Evening star., 1939-08-27
In Local Bridge Circles
Players Study Plans for Fall.Winter Season

will be inaugurated in mid-Septem-
ber. Prospects are bright for an
increased membership.
While new members are being
added to the various bridge organ
izations, some of the old-time play
ers will be missing during the COM
ing season. Capt. A. M. Gruenther,
U. S. A., premier tournament direc-
tor, who has been detailed for the
past year at the Army War College,
has been transferred to Houston,
Tex, after Labor Day, and will be
compelled, during his spare time, to
take up his bridge activities there.
Houston, however, is a good bridge
town and boasts of having some of
the best players in the South. Mrs.
Mary Wolfe, the wife of Maj. Henry
c. Wolfe, U. S. A., now angling for
big fish in Florida waters, will ac-
company her husband to Fort Leav-
enWorth, kans., where he has been
assigned.
Charles Edgerton, who came here
from Connecticut last season with
an inherited skill at bridge, which
he displayed on various occasions
successfully, has gone to New York
in association with a commercial
paper company. Mr.. Edgerton' s
father, a professor of Sanskrit at
Yale, recently won the Southern
New England championship at New
London, Conn. Charlie, however,
is little better at live bridge than
at dead language. Fred Hayden,
another up and coming player, has
been sent from the Agriculture De-
partment to Amarillo, Tex. Perhaps
he and Capt. Gruenther will get
together sometime in the Lone
Star State and teach the oil pro-
ducers something they do not know
about bridge.
Touring Arranged.
Mrs. Anna Fenner, we'll known
in Washington as player and
teacher, will stage a tournament
at Blowing Rock, N. c., on Septem-
ber and 2. 1t is to be a sort
of aftermath of the big Asheyille
tournament and among Washington
players who expect to be there is
Miss Maize Buie. who is vacation
ing in the North Carolina noun
tains, and was one of the team
of four to win that event at Ashe-
vile. Isaac York was her Wash
ingtOn partner
Question. The bidding has gone:
South West North East
IA Pass "a Pass
2NT Pass
North holds the following cards:
va
= 1912
"A Q65 532
What should North bid on the
second round? North is advised to
bid three clubs. He is showing
either ragged seven-card suit or
six-card suit with Ia honors.
If North were holding a worthless
six-card suit of clubs he should
pass the two no-triump but make
delayed rescue to three clubs if
South's two no-trump bid is doubled.
Witht this hand, if opener rebids
three no-trump over three clubs,
North is advised to pass.
Some of the leading clubs of Los
Angeles, Calf, including the Will
shire Bridge CLUB and the Rossmore-
Contract, have decided to abolish
the score for honors hereafter in all
rubber games. This elimination was
suggested at the time the score for
honors was stricken from the rules
governing the duplicate interna-
tional game. The matter was dis
cussed then by Washington players,
but it was agreed to adhere to the
international rules and retain the
score for rubber games, although
they do not count in duplicate
matches. While rules must be OBJ
served in play under organized
bridge, they cannot be enforced in
independent rubber games.
Common Misplay.
A misplay which novices frequent
ly Smake is what is known as
switching the suit" Sometimes
the cards displayed in the dummy
will indicate that this is advis-
able. but more frequently it proves
disastrous. Leading in the dark
when partner has made no bid and
having no suit of his own to es-
tablish, the leader is naturally
at disadvantage, but once having
started suit for which he must
have had some fairly good reason
the leader is generally at fault if,
after winning a trick, he switches to