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By ED REED
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 20, 1940
BRIDGE PUBLIC AUCTIONS
NOTES
CRACKING DOWN
By The Four Aces
The Undersigned have received: Instructions from the Liquidators and Others to sell by Públic
Aliction on
MONDAY, 23rd December, 1940 commencing at 10 a.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central, Room No.
205, Second Floor..
A Baleation of Household Electric
When you play against optimis-Apparatus, Dakin (Patent Medicine. tic opponents, it's a good idea to And Sundries.
wait patiently until they get them-
selves out on a limb; then, crack comprising:
down on them. In the accompany-1B & L (Micro Photographic) ing hand, East felt sure that his Apparatus over-aggressive opponents were. 1 Switchboard
over their heads because otherwise 1 Impringer Machine 'hey'd have bid game instead of 1 Heating Apparatus stopping short at three hearts. His 1 Stand for Theodolite
dc- Samsons loubie, coupled with a fine. ence, netted 11 very handsome Sandwich
gum:
North, Dealer North-South vulnerable
Electric Combination Toasters and Waffle Makers, Electric Coffee Makers, Electric 'Cookers, Electric
Hot Pads, Dakins Cod Liver Oil. Chemical Food. Carlsbad Salt, Halibut Oil, Tooth Brushes, Ty- phoon Lamps, etc., etc.
also
A Quantity of Glass Dressing Syringes, Urethral Syringes, Bye Baths, Beakers, Drop Bottles and Empty Ampoules
and
1 Rheinmetall Portable Type- writer (almost new).
1 Diathermy Machine
On View from Saturday, 21st December, 1940.
The
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The bidding:
North East
South
10
Pass
1♡
Tel. 30311.
14
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20
West
Pass Pass
2NT
Pass
3♡
Pass
Pass
DMI.
Pass
Pass
Pass
◊ K 10 8 0
West opened
Queen
of
The bidding:
Schenken South ruffed
1♡ Declarer led
20 dummy's club to Queen and returned
Jacoby You
a
Pase PERS
Kater INT Past (7)
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 18th Dec., 1940.
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EDREED
"I'm not buying anything to-day-I'm just training for next week's sale!"
Here's Luck
EWO BEER
Road, Victoria, Hong Kong, un EVACUATION Saturday, 21st December, 1940, at
12 o'clock (Nom), for the purpose REPRESENTATION
of receiving a Statement of AC COMMITTEE counts and the Report of the Directors for the financial year ended 30th September, 1940, and electing Directors and Auditors.
PUBLIC MEETING
THE TRANSFER BOOKS AND A public meeting of those inter REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS ested in the Evacuation Reposon- will be closed from Monday, 28th tation Committee will be held at November, 1940, to Saturday, Bist the Peninsula Hotel on FRIDAY, December, 1940, both days December 27, at 6.p.m., to receive clusive.
By Order of the Board of
in
a statement from the Committee
Directors,
NOEL BRAGA,
Secretary.
WANTED
the
spades, holding the trick. The suit
the third round.
WOULD ANY ENGLISH or Eng-was continued, and lish speaking lady care to accom- pany middle-aged serviceman to dinner dance on New Year's eve. Apply Box No. 171 c/o "The China Mail”.
TUITION GIVEN
in connection with the reply to EXPERT instructresses for ladies the Petition submitted on Novem-and young girls in music, short- ber 22,
F. C. CLEMO,
Hon. Secretary.
AN CARD VALUES
OF THE KOR-ACERETNEŠTIN
ACE. KING..2 ÏQUEEN.1 BACKLIK
hand, typing, bookkeeping and English and French. Apply 24 the third
Austin Road, Kowloon.
44 9 8 7
ANSWER: Bid two -trump.
a trump. East Your partner's "reverse" bidding ducked, and South indicates a hand substantially won with the heart stronger than a minimum opening King. For lack of bid; and with your supporting anything better, strength a game is not too much to South then led two hope for.
more rounds of
clubs, East ruffing Score 100% for two no-trump, round with his low 20% for three hoaris, 10% for
pass.
Question No. 594
sides
trump.
East then laid down the Ace' of spades, and 'South decided to dis- card a diamond rather than ruff, West also discarded a diamond, To-day you are Merwin Maler's
with both where-upon East promptly cashed partner and, the Ace of diamonds and led an- vulnerable, you hold. olher diamond for Declarer returned # low trump, allowing East to win with the trump Ace; and then another diamond lead made it impossible for South to shut out West's Jack of hearts. In all, South won only six tricks, for an 800-point set.
South to ruff.
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Yesterday you were Howard Schenken's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held:
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K 10 8 6 K 97
The bidding:
Schisaken Maler
You
*Book
12
Pass
-INT
Pass
BA
Pasa
(7)
What do you bid?
(Answer
To-morrow.)
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