The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-15

Il bridge games, broadcast from
station wFBM Tuesday, Milton G.
Work presented as the exhibition
players Mrs. Georgene B. Sickels Of
Beechwood Park, Pa; Miss Mar
guerite Cohn Of TT. Smith, Ark;
Mrs. George s. Fitzgibbon Of Mo-
line, ILL.,, and Mrs. Dwight E. Ault-
man Of Norman, Okla.
The hands were:
Mrs. Sickels, Dealer, South
Spades, K, 9; hearts, A, 9, 2; dia-
monds, K, @, j, 10, z, 3; clubs, j, 5
Miss Cohn, West-Spades, A, @,
z; hearts, @, 10, S; diamonds, 4;
clubs, K, q, 10, 9, g., s.
Mrs. Fitzgibbon, North-Spades,
8, 6, s., 2; hearts, K; diamonds, A,
0, 8, 5, 2; clubs, A, 7, 2.
Mrs. Aultman, East-Spades, j,
10, 4, 3; hearts, j, 8, z, 8, 4, 3; dia-
monds, g.; clubs, 4, 8.
Mrs. SickelS, the Dealer, had a
choice between bidding diamonds
and no trump; but with a six-card
diamond suit including four honors
without the ace, and with only an
ace and a king on the side for a no
trump, the diamond was clearly the
wiser bid; so she opened the auction
with one diamond.
Miss Cohn, West, bid two clubs,
p~referring to bid the minor on her
six-card suit rather than to play at
the weak major that her partner
might name II Miss Cohi1 made an
informatory double.
Mrs. Ftzgibbons, North, with a
hand which fitted so admirably with
her partners diamond bid, decided
to shut out further adverse bidding
by calling four diamonds, which
held the bid.
Miss Cohn, West, opened the play
by leading the king of clubs; Mrs.
SickelS, Declarer, played the ace
from North, the dummy hand; Mrs.
Aultman, East, played the trey, and
Declarer the 5 from her own hand.
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MRS. SICKELS, counting her
1Vl tricks, was sure of all Of her
trumps, and also of winning with
her hearts, because one of the
closed hands small hearts could be
ruffed in Dummy; but she saw she
must lose one club and game would
be lost unless she could win with
the king of spades. "
AS the hand stood, she would
have had a showdown for game
at no trump; but the die was cast
and she had to play diamonds.
To trick 2 she led Dummy'S deuce
Of diamonds; East played the 8; de-
clarer the king; and west the 4.
Declarer then led the deuce of
hearts from closed hand; West
played the s.; Dummy the king;
and East the trey.
To trick four, Dummy led the
diamond S; East discarded the 4 of
hearts; Declarer overlook with the
queen of diamonds; and West dis
carded the 6 Of clubs. Declarer
then led the ace of hearts; West
played the 10; Dummy discarded
the deuce of clubs; and East fol-
lowed suit with the 6 of hearts,
Declarer continued hearts with the
9; West played the queen; Dummy,
North, ruffed with the 6 of dia-
monds; and East played the z of
hearts.
DECLARER then had her hands
IL In such shape that she was
ready to put Miss Cohn, West, in
the lead with a club. So to trick
seven Declarer led the z of clubs
from Dummy; East played the 4;
Declarer the jack, and Miss Cohn,
West, won with the queen.
Miss Cohn could not lead another
club because Dummy could ruff and
closed hand obtain a valuable dis
card. She had not a heart or dia-
mond to lead, therefore, she was
forced to the spade suit, OF which
she led the ace. Dummy, North,
played the deuce; East the 4, and
Declarer, South, the 8.
Mrs. Sickels, South, then faced
her hand, showing the winning
spade and four trumpS, for which
adversaries conceded her the bal
ance of tricks. North and South
therefore scored IS for tricks, and
80 for honors. At duplicate Or pro-
greSsive they would also have scored
125 for game in one deal.
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IN his remarks about the exhibition
l. hand, Work selected as the fea-
ture of the game the way in which
Mrs. SickelS forced a lead up to her
king-9 in spades. AS Work ex-
pressed it: with that holding, the
average player would only have
seen that it was necessary to win
with the king Of spades in order to
make game, and after a vain lead
Of a trump or two would have led
spades from the Dummy hand with
the hope that the ace was in Mrs.
Aultman's, East's hand, and there