MUTT AND JEFF
SEE, IT'S EASY TO BUILD A SMOKE-STACK! YOU JUST KEEP ›GOIN' AROUND. LAYING THREE
BRICKS ABREAST UNTIL YOU'RE
FINISHED!
DR WAISTLING
HEY, MUTT! I'M FINISHED! NOW HOW DO I GET DOWN?
JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND WALK AROUND A LITTLE! TEL BETCHA TWO BUCKS YOU'LL COME DOWN!
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1940.
-By BUD FISHER
¿DARNED IF YOU
DIDN'T
WIN!
Bizet
Symphony
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m. "For the Children".
Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-wow (Ta-
brar).....The Maestros (Vocal) Quin- tette) with Plano,
Wedding of the Painted Doll (film 'Broad. way Melody')....Leslie James (Organ).
Studio-Story by Aunt Susan. The Little Silkworm (from 'First a Girl') ....Jessic Matthews (Vocal) with Orch. Here Comes the Sandman (film 'Mr. Dodd takes the Air')....Elsie Carlisle (Vocal) with Orchestra.
Sweet and Low (Barnby)....Essie Ackland
(Contralto) with Plano & Organ. 6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota.
tions.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.Local Time-Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-This week's programmes. 8.07.p.m.--An hour of Dance
and Variety.
Music
9.15 p.m. London Relay--News 8um ».
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Under Nazi
Rule".
6,32. p.m.-Bizet-Symphony No. 1 in.
C Minor. London Philharmonic Or-9.45 p.m. The Regimental Band chestra conducted by Walter Goehr. 7.00 p.m.-Studio-Talk on "Nijinsky, the Genius of the Russian Ballet". Illustrated by records.
H.M. Coldstream Guards. "Dorothy"-Selection (Cellier),
of
Selection of Wilfred Sanderson's Songs. Intro: Drake goes West; My dear Soul;
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Matër, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has heaten every other system in cxistence.
ken.
A HOLD-UP
There are so many types of hold-up | second heart, Declarer would be able plays that a resourceful Declarer can to trump the third round in dummy. always invent one as the necessity West's only hope therefore would be arises. The average player knows that to shift to a trump. South would in playing a notrump hand it is pro-draw trumps, lay down the diamond. per to hold up his Ace for two or Ace and dummy's Ace of hearts would opponent to then be a re-entry and the third heart three rounds until the
on the King of his right no longer has any cards in could be discarded the suit. But his knowledge may not ¦ diamonds. go beyond this very elementary play. Here is a Slam that was lost because rather Declarer failed to make a simple hold-up play.
South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable.
8
♡ A 8
OK 7.6 4 B
98.76 5
0.84
▲ 6 5
K
J9.6
10 7 3
Q J G
W
◇ 10 9 8 2 QJ 10 4 AKQJ 10 7 3
♡ 5 4 3
◊ A
A K
The bidding:
South West North
5
Pass
Bast
Pass 80
Раль
Patr
8NT
Pass
Pana GA
Pass
Pa88
**
*
*
were David Bruce Saturday you Burnstone's partner and held:
K X X ♡AK XI 09 10x
The bidding!
You
Maler 'Pass
Burnstone 20
Jacoby Pass
10
(7) ANSWER: Bid two notrump. The Spade King, which has been added to the previous day's hand, now makes this strong rebid correct, z
Score 100% for two notrump, 50% for three motrump (an overbid), 30% for three diamonds (not sufficiently encouraging), 0 for any other bid.
QUESTION NO. 890
Oswald Jacoby is your partner.
West opened the King of hearts. Both sides are vulnerable and you South won with dummy's Ace and hold:
returned a heart, hoping to ruff the
HIGH CARD VALUES '
OF THE
FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE...
•
third round in dummy. However, his unkind opponents led a trump and Declarer -
'even-
2 tually had to lose an-
other heart trick,
KING QUFN1
JACK
South could have Famille his cóntraät) by simply, allowing West to win the first trick.
n.If Weit.pl
The bidding: Schenken
Jacoby Maler Dbl.: Pasi
dewer
What do you bid? Munday.)
(Released By
Inc.)
Syndicats,
Captain Mac;
The Company Sergeant Major: Friend of mine: Up from Somer. Bet; Until,
"The
Variety
Programmes
kons); Serenade (Schubert); Serenade (Tosell);, Second Serenade (Heykens); Serenade ("Student Prince'-Romberg). 10.90 p.m.-Dance Music by Roy Fox
and His Orchestra.
Fox-Trots--They Can't Take That Away from Me (film 'Shall we Dance'); Lat's Call The Whole Thing Off (film 'Shall we. Dance"), -
Waltz-No More (C. B. Cochran's Revue
'Home & Beauty').
Fox-Trots-Sing Something In The Morn- ing (from 'Home & Beauty'); Where Are You? (film 'Top of the Town'); Care- lessly.
10.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording
Ogboddy's Outing". A Sketch. 10.17 p.m.- Al Bollington at the Orgah. Bell Medley. Intro: Bells across the Mca- the dow: Monastery Bells; Voice of Bells; Fire Bell; Legend of the Bells; The Bells of St. Mary's....with Anton & The Paramount Theatre Orchestra. Medley of Serenades. Intro: Serenade
"Frasquita" (Lehar); Serenade (Hey-11.00
EASTERN'S FIRST DEFEAT IN MANILA
Waltz-A Beautiful Lady In Blue. Fox-Trots-Moon for Sale: On the Trail Where The Sun Hangs Low; What Will I Tell My Heart.
p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
YACHTING RESULTS
of the result The following is the first Corinthian cruisers race held Club by Royal Hong Kong Yacht yesterday:
Finished Corrd, Fos..
1 .4.08.11 2.42.21
Tyrone.
(B.; Herschend).
(J. L. Anderson).. Treenlaur
(Major: C. R. Templer). to
.3.00,12
.4.10.13 3.01.05
Tern Manila, To-day.
soccer team The touring Eastern met with their first defeat in Manila yesterday when they went down Y.C.O. by a solitary goal.
Thirteen-thousand spectators watch-Highwayman
the
2 .4.05.06 2:55.46
4.31.09
3.00.00
3
4
L
5
Norena
(P. C. M, Sedgwick).
ed an exciting game in which home goalie brought off at least three Evolene miraculous saves.
1.4.08.003.04.22
6
.4.08.14 3.06.56
7
T
(Capt. I. D. K. MacRae).
(Major G. R. Way). Opening minutes of the game were Tai Wan Shan
(Major J. E. Dobbs)..
.3.28.69 3.07.03 slow, but after Alec Boisserie opened: the scoring for Y.CO the visitors at- Yehonala
(Capt. M. T. L, Wilkinson).
.3.59.13 3.11.14 D U. and I. tacked vigorously but without avail. Lee Tack-kee twice sent in appeared to be certain goals but on
which
both occasions the home goalie clear- ed. The second half was scoreless.
Eastern will play their final game this evening against a combined Y.C.O. and La Salle team and they are re- turning to Hong Kong by Clipper to- morrow. Reuter..
GOLF RESULTS Following are the results of golf matches played over the week-end on Royal Hong Kong Golf Club courses: Stableford Competition on the Fan- ling Old Course was won by W. H. Jowitt with 26+1440. There were 28 entries, **
(P. E. MacCabe), Dorinda
(E. Cock). Curlew
(R. Clarke).
La Cigale I
..3.40.56
3.12.32 10
.4.41.36
3.17.58 11
.3.21.55
3.21.55 12
.3.21.43 3.38.40 13
(N. V. A. Croucher).
Tolo
(H. Dreyer).
SOFTBALL RESULTS
3
4
The following were the results of League Softball matches played yes- 'terday:--
LADIES' LEAGUE Canadian Chinese 30 Recreio
MEN'S LEAGUE
7. Recrelo "B" Recreio "A"
These two fixtures complete the League programme and the Canadian and Chinese and Recreio have won the
At Happy Valley, Hugh Smith beat W. W. C. Shewan by 2. and. 1; and F. Buckle beat. G. E. Willerton 2 and 1 Championships of the ladies in the semi-final of the Adamson Cup. I men's leagues, respectively.
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