUTH.
S-A 8 S 8
H.-K 7 5
D.-A K 8
C.-8
had passed and Lightner bid one
no-trump, which my partner doubled
informatorily. Culbertson took long
time before he passed after the double,
and I, thinking that he had passed,
asked to have the bidding reviewed in
order to make certain.
LEM Could Have Passed.
Culbertson objected and during the dis
cussion he made some unintentionalrefer-
ences to the bidding of his hand. The ref
ereeS decided was entitled to make my
request, but, on the other hand, Culbert-
sons remark automatically barred his
partner from the bidding. I did not
take advantage of the opportunity to
pass, which would have produced big
set for our opponents, but I bid two
clubs. My partner bid two spades and
made five, giving us the first game.
After our opponents scored a game,
We came off victorious, taking the first
rubber, scoring our second game at
three no-trump.
Partial scores are very dangerous in
contract bridge, as opponents are often
forced to overbid their hands in order
to prevent the fortunate possessor of
the partial score from going game. Good
players, therefore, usually prefer to take
small set rather than allow opponents
to score low contract. The following
hand offers good example:
LEM (NoRTH).
ST 6
H.-Q 8 So
D.-A K 6
C-k @ 6 4
cULBERTsON LIGHrNER
WEST. (EAST.
So 532 s.-AKJ 1894
IA 9 3 H-K
D.-852 Do "a
C.-9 C.-8
JACoBY (sOUTH.
S.-8
HI 10
D.-J 1073
ca J 1075
After passes by South and West, I
bid one club, which East overcalled
with one spade. My partner raised me
to two clubs, West went to two spades
and after my pass East bid three
spades, which could have been made
easily. Jacoby preferred to risk a set
instead OF allowing East to make three
SPACES, so he bid four clubs. West and
l both passed.
HonOrs Cover Losses.
East, however, reasoned along the
same lines as my partner, and, fearing
that we would score four clubs, he BID
1our spades. The contract was set Lne
trlck. OF course, he did not lose any,
Thing on the hand, as we had 100 hon
ors. we would have been down une
trek at four clubs.
1 suppose our unaccustomed good
fortune IN the first rubber made me
oVeroptimlStic, for when we were yul-
nerable in the second rubber, 1 over
called CulbertSonS one diamond bid
with one heart on somewhat weak
hand. l was set four tricks doubled.
as flVe hearts to the queen, lack were
concentrated on my left and my part
ner had trlckless hand to crown our
misfortune. We lost this ruber.
Four Hand Rubbers.
The third rubber was won by our op-
ponents in four hands. We had COM
paratively better luck in the fourth
rubber. After we had scored the first
game our opponents made a partial
score OF 35 points on top of which they
held tremendous club hand. They
could easily have made four clubs for
a game. but they preferred to play the
hand at no-trump and went down two
tficks. We then won the rubber on the
following hand:
LEM (NORTH.
S.-J 10 72
HI