THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 24, 1940
By BUD FISHER
WELL, WHAT &
YOUR AMIT:
DON'T -YOUR
D-DON'T
KNOW!
D-BON'T
KNOW!
NO-
MOTHER GOT |-MARRIED AGAI THIS MORNING!
Dvorak Concerto In B
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.-An Hour of Dance Music.
Swing-Wringin' and Twistin'; For No Reason At All In C.... Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Beiderbecke & Ed Lang (in their Three Piece Orchestra).
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Fox-Trots-Nobody But My Baby; Candy Lips....Louis Armstrong's Original Washboard Bealers with Scat Chorus by Clarence Williams. Tangos-Champagne Bubbles; Song of the Sea....Jose M. Luccesi & His Orchestra.
and Frolics; Smiles Fox-Trots
Cheers....The Three Virtuosos on Three Planos with Robert Renard Orchestra. ·
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Polka The Hobgoblins ........
Walter
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
(Accordeon) with
Emil
Porschmann Orchestra. Waltz-Viennese Hearts
Roosz & His Salon Orchestra. Fox-Trots-An Old Straw Hat (film 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'); Lovelight In The Starlight (film Bunny 'Her Jungle Love') ... Berigan & His Orchestra. Tangos-Condena; Viejos Tiempos ..Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro.
Minning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken...
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cristence.
COULD HAVE BEEN MADE
be
The Grand Slam arrived at by North | hand is that the contract cannot and South was well bid, and with made if the outstanding diamonds are This being normal breaks would have been...a divided worse than 4-2.
that the case, Declarer should not have laydown. However, we believe
trumps. Instead, he any in spite of the fact that West held all played
of dummy's the trumps, South should have made should have cashed two
top diamonds and then simply cross his contract.
ruffed the entire hand. By this line of play South would have won four tricks in top cards plus nine tricks in trumps.
North. Dealer North-South vulnerable KQ 7 6 ♡ 2 O AKQ85
♣ A 4 345 ⇓
49852
◊ 10 3 0.6 4
♡ KQJ74
W
O J 109 3
A
* 10 95% 10 4 3
4 KQJ 76
♡ A 9 8 65 ◊ 7 2
The bidding: North
* *
You were Oswald Jacoby's partner yesterday. The opponents were vul-,
You held: nerable, you were not.
Dbl.
A-X X X A JI X
O Q J
K 9 X
The bidding: Schenken Pass
- Jacoby
Staler
Pasx
I do....
Равв
Рава
1♡
10
East IV
West Bouth.
20
Paps
3 de
Pass
B♡
Pass Pass
-30
Pass
PAST
Pass
Pass
PABA 40
Pass
Dbl.:
Pash-
Pass Pase (7)
Pass
Pass
West opened the King of clubs, and
clarer" by ruffing clubs
pass,
ANSWER: • Your correct bid is to Mr. Schenken qbviously holds a South decided that his best plah was terrific freak hand and is rather an- to make dummy "De- xious to be doubled Hence, your in his own hand. Ac-holding of the Queen-Jack alone in diamonds is not going to hurt him, and cordingly, he trumped the best you can hope for is a one- a club, -led a diamond to dummy, then. trumped the remaining club. At
HOON GARD MALANES
OF THE FOUR-ACLE KYSTEN
ACE. KING QUEEN İ JACK
made the fatal mis take of laying down the Spade Ace, for now all he could do was to draw four rounds of trumps and hope that dia- mondaj were evenly divided (if South ruffed a diamond in his hand, he would be left with only one trump, In- would she found to
A point South|
which win
lave that
trick set.
Score 100% for pass, 40% double, 0 for five clubs. ME_QUESTION NO. 316
day and you hold:
Merwin Maler is your part
tomorrow
Inc)
for
Fox-Trots
Basin
Street
Blues;
Willle
Swing Brothers, Swing....... Lewis & His Orchestra. Waltzes-Brigitte; Cuckoo Waltz....
Dajos Bela Dance Orchestra. Swing-Night Time In Cairo...Eddie
Carroll & His Swingphonic Orch. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tlone.
7,02 p.m. Negro Spirituals.
Run, Mary, Run (arr. Guion); No- body Knows De Trouble I Sees (arr. Guion) Edna Thomas
(Soprano) with_Piano. Were You Dere? (arr. Edna Thomas) ..Edna Thomas (Soprano) with Plano. 7.12 p.m.-** Magyari Imre and His
Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra. You Gave Me The First Kiss; In The Cafe With Glittering Mirror; Out In The Puszta I Plough and Sow; It's A Great Pity; Hungarian Csar- das of George Nagy-Slow and Quick (Karoly); You Are The Fel- low, Friend Tykody; My Little Velvet Hat; Oh! How Long It Seems; My Sweetle Is Roaming
Ivy St. Helier In Herbert Sketch
About; How I Could Lament!
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m-Band Muale.
Theme
Suisse Air Varie Sur Un
(Mohr) ..... Garde Republicaine Band of France cond. by Pierre Dupont.
H.M. Jollies-Quick March (Alford)
.The Band of H.M. Royal Mar- ines, Plymouth Division cond. by the Composer.
8.16 p.m.-London Relay-Ivy St. He
Vio Hier in A. P. Herbert's "Le Parislenne".
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Bum-
mary,
9.30 p.m-8tudio-Comments on Re-
cent Events. 9.40 p.m.-Dvorak
Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104. Pau Casals ('Cello) and The Czech Philharmonic Or- chestra conducted by Georg Stell, 10.177p.m-Benno Molselv on at the
Piano.
Polonaise In B Flat Major, Op. 71, No. 2 (Chopin); Grillen (Schu mann); Song Without Words F Major (Mendelssohn). 10-30 p.m. — London Relay
Background to Wales. 11.00 p.m.--CLOSE DOWN.
Rurat
ONE SHORT, SCOTS WIN
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5TH R.A. BEATEN
In another game at 8th Heavy Re- giment defeated-the-5th-A.A. by a dropped goal, and a try (7 points) to a try" (3 points).
Though playing a man short, Royal | Burrell. Scots beat Middlesex at Rugby yesterday on the Sookunpoo ground by 15 points (a goal, two tries and a drop goal) to nil.
The Scots opened the scoring through converted his Lt. Culbertson, who
five- own effort to give his side a point lead. Before the interval Lt. Ridsdale scored.
The teams were:
8th Heavy: Keebley Marsh, Richards Lomax; Smyke, MacMillan, Pitt, Cook Turner, MacDermott, Plummer
On resumption, the Scots went | Luckett and Rawlings. further chead through L/Cpl. Mar- shal with a converted › try. Boe dropped a peach of a goal to com- plete the scoring.
5th A.A.: Eastbrook; Dobbson L/Cpl. and Mulligan; Giblin, Sutcliffe, Salis- bury, Evans, Mew, Clarke, Henry Rafferty, Page, Lear and Browns.
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NAVY BEAT M’SEX
At Boundary Street, yesterday, Nay beat Middlesex by the odd goal seven in their postponed First Divisior Soccer encounter.
Royal Scots: Lt. Douglas; L/C. Mar- shall, 2/Lt. Culbertson, and Lt. Rids- dale; L/C Boe; Pte. Gracie, L/C. Combe, Cpl. Sutherland, Sgt. Pursey, L/C. Lane, L/C. Loughlin, Capt.' Duke, Cpl. Ross and 2/Lt. Pinkerton.
Middlesex:: D/M.*, Holdford; Pte. Caudrey, L/C. Radley and Sgt. Sturdy;
Le Page (2), ‚Thorburn, and Phip Pte. Williams, L/C.“ Moggeridge, Pte. Jones, L/C. Wooley, Lt. Hewitt, Drm. pens scored for Navy while Saw Revill, Pte. Jennings, Pte. Berrey. Freshwater and Hall (own goal) net Cpl. Gilham,, Pte. Hanlock and Sgt. ted for Navy,
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