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THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB ..
THE
NOTICE
NOVEMBER⠀⠀ HALF
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of VOTING MEMBERS will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on THURSDAY) 28th November, 1940, at 5.30 p.m.
BRIDGE BETHEL A MILITARY
NOTES
BRIDGE SWINDLES
No. 15
By The Four Aces
INSTITUTION
As if to distract.populár. atten tion from the presumably meagro results of Ribbentrop's Rome negotiations, concerning which the German: Press predictions. raised such high expectations, newspa~ pers in the Reich almost without exception, published harrowing descriptions of the despair and destitution supposed to have been wrought by the German bombing raids on England.
The "Volkischer Beobachter" des-
Deceptive plays at Bridge are not always a matter of actively playing a misleading card; some- times it's just as effective to con-cribes the British raids on Ger- ceal your assets:
South, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
K J 10 4 10-6 2 0-754 2964.
A 9 08
♡ 8 7 4
◊ 10 8-32 ♣ AJ 8
W 6
S
O
QJ96
A Q.8 2
·A·A·7 5- 6 3
Q10 6 2
.
♡ AKQJ·9
◊ A-K
AK 7 3
many as "the newest crimes of British air pilots," but the Munich editor of That newspaper calls Bethel "a world-renowned health resort for the sick, epileptic, and insane, to-day partly used as an army lazaret," not as a children's home. Subsequent passages strongly suggest that the "cluster of 230 buildings of the Bodelsch- wingh institution" is used also by the German military staff. ⠀
Maler's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you held:
KQ 10 9 6
♡ AJ G
◊ Q 10 4
♣. A 7
The bidding:
The bidding:
South 10 3♡
West
Pass Pass. Рона
North
East
14
Pars
3NT
Pass
Pass
Pass
West opened the deuce of dia-
IA (7)
Pass
20
Pass
HIGH CARD VALUES.
OF THE
FOUR ACES SYSTER
You Jacoby Maler Bchenken
monds, East played the Jack, and South won with the Aco. This! ANSWER: Bid two no-trump first play by South No other bid tells the story quite was a standard as accurately. Two spades is an false-card, designed underbid; three spades, an over- to make each op- bid:
Score 100% for two no-trump, ponent thinks that his partner might 60% for two spades, 40% for three have the King of spades, 30% for, three diamonds. diamonds..
FACE
KING QUEEN 1 JACK DA
TOTAL MAINE DE PLATJA
But South's next AVERAGE MAJO 1. W play was not so
standard.
Before
Question No. 575
To-day you are Howard Schen- drawing even one round of trumps, ken's partner and, with neither he led a small spade and went upside vulnerable, you hold: with dummy's King. East took reasoned the Ace of spades and something like this: "We need three more tricks to defeat this 'contract. My partner may have
ALL MEMBERS are cordially invited to attend arid participate the King of diamonds, or the
any discussion which may
in ensue.
By Order of the Stewards, C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th Nov., 1940.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Queen of spades, or a trump trick, or more than one of those tricks. The chances are that we still need. one or two-tricks in clubs.'
Thereupon East returned, the deuce of clubs. Sputh ducked, and West won with the Jack, But] now no defence could defeat the contract. If West continued clubs, South would make his club King; and if West shifted, South would draw trumps and discard a club on one of dummy's spades.
Note the difference if South The TWELFTH. EXTRA RACE the diamond King, draws the Ace blatantly wins the first trick with MEETING will be held (weather and King of trumps, and permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY leads the Queen of spades. Then -on - SATURDAY, 30th November, East.can see that the defence needs
1940, commencing at 2.00 pm.
....
then
three.club tricks in a hurry; and he must return the Queen of clubs!
The First Bell will be rung at, And that's the end of poor South. 1.30 p.m..
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Yesterday you were Merwin D.
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✅ K. 10 3
O. A. KJ 64: AK Q:10:
The bidding: Schenken Jacoby
1A
Pass 2NT
Pass What do you bid? To-morrow.)
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