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BRIDGE
NOTES
Bridge Swindles-No. 12
By The Four Aces Some of the most accomplished Bridge "swindlers" look as though butter wouldn't: "melt in their mouths. To-day's hand shows a neat bit of deception executed by one of the so-called weaker sex:
North, Dealer
East-West vulnerable Duplicate Bridge
AK 6 2
-0.9.8.6 3
AR 8
J 9 7 4
N
A. Q 8 3
AQ 10 6
W.
2
KJ 9 8 4 3
0
◇ J 10 6 35
▲ 10 5
✓ 2 OAK 4
Q10 9 7 4 3 2
4
The bidding:
North
10 3d
East
Pass
2♣
Pass
54
South West
Pase Pass
Pass
Pass
North's diamond bid mystifies
us as much as it probably does you, We merely
HIGH CARD VALUES
C# VIE FOUR-ACEŻ WYSTEM
İKINCE
QUEEN! JACKE
TOTAL WALL PARKER AN EVERAGE NAPI 67%
report the bidding
as it actually took
place.
94
oll
artalised by Zás" trildBrudieken, m
The young beauty soon finds burning the midnight brings forth a crop of squint wrinkles.
which this whole swindle had been concocted.
*
购
Saturday you. were Howard Schenken's
uid, with partner both sides vulnerable, you held:
AKI 7 4 2
A 3 OAK 6 6 4 4 7
The bidding:
Jacaby
Pass
Behenken
Pass
You Maler
Pass (?)
ANSWER: Bid one spade. With
two five-card suits there is no rea-
West led theson to alter the normal sequence four of spades, of bidding; the higher
and South Mrs. suit should be bid first.
ranking
A. M. Sobel-re- Score 100% for one spade and 0
sisted the tempta-
tion to put up the King or Ace. For if she ducked,
East would undoubtedly win; and what would that worthy return diamonds with four miserable staring him in the face?
So she played a low spade from
for any other bid.
Question No. 555
To-day you hold the same haud, and the bidding continues:
Jacoby Pass,
Pass
Behenken Maler Του
Pass
What do you bid?
the dummy: and East, as expect- Ed won with the spade Queeri and shifted to the diamond Jack, That To-morrow.) gave South the chance to earn a top score by making an overtrick.cate, Inc.)
She won with the diamond Ace, cashed the club Queen, then the diamond King, and next the club
King. Dummy's high spades were
Pass 1A Рава -.(?) (Answer
(Released by The Bell Syndi.“
RAIL PILFERER
SENT TO GAOL
Stated by the police to have been suspected for some time of petty, Goods Sta- pilfering at Camden
next taken, and South discarded the losing diamond-thus making up for the loss of the spade trick.
tlon, where he was employed on But that wasn't all, for a dia- the maintenance- staff by the mond ruff now set up dummy's L.M.S. Railway, Kamar Din (38), last diamond: Dummy gained the of Torbay Street, Kentish Town, lead with the club Ace to lead the was sentenced to a total of one on three established, diamond. while South month's' imprisonment got rid of the losing heart for charges, of theft at Marylebone.
OFF THE RECORD
JOHN BOSKINS HOSPITAL
By ED REED.
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