Evening star., 1931-12-18
Jacoby Youth Handicap.

last ruDDeT, TeQuC-
co, c,,her,so, ing our advantage
by $40 points.
Jacoby Youth Handicap.
Mr.. Jacoby is a remarkable player.
He has a keen sense Of card values.
He has thorough knowledge OF the
mathematics of distribution. He can
and does play his cards with mastery
skill. Mr.. Jacoby has everything, but
in addition he has youth, and he has
the faults of youth. He has not yet
been sufficiently tested in the crucible
of experience to be able to stand the
strain of adverse cards and unlucky
breaks and thus last night large
part of the lead which we now enjoy
we may safely credit to faulty Judgment
with his usual mastery skill. But even
his mastery play could not overcome
the handicaps of his partae-s oceaL Al.
morale due to the precision Of our bid
ding and the froWning countenance OF
the Goddess of Luck upon the less
seasoned game of his brilliant partner.
The spectacular swings recorded on
two hands account in large measure
for nearly one-half of our games. The
hands furnished elements Of stirring
drama and afforded opportunities for
dIJdChlllS anu pay.
My favorite partner, my wife, has
felt the urge of the Christmas spirit
taking precedence over bridge and so
last night l turned to Mr.. Lightner,
who played with me in the tournament
against MeSSrS LenZ and Jacoby in
test of the respective merits of the ap-
proach forcing and official" systems of
contract bidding.
Praises Lightner.
Mr.. Lightner is a marvellous player
He holds 50 many championships that
nowadays the winning of one seems to
add slightly to his air of studied bore
dom.
A great deal of prominence has been
given to the so-called 'one over one"
variation of the approach-forcing SyS
tenn and so my friends will be inter-
ested in this statement issued last night
by Mr. Lightner:
Il am delighted to play with Ely
| Culbertson, my favorite partner in
bridge.
We are playing strictly the Culbert-
son approach-forcing) system. Some
times this system is called the one over
Cne' system. due to the fact that one of
the fundamental principles of the ap-
proach-forcing system is to start the
bidding verv low with suit bids of one
and generally to keep them as low as
possible until the honor strength and
diStributional values are on the table
| and are precisely determined.
Some players are under a misappre-
hension that the name 'one-over -one
system, applies to a different system.
! This is simply an attempt to convey a
| false impression that there are two dis
| tinct systems, one called the Culbertson
| Capproach forcing) and the other the
| So-Called 'one-over-one' system. Inas-
much as it happened to be l who orig
! mated the name and the forcing Varia-
ton 'one over one the absurditv of
such claims is all the more apparent"
MY partner bore the lions share of
| the burden of the attack last night 1t
fell to his lot to play the first hand of
the night which, with its bidding, was
as follows
MR.. LEM (NORTH.
S-J 10 5
H-A 10 5
! do 7 4 3
C-9 6 5
MR.. CULBERT- MR.. LIGHTNER
] SON (WEST). EAST.
SIX S-Q8 875
/ H H-K @ j 3
/ D-A @ D-98 5
ca k 10 30 CO 8
/ MR JACoBY CsoUTH).
S-A 2
H-9 8 2
DIX J 6 2
ca
The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
Pass l club Pass ] heart
Pass 3 clubs Pass 3 no truml
Pass Pass Pass
| Is it any wonder I am enthusiastic
over partner who makes six no trump
! with two aces and two mastery players
against him?
The first grand slam bid of the match
so far came as the result of a penalty
double. Our opponents had bid six no
trump after a psychic unofficial opening
heart bid by Mr.. Jacoby, the results OF
which were disastrous. 1t was not the
first psychic bid by our opponents, but
it certainly was the most psychical AS
the reult of it, our able opponent, Mr.
LenZ, finally arrived at six no-trump
contract, which I doubled 1t turned
out that against any opening lead by
Mr.. Lightner, my partner, except club
which is unlikely the six no-trump con-
tract can be made. It would have given
our opponents the rubber and vul-
| nerable slam with $50 honorS The
| Seven-heart bid cannot possibly be made
The hand is as follows: Dealer-East
Both sides vulnerable.
MR.. LEM (NORTH.
S-A @ 10
H-A
D-A @ 81
| ca 7 2
MIR. CULBERT- MR.. LIGHTNER
/ SON (WEST). east.
$685. 5 S-6 2
H-K 6 H-1O
D-5 432 DIX j 10 8 6
C-K J 8 CO 10
MR.. JAcoBY (soUTH).
SIX J74
H-Q ] 9 3 4
D-None
c.
The bidding:
South. West North. East
heart Pass no trump Pass
q hearts Pass no trump Pass
S hearts Pass 6 no trump Pass
Pass Double Pass Pass
| hearts Double
Had our opponents been using the
approach forcing system the bidding
would have proceeded normally and in
evitably to a small slam in spades al
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