Evening star., 1940-06-02

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ature Of the fall season. The date
ID.
onday night is in two sections and
pose Of one losing spade, which was
sufncient.
In the play the Washington de-
tenders took the first club lead and
followed with q diamond which set
the contract. The Baltimore de-
tenders allowed 1t to 60 by. It was
then too late and Washington's
South made six clubs. The swing
on the hand was 2,740 points, all
on account Of misjudging the play
Of one card.
]. Q. B. describes this situation:
I'm duplicate game my partner
Is In q four-spade contract. After
high hearts and diamonds have
been played and adverse trumps
have been drawn, the five cards
remaining In the dummy are:
asa
o.
W
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my partner is in the lead and
plays the queen of diamonds, which
Is good. After West plays small
diamond, my partner calls for "the
five Of diamonds" from dummy.
There is no such card in dummy,
and my partner, recognizing his
mistake, asks for the four Of clubs.
East protests and insists that South
must play the five Of spades, which
is trump. In order to make the
contract my partner must get one
discard Of club in dummy. What
Is the correct ruling in such q case?"
There is no doubt but that East
Is right. Declarer must play the five
Of spades even though it is trumping
his own good diamond. The law ex-
plicitly provides that If the de-
clarer designates for play a card
that is not in dummy, he must, if
possible, play card of either the suit
or the rank which he names. He
named the five of diamonds. The
only five In the dummy is the five
Of trumps. Consequently he must
play it. The circumstance you de-
scribe was unfortunate, but the
rules must be followed.
Answering question regarding
penalty doubles, it should be said
that a player considering a penalty
double should give careful consider
alton to various factors. First, he
must realize that he is about to
give his opponents valuable infor-
nation as to the location of key
cards; hence he ought to weigh the
value of the potential penalty
against the additional chance he is
presenting his adversaries. This does
not mean that he should lean over
backward in doubling for penalty,
but simply that he should be careful
that his doubles are not mere BOOM
erangs, to return and cause him
trouble.
1t is particularly unwise to double
suit bid that you know will not
be the final contract, unless you
feel reasonably certain that either
you or your partner can take care
OF the opponents best suit.
The Cheeks Studio, 201O r street
NV, has been .reconditioned for
summer play. A group of members
Of the Railroad Administration Club
whose series of games ends this
month has arranged for practice
play there during July and August
in order to qualify themselves for
entry into the tournaments to be
held this fall.
Among last weeks leaders were
the following:
Roosevelt sy HoselLMrs; Charles v. Tenny
and John E Peck. second; Morris Portusal
anS Reuben y Gershon; third;
Mrs. PoaobA ana saFe
second; NJ. and Mrs Arthur Bovles: third
s'eeashs s.ueGTps'aas TdOa sns
snd j 4 Psarins % Second @ .oah Mrs Me5sSes vieies
Wessrich, nrst; W: s. xthes and M Mr.. Ohm l.
s stead SECOND; M. Donnelly and Mrs.
..
ball and Col. E. B.. Gray. nrst: Mrs Athey
and Mrs. Dora Schwartz, second; Mrs. j.
Long and Mrs J. r. Belt, third; Friday.
North South. Mark Lake and Mr.. Keck
| first: Mrs Rose Robins and Mr. Donnelly.
second; Mrs: .Tidball and Col. Gray third:
| East-West. Mrs. Mary johnson and Tom
Stevenson; f,rst; Mr.; and Mrs; L v Crane
| third: Saturday, North-South, Ralph
Touch and Vincent Mulieri. nrst; Louis
Newman and Tom Flood. second; Warren
Jones and G. Surria. third East-West,
Mrs. NJ Goodstein and Mrs NJ Mayer,
nrst: Mr.. and Mrs. Athey. second: Miss
Kathleen McNutt and Mrs. D. E. Stephan.
Mrs. Dixie T. wrisht's studio-Monday
| evening, Col. Gray and Mrs. Tidball. first;
Mrs. NJ Goodstein and Mrs. Wright sec
| ond;. Miss McNutt and W. A. Bolineer
Gray. first: Mrs. Frances Brown and Mrs
L. Hesse. second; Mrs. Katherine Fenton
| and Vessel Stewart. third
Washington Whist Club-Mr Portugal
and .Kershan. nrst: DR.. Conolly and
Mrs: Athey: second; Mr.. Stone and Mrs.
Federal Bridge League-Frank B. Lord
and Mrs. Mildred Lindermsn. nrst; Dr.
| and Mrs J. B. Gregg Custis, second; Miles
E, Myers and J. B. Latta tied with DR.. c.
e. Mcdonnell and Mrs. Daisy H. Mott for
third place