MUTT AND JEFF·
AW, MUTT, ESKIMO UNKA CAN'T FIGHT!
HE DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT BOXING!
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT!.
I'LL TEACH HIM MORE IN FIVE MINUTES THAN DEMPSEY
COULD IN FIVE YEARS!
ALL HE NEEDS IS A LITTLE PRACTICAL
EXPERIENCE
HE'LL GET THE IDEA!
19-18
SPENELOPE
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 26, 1939
By BUD FISHER
DARNED IF HE' DIDN'T!
Recital by Nura Kanis
From the Studio
6.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour.
6.45.p.m.-Light Orchestral.
Today's Wireless
"The Waltz Dream"-Selection (0. Straus)....De Groot & The Pic- cadilly Orchestra. Babylonier Nights (Zameenick); In The Sudon (Sebek)....Alfred Van Dam & His Gaumont State Orchestra. 6.57 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
Elsdell
6.59 p.m.--Songs by Hubert
(Tenor). Looking For You (Taylor & Sander- son); Love's Song Is Sung (Sal- mon & Russell); Always As I Close My Eyes (Handfield-Jones & E. Coates); Thinkin' Of Mary
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)
(Ashby & Bennett). 7.12 p.m.-Elgar Sonata In E Minor, Op. 82. Albert Sammons (Violin) and William Murdoch (Piano). 7.37 p.m.-Orchestral Selections.
-Springtime Suite (Eric Coates)
Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by Eric Coates. Melodious Intermezzo (Wotscher); La Folletta (Marchesi)......Eric Olschewski & His Orchestra, Tackleway (Collins)....The Richard
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken.
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence.
PSYCHICS USUALLY GET DOUBLED
Robert McPherran, who played clubs and then shifted to the Jack of with us at Asbury Park, N.J., is one spades. Declarer won with the Ace of the quickest doublers in the game. in dummy and played three rounds Just let the opponents show the least of diamonds, trumping the third with, sign of weakness, and he is right in dummy's Jack of hearts. East over- there! Witness the following hand, ruffed with the Queen and promptly taken from the Men's Pairs.
laid down the King of spades. De- clarer ruffed low; McPherran over- ruffed with the eight-spot and play- ed the deuce of hearts. At this point Declarer had lost three tricks and still had to lose the high club, the diamond and the high trump, and was down two for a loss of 300 on a hand where his opponents could not make game.
South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable
Mr. Mol herran
J
K8 2
4 9 5 2
AK 10
8 %
A 10 9 4 8
J
A
OK 8
Q J. 7.6
10 8
2
10 7 6 5 8 ◇ A J
6 4 9 8
The bidding: South West 1♡
PMI 80 Pass
North East
Pats
Pass Pabe
2NT
Past Dbl. Pasa PALE Dbl. Pase
B♡ Pass
Dbl.
South's opening bid of course has nothing whatsoever to commend it. However, he did want to do some
thing fancy. Then, when his partner bid hwn, notrump, Sq realisett, he had,
loubled." Howe
ALL KING QUEEN JCK
South couldn't
to three, diam doubled - again. went to three- that,
Mr.
opened
-
Yesterday you were David Bruce Burnstone's partner and held:
VAKI
♡ X X X X
:
* I xx The bidding: Burnstone Maler You Jacoby
10 14
(7)
ANSWER: Your correct bid is 'to pass. Your Ace-King of spades re present two tricks and two stoppers unless your Irr spades. However, partner has enough body to his hand to warrant a free rebid, there is little chance for a game...
Soore 100% for pass, 70% for one 0 for any other bid. QUESTION NO. 241
Merwins Maja
Crean Orchestra.
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
Recital by 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Plano
Nura Kanis.
1. Variation on a "Russian Dance"
(Beethoven).
2. Intermezzo, Op. (Brahms).
118,
No. 2
3. Bees' Wedding (Mendelssohn).. 4. The Prophet Bird (Schumann).
Russlan Eight 8.30 p.m.-Liadow
Folk Dancea. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 8.45 p.m.-Talk on "A Business Man's
View on the War".
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-Puccini's "La Tosca" Ast 11. Singers in order of appearance; Ap- pollo Granforte (Baritone); Giovanni Azzimonti (Bass); Nello Palal (Ten- or); Carmen Melis (Soprano); and Piero Pauli (Tenor); with Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Carlo Sabajno. 10.10 p.m.
Kreisler.
-
Violin Bolos by Fritz
Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler); Ca- price Viennois (Kreisler)....with Plano accomp. by Franz Rupp.
“La Tosca" Act II. With La Scala Orchestra
Tell Why I Love You; Good-bye, Dolly Gray.
Orch. Drinking Songs (arr. Wil- liams). There's a tavern in the town; In cellar cool;: Little Brown Jug......Jack Hylton & His Or- chestra with Vocal. Refrain. 11.00 p.m.-Close down.
FRIENDLY CRICKET
C.B.S. AND R.E. IN DRAWN GAME
Central. British School drew with Royal Engineers in a friendly cricket match at Hung Hom yesterday, match ending in a draw.
R. Engineers-181 (Shaw 12, Car- penter 16, Waite 24 and Denyer 84; N. Smith 2 for 40; F. A.. Weller 5 for 64).
1C. By School: 129 for 9 (A. Odell 70, N. L. Smith 13, H. V. Lockhart 16; Denyer 3 for 38, Ratcliffe 5 for-36).
QUEEN'S COLLEGE WIN
In an inter-school match played at
A May Breeze ('Songs without Sookunpoo yesterday. Queen's College Words'-Mendelssohn); London-beat Ellis Kadorie, Indian School by derry Air (arr. Kreisler)....with 88 runs. Piano accomp. by Michael Rau, cheisen. 10.28 p.m. Variety.
Queen's College:-126 (M. Ayood Khan 55, Lo Tak-to 10, Fida Hussain not out 28; Harbans Singh-6 for 48, Nazir Ahmed 5 for 33).
E. K. Indians:-37-Narata Singh 16; Gopal Singh 3 for 20; Khan Mo- hammed 4 for 6; Lo Tak-to 3 for 4.
Vocal Quintette - Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow (Tabrar).. The Maestros with Piano. Humorous Monologue-Gunner Joe (Edgar)....Stanley Holloway with Wolseley Charles at the Piano. Vocal Quartette-Form Fours-War Songs Medley. Intro: If you want to find the sergeant; Leap Frog; Mop it down; Mary had a little Lamb; Last long mile;. Rotten Song: Bully and Stew; And when I'dle; Old Macdougal had a farm; I want to go Home; Rolling home; Becaus We're Here.... The Big...
Versus - C.BA / Ladiós Lon the "y" Four With Orchestra. Militar Band Policeman's Holiday ground, '8.15-Pam Miss. Minoot; Mrs.
One-Step (Ewing); Wee Mac- Strange and Mrs Stone; Miss M. Mc gregor Patrol (Amers)...... The Caw, Miss Pocock and Mrs. Starbuck; Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. Mrs. Burnett, Miss Harker Miss D. Vocal Quartette Old Timers-Vocal McCaw, Mrs. Gardner and Miss O.
Gems. Intro: Won't you come Pocock.
JUNIOR home, Bill Bailey: The ship I love; Git yer 'air cut; Champagne Char- Versus C.B.8; ut C.B.8, at 4.15 p.m.-— le; After the Ball; Break the Mrs. Harrington; Mrs. Trimmer and News to Mother; Ta-ra-ra-boom- | Mrs. Curtis; Miss Durme, Mist Stokes de-ay; In the Good Old Summer- and Miss Buchanan, Mrs. Aslett, Miss Ume; My Gal is a High-Born Bradbury, Miss Bockler, Mra. Peters Lady: Little Alabama Coon; I Can't and Mrs. Grieve.-
“Y” LADIES! TEAMS
FOR SATURDAY
The following have been chosen to represent the "Y" Ladies in friendly hockey games on Saturday.
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