Evening star., 1932-01-09

| 4S It's superiority
when its rules were
Sidney q. Lenr, obeyed.
Winfield Liggett, jr., entered the match
the minus score was l6,s4o points.
Therefore, considering only the rub
bers he and I have played together, We
won out by 1850 points,
Series of Fireworks.
The statement certainly should be no
reflection on Oswald Jacoby's great
ability, but 1t cannot be denied that
while he was in the game he and Ely
| Culbertson shot off a series Of fire.
works instead Of playing any definite
system, and it was more question OF
how well the innumerable psychic bids
| by them would come of than 1t was a
question of sound bridge.
During the Al rubbers the commander
and have played together, we played
the 1-2-3 Official system and nothing
else, and have not bid a single psychic.
AS to CulbertSon, he also calmed down
considerably during the last few ses-
| Sions, just trying to hold on to his
safe lead, and II the match is consid-
cred test Of the two opposed systems,
the last Al rubbers must be given much
more weight than the preceding ones.
The minus score Of $3.50 on $50 rub
bers, or S79 hands, cannot be consid-
cred decisive In any way when 10000
points or more have been lost re-
peatedly In one session in rubber
bridge.
viii Analyze Records.
shall spend the next few days
going over the records OF the match
and analyzing them for the readers Of
these articles. There are some very
interesting conclusions to be drawn
and I hope to be able to present them
so that they will be Of real value to
the average player.
Before getting to the play Of these
last few rubbers I want to state how
much enjoyed having played with
Comdr. Liggett, my friend Of many
years, and who, in spite Of the big
minus score he had TO start with,
fought every inch and played as ex-
cellently as ever. I also want to ex-
press my thanks to Oswald Jacoby, my
brilliant partner through the earlier
part Of the match, and even though we
were perhaps not quite suited for a
perfect partnership, this does not in
any way detract from his rare ability,
which has placed him among the lead
ing players of the country.
Opening Hand of Session.
The following hand was the first Of
the last session:
LEM CNoRTH.
SIX 9 62
H-K IS
DIX
C-K @ u
CULBERTSON MRS. CULBERT-
(WEST). SON east.
49, IA eJs
C-1o s7s ca sSs7
LIGGETT (soUTH.
+A 5
H--io s6
D-A 1892
None.
After passes by the commander and
Culbertson I bid one. Mrs. Culbertson
overcalled with one heart and when the
commander bid two diamonds every
body passed and he made four. This
Is
afterward bemoan the lack of second
sight, because four spades could easily
be made, while in double-dummy play
five spades were possible.
In this case Culbertson, Of course,
would open hearts, and after small
heart from the dummy Mrs. Culbertson
would have to play the jack of hearts.
II she does not cash her ace of hearts
now she will never make 1t, as my part
net can throw of his losing hearts on
the clubs in the dummy, playing Mrs.
Culbertson for the ace of clubs. The
diamonds then can easily be set up as
the five missing diamonds are divided
three and two between the opponents.
Win First Rubber.
We succeeded in winning the first
rubber, but 1t was not very profitable,
as I had been set 500 points on one
hand when I made a perfectly legiti-
mate overcall Of two clubs over Mr..
Culbertson's one spade bid. held the
ace of diamonds, the queen of spades
and the ace and queen Of clubs five
times. All the clubs were massed in
Mrs. Culbertsons hand, my partner had
trickless hand, and was set four
tricks, doubled.
We continued on, winning the sec
ond rubber, bringing our minus score
down to 1880 points. The following
hand, played by Mrs. Culbertson, was
very nice:
South, Liggett-Spades, queen, jack
8 s.; hearts, king, 4; diamonds, king, o.
S; clubs, ace. king, jack, g.
North, Lenz-Spades, 7 4; hearts, o;
diamonds, queen, jack, 10, 8, s. 8;
clubs, 10, 8, 4, 3.
West, Culbertson-Spades, king, 10
3, 2; hearts, queen. 10, 6, s; diamonds
| 4; clubs, queen, 6, S, 2.
! East, Mrs. Culbertson-Spades, ace
8, 6; hearts, ace, jack. 9, 7, 8, 2; dia-
monds, ace, 7, q; clubs, 7.
After Culbertson and l had passed
| Mrs. Culbertson bid one heart, which
Liggett doubled informstorily Culbert-
son passed and I bid two diamonds
| Mrs. CulbertSon rebid her hearts, this
commander raised by diamonds anc
| Culbertson went to three hearts. Hop.
! ing to save game ventured four dia.
! monds but Mrs. Culbertson insisted
! and went to four hearts, which my
! partner doubled. Had l gone TO five
! diamonds the set would have beer
rather large, because of the singleton
club opening by Mrs. Culbertson. She
not only succeeded in making her dou.
by a pretty squeeze play. The com
mander opened the king of clubs anc
then switched to the fve Of diamonds
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