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THE SAFE CONTRACT By The Four Aces
"Please tell
us," writes
a
Chicago fan, "how we could have avoided trouble on this hand:
North, Dealer Both sides vulnerable
NORTH AAQJ7 2
AJ 3 0.76
109: 6
WEST
A 8 4 3
S. A. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary.
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4 6 2
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SOUTH- AKB
BAST
10 0 5
♡ KQ7 4
O K J 8 843
♡ 10 9 0
0 10 4 2
AK QJ T
The bidding:
North Cast
I A
ZA
3NT
Pass Pass Равв
South
24 2NT Pass
West
Pasa
Pass
Рава
"West opened a diamond, and the opponents rattled off the first five tricks. After that we had tricks tu burn. North acidly observed that four spades
was ice-cold. But didn't see how he could raise spades with only two trumps. What do you think?"
We cast one hearty vote for North. Four spades was indeed | ice-cold and three no-trump couldn't be made. We don't be- lieve in Judging entirely by re- sults, but they certainly should be taken into account. Perhaps the best way to judge the situa- tion is to consider South's bidding problem on the second round.
SERMON BY PILOT
young squadron
DECISIVE STRUGGLE NOW BEING FOUGHT IN TURKEY
1
"A decisive struggle is now be
between ing fought in Turkey leader of the Fighter Anglo-Saxon and Axis diplo- Command stood in the macy" the Ankara correspondent of the "Basler Nazional Zeitung" Westminster states. pulpit of Abbey at the Empire Day "The outcome of this struggle, Youth Service, looking may well decide the fate of Tur-
he added. down on schoolgirls, Boy key, Scouts and young mem. bers of all the Services..
"
In his opinion, the Anglo- Saxonpawers now have the ad- gantage, following thej energétic action in Iran.
In Ankars, the British Ambas-
In previous years the Abbey has been thronged at this ser vice, but this time the congregados, Shi Hughe Knatchbull-Hug- gation numbered only about hundred
on
essem is being supported in his action by the American" re- who is a clear voice the pilot, presentative in- Turkey,
Cranmer's pulpit, said to have informed the For- speaking from warned them against letting their eign Ministry that his Govern- Anglo- enthusiasm flag. "The young, pilot ment fully approved the flies a Spitfire for the first time Soviet action in Iran. and is thrilled," he said. "Then, The considerable diplomatic ac- during periods of inaction, bore-tivity being displayed in Ankara,
the military operations
the dom is apt to set in.
Russian front, and the aggression "We
by must seek the energy against Iran, are considered which will fit us to remake so-the, Buste press as just as many ciety and make a Christian peace symptoms of the growing tension
in Turkey and the Near East. through prayer.
The correspondent of the "Bas- ler Nazional Zeitung" referred to the "unconfirmed reports of the Frenz von departure of Baron
to Papen, German Ambassador
Germany to meet Turkey, for
at his Chancellor Adolf Hitler
Headquarters in Ukraine. Field
at the A plan may be drafted
counterbalance the of a meeting to the resurrection
Anglo-Soviet action in Iran.
The strengthening of German Boys of the 16th Westminster | contingents, in Bulgaria might re- Brigade of Scouts coming out sult in "Increasing pressure upon of the Abbey said that the pilot Turkey," he said. had expressed exactly their In this connection, the own "feelings.
Call For Heroism "This task of remaking society heroism will call for as much as the fighting in the battlefields, on land and sea, and in the air. We are in at the death of the old world. Let us pray that we may
be in at new."
correspondent points
few during the past
same out that days an the
The service, which was broad-argument was s'arted over cast to the Empire, was arranged air between Turkish and Bulgar- by the Dean of Westminster, Dr. jan radio stations. and official de Labilliere, and the English-quarters in Ankara have confirm- Speaking Union,
Certainly, South has to make a strong bid at that point. He
ed that this: argument has brought about a tension between the two has as good as an opending bid in
Victor Hayward Hall,, a 17- his own hand, and his partner
countries.
believes, The has opened the bidding. He must year-dll secondary schoolboy, sent.
correspondent therefore make every
effort to a call to prayer to "young men however, that, a German-Bulgar But what and women in lands afar who are an military action against Tur- reach a game contract.
in the cause our comrades game contract?
truth and freedom."
Contrast In Empires
of
key is not likely.
Game at clubs is rather remote, since it requires eleven tricks. Game at no-trump should seem even more doubtful to the South
he player since
hasn't the Dr. Lang, preaching at the Chapel! vestige of a stopper in either of Royal, St. James's, said that the cuts, scratches, abrasions, burns, the unbid suit. If anybody is to British Empire had grown and scalds and other skin injuries are by the best treated with She-ko, the Dr. initiate no-trump bidding it must evolved, bound together
Medicine Company's be North; South must not bid so spirit of liberty, and the conduct Williams as to indicate stoppers in the red in this war of all the peoples, in-antiseptic, soothing, curative oint- suits when
Equally good for eczema, he doesn't actually cluding the native peoples of the ment.
showed
they ringworm, sores, chapped lips and But North Commonwealth, hold those stoppers.
hands, and the relief of piles. has bid and rebid spades, and found the Empire beneficent.
Obtainable at chemists two strong trumps are sufficient
There Hitler's empire was a wholly where support for a rebid-suit.
empire. fore South should bid three different conception of spades at this point. If North The Reich of the ambitions, pur- of the ruler then bids three notrump, South poses and dreams will be satisfied. As it happens, of Germany, repudiated all
Common- North's best bid would then be ideals of the four spades a makeable, con- wealth.
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Yesterday you were Howard Schenken's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you held:
A Q 10 7 5 ♡ B
◇ RJ 5 2 AQ 9 4:3
'The biddtug:
Schenker
1A Pass
Jacoby
20 Рона
·
British
OFF THE RECORD
Z
QUIET!
Too
Malog. 2A. 30. (7)
ANSWER: Pass. It's true thát you have a trifle more, strength than your partner knows about, but letting sleeping dogs lie is, a good policy. Evidently our part. ner has a near-minimum opening. bid, since he could not bid over. thrde. hearts. You have little defensive strength against a heart contract and should therefore. fear that further bidding by you would "push the enemy into a makeable game contract; or that you would have to "Sacrifice". at four spådes,""
Score 100% for pass, 40% for three spades
Question No. 822 To-day you hold the same bidding is different. hand, but the
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