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RADIO
BRIDGE NOTES
BELY CULBERTSON
Playing For Average
Although it may sound, absurd 4.S« on the face of it, quite frequently 5NT
a player's course of action can Pass
The following programme will be influenced by the ability and
LONDON TALK: “A POLICEMAN'S LOT.” DANCE MUSIC. 12.30-2.15 p.m.-European gramme.
12.30 pmConcert Items. 1 pan-Local: Time Signal Weather Report
pro-
4NT Pass
Pas
Pass
Pass 78 Pass
The bidding followed more or less The final
be broadcast to-day from the Hong the type of game played by an-conventional lines. Kong Broadcasting Station ZE.W. other player at another table. This seven-spade bid was only a slight jon a wavelength of 355 metres, situation occurs team-of-four gamble, as the four-five notraznj (845 kc's). 31.49 metres. (9.52 matches. Often the Declarer is convention had located the neces
confronted with two megacycles).
different sary key cards and the only pos lines of play and really has no sible holding which North could way of deciding which one to have which would not give South [adopt.
some sort of play for the hand An experienced player will rea-was one which included the Ace ise, if the hand is not particular-and two small hearts.
West made the harmless open- and ly unusual, that this same handi
will be played at the identical con- ng of his fourth best club, and Roy's Tiger tract by a player of the opposing the Ace în Dummy won the trick board is played the spade Jack was now led, East 1.20 P.m-Frances Langford in team when the
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sible plays to choose, he will if he and now led another spade. At Bites and Stings, and other injuries
140 p.m-Variety and dance music knows the game of his opponent this point, with no -adverse bid-i to the skin.
2.15 Close Down
who will sit in the identical seat ding and nothing particularly un- at the other table, try to imagine usual about the North and South which play this other party will distribution either to confirm or adopt and then adopt the same deny the probability lone.
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An Interesting and Valuable Collection of Early Prints of Canton, Macau and Hong Kong
The Collection comprises:
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B. Complete Set of Lithographs immainly folio size-publish- ed in 1842 from Sketches made in 1838 by Auguste? Borget.
C. Miscellaneous Engravings of Scenes in China published in 1843.
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A Quantity of
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(18th edition) 1936
The China Year Book 1 an indispensable reference book on China; it arms its reader with all material necessary for £pering correct judgments Eastern situation
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Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts in the eighteeth edition are the. following Smuggling, Tangku Trace Agreement, "New Weekly" Incident, Eirots Three-- Point Programme, Soviet-Outer Mongolia Protocol Mangal Ter- ritory in Manchukua, Leith- Ross Mission, Cuntancy Position...
Price $18.
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1.03 pm-Harry Ragamuffins
three songs.
time
5-8 p.m.-European programme.
5 p.m.-Belay Dance music from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong
Hotel
6.30 p.m.-Welsh music
Songs
of one of
This is based on the theory the opponents holding a singleton Molawd Cymru (Praise of Wales) that matches are won not by play-spade, South might have tossed a ing to create unnatural swings coin mentally to decide what to (Geirionydd & Wwlyd)
Wikan Edwards (Tenor). but by playing for an average re-do But his decision, as men-!
My Litte Welsh Home (Williams) salt or to achieve par on
Leila Megane (contralto)-hand.
Breader Bywyd (The Frailty of If you do this throughout
Life) (Nautglyn)
esch
tioned above, was influenced by a personality at a table at the other * end of the room. Fortunately for William Edwards (Tenor).match and never make any mis-South, the South player at the takes, you are almost certain to other table was one with whom he come out ahead at the finish-had previously played in a great,
Pistyll Y Llan (The Village
Spring) (Osborne Roberts)
Chorus----
Lela Megane (contralto).with your margin of victory de- many games. Remembering from
March of the Men of Harlech
(Welsh Air)
Ar Hyd Y Nos (All through the
Night)
Royal Mountain Ash Male Choir. 6.50 pmMarek Weber and
Orchestra.
Selection--
Fanfare
Talkie Hits of 1930-
Walt
Tres Jolie (Waldteufel)
Dreams on the Ocean (Guns,1)
The Rosary (Nevin)
of the
of
amount pending upon the
these games that the other South errors the opponents make.
On So-day's hand, which took finesse if it was
player practically never took
ever so slightly place the quarter-final round against the percentages. -South knockout team-of-four decided to play for the same re His event at Asbury Park, the South salt as would be obtained at the player reached a grand slam con- other table, as by this means, tract and was faced with the age though he might not gain, he old problem of what to do about could not lose. He went up. with the missing Queen of trumps. He the spade Ace and dropped the had absolutely no way of making
Queen, and ther was able to up his mind, but realised that the spread the hand. Incidentally. member of the other team who South's deductions were correct. would subsequently hold the same Seven spades were bid and made one who practically at the other table because the
Might Lak Rose (Nevin) Contrasts A Pot-pourri of famous
melodies.
McCormzek (Tenor).
hand W25
missing.
7.20 p. Three Songs by John never finessed with nine tramps South player, as expected, dropped
Accordingly he played
the spade Queen. for the drop-and, as it happen-gained any points on the board,
A Fairy Story by the Fire
(Merikanto).
Neither team
1 Met and Angel (Sievier-Morgan).ed, succeeded in capturing the but had either of the Declarers
Shannon River (Egan-Morgan).
71.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hong Kong Exchange
Market Report.
"The Police-
7.32 pm-London: man's Lot A talk by a Sergeant of the Hong Kong Police Force.
5.47
Band
pm Primo Scala's Accordeon
Don't Save Your Smile.
She Came from Alsace Lorraine.
Song of the Lift.
Old Ship O' Mine.
missing Queen.
North, dealer Neither side vulnerable r
NORTH
S. J 9 7 4 ELA Q
D. QJ972
C. A 5
WEST
S. Q 3
H. 10 5
C. 10 8 7 6 3
8 pm-Local: Time Signal, Wea-D. 8 5 4 3
ther Report and Announcements.
8.03 pm Relag-Ko Shing Thea- tre (Chinese).
11 paz-Close Down.
8,05-11 pa-European programme from ZEK. on a frequency of 640- kilocycles.
EAST
S. 6 5
EL J873
D. 10 6
C. K Q 94 2 SOUTH
S. A K-10 8 2
E. K9 642
D. A K.
CJ
8.05 pmCharlie Eunx pianoforte medleys.
Dragonette 8.25
P.Jessica' (soprano) and Turner Layton (tenor). Soprano
The bidding:
North 11 D 13 S
East
South
Pass 2 S Pass 4 #
Alice Blue Gown
Through the Doorway of Dreams Tenor-
The Star and the Rose
West Wind
Soprano
Se Tu M'ami (Will you love me?) Plaisir D'amour (Love's Joy) Tenor
Alobe at a table for two
Riding the range in the sky,
8.50 "Cavalcade" Suite by Noel Coward and the Ner Mayfair Orchestra
9 p.m.-London-News and An- nouncements.
CLIMBING TEST
FOR CHINESE
MARATHON RACE UP TAIMOSHAN
ONLY THREE GIVE UP.
A sporting event unique in the Colony took place yesterday in the 9,20 p.m.-London-be Second form of a mountain-climbing Cricket Test Match: Australia marathon, which entailed the con-
An account of the third England. day's play by Alan Kippar, frumquering, en masse, of Taimoshan,
3,124. feet above sea level. Sydney. (Electrical recording).
9.35 p-A Selection of Christ All but three of the 103 Chinese mas Carols by the New Sanctuary in all walks of life who entered Quartette.
9.40 p.m.--Charles Prentice and Zás Orchestra.
In the Mystic Land of Egypt.
(Ketalbey).
Daly's Theatre Waltz Memories
(arr. Prentice). Selection--Ball at the Savoy
(Abraham).
10 pm-London-Big Ben
Dance Music
∙11 pm-Close Down.
the race, reached the flag, planted A 20-year-old on the summit. factory hand, Lai Sin-lun, was the Arst to reach the flag, completing he ascent in 49.2/5 minutės.” “Hė, was followed by Yeang Wah-sang, Man in 51 mins. 28 seconds Kwong-lam finished third.in [53 minutes
Two ladies were among the climbers, Miss Ng Yong-kwEÏ,"', 8 {Continued from Next Colum) [25-year-old teacher, and Miss which also arranged för transport Chow Kit-hing, a drill Instructor, and refreshments for over 200 aged 20. • other Chinese 'who went as specta-
The Ascent
tors Members of the St John The ascent was commenced at Ambalance Brigade were posted 10 am from a point on the main at intervals along the route, but motor-road at Teun Wan, and fól. the only call to render assistance, lowed, a course marked by red Was when a competitor collapsed paint and fags, though it was left ram exhaustion or to the competitors to make short
Cups for first, second and third cuts on the way hon places were donated respectively wish. A beavy mist
by Mr. Chan King wu, Chairman, sun
of the Chin Woo Association, the though it cleared
Wing: On Company, and the
Emporium, Limited.
Ithe badges for the 100,
led the club, were,
Chin Them đ
of the event
the weather
elimb.
elected to play for the finesse, a huge, swing, would have resulted
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