Evening star., 1931-12-29
jACOBY RESIGNS
ASLENZ'S PARTNER
Psychic Bids Near Close of
Session Brings Split in
"OffiCiaI" Ranks.
BY the Associated Press

| BY the Associated Press.
! NEW YORK, December 29.-Oswald
| Jacoby resigned as partner of Sidney S.
Lenz early today after much mutual
criticism in session during which they
cut $50 points off the lead of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ely CulbertSon in the prolonged
test of rival systems of contract bridge
Psychic bids by Jacoby toward the
end of the session touched off the fire.
works. Prior to that Jacoby accused
Lenz Of making misplays which enabled
the Culbertsons to fulfill contracts.
Referring to rotten" bids by his
partner, Lenz at first said there was no
! possibility of Jacoby returning to the
match, and Jacoby said he could not go
on being publicly criticized by Lenz,
especially when the criticisms are to
cover up errors of his own"
Came a prolonged conference in Sc
cret, friends of each trying to make
peace. The upShot was an announce
ment that LenZ would have new part
ner tonight, presumably Comdr. Win
field Liggett. ir, and that Jacoby would
be back in the match later.
The CulbertSonS won five OF eight
rubbers of the session, their plus being
reduced to 16,840 largely because Gull
bertSon went down 1,400 points once in
lump. The rubber standing three
rubberS past the two-third mark be-
came SO for CulbertSon's side and A
| for Lenz'S.
Mrs. Culbertson Returns.
Mrs. Culbertson returned to the match
after holiday absence.
Prior to the session Jacoby expressed
the opinion privately that it was i'm
possible for the Culbertson's lead to be
overtaken. He figured that he and Lenz
must win at least 36 Of the remaining
rubbers.
1t SO happens that the session in
volving the most criticism of partners
also saw the most brilliant playing of
any of the IA sessions. Each side made
end plays. so that opponents were
forced to lead away from kings up to
ace-queens or the like. CulbertSon
made an exit play, unnecessarily play
ing a king in order to prevent oppo-
nents from forcing him to lead. He
also made a triple squeeze play.
The psychic bids Of Jacoby, which
were the immediate cause of the resig-
nation. were on a hand in which his
only face cards were king and
queen. He bid one no trump over Mrs.
CulbertSon's one spade. CulbertSon
doubled and Jacoby then bid two
clubs having only four clubs, the
highest of which was the eight spot.
Culbertson read the bids as psychic
and bid two no trump. Mrs. Culbert-
son raised him to three and they
made five.
Charges Stupid" Playing.
In another hand Mrs Culbertson
made one no trump when she could
have been set and in the same rubber
Culbertson wound up making three no
trumn on a contract for two when he
could have been set. Jacoby expressed
the opinion that on both those hands
Lenz made stupid" plays.
Here is hand No. $50:
LEM (NORTH, DEALER).
SO 4 3
H.-K AZ
D-T 7
C.-K 10
CULBERTsoN MRS. GILBERT
(wEsT). SON (EAsT).
So S.-A K
H-O 953 H-A J3
DO 65 do 3 2
C-Q52 ca 9 G 4
JACoBY (sOUTH.
So J2
H.-10 7
D-A K %
C.-J SO
The bidding: North, pass; East, no
trump; all pass.
Lenz and Jacoby took five diamond
tricks at the start and Lenz also could
have taken tricks with the king OF
hearts and king of clubs, but passed up
heart trick till too late. He was
forced TO lead away from the king Of
clubs up to CulbertSon's queen.
Hands Leads to Argument.
Here is hand 5S2, which gave the
Culbertsons game and rubber and led
to prolonged argument by Lenz and
Jacoby:
LEM (NORTH).
SKIS
H-K j AZ
D-J 5
CO - 5 4
CULBERTSON MRS. CULBERTSON
(WEST). tEAST).
S-AJ42 SO 6
H-A 10 7 H-QS6
D-102 DIX Q 3
C-AK2 Go
JACOBY (SOUTH-DEALER)
So 9873
H-9 5
| D-A 8 6
C-876
/ The bidding: South pass; West one
spade; North pass; East two diamonds;
| South pass; West two no trump; all
! pass.
On the first trick Jacoby false carded
! with the seven of clubs, playing the
! eight on the second trick. The six
/ was the lowest in his hand. The re-
suit was that Lenz failed to lead clubs
when he got in, and opportunity to set
the Culbertsons was lost. Jacoby ar
I gued that Lenz should have understood
| the false -carding.
Lenz conceded the last five tricks, be-
cause whatever he led the CulbertSons
could take everything. Had he led
clubs when he led the king of spades
he would have got in again and had
three good club tricks.
Culbertson expressed the hope that
Lenz and Jacoby would patch things
up adding that better partner than
Jacoby could not be found.
| Lenz has taken much larger sets than
Jacoby, who has made few misplays
and encountered little trouble with his
| otr