THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1940
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MUTT AND JEFF
WHAT'S THE IDEA NOT WEARING A HAT?
I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE How (INTELLIGENT}
I AM!
'INTELLIGENT?
MY 'BIG
YOU POOR BOOB, FOREHEAD! HA-HA! DON'T HERE, JUST RUB
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE
INTELLIGENT?,
LET 'EM KID YOUR FINGERS
YA! THAT HIGH || ACROSS THE TOP
IT RUNS ALL THE
WAY TO THE BACK
FOREHEAD
STUFF IS THE BUNK!
OF MY NECK!
OF MY HEAD · WHAT DO You
FEEL?
BUMP!
NOW THAT'S A REAL
SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE!
PEOPLE WITH THAT BUMP ON THEIR HEADS
ARE REALLY VERY
SMART!
By BUD FISHER
AREM!
Chopin Recital
Today's Wireless
6.30 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quotations.
6.32 p.m.-Hawailan Music.
6.62 p.m.--Varioty with Frank Crumit, The Boswell Sisters, Jessica Dragonette, The Mile Brothors, The Fol-de-Role Stanley Holloway.
and
Vocal-I'm A Specialist ('Chic' Sale). Taught Me How To Play Second Fiddle
(Dalh and Others).
Frank Crumit with Orchestra. Vocal-Trav'lin' All Alone (Breen, John-
son).
St. Louis Blues (Handy).
The Boswell Sisters with Orchestra. Humorous-The Three Trees (Mc-
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
Naughton).
9.52 Megacycles
Frank Crumit with Orchestra. Vocal-Through The Doorway of Dreams (from 'Blg Broadcast of 1936′). Alice Blue Gown (McCarthy, Tierney)..
Jessica
with Dragonette (Soprano)
Orchestra,
A Humorous Sketch-The Lodger (Grea-
trex Newman).
Vinning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
The Fol-De-Rols.
Vocal-Sixty Seconds Got Together (Liv-
ingston, David).
Julius Caesar (Reger).
The Mills Brothers (Four Boys and a
Guitar).
Humorous Monologue-Runcorn
(Edgar).
Stanley Holloway with Plano,
Ferry
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Re-
port and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-This week's programmes,
SATURDAY'S
Dance
Music
8.07 p.m.-Studio-A Chopin Recital by Miss
Techin-Schin Yao (Piano).
8.27 p.m.-Songs by Dennis Noble, (Bari-
tone).
8.37 p.m.-The Regimental Band of H.M.
Coldstream Guards.
Martial Moments (arr. by Aubrey Win- ter);
8.48
ber."
p.m.-B.B.C.
Recording-"} Remom-
A Programme of Musical Entertainment of Forty or Fifty Years Ago. Devised and produced by Percy Edgar.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Summary. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay-Topical Talk. 9.45 p.m.-Excerpta from Gilbert and Sulli-
van's "Patience." 10.15 p.m.Dance Music. 11:00 ̃p:m-Close-Down-
SPORT IN
RETROSPECT
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- | La ̃yn Bowls better, there ken.
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
was such improvement from about 10.30 onward that only three matches were cancelled.
ALTHOUGH the weather on Friday | good win over the experienced F. X.
was bad and on Saturday morn- M. Silva,
ing it was little K.C.C. are still experiencing dif- ficulty in winning matches and they went down yet again, this time to Po- lice, for whom Fender and Orem were in fine form. Teddy Fincher wAS Prison Officers met with a setback again K.C.C.'s most successful skip. In the actual bidding we think North
In Second Division Kowloon Bowl- to their championship hopes when
divisional should have passed six notrump any- way, but it should be pointed out they went down to Hong Kong Foot-ing Green Club, present
leaders, were thoroughly extended by that if South held the Queen of dia-ball Club to suffer their second defeat monds instead of the Queen of clubs, of the season. Jillott made a big ef- Recreio but managed to get home by there would be thirteen top tricks in fort to save the day but fairly large margins of defeat by Pile and Bagley, the hand.
the latter meeting with his first re-
SLIGHTLY OVERBID To-day's hand, which has been the subject of our questions for the last three days, was misbid by two of our leading players in a recent rubber bridge game at the Regency Club in
New York City.
North, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable North-South 99 on score
AK 3
AK Q 4 ◊ A 7 5 SAK 82
0762
A J 10 5
♡ 8 6 3
♡ 10 9 7 2
0994
W
◊ 8 3.
AJ 135
49764
A
$ 4
10 6 2
The bidding:
North
East
South
品
Pass 10.
2♡
Paso
24
3NT
Pans
Pico
ENT Pass
KISH CARE VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACER SYSTEM
West Равз Pass Pass Pass
缀
.
You were Howard Schenken's part-verse of the season, proved too much. ner Saturday with both sides vulner- able, you had 90 on score and held:
.
A Q XX
J I
KJ 10 x x
A Q X
Schenken
Jacoby
14
Pass
You 10
Maler
2♡
3NT
Pass PC85
24 (7)
Pass Pass
The bidding:
4 shots.
In Third
Division K.B.G.C.
beat
the
C.C.C. to maintain the club's 100 per cent, record for the second week in Another hitherto undefeated skip in succession-the match between O. P. Remedios also fell by the way- first team and K.D.R.C. was postponed, side leaving W. McNeill, of Craigen- 'gower, with the finest record in Second
Division.
✡
Royal Engineers gave a creditable Notable results on Saturday includ-performance on Saturday when they held Chinese Baseball ed a rink score of 3 by W. E. Hol- lands, which lowered the previous Baseball Club for the first four innings. In that inning
record his own-of 7ì
rink in the absence of
their
W. Hyde, skipping Carr's K.C.C. the Chinese scored nine runs from nine
the latter on hits which turned the game in military duties, proved a capable favour as the Sappers till then were substitute and succeeded in improv-leading by 6 runs to 3.
Denyer pitched the whole game for ing on the 28-shot margin of victory, previously held by Carr, by one shot. Sappers and Fox was the catcher for As regards the games themselves, the greater part of the game as Tay- probably the most notable result was lor injured his hand in the first in- the victory of Kowloon Football Club ning attempting to catch a pitch bare- over Taikoo, which result places handed. the footballers in a strong Chinese started with Hank Chank challenging position for the champion- on the mound but his offerings were ship, although, of course, there is still just what the Sappers liked and
a long way to go.”
ANSWER: Your correct bid is four clubs. From the bidding there is a distinct chance that your Queen of clubs will fill the club suit for your partner, and you should really show 70
this card. Obviously Mr. Schenken The Jack of clubs was opened. De- will not pass now, and you can even- clarer won with the tually determine whether to play the Queen in his own hand at six or seven, hand, played a dia- Score 100% for four clubs, 80% for mond to dummy's Ace, six notrump, 40% for five notrump (an
In Senior Division, Recreio "A" led the seven-spot and underbid), 0 for any other bid. (Note: finessed the ten, losing Even though using an artificial Slam were given quite a good fight by Re- to West's Queen and bidding convention, there is no need creio "B", Jackie Noronha scoring a going down one trick. to use it here. Your partner obviously If Declarer had has the three other Aces and probably. guessed the Anesse, he the three other Kings. The cards you would of course have made his con- are really interested in are the Queen tract. But in any event, no one wants of diamonds and the Jack of clubs, to bid a Grand Slam which depends
QUESTION NO. 444 on a finesse,
EACE 31 KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACKET
TOTAL VACANT OF PARK ING
QUEERAGE HAND 6.3%
David Bruce Burnstone is your
In the bidding we consider South's partner. Both sides are vulnerable, first two bids perfectly correct, al-you have 60 on score and hold:
though North's early bids are open to some possible criticism. It will be noted, however, that in our answer to yesterday's question below, we recom- mend four clubs as South's third bid. In this event North would probably have bid four diamonds and South would have jumped to six no- trump. In that event North would surely -have-passed--since-he-would-
x x x
♥K Q x
KQJ1.
♣ KI
The bidding: You Mater
Burnstone
Pass
10 Para (7)
What do you bid? (Answer
have realised the possibility that there | to-morrow.)
was something shaky about the dia- (Released By The Bell Syndicate,
mond suit.
(Inc.)
In the
he
was taken out in the next.
A little more polish in infleld work and Sappers will win some games be- fore the season ends,
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