JACOBY ON BRIDGE
"Use Give-Up Play With Discretion
ONE
By OSWALD JACOBY NE of the most familiar plays In bridge is the "give-up" play. Its technique is very simple. You simply allow the opponents to defeat you,
Naturally I don't recommend tick play. but would be foolish 10 female the fact that practically alt Players make use of this play moje uften than they should, In today's hand South timidly made the give.
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THE CHINA MAIL, : WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1952, -
BY THE WAY.
by
Beachcomber
[ATHEMATICIANS have com- Arabic for all she meaning it can
bees written backwards in law pusot that the odds on a
wyed to him. Ata conference mistike being made in Charlie yesterday Buet answored all critic- Subt's filing system are six to iams by stating that the actual mathadiation of estegory and sub- four.
category, preliminary to the selective filing, operation, · depends on the claselenions made necording to inital letters, and others following. not necessarily allowing subject- priority so dislocate the final distribuis onary procem under consideration.” Twenty Years of Uproar
The system da on elaborate
that the trained, secretaries, say they would rather have all letters and documents pinseed in a hat and shuffled than go through the business C what Buet calls preliminary selective clarification of categories.
MUSIC teacher has been-com-
an allocation of processed felt, which A letter from Mirs Dumbrill about should have been lied under Amplaining that it is very dificult allocations, was first filed under ? for Tell, then moved to for owadays to keep a girl at the harp. processed. But then
Jie talks as though harp-playing were a form of imprisonment. The
should be under for Dutbrill Ath a copy, under M for Mrs. For some reason it was finally filed under W, from which ridiculous letter it was rescued by a puzzied secretary. Suet for method
walta behind the wires for A handsome young man to muggle in Ale. She files through three wires, The 'and 'steps out to dirodom.
up-to-date orchestra vill soon have an electric. Harp, You plug it in and then sit back and watch the violinu anwing away like a pack of demanted i up play instead of fighting for BUSINESS men have asked in what carpenters. A mobile harp would he iles the aupposed 'superiority of amusing. It would help the arpette duet's systom over any other. Bir to escape the attentions of a Remi Geoffrey Spade' of the Moraḥ and porarily unemployed oboist. She orchestra Fawcett Oaseous Eye-Products Cu could dash all over the nald of a reply he received to this with the awal in hot pursuit. Not question that it might as well have that I care.
contract.
West oprged the live of diamonds. ari declarer tried to tinesse duinmy'à East won with the king ur Jaex diamonds and returned the ten. West
WEST
AJ72
A73-
Q0852
NORTH (D)
MAKQ84
❤KZ +AJ3
4AJ7
SOUTH
100
EAST
4953
❤ J 10 5 4
◆ K 107
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+64.
K10943
Neither side vul.
North
Eart
South
LA
Pass
J N.T.
Pass
IN.T. I'was
West Pas Parr
Opening lead-- ♦ 5
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the carefully played dlanionds on the second trick to make sure of being able to continue th
When West was allowed to hold the second trick with thes queen of diamond, he continued with the
Bamonds, nine pi Cumby's acr
"Nov" decimter had to find a way to make pine tricks. He decided that
brake 3-3. 1 even if the gades
forcing
out
would still need the club latesse or a heart trick. 1e decided in establish a heart trick at sare in the hops Bat East had the nee, of igaris, or that epela
apponent
hud Glamo
four
__West__naturally. pounced on the king of hearts with his der, and sort declarer Immediately by runing the rest of the diamonds. South had made the give-up viny, and deserved exactly what he got.
The correct play is de rue Qie spades after takie the see of diss monds. West is practically compelled to signal with fimt the reven of heart and then the three of hearts. This warna declares that the ace of hearts held by West.
South can also feel, sure that West brean a live-card, dizipend suit, Ir -host held four diamonds, headed by ..the kilig-teh, he would have returned his fourth-best diamond at the second trick instead of the ten of diamonds. By this thre, therefore, South knows that Wesi
began with five diamonds, three or more hearts, and three spades. West therefore cannot have more than two clubs and may not even have that many. South should therefore continue Ly casting the arc of clubs, and lead- ing the Jack through East for a Onenic. This line of play would, of coupe, fulfi)-the contract...........
CARD Sense®♦
East
-The bidding has been
Wert North South
PAL 2 Diamonds Paus
1 7zoart
2 Hearts
Pass 2 Bpodes
You, South,
~~hold:
Ра
spades k-2.
Hearts A-K-Q-7-5-2. Diamonds 8-3. Clubs Q-9-8. What do you do?
A-Bid three hearts. You cannot pass, since North's bid in forcing for one round. You cannot valse spades or diamonds, and you cannot bid no- trump with so le strength in tho unbld suit. All you can do is to rebld your strong alx-card sull,
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question Just answered, You. South, hold: Spades K-2. Hearts A-K-Q-J- G-2, Diamonds 8-5. Clubs Q-D-0. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
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YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
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other.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)- Take me em lù, clear your desk up flags have been a little hec- the and busy lately,
CAPRICORN (Der. 23-Jath 203- Perhaps you, can repay, in Khid. a favour" which was done you rame the agɔ Offor your help.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 193-** All work is bad for anyone. Take time out tonight for a little re- creation to balance the ledger bet- terl
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GEMINI
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22-Jnne (May
Think everything over very care- fully before making any final do cislona. Temporise," it necessary.
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PROBLEM
By J. BUCHWALD Black, 9 pieces.
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21
White, 10 pieces.
White to play: mate in three,
Solution fo yesterday's problem:
1 P-K18 (=Kt), any; 2, R. or Kt mates.
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11. Part of that wriggly feeling, (2)
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LIBRA
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Mr Punch, Tight-Rope Walker
He Says It's as Easy as Falling Off a Logl
By MAX TRELL
Knar said "MR PUNCH."
and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, "Mr Punch! Wake up!" Mr Punch, who had been tak ing his Usual after-dinner- before-supper snooze, opened
reluctantly. (Reluctantly mennt he didn't feel much like opening them but he opened them anyway), "W-what is it?"
eyes
he asked.
his
** “Mr. Punch,” sald Hanid, smiling at her old friend, "did you ever go to the etrcus when you were a boy?"
When A Baby
"Certainly," replied Mr Punch, "I not only went to the circus when I was a boy, I also went when I was a baby. I hope to keep on going to the circus even when I'm an old inan. But why do you ask?"
"Because Knorf and I would like to know if it's hard to be a Ught-rope walker."
"Why?" asked Hanid,
"Does
he expect it to rain while, he's tight-rope walking?"
"
Helps Him Balanco
"No. The umbrella is just to help him balance himself, He wwaves it from side to side when he feels he is beginning to fall, Punch sald suddenly, "I once Ah, that just reminds me," Mr
decided to be # tight-rope walker."
This was surprising news, and " Knorr-and. Hanid were eager t
now more about it.
I went to the circus when I was
a baby," said Mr. Funch.
tried to walk on it, the captain "It happened." Mr Punch said, of the ship chased me away. right after I had been to the He said the rope was for keep- circus, I decided then and there Ing the stup frúin flouting away,
to practise walking on a rope not for me. And then I found a so that I could become a tight- cowboy with a rope. But he rope walker and get a job with said his rope was for lassoing the circus. Well, first I practised and not for walking. So
jump- couldn't And any горе walking on my sister's ing rope. But she took it away practise on." from me."
"And that's why you never "She did, Mr Punch!” gald become a tight-rope walke: Knart. "Why did she?"
with a circus?" said Knari,
1
"She didn't want me walking on her jumping rope. So I look- ed around for another rope. soon found it, right in our own back yard."
"What kind of rope was
Much to the surprise of Kuarf and Hanid. Mr Punch said, "It's easy, my dears easy as falling off a log." Having said this, he started to go to sleep again. But Knarf and Hanid bath shook Mr Punch?” him. "Yep
easy a falling off a log. he repeated. "Now what a tight-rope you know walker does, don't you?"
ut
Quite Thin
I
"Well, that's just about the reason. As a matter of fuet, dki finally get myself a sort of rope to practise on. It was it, quite thin, It hang between our fence and the cellar window. It was left there by a spider, I used to walle up and down it, balancing myself with
my grandmother's Umbrella. It
hard once wasn't very
I got used to doing it.
"But when. I went to the
"It was my mother's clothes line rope. It was nice and high off the ground, too. But I had no sooner started to walk across it. than my mother came out and ordered me to get of!”
"Why?"
"She said she wanted her circus and told them that. I
a
to be quite sure Just Knarr and Hanid did know,. Mr Punch thought it best to: ex- plain. "First a rope is stretched lightly between two high poles, clothesline rope for hanging her could walk on a spider's web Then the tight-rope walker clothes on, not for me to go and that I wanted to be walks across the rope from one walking on. So I had to look tight-rope walker, they just just na you around again for another rope, laughed at me and wouldn't pole to the other, would walk along the pavement. It wasn't easy. went down to give me a job. They said from one end of the street to the harbour where the ships tight-rope walker had to walk the other. Sometimes he carries were and found a rope holding on a rope, not on a spider's an umbrella in his hand." a ship to a dock. But when web."
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A
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WIRE DID TRICK
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She patented the fastener and started selling It to earring manufacturers. A little over year ago, Mrs McCunu storted making the earrings to go with Mrs McCann, a native of the fastener, Trenton, Tenn., invented "shuvon" the same way she in- The convertible necklaces re- vented the earring which hangs for a strand of beads from the cartiluge instead of clipping or screwing to the ear could be worn tight or loose at
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On the back of each there's a wire hook,' Shove 'that onto
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·lat it back of my mind and germinate," she said.
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