Evening star., 1931-12-15


after six sessions of play and 40 rub
bers, gave us final plus score OF l5
points Certainly the match could not
be any closer.
We scored the first game of the eve
ming on the following hands: North
LenZ, spades, jack 10, 3, hearts, ace,
9. 7; diamonds, king, 9, 8, ?; clubs,
ace, S. 4
West -Culbertson. spades, S. ?; hearts,
king. queen, 8. 6, 4, 3, diamonds, ace,
4; clubs. queen, 8, T.
East-Mrs. Culbertson, spades, ace
9. s. 4: hearts, jack, 10. S. diamonds,
jack, 7, 6, 5. 3; clubs, TO-
oouth-Jacoby, spades, king, queen,
8. Z. hearts. 2, diamonds, queen, 10;
clubs king. jack, 8, s, 3, 2.
The Culbertsons had a partial score
Of 70. My partner was the dealer and
passed. West bid Cne heart. I might
have doubled internationally, but had
full confidence in Jacobs aggressive
ness and knew that he would not sell
the hand so cheaply if he could find
any bid at all. Mrs. Culbertson passed,
as one heart was sufficient to give them
game. Jacoby bid two clubs Ely bid
two hearts and l raised my partner TO
three clubs. East went to three hearts.
Jacoby now showed his other SUIT by
bidding three spades, which was passed
by Ely and myself and doubled by Mrs.
CulbertSOn.
Culbertson Too Ambitious.
The hand could have been defeated
easily with a heart opening. but Ely
was too ambitious and opened with the
ace Of diamonds. followed up by small
diamond. JaCoby now played small
spade up to the jack Of spades. which
trick was taken by East with the ace.
Now Mrs. CulbertSon had chance
10 defeat the contract by returning a
diamond, but she returned the jack Of
hearts. JacCby then played all the
trumpS, the ace Of clubs and the king
Of diamonds, dScardlng a small club
en- the latter card.
play by discarding the queen OF hearts
and two small hearts On the last two
trumps and the king Of diamonds but
instead he discarded all the small
hearts, keeping the king, queen of
hearts and the three clubs.
This was fatal. because Jacoby now
played the nine of hearts from the
dummy, and, although it was covered
with the ten by East, West had to over
take and was compelled to Lead up to
the king and jack of clubs in the South
hand. l certainly was proud of my
partner
Put Up Stiff Fight.
We put up a stiff fight in the third
rubber. taking number Of sets, so that
when we finally succeeded in taking the
second game we had a total loss of 800
points on the rubber Our loss, how
ever, would have been much greater If
We had allowed the opponents to win
the rubber without any opposition We
won the rubber on the following hand:
North-Lenz, spades, jack. 8. 7, 2:
hearts ace, 3; diamonds, king, 10, 5;
clubs. ace. 10 7, 2.
West-Culbertson, spades, ace, 6, g.;
hearts, queen. 7, 5; diamonds, queen.
jack, 8, 3; clubs. king, jack, g.
East-Mrs. Culbertson. spades. king.
queen, 10, 9, S. 4; hearts, 8, 2; dla-
monds, 9, 4; clubs. 9, S, 4
South-Ja ,oby, spades. none: hearts.
KING, jack. 10. 8, 6. 4; diamonds, ace, :,
6, ?: cubs. queen 8. 6.
Both sides were vulnerable and had
partial scores. which explains why each
side bid the other up. The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
diamond Double spade
hearts spades Pass Pass
3 hearts Pass Pass 3spades
4 hearts Double Pass Pass
Pass
My partner certainly surpassed him
sell today, as again by fine playing he
succeeded in making his doubled con-