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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 band, shows a neat bit of deception executed by: one of the so-called weekersEX
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North, Dealer East-West vulnerable
- Duplicate Bridge.
A K-6·2
is --9-8-6-3
&A ̃K'8
AJ'97.4 ♡AQ 10 6 O'Q 7-2 -A J 6
TOW
4.Q88
KJ:9 8 4-3
◇ J÷10-6
The young beauty-soon finds -burning the midnight oll
Brings forth a crop of aquint-- wrinkles.
which this whole swindle had been concocted.
10 5
OAK 4
Q1097 432
The bidding: North 10 3
East
South West
Pass
2
Pass
6%
Pass Pass
Pass
Робе
-།
North's diamond bid mystifies
us as much as it probably does you. We merely
-HUGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES,SYSTEM
FACES FRINGER QUEEN JA
COFREKAR WALKIE #PRADUNI
report the bidding
as it actually took place.
West led the four of
**
Saturday you
Schenken's
were Howard
id, with
both sides vulnerable, you held:
partner
AKJ7 4:2
V.A.3.
OAK 65 4-
The bidding:
Jacoby
Pass
Schenken - Baler
Pass
~You
Pass (?) ANSWER: Bid one spude. With
two five-card suits there is no rea-
son to alter the normal sequence. spades, of bidding the higher ranking
suit should be bid first.
and South Mrs, A. M. Sobel-re- 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 with four miserable diamonds staring him in the face?"
So she played a low spade from the dummy and East, as expect-
Score 100% for one spade and 0 for any other bid.
Question' No. 555
To-day you hold the same hand, and the bidding continues:
Jacoby - Bebenken
Pass
: Pass Разд
Maler Ron Pass
Pass
1A
(7)
What do you bid? ··(Answor
ed won with the spade Queen and shifted to the diamond Jack, That To-morrow.) gave South the chance to earn a top score by making an overtrick.cate, Inc.)
(Released, by The Bell Syndi-
RAIL PILFERER
She won with the diamond Ace, cashed the club Queen, then the diamond King, and next the club SENT TO GAOL King, Dummy's high spades were next taken, and South discarded Stated by the police to have been the losing diamond-thus making suspected for some time of petty Goods Sta- up for the loss of the spade trick. pilfering at Camden
tion, where he was employed on.
the But that wasn't all, for a dia-the maintenance staff by 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.
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