Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08

IA world record n0mOeT Oh DOS
IN made 0u q single hand or deal.
Gases Of S and rounds of bidding,
involving % to 40 separate calls.
including passes, are not particularly nfre-
auent Nobody has stepped forward, however,
with the claim that he was a party 70 the
making of a world record in this regard.
Boasts about the strongest hands. the weakest,
the most frequent, the largest scores, etc.. are
heard from time to time. So why not bidding
record?
Chances are that there has bsen o hand
somewhere on which many as or rounds
of bidding have been furnished or in the
vicinity of 20 different declarations. That could
happen in auction, and might ccnceivably hap
pen IN contract il both sides had partial scores
of 80 or 90, one of them being net vulnerable
and INDUCING in a bit of intentional defensive
overwhelming. 1t would be hard, though, to set
up hands justifying such developments by
proper procedure.
The maximum number of legal declarations
on hand is the amazing total of $40. That
total would be reached If the bidding went thus:
pass, pass, pass, one club, pass, pass, double
pass pass redouble. pass, pass, one diamond"
ETC.. right on through the building doubling and
redoubling of all four suits and no trump
ciimaxed with the rebuilding of seven no
trumps, followed by three passes. OF course
no hand could ever be imagined which could
produce any such result with sound bidding.
That total could even be increased with
few passes out of turn. But why bring that up?
The main idea Is that it would be interesting
to see hand on which somebody claims the
bidding record
Correct Scoring Arrives.
The correct kind Of scoring for progressive
and pivot bridge may be considered as having
arrived sc last It has been adopted for the
great annual benefit bridge on behalf at the
New York League Of Girls Clubs to be con-
Quoted IA the Plaza New York, on Thursday,
March 10 an outstanding event Of the social
season Miss Virginia Potter, who has spOn-
soEed this activity for years, win make it still
more notable as being the arst important event
OF New York society to furnish the same kind
of taAlying as in national championship tOurna-
naents. Chances are that the innovation viii
shorty spread rapidly to other big bridge parties
of society In various parts Of the country and
that those circles which pride themselves on
being Up 10 date win be the FIRST to adopt it.
In most such games the players have recorded
on their tallies only the amounts they scored,
without regard to what opponents made. II
one annassed 500 points for round Of hands,
ne did not care whether his opponents got 200
against him or 1000; only his own 500 would
be set down. Scored properly the players own
amount is marked In a column at the left and
his opponents amount at the right. At the
conclusion all Of his own amounts are added
and all of his opponents scores are added Then
by subtraction it Is easy to see whether the
player is winner for the session and by how
many points, or q loser and by how many
points. Tlras the net result is what counts
Luck No Element.
Mere luck cannot be much of a factor, when
skin is unequal, If one team OF four can beat
another by more than 5000 points in IL sue
cessive hands, both sides playing exactly the
same lAandS. This occurred in duplicate con-
tract contest recently, the winners being Philip
Hal Sims and Sir Derrick Wernher, Mrs. Sims
and Baron Waldemar Won zedtwitz. Their OPP
ponents' names, rather well known in bridge
circles, are omitted for charitable reasons.
4 LGsv a Week.
what occurs IL declarer tells partner TO lead
y certain card from dummy for him, the latter
does not hear him and declarer then reaches
over and leads q different card?
The card which he first called must be led.
play from dummy is complet I'd when de-
eIarer touches or names the card" the only exc
ception being when, In touching a card, de-
eiarer says II arrange" or words to that effect,
or II he manifestly be pushing one or more
cards aside to reach the one desired
what occurs If dummy warns declarer that
he is about to lead or play from the wrong
hand?
COHtrGct Systems.
How would you bid the following hands with
hour side possessing q partial score of 90 on
the first game of a rubber. North being dealer
and opponents constantly passtngP
NORTH
AAKJ4 vK52 ~AKJ5 @32
SOUTH
AQI0ST52 vAJs H754 Ak