MUTT AND JEFF
JEFF REMEMBER THIS ESKIMO AND HIS WIFE WE
HAD HERE LAST
SUMMER?
WELL, IT'S COOL ENOUGH
HERE NOW FOR US TO TRAIN HIM TO BECOME A FIGHTER SO I WIRED HIM TO COME DOWN AGAIN AND BRING HIS LITTLE FAMILY!
THEY'RE COMING IN ON THE 10:45 TRAIN!
GREAT!
YEN!
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 19, 1939
1
By BUD FISHER
WANT UM GUM-DROPS!
AND HOW!
Eva Turner (Soprano) From
The Studio
2.15 p.m.-Close, down.
5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-London Relay-News Sup.
plement.
Today's Wireless
6.55 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.57 p.m. Variety including Renara, Harry Torrani, Elsie Carlisle, Jan Garber & His Orchestra & Others. Fox-Trots-It's The Little Things That Count; Moonlight In Waikiki
Jan Garber & His Orchestra
Because Duettists - All
Of You Go (Browning & Others); Let's Ballyhoo (Starr & Others). Browning and Starr with Piano. Vocal-Grandma Said (Magidson- Wrubel); Deep In A Dream (De Lange-Van Heusen)....Elsie Car- lisle with Orchestra.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 megacycles)
Piano-Rhythm Of The Rain, Intro: Valentine (film 'The Man from the Folies Bergere'); I Was Lucky (Alm "The Man from the Folies Bergere')...... Renara. Yodler-Dan, Dan, The Yodelling Man (Torrani); Sitting In A Jail House (Torrani)... . Harry Tor- rani, accompanying himself on the Guitar.
Fox-Trots-In A Little Dutch Kin- dergarten; Daddy's Boy......Jan Garber & His Orchestra. Votal Somebody's Thinking Of You To-night (Powell & Others);
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schen- ken'. World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has "beaten every other system în existence.
diamond. West promptly cashed two diamonds, then played still another, whereupon South naturally trumped with dummy's heart Ace. Now a trump was led from dummy. South
THE CORRECT PLAY LOSES To-day's hand was played in one of the early rounds of the Team-of-Four Championship at Asbury Park, N. J., in which we retained our world's championship title. At both tables South obtained the contract at four hearts. In each instance South was an expert player, and yet he went was set. down one, whereas we are quite cer- We admit that all South would have tain that almost any novice would to do at any point is to lay down his
make the contract.
South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
AAK 6 8
J 7 8
A 3 8
0 A 6 4
#8
KQJ9.8
WE
J 7 6
10
A AK 993 ♡ 8 7 6
finessed the nine and when West won with his blank Queen, the contract
King of hearts and drop West's blank Queen. But we are rather stubborn and are convinced that South played the hand properly according to the mathematical odds, for if East's three trumps had included the Queen, there would have been no other method of making the contract.
&
held:
Q 10 4 8
♡ K J 10.9.04
The bidding:
10 7 5 8 9.8
Mouth West: North Bast
PRES Pass 14
SV
· Pass
Pass
40
14 Pass
West opened the King of diamonds, which was won by dummy's Ace. South still had three diamonds left and quite properly perceived that unless the muit were evenly. divided he would have:| to
the fou
ACL
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You're An Education (Dubin & Warren)......Elsie Carlisle with Orchestra.
Harmonica Duet-Krontjong Suc- cessen (arr. Hodlars); Italian Fa- vourites (arr. Hodlars)......The Hodlars. Vocal-Take Me Away From The
Children's Hour:
Dance Music
quette)-Selection....De Groot & His Orchestra.
"The Maid Of The Mountains❞— Light Gems (Fraser-Simson) Opera Company with Orchestra. "Chu Chin Chow"-Selection (Nor- ton)....Gaumont British Orch. "Miss Hook Of Holland"--Vocal Gems (Rubens)......Light Opera Company with Orchestra. 10.05 p.m.--Violin Solos. 10.19 p.m-Dance Music. River (Parker); Young And Heal-11.00 p.m.-Close down, thy (theme song '42nd Street')..... The Four Musketeers with Piano accomp. Piano-Variations on. 'Tipperary' (Williams & Judge); Miracles Sometimes Happen (Ray Noble) ....Renara.
8.00 p.m--Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio - Recital by Eva Turner (Boprano) and A. T. Lay (Plano),
1. Three songs by Arne: (i) When Daisies Pied; (ii) Where the Bee Sucks; (iii) The Plague of Love Eva Turner (Soprano).
2. Piece by Balfour Gardiner.. ..A.
T. Lay at the Piano.
3. (a) I Attempt from Love's Sick- ness to Fly (Purcell); (b) Hark the Echoing Air (Purcell); (c) My Lovely Celia (Munro)...Eva Turner (Soprano).
4. Erotikon (Grleg)............A. T. Lay
at the Plano.
5. Micaele's Air from 'Carmen' (Bi- zet)....Eva Turner (Soprano). 8.30 p.m.Bizet The Fair Maid Of Porth-Sulte. Sir Thomas Beechami conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
8-45 p.m.-Studio-Talk on "The Trade
of Hong Kong' by P. 8. Cassidy. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m. - Selections from Light
Opera.
"Les Cloches De Corneville" (Plan-
CLUB'S EASY
VICTORY
יי.
►
CLOSING IN
ON WUNING
Pingkiang, To-day. Chinese troops are closing in on Wuning, 70 miles northwest of Nan- chang.
A Chinese column has forced its way to the north-eastern suburbs, and -another force has recaptured Liki,
west of .Wuning.-Central News.
HANKOW
EXODUS
Chungking, To-day.. Foreign reports state that there has been a noticeable exodus of Chinese from Hankow since the recent Chin- ese air raids.
It is rumoured that Chinese forces the will soon launch an attack on Wuhan cities.-Central News.
Y.M.C.A. HOCKEY
TEAMS
Following are Y.M.C.A. hockey fixtures for the remainder of the week:-
TO-DAY
-..
"A" Team (v Roval Scots):-H. Milling- ton: P. Lotley and R. Goldman; D. White, M. Dunne and R. Baldwin; W. Stone, G.
·Bartlett, Dr. Rose, A. Rix and C. Bevan,
SATURDAY
Hong Kong Hockey Club beat Euro-
First X (v Radio S. C. 4.15 "Y" Ground): pean Y.M.C.A. by three clear goals atv. Benwell: B. Jordan and D. Taylor; 1. Kempton. R. Bates and E. Yurieff; D. Yesterday you were the dealer and King's Park yesterday.
` Club's forward line, despite the ab- Smith, M. Dunne, E. Fowler, A. Austen and sence of Divett, proved more than L. Coombe. adequate to cope with the "Y" defence. 4.15 Marina Ground):-A. N. Other: K. Mol- Whitley, played at inside-left, broke ler and H. Tomlinson: H. Smits, W. Stone. through twice to score a goal in either and K. Broch: A. Mackenzie, R. Dormer. half, while Carey, at inside-right, | G. Greenberg, D. Spare and C. Bevan, Um- netted the opening goal of the match. pire B. Banks.
♡ 8 6.4 3 0.10
AJ S 2
What was your correct open. ing bid?
ANSWER: Your correct bid is one club. If partner responds with a dia- mond, you bid a spade: If he responds with one notrump or two clubs, you pass: if he responds, in a major sult you raise him.:
Score 100% for one club, 40% for one spade (you cannot handle a two- diamond response), 2078 for pass......
QUESTION\NO,§285-
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Second XI (v. Battery team H.K.S.R.A.
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