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Notice is hereby given that] Scrip Certificate No..1358 dated 9th June, 1933 for Fifty Shares numbered 35386/35435 in the above Office, standing in the name, of Mr. Harry Adolph Lucker, of Tientsin, has been lost, and should the same not be produced before the 24th September, 1940, a new Scrip Certificate will be issued in of the said Mr. Harry favour Adolph Lucker, and no transac- tion taking place under the old Scrip Certificate will be recognis- ed by the Office.
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TO LET
(By The Four Aces)
CAN IT BE MADE?
"Can it be made?” asks a rea- Įdėr. “I didn't make the contract,
but there'should be"some way; to] get ten tricks out of all those high; cards."
South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
A 7.6 3
K, 8, 6 3
OJ 9.8.7- ♣AK 962
Ο Α' Κ 10
N WE
A 5
4 2
J
0. 5 5 3
S * Q 10:8:
540
A'K'QJ 10.8:
♡ A*Q*6* 2
ph
.7 3
The bidding:
South West
JA 44
Pass Pass
North 24 Pass
East Pass-
Pass
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"West: took the King of dia- monds and then led a trump
the heart finesse, and another trump.came: Baok. a CARE VALUES Then I had to lose rocks were two more hearts; going down one trick. Could I have done better?”
OF THE
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interesting to going on.
We're afraid so. There are at least two ways to make: ten tricks, and our: readers may find it find them before
The more logical play is to win the second trick in the South hand! land return the eight of trumps to: dummy's nine. A diamond is re- turned, South discarding a heart. West wins and returns a trump. South wins and gets over to the club King to lead another d'a- mond. Again a heart is discard-
But Jed, while West wins.
the Jack of diamonds is set up for the tenth trick.
now
The other way to make the con- tract is to run trumps and one
at least three club, and then return a diamond from the dum- my:
and South discards heart, West wins. With only red cards! left, West must yield the tenthr trick either to one of dummy's diamonds or by a heart lead up to South's tenace.
*
Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held
14
Q J. 9 8
♡ J
A 95 3 X-8-7-4-
Burnstone
The bidding: Jacoby. Bchenken You Разв (?)
ANSWER: Bid three spades:' You can practically guarantee a game even if your partner has a minimum opening. bid.
Score 100% for three spades, 50% for two clubs or two dia- monds. 20% for two spades.
QUESTION NO. 514 To-day you hold the same hand, and the bidding continues:
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Jacoby
1A
56
Schenken Tau Pass 30 Pass (?)
Hurnstone.
Pass
What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.}
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1940.
WEDNESDAY, 18th Sept
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A VALUABLE COLLECTION- OF POSTAGE STAMPS Catalogues will be issued: On View from Tuesday, the 17th, September, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
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1940. Hong Kong, 13th Sept., ·
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