The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-29

The following examples show the proper response to the one club bld when the club convention as com piled by John H. Law and V. K. Bo- land of Cleveland is used. We will again assume that East and West always pass. South in all cases holds the same hand and has the required strength to open with one club forcing bid.
 ALL NORTH HANDS
 Hand E
 South has bid a club, informing his partner that his hand contains three and one-half tricks. North, with the holding as shown In this hand, would respond with two dia- monds. If he were to respond with a diamond. this would show hand containing less than two quick tricks and as the hand contains better than two quick tricks, North Is forced to respond with two diamonds.
 South would then show two hearts and North, in order to deny heart support, would bid two no trump. South would then support his part ner's diamond bid by bidding three diamonds. As North has both the clubs and the spades stopped and knows that his partner has strength in at least one of those two suits, he goes to three no trump.
 Supposing, however, that North's hand were shy the king of spades and the ace of clubs. When South bid one club, North would respond with one diamond. North would make the same response if he held five hearts to the ace queen and the eight and six of diamonds. This txua trickS Cnpfh m0n1d then show one heart, North holding hand B would bid two diamonds, show ing his partner that his hand con- tained a real diamond bid. This South would pass as he knows there cannot be game without at least two quick tricks in his partners hand.
 Hand F
 In response to South's bid of one club, North would bid one no trump. His hand contains two quick tricks the ace and king of clubs-and as he has no biddable suit, he must make a positive response by bidding one mol trump. South would then show two hearts. There is no necessity for North to jump the bid to four hearts.
 Remember that with a positive re- sponse to the club forcing bid, the bidding must be kept open until 5dihO ID dITtNCu at, tHSIcloIc INoEIu gives his partner a chance to show another suit by simply bidding three hearts South would go to three no trump to show that his heart suit was only a four-card suit and as North's hand is better fitted to play a suit than no trump, he would bid four hearts.
 Hand c
 North has two quick tricks - the ace of clubs and the king and queen of spades. He has also a bdidable spade suit. therefore his response to his partners one club bid is one spade. The two partners have now determined that game will be bid. South shows his heart suit by bid- ding two hearts. North denies the heart bid by bidding two no trump. South then supports his partners or- iginal spade bid by bidding three spades, but North feels that the chances of going game are better in no trump than with his four-eard no trump, which buys the contract.
 Hand H
 In response to Bouth's one club bid, North bids ono no trump. South bids two hearts and North donies the heart suit by bidding two no trump, Routh cannot rebid his four. card suit and as he has no other R0ob f0urs0ard suit, no must assume that NeFth'a strength ia distributed and his proper bid under this club convention iA three no rtp,um teopyrIsht ibsi, NisA Service. fno) Several examples 0f siam bIdding when hiIA eiHb convention is ems pi0yed Will be shown in t0snloFr0w's article,