8 JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Good Player Can Correct Errors
BY OSWALD JACOBY LIVEN the very best bridge
players don't always make the perfect play on every hand. This is true of the averago bridge player too, but there is an important difference. The average bridge player may miss the correct play in a particular dituation and nover realise that ho has made a mistake.
the
When the expert miases right play, however, he event- ually seen hin mistake and is therefore prepared to make the right play the noxt time he meets a similar situation.
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EDITORE PIKDO AZAVICE, ING-NUEVA YORK,
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY; .....JUNE 17, 1953.
THE WAY • Beachcomber
BY THE
by
IN outlining yesterday was
theory about the possibility of opcoding-up sound, I assumed that everyone knows that tho varies with velocity of sound temperature.
That is why an echo in tropical eliimales varies inversely with the
When today's hand played in a match point tourna- ment in Pittsburgh, recently, there was no way to defeat the contract of four spades. The only question was whether or not declarer was going to make an extra trick. (In a match point. tournament, the · extra 30 points for the overtrick are
importance.)
of
clubs,
of
opened the king continued with the ace of clubs, and then led a low club. E. J. Mori, one of Pitts- burgh's great bridge players, ruffed with the deuse of spades, declarer over-ruffed with the five. "I saw too lato” said Mori, in telling me about the hand, "that I had missed a very pretty play."
and
South next led his singleton diamond to dummy's continued with the spades from, the dummy.
WEST
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NORTH
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EAST
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East-West vul.
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West North East Pats
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Pass Pass
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Pass 4 Pass Opening tead- K
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trump fineze succeeded, South was able to draw all of
tricks,
the trumps with the ace, green, and jack. It was then easy for declarer to take the rest of the
making his contract with
a first class player,
he was the first it's an unusual situation, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if the situation ever recurs ho
an overtriak.
Since Mori is bridge
to
Dee hig mistake,
will automatically come through with the winning play,
When West leads a third club, East must ruff with the nine of spades! South must use the
--Jäck-to-over-ruff, and this will eventually cost South a trump trick, South must enter dummy with the 1100 of diamonds to load a spade for
fincsso
4
through East.
South can easily
take two trump tricks with the ace and
queen (East will surely
cover
the ten with his king), but then West will win the third round of trumps with his lowly eight.
CARD Senses
-The bidding has been:
North East South West
1 Heart Pose 1 Spade Puss
3 Spades Pass
You, South, hold: Spades K-3-7-5-3, Hearty K~j~G-4, Diamonds 5-2, Clubs 3-2, What do you do?
ABld four hearts. This not only shows the support for hearts, but also indicates that
your hand was strong enough to bid spades before raising hearta. Conceivably, your part- her, may now be able to bid a
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades K-J- 7-5, Hearts 6-4. Diamonds Q-J-Clubs Q-J-7-3. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow
CHESS PROBLEM
-By G.-SMIT- Black, 8 pieces.
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At White, 10 pieces. White to play: mate in two.
#olution to yesterday's
K MOVES; 2,
1 (ch); Kb-Q6; 2, Ki-m Kto (ch);ud. KtXQP; 2, F: (ch); Au...._RXQ or R;
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my lock the left arm behind the right bring back the left leg with swing knee, turn the right foot outwards, from behind you, ferk the body erect throw back the band, fix the neck lightly, extend the fingers of the right hand while bending to the right, hold the breath for two minutes, standing on the left leg. with the right- Jeg bent forward from the knee. That ought to make You ft for a day or two.
un root of denalin the wind ilian again 11. To forestall these dinicutiles, 1 would suggest in Here, there, and Creasing is intensity of the sound pressure-in a purely artificisi sense
by applying to the mechanie transmission Piff's Law of Absolute Oscillation, and thus extending the Innits of aural audition beyond the range of sonic vibration. The curva of wind and temperature would thus be mullied by what Garrod coed "Regional displaceinent” as when a huical apparatus was used to "itsten” to rhubarb Krowing in A rocket at a height of 73,000 feet in a thunderstorm. How to keep fit HERE is the first of Mr Wobforth's
daily exercises for the unfl. Besuch slowly backwards, raining the left leg behind you, and curving the right arm round the neck, At the same time put the left hand be hind the right leg, just above the knee, while turning the neck slowly to the left and ting the head slightly forwards. Keeping the left elbow' well out from the right leg,
WOMANSENSE
DRUSILLA BEYFUS presenting
MY FASHION
CATECHISM
THE GIRL IN A MILLION is she who looks in her mirror on the wall and sees a moral there.
woman She is fashion's rarest find, the with the nerve to size herself up honestly and who never forgets where she fell short..
She is half-way to elegance already, the girl with the knack of putting a finger on her faults and the sense to wear the clothes that whitewash her.
Black and
everywhere White
DESCRIBED an albino Red Indian, Hoko Pum, of no fixed abode, was yesterday bound over for og stolen from the Battendale Zoo. being drunk in charge of a ledg n-
SIAMESE TWINS," aid Damo Florence Cure in an interview at Perugia, "ate enlllled "to one hat aplece, fust like oller_people."
AN UNKNOWN MAN entered the ring at Tattersall and balanced penny on his nose. He was asked to leave.
AGNES TULSE. aged nine, has mare a four-inch statue of a cornel. out of chickens' wishbones.
In passing
The suggestion that England should play a side of 30 or 40 in the first Test Match has been turned down. Alternately, the Australians might be asked to bat with broom-handles and to bowl lobs.
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA
Orlitawda Nou ste
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
You
PORN today, you are a rather tou serious berson and U it were not for a keen sense of humour, your find you a dull in- very reliable, dividual. however, and prove to be one uper
heap, rea can who everyone ponsibility with the assurance that a job will be well done. You like to have system about everything you do and then follow that ryster. want others tu fall in line, too.
and kindly Sinee
ATO you sympathetic. others are always coming to you to unburden them selves. Hence, it often happens that You are worrying more over the headacher of your friends then you are struggling to solve your own wasting your Avold problemal eners upon those who are unworthy of your efforts.
Underneath this outwardly easy- strong will, going nature, you have high ideals, and the ability to execute dificult programmer against almost any kind of opposition. Once you lave given your word about some- thing, you can be depended upon to carry a project through to pletion.
com-
You have a deeply emotional nature and having your own home is of great unportance to you, Be married al an early age for the best happiness. You women make line managers and your homes are always run efficiently Guard your health. and pleasantly. for you are not as robust, physically, as you sees to think you are.
To and what the stars have in tomorrow. select your store for birthday stor and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your binh- day may be your dally guide.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
asked to take on added responsibility just now. You can do it!
РІЯСЕЯ (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Make trip into count plan for a short dr the coming week end.
GEMINI (MRY 27-June 21) A clever and original approach to a problem, even to an old one, can solve it with little adeušty,
22-July CANCER {June You will find that consideration is reciprocal. Be thoughtful of others and icy will be the saine of you.
23)
(July 24-AUE. 21) - Italler than ruali into things in- pulsively, think every acl over carefully before starting. Results are
better.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
Combine pleasure and business today. „Fricada, can prove an awet to your
wall carver as
is being social pleasure.
LIBLA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23>-- Invite friends to your house and have pleasant evening. The beginning of a social time!
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22)- Put rystem into your job and the results will be surprisingly good. Save Ibne and money that way.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 27)- Even if you are inclined to disagrea with the "boss" follow directions im-. plicitly today.
САРДІСОПИ (Dze, 23-Jan. 20)-
A gathering of your favourite friends
ANIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) Weddings are in the air these days. You'll probably be invited to one this week or next. Accepti
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE ...
BLACK and white shantung is used for a dress with a crisp, clean look, pretty yet unclutiered The black bodico and youthful has a scooped neck piped in the checked fabric of the sidirt. The white linen bib la runovable as are the cuffs and when
removed
the effect is a more dressy one, nice for late afternoon. There is a string tie at the neck under n Slit 21-pointed lure of collar. Unless you are sure that you can pockets are hicklen in the folds make good, don't make promises. Better not to commit yourself.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May
of the fairly full flared skirt,
'I'll
So rarely you and the people who can do it-and the others you see so often, Hips that should never be in slacks, in slacks. Necks far too brief for dangly earrings, in dangly earrings. Arms too plump to bare from top to bottom, bared to the last bulto.
She is a book of fashion sense, the woman who knows what is wrong with her. For example; the second speaker in the series "MY one of London's top Fashion Catechism," fashion designers, MISS BETTY NEWMARSH.
never
again-
F
MIRST—what is in her favour? A mirror to Mias Newmarsh shows
look like a soldier in them. Instead I keep to just-on-the- shoulder necklines. dropped shoulder-lines In milla and coats, round scooped-out neck- lines for dresses."
"I won't wear shorts Just because my legs are nice to the Ince. I know that the girl who looks her best in shorts has flawless thighs."
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• "I won't take the casy way out again and hope to get good suit from a little tailor. Good suits can only be found
the shops and at the best dress-makers. Little tailors turn out suits for little men girl with a lot that's right with squared shoulders and a about her. She has a figure mannishness about the whole
line." for clothes, long legs, n
rother
small waist, and a shapely chid type. So I'd for
"I know I'm not the or- top. It shows a prettily pin, a fat bunch of white sculptured head, a chic hair daisies to my dress than a real style, and a face with an orchid. arresting arrangement of. "I won't wear gold costume features.
jewellery any more. It looks too hot against my pale com-
But her great invisible asset
is that she knows the rest of plexion. You must be brown the picture.....
to wear gold, if you are pale hair deeds is an expensive cut. all-purpose colour.
or man-tailored shoulders
are too square.
.
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A definite style of dressing
· It goes
"
"I won't wear stoles, off and pink, silver jewellery is So have it cut well once with flat heels, high heels, the-shoulder evening, dresses, tr
far pretuler."
weeks and look. hats, and head-scarves." every three sults. My "I won't wear a tubo slim after it myself the rest of the
dregg
"I won't buy delicate dress again-ever. To wear me."
materials that. take a lot, ot them well I think you need an Immaculate elegance
won't buy what I'm al-hand laundering. I hate spend- of the
over ways told to two skirts to go ing hours
an froning kind I don't aspire to.
with a suit jacket to make the board, so I buy tougher stufta "I won't fall for
pair of outfit last twice as
the long. It that can be sent off to those new gipsy earrings like a never pans out like that with Jaundry and I don't have to big ring. My ears aren't quite me because I know I'll wear dat enough, and dangly
ear out the spare skirt separately. rings don't help. Instead
There is one weakness she If I had the money I'd spend has never managed to wear the button kind that Ile the extra on better material. "Sometimes I think about close on the cheek."
"I won't think that black new dress so much that when "I won't have my hair is the shade for a dress that's I get the frock I feel I'va done each week by an Indif- got to do for town 'nnit' coun-" worn it out." ferent hairdresser. What
DUMB-BELLS
XXX LUMAT DOES "THAT MEAN?
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AND
KISSES
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Conversation in the Kitchen
-Mother Makes Dinner and the Ingredients Talk!--
By MAX TRELL
"Humph," answered Milk. "It's easy enough for you to talk like
at your home can bring real delightTT was a very warm day: Hanld, thal, Salt Hot weather never
bd pleasure this evening.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 1-Feb. 19)--
reems to bother you a bit. You never turn sourt"
the shadow-girl with the Culuvate self-confidence if you are turned-about name, came into
the kitchen and sat in a corner "And you never melt!" added
CROSSWORD
5.
to rest
I was busy preparing
Butter..
At that, there was the sound
· and had set out a number of bubbling laughter from the
of things that she needed on the pot of water on the stove. "Com-
kitchen table. There was a dish plaining of a little heat! Supposo
af butter, a bottle of milk, the you were put in a pot and set salt and
pepper, n bag of to boil like I'm doing now!" potatoes and overal lemons. On
"I feel the same way as you the stove, a pot of water was
do. Water." coming to
the said one of a boll. All at once Hanid. heard o Potatoes.
Then they all looked at the voice saying: "Come, Mother- don't keep me out of the leebox Lemons, "What are you fellows too long! Oh dear"
doing here?" Salt asked, "Are you going to get cooked?". Ought to Be Put Back "What's the matter with you, repited. "We're
"Oh no," the biggest Lemen
going to Butter? another voice said. "I'm squeezed. Then we're going to 1. O duet for artiate (8)
the one who should really be put get chilled in sugar and water, 4. Pollow. BI1*
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·her occupation.
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“And you never melt!" Butter ́said to the Salt,
Hanid, who heard all this, was just about to say: "Lemons aren't |
sour
to begin with!"
afraid of turning our. They're But just then Mother put the milk and
Then we're going to be served, loebox, der back into the
"Really, Milk?" put in a third we're going to be lemonade." voice, "Why are you and Butter
so anxious to be put back into "And you're not afraid of
the icebox? I should think you'd
like it out here for a change."'
turning sour, standing here liko this?" Milk asked,
Rupert and the Robins-32
a marvellous So the robins are the right colour, again and are happy, My, whär a reliel 1. Thank you "Rupert, you've given, 147* most wonderful treat.**. And with: that all his little pala agros.
When all is ready-Rupert opens the window, and to the astonish- ment of everyone' a dozen robins dart in and fly across the room. Then, while the party duster round, they settle between the two, chairs, and; all singing together, - they fill the room with the most-... lovely bird-music. •W Walls" gaspi, the old, Professor, ** this
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
THE END -A Nrw Adventure, Degins Tomorrows
the potatoca Into the pot of boiling water, and squeezed the lemons and made lemonade.
And that ended the convYCTED- tion on the kitchen tablei
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