The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-04
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l. bridge authorities, as well as an
expert from Denver, participated in
the eleventh of Milton G. Works
radio bridge games broadcast Tues
day from station WFBM. The New
Workers. we're Ely Culbertson, ed
itor of The Bridge World; Ralph j.
Leibenderfer and z. v. Shepard,
with Mrs. Lewis Todhunter of Den
yer.
Their hands were:
Culbertson, dealer, South-Spades,
A, @, 10, 7, 6, s.; hearts, A 7, 5 A.;
diamonds, 3, 2; clubs 4.
Mrs. Todhunter, West-Spades, 4,
3; hearts. 3; diamonds, 8, 7, 6, 5, A.;
Clubs A, K, j, 10, 2.
Leibenderfer, North-Spades, J,
10, Q; hearts, x, 10, 9. 6; diamonds,
A, j 10; clubs 10 Z, 5.
Shepard, East-Spades, K, g.;
hearts, @, j, 8, 2; diamonds, K, @ g.;
clubs @, 9, 8, 3.
Culbertson, South, opened the auc-
ton with one spade. Mrs. Tod
hunter West, said two clubs; Lei
benderfer, North, two spades; Shep-
ard, East, three clubs. Culbertson,
South, went to three spades, which
held thu bid.
Opening the play, Mrs. Todhunter,
West, led the king of clubs, to
which CulbertSon played the from
North, the dummy hand. Shepard,
East played the 3 and Declarer the
from closed hand. Shepard played
his lowest club as discourage
ment card; he felt it might be bet
ter for Mrs. Todhunter to switch
her suit.
Tt was evident to Shepard that
Declarer had an abundance of
trumps, so forcing could not injure
his hand and Shepard was quite
sure that Declarer would ruff a sec
and club. Shepard would have
been suited perfectly by a diamond
lead from his partner; or heart
was not liable to be seriously harm
full.
INFLUENCED by her partners
Il discowaging play Of the trey of
clubs, Mrs. Todhunter led her
singleton heart to trick two, hop
ing that Shepard had the ace and
queen, or at least the ace, to give
her one ruff.
Declarer, after studying the stu
alton, played the king of hearts
from Dummy. East played the
deuce.
He appreciated that his partners
lead probably was a singleton, and
it seemed best to him to keep his
queen-jack- together over Dunn
my's 1896 rather than to Sta:t
a signal by playing the 8. De-
clarer played the 4.
To trick three Declarer led Dunn
my's 8 Of spades, East followed with
the 8, Declarer with the 7, and West
with the trey. Declarer continued
from Dummy with the deuce Of
spades, East dropped the king,
Declarer played the ace, and West
the 4, the last adverse SPADE.
Culbertson next led the deuce of
diamonds from the South hand;
West played the 4, Dummy the 10,
and Shepard, East, won with the
king of diamonds-a false card, the
object being to induce Declarer to
finesse again in that suit.
To trick six Shepard led the s
of clubs, his partners suit. De-
clarer ruffed with the 10 Of spades,
West played the deuce and Dunn
my the 6. Declarer then led the
trey of diamonds, West played the
5, Dummy the ace, and East the 8.
Declarer continued diamonds with
Dumn1y's jack; East played the
queen; Declarer ruffed with the
queen of spades; and West played
the of diamonds.
DeClarer, at trick nine, led the 5
Of spades from closed hand to put
Dummy in the lead; West discarded
the of diamonds; Dummy played
the jack of spades. and East dis
carded the of clubs.
nECLARER next led from Dunn
II my the of clubs; east played
the queen; Declarer trumped with
the 6 of spades, and West played
the 10 of clubs. Declarer had de-
veloped the hand as he planned to
do from the moment the trey of
hearts was led by IRIS. Todhunter.
Culbertson was certain the trey
was singleton and therefore Shop
ard, in the East, must have held
four hearts originally; and after
the first heart trick must have been
left with the queen-jack-8.
Declarer had to take three heart
tricks to make his game. He could