Evening star., 1933-10-22

spade suit and also support for heart
suit which you have not been able to
rebid, he vas not strong enough to
make an immediate, flrst-round forcing
three-heart leeway raise.
Second. Though he knew on the
second round that yours was de-
fensive type Of hand containing at
least three primary tricks, he could
not give you second-round force by
bidding three hearts for you over your
no-trump rebid. That is to say. the
responding hand, though fully informed
about the type OF your hand, was not
strong enough to assure you that game
must be bid for. He has really only
shown a preference between signoffs;
he feels the hand will be safer or easier
to play in two hearts than in one no
trump. Necessarily. therefore. the next
decision is dependent almost entirely on
your own hand
ShouE, You Not Seek Any Further
Cooperation From Partner?
think you know my theories well
enough by now to feel sure that would
never advise you to dispense with your
partners cooperation If you still need
from him something more than his
bidding appears to have shown up to
this point. However, you must bear in
mind that If you do ask further de-
cision from him. 1t is likely to be OF the
hair-line species. 1t is bound to be
very tough problem for him. There
fore. you should relieve him from the
perplexity Of a further decision if you
reasonably can do so. Bid Immediately
for game II you can now see fair
chance Of making It. A Jump raise to
three no trumps or four hearts (over
his bid of two hearts, is. Of course, no
kind of slam signal after his mini
mum responses and your sign-of in the
form OF one no no trump Pc on s the 1lrst T;'.
q ''Straintaker" and nothing more, after
the preceding bidding sequence.
Illustrative Hands.
The bidding having been in every
case "one heart by me, one spade one
no trump. two hearts by mi partner"
would continue as follows with:
a2s. Sp < XII kl5u 81: 81. sass sas1
I pass. Game in no trumps or hearts
is remote. and I might not find it so
easy to make three hearts. Game would
loom up only if my partner had bid
two no trumps on the second round or
had bid minor suit secondarily. Could
he have rebid his spades. I might raise
them belatedly as in three spades We
would be pretty safe. As it is, his heart
support is really sort Of duplication as
regards q game bid. With
H's. III xkkax &. e. kio1x
I would bid two no trumps. as three
no trumps-if we got there-might well
be easier to make than four hearts,
especially II his spade suit we're spotty-
QJXXx or so. He would now sign
off in three hearts If all he held were
feeble spade suit as above. four hearts
and two doubletons. However. II his
doubletons, were @ x and X. he should
bid three no trumps. If his spades
we're solid at the top. though short and
he had s!ngleton-e.g:
Hts. xxx Cl Oxxx
he should bid four hearts, taking the
strain of me. If his major holdings
were those just given. but his minor
suits were and A x x, four hearts
would be right
Belated Constructive Bid With an
Unbiddable Suit.
This would also be the time for the
responding hand to bid an unbiddable
four-card suit in the effort to steer me
into the right harbor as between three
no trumps and four hearts-a belated
constructive bid. With a singleton in
one minor and @ 9 or K 10 9 x in
the other. he should bid three in that
minor suit over two no trumps. Now
he has shown me 4-4-4-1 distribution,
and I know where his protection lies
in the unbid suits. I should make no
mistake thereafter in deciding between
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