Evening star., 1931-12-23

when they stepped out. Culbertson
congratulated himself that his loss was
not greater. He thought his opponents
grossly underbid on several occasions
through the faults of their system.
AS an example. when his side had not
scored in rubber IS and had suffered
heavily. it got a game at four hearts
although Lenz and Jacoby could have
had a laydoWn for four spades, game
and rubber Owing to high cards hold
tngs in Lightner's hand the four spades
probably would have been doubled,
Quite a swing was saved right there.
Here is the hand, No. 473
LEM (NoRTH.
SIX 10 8 5
H.-None
DIX 9 4 2
C.-J 10 5
CULBERTsON LIGHTNER
CWEsT. (EAsT) DEALER.
S4 SIS
H.-A 10 IS H.-K Q J9
Do S 3 D.-A @
CO 873 ca K 6 2
JACOBY (SOUTH.
S-A @ 9 2
H-8 6 4 2
D.-J 6
ca
The bidding: East, club; South
pass; West, clubs; North, pass; East
he1rts; South pass; West. hearts;
all pass. The opening lead was the
deuce of hearts by South. At spades
Jacoby and Lenz would have lost one
club and two diamonds.
Each Side Scores Slam.
Each side succeeded at little slam.
1enz and Jacoby were set in trying
another. Culbertson blamed the orig
inal one bid of the Lenz system Lenz
sid Jacoby should have stopped short
Of slam. Slam was possible on three
other occasions for Lenz and Jacoby.
On hand 462 a psychic bid by Cul-
bor,son scared his rivals from a slam
effort. In contract for four spades
JaCoby took all the tricks. The hand:
LEM tNORTHD.
S.-3 7 q 2
H.-A J :
D.-A ] 3
CA
CULBERTsON LIGHTNER
CWEsT). east, DEALER
S-J SIX
Do 1862 d
CO ] TO- C.-9753
JACOBY tSOUTH.
S-A Q 10 653
H.-1O
DIX 10
C.-K 86
The bidding: East pass; South, one
spade; West, one no trump; North
double; East, pass; South, pass West,
two diamonds North, four spades; all
pass. Culbertson opened with the dia
mond seven.
Culbertson's bid of no trump without
heart in his hand and nothing high
gave him revenge for a previous psychic
bid by Jacoby which kept CulbertSon'S
side in a beloW-game contract in dia-
monds when game at no trump was
easy
Each side during the session had
chance to use its distinctive original
two bid, and each resulted in game
contract in major suit
CuIbertson Getting Bored
A.. Culbertson and LEM slipped past
the shalf-way mark of their bridge bat
tie Lenz yaWned. Culbertson remarked
that the whole affair was getting a
little boring" Lightner looked up from
his cards and said: We'll, we'll" Jacoby
adjusted his necktie to a more COM
Portable position on his Adams apple.
When the session was over, and peo-
pie began telling Challenger Culbertson
what nice host he had been, he raised
the point that he was host to every
body but his opponents, and that, by
all the honors in the deck, he would
not be guest to his opponents in the
new theater of battle.
How he asked aptly "can tell my
opponent to go to the devil if I am his
guest?"
The experts couldn't answer that one,
and so they moved on into Mr.. LenZ'S
quarters to ask what festivities he
planned as introduction to his host half
of the match
"Heh?- Festivities?" he said with
raised eyebrows, there aren't going to
be any festivities or any other foolish
ness. Well sit right down and get to
-,.-,.g-sTd with the change in
Scenery I wouldn't be bit surprised if
there would be change in luck"
Theater Party Assured.
Then, back to Mr. Culbertson. When
would Mrs Culbertson go back into the
match? The first playing day after
New Year day. And how about the pro-
posal for one might stand in theater
for the sake of the unemployed?
He broke down and admitted that.
because of the urging of Mrs. David
Sarnoff and Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip,
the theater performance is practically
assured. He planned, he said to take
up the matter of technical arrange
ments-an electric score and PLAYING
board, a glass cage and a theater-to-
day. There would be loud speakers, too.
so bridge fans who desire to pay money
for unemployment relief could hear the
bidding and the arguments.
He also took up the matter of re-
ported rivalry between himself and
LEM.
There's no rivalry between u.s." he
said, "it's his system"
Once, last night, he told Lenz: