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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1940
By BUD FISHER
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Grieg Sonata In C
6.00 p.m.-Light Spanish Programme.
6.30 p.m.-Latest Dance Music.
Today's Wireless
7.00 p.m.--Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.02 p.m. - Selections
Comedy.
from Musical
7.30 p.m.-London Relay--The Nows. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 9.03 p.m.-Light Orchestral with Char-
les Kullman (Tenor).
8.30 p.m. Glazounow Scenes De Ballet, Op. 52. New Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Eugene Goos-
sens.
8,56 p.m.-The Don Cossacks Choir.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 3.1.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
(Kastalsky)....conducted by Serge Jaroff. Unaccompanied 9.03 p.m.-Sergei Rachmaninoff at the
Plano.
Polka De W. R. (Rachmaninoff); "Midsummer Night's Dream" Scherzo (Mendelssohn, arr. Rach- maninoff); The Harmonious Blacksmith (Handel).
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum.
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Cards on Two Russian Folk Songs (arr. Ja- the Table".
roff); We Sing to You-Prayer (9.45 p.m.-Dellus-"Hassan" Serenade.
Winning
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 bratzn every other system in cxistence.
AMAZING-BUT TRUE
We happened to be kibitzing adone about it-a trick must be lost. Duplicate game in which the majority But if, as was the case, they are all in of the players were just about aver-West's hand, both trump honours can age when the hand below was dealt. be captured. The play should be made The first player we watched happened from the hand containing the single to be the club champion and he pro- honour-in this case' the Ace. After ceeded to make a Small Slam on the playing the Ace a low spade should bidding shown.. Out of curiosity we be played and West would naturally followed the hand around the room, split his honours. Then re-enter the and our amazement at every other South hand and lead another spade. table South, who was always Declarer, Now a second finesse will capture the lost a trump trick. Quite a few pairs other honour. contracted for a Slam, but it seemed that no one except the club champion knew the 'correct way of handling the trump suit.
Duplicate Bridge South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
A K Q 8 6
♡ 6
0 9 7 4
♣ KQJ3 2
We are curious to know whether any of the players involved will ever make this same mistake again.
* Yesterday, as Oswald Jacoby's part- ner, you held:
*
*
10
◇ K Q 10 x AK J 10 x
J 10 4 2
♡ QJ 10 8 O J 5
107 6
♡ 9 8 7 4 2
W
✪ 10 9 6 8 A 985
The bidding; Schenken You
1A Pass
A 9 7 5 3
K 8, 2
The bidding:
South West.
Раза
North ვ
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Pass
5♡
Pass
East
Pasa Pass Pass
Pass
Pass
Possibly carelessness or overconf dence had something to do with it, but several players, when asked, ad- mitted that they didn't know how to handle this combination. We explained the correct play as follows:
HIGH CARS VÁLDES FOUR-ACES SYSTEM -
ACE... 3 KING. QUEEN 1 JACK
The only possibility of losing a trick is if
one opponent holds all
four trumps. If they
Maler Jacoby Dbl: Pass Рава
What was your correct lead?"
ANSWER: Lead the spade ten. Since partner has left in your double,. ne should have strong trumps. Your trump lead will help to prevent De- clarer from ruffing other suits and winning tricks with his small trumps.
Score 100% for spade ten, 70% for diamond King, 0 for any other lead.
QUESTION NO. 879% You are. Marwin Maler's partner and hold:
XXX
A-10 xx
The bidding: Warnstone Mater
Pass
(1)
· Pass What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
are all in the East (Released By The Bell Syndicate hand, nothing can be
Viola Solo by Lionel Tertis with George Reeves at the Piano. 9.49 p.m. Tchaikowsky
Wedding-Ballet Philharmonic Orchestra by Efrem Kurtz.
Aurora's Music. London conducted
K.C.C. 1ST XI TO MEET THE REST
Kowloon Cricket Club, senior League cricket champions, will meet "A" team representative of "The Rest" at K.C.C on Saturday.
Following will represent "The Rest." J. E. Richardson, T. V. N. Fortescue and A. E. Perry (Civil Service), A. R. Minu and K. Nazarin (I.R.C.), E. L. Gosano and L. G. Gosano (Recreio), Sgt. Denyer and Sgt. Webb (Army), A. R. H. Esmall (C.C.C.), and W. S. Gegg (University).
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Cards
On
The
Table
雾量
10.15 p.m.-Compositions of Grieg.
Sonata in C Minor, Op. 45....Sergei, Rachmaninoff (Piano) and Fritz Kreisler (Violin).
Solveig's Song (from "Peer Gynt") ....Elisabeth Schumann (So-
prano) with Orchestra. Holberg Suite, Op. 40....London String Orchestra cond. by Walter Goehr.
11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
WEEK-END GOLF RESULTS
The following were the results of the Second Round of the match play stages Adamson Cup played at the Valley.
G. E. Willerton (12) beat S. T. Butlin (12)
4 and 2; F. Buckle (12) beat G. W. Reeve (13) at
the 20th hole:
H. Smith (0) beat G. Davies (10) 4 and 3: W. W. C. Shewan (7) beat D. S. Edward
(3) 4 and 3.
CAPTAIN'S CUP The captain's Cup qualifying Com- petition for April at Fanling, over the Following will represent K.C.C-old course, was won by A. B. Purves D. J. N. Anderson (capt.), E. F. Fin- 80-1070. There were 25 entries. cher,, R. E. Lee, N. D. Lloyd, N.-A. E. Mackay, D. Hung, A. Zimmern, course J. W. Clague won with
With seven entries over the new W. L. Rapley, F. J. Lay, G. C. Burscore of 86-2006. nett and T. A. Madar, Twelfth Man- B. D. Lay.
A photograph of the K.C.C. team will be taken during the tea-interval.
MIRS BAY BOMB CASUALTIES
was
A Hong Kong Chinese wounded yesterday during the air raid on Sha-ue-chung by a Ja- panese plane, it was disclosed to- day when the authorities an~ nounced that two of the injured are in a serious condition in the Queen Mary Hospital.
They are Chiu Hoi, 25, of No. 508, Nathan Road, Kowloon, and Yip Shing, of Sha-ue-chung. They were admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital at 5.15 p.m. yes-. terday,
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HONOLULU CLIPPER
RECORD
the
Pan-American Airways' giant Fly- ing Boat, the "Honolulu Clipper," set a speed record yesterday on her scheduled flight between Hong Kong and Manila,
After leaving Kowloon at 748 a.m., the big Flying Boat, carrying 30 peo- ple, landed smoothly at Manila at 11.43 am, taking exactly four hours to negotiate the 750 miles separating the two cities.
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BRINGS NOTHING NEW (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Chungking, To-day, Chinese official circles refuse to comment on the speech of Mr. Arita, Japanese Foreign Minister, as brings nothing new," Havas.
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