MUTT AND JEFF
M'LOVE, THIS CHICKEN
MA, PLEASE CAN I HAVE
CERTAINLY
CICERO!
SOME JAM
TO PUT ON
DELICIOUS!
MY BREAD AND BUTTER?
WELL! UPON MY, WORD, YOU'RE GETTING TOO DAINTY FOR 'ANYTHING!
WHAT ARE YOU HOLLERING ABOUT? AIN'T
YOU GOT CHICKEN?.
10-30
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1939
By BUD FISHER
M'DEAR, THIS KID'S
SPOILED! THINGS HAVE
TO HAVE JAM AND
COME TO A PRETTY PASS WHEN HE HAS THANKS,
MOM!
YOU'RE WELCOME,
GON!
LISTEN! WHEN
I WAS YOUR AGE
BUTTER ON HIS
BREAD!
I WAS VERY GLAD
TO GET DRY BREAD TO EAT!
DRY
BREAD?
TAP \\TAR
-THEN YOU HAVE
MUCH BETTER GRUB
LIVING WITH US, DON'T YOU, POP?
Programme of Dance "Hits"
Of The Moment
Today's Wireless
5.45 p.m.-STUDIO-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.47 p.m.-PEGGY WOOD (Soprano) In Songs from Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet".
I'll See You Again: Dear Little Cafe.... Peggy Wood & George Metaxa with Orchestra.
Zigeuner...Peggy Wood with Plano, 7.00 p.m.-GERRY MOORE (Piano)
and GERALDO and His Orchestra. Geraldo's Lightning Hit Switch.
....Geraldo and His Orchestra.
Quickstep-Day In-Day Out.
Slow Fox-Trot-Mine Alone.
....Gerry Moore (Piano).
Slow Fox-Trots-I I Didn't Care:
Pretty Little Quaker, Girl.
The
....Geraldo and His Orchestra. Quickstep Medley-I can dream, can't I;
One Song: If Dreams come true. Slow Fox-Trof Medley-Serenade to
Stars: Sweet as a song.
....Gerry Moore (Piano).
the
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Fox-Trol-You're A Sweet Little Headache | 8.45 p.m.-STUDIO
(alm, 'Paris Honeymoon').
...Geraldo and His Orchestra.
7.30 p.m.- LONDON RELAY --The
News.
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Bignal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-BRAHMS—Double Concerto In A Minor, Op. 102.-Jacques Thi- baud (Violin), Pablo Casals ('Cello) and The Pablo Casals Orchestra, Barcelona, conducted by
Alfred Cortot.
8.35 p.m.-Some Brahms' Songs.
Little Sandman: In Silent Night....Comedy
Harmonists with Plano.
Nachtigall: Standchen....Elena Gerhardt
(Mezzo-Soprano) with Plano,
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 existence.
BAD DEFENCE
-
Talk "East of
Vienna". 9.05 p.m.--Plano Bolos by Paderewski. Minuet In G Major, Op. 14. No. 1
(Paderewski).
Mazurka In D Major, Op. 33. No. 2
(Chopin).
Mazurka In A Flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2
(Chopin).
9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY. - News
Summary.
9.30 p.m.-GERSHWIN-Cuban Over- ture. Paul Whiteman and His Con- cert Orchestra.
9.44 p.m.-Songs by Bing Crosby.
The Funny Old Hills (Alm 'Paris Honey.
FOOTBALL
R. SCOTS DRAW WITH 8TH R.A.
(BY "REFEREE)
Royal Scots, holders of the Junior Shield, were fortunate in facing a
Children's Hour And Songs From
"Bitter Sweet
"
moon').
I Have Eyes (film 'Paris Honeymoon'). Mexicali Rose (Stone-Tenney).
9.54 p.m.-Short Programme by Eddle
Peabody (Instrumentalist). St. Louis Blues (Handy)....Eddle Peabody
playing his Banjo.
Some Of These Days (Brooks)........Eddie Peabody playing his Banjo, Mando-'Cello, Mandoline and Banjoline. With Plano. Just A Crazy Song (Smith and Williams); This Is The Day Of Days (Dixon & Woods).....Eddle Peabody playing his Banjo, Guitar, Mandoline and Mando- 'Cello (With Own Vocal Chorus. With Piano.
10.06 p.m.-Some Dance "Hits" of the
Moment.
11.00 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-"Back.
ground to News",
11.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
were very safe in the second period.
The Gunners scored first through Owens but McKay equalised. Cross placed the Gunners in the lead again and in the last minutes of the extra The period McKay equalised again. replay will take on Wednesday at 2.45 p.m. at Sookuǹpoo.
The R.A.: Perdue; Doyle and Wong; Wooldridge. Barnsley and Marsden: Owens, Burgess, Woldrich, Cross and Dunne.
Royal Scots: - Salter; Fowler, and draw in the last minutes of the game Parnaby; Gibb, Fraser and Mitchell; · in the Preliminary Round encounter | Crawford, Moore, McKay, Williamson at Sookunpoo yesterday against 8th and Holmes. R.A. when both sides scored twice in the extra perlod.
The game was not of a high stan- dard, and there was little combina- tion by either sides.
R.A.S.C. Win
At. Sookunpoo yesterday, the Ser- vice Corps defeated "A" Company Middlesex Regiment, by four clear Both sides adopted wrong tactics goals after a goalless first half. Mar- during the game. Royal Scots wing-tin (2) Young and Glen scored for ers were inclined to hold the ball with the Service Corps. the result that McKay their centre for- ward was often caught off sides.
North's raise to two notrump was again on lead with the heart ten. ridiculously optimistic, for he had West now fixed things properly. He little more than a minimum opening shifted to the ten of clubs! Declarer bid, especially as a one-notrump | naturally covered with
dummy's takeout is the weakest possible res- Queen. East won with the Ace, and ponse. However, although East and then the defence cashed the two re- West were both expert players, they maining heart tricks. Now, oddly The Gunners after securing a lead were not at their best for the hand enough, Declarer had nine
tricks in the second period of extra time and developed in a remarkable manner. since the spades were
divided and knowing full well that the Royal Scots the King-nine tenace in clubs lay were out for their equaliser still kept over East's Jack.
Wong their best player in the attack.
Perdue played a great game for the Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's | Gunners. His safe handling and an- partner and held:
North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
A K 10
♡ 6 5 4
◇ AJO 2
4979
J 7 8
N
A 9 6 6
Q 10 8 2
✪ KQ 6 6
W
E
10 4
KJ 7 3 04
AJ 8 6 2
Q 8 4 2
A B :
10 3 7 8
K9 5
10
2NT Pass
Pass INT Разв 13NT Pass
Want
Pass" Pase
The bidding:
North Bast South
West opened the deuce of hearts. East played the King and South won with the Ace. Having noth- ing better to do, South led a low dia- mond and finessed dummy's nine, which, >much to his surprise, held the trick (think- ing that his partner hight hold the dia- mond ten, West Had refused to split his honours).
3
HIGH GARE VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE KING..2 QUEEN I JACK
Having nothing to lose, Declarer now led a heart from dummy, and when East played low, West was
* *
*
A K Q J 6
K Q 8
◊ 10 8 5
7 4 3
The bidding: Maler Schenken 19 Pass
Burn-tone
You (7)
ANSWER: Your correct bid is one spade. This hand la strong enough- to make a second bid irrespective of what your partner's next bid la.
Score 100% for one spade, 60% for two hearts (inadequate), 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 277 You are Howard Schenken's part- ner and hold:
(1)
K J
OAK 10 x A QJ 9
The 'bidding:
Berastòme Pasi
****
Échenken
·
Pash
What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
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ticipation were features of his play while Wong at back was a safe de- fender and when he moved to the at- tack Initiated both the movements which produced goals.
McKay was the pick of the Scots attack and scored both the goals but he-did not receive the passes desired.
Fowler and Parnaby (not the senfor player) played brilliantly at back and
K.F.C. BEAT H.E.'S TEAM
At Government House yesterday, a team from the Kowloon Football Club beat His Excellency the Gov- ernor's team by 64 shots to 55.
Dr. Atienza, C. M. Manners, T. Ferguson, and B. D. Evans (skip) (K.F.C.) beat J. A. Fraser, N. L. Smith, J. Deakin and His Excellency (skip) 21-19.
S. Wong, J. Gibson, R. Hughes, and V. Chittenden (skip) beat W. A. Cornell, S. H. Dodwell, Sir Atholl Macgregor and E. Searle (skip) 18-17.
T. White, J. Ross, P. Morgan, - and W. Field (skip) beat F. Collin, R. E. Lindsell, A. E. Milne and W. Walker (skip) 25-19.
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