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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Accept Errors As Part of Game
By OSWALD JACOBY
TOBODY plays crrorless NO You must expect to
error
make an occasional
of your own, although It is to be hoped that you will make very few, and you must expect your opponents to Mumble now and When they do, be ready to take advantage of their lapsen.
then also.
In today's hand, for example,
THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1954.
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"But if it's as serious as all that, shouldn't I get n better doctor?"
West opened the king of hearts YOUR BIRTHDAY.
wn declarer made the sed rus
take of winning immedintele
with dummy's
+100. if you'd | have made the same mistake, Well see don't tell anybody, Juter what is wrong with that play,
mistake,
After making South led a dininend to the men and returned a heart Towards the dummy. West naturally hopped up with the queen <f hearts and returned
Well, what would you return if you were West, to take full advantage of declarer's mistake"
When Clugelt Bowie, The expert of Towson,
well-known
he
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bik, had the West cards saw that South was trying got back to dumny in order to eash the top diamonds. There to keep one way South oul
the chummy Bowie returned 1 king spades!
was only
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but these came to a total only nine tricks. The defenders avird
thanks 10 points, Bowie's fine defensive play.
Now let's go back to South's play. As you see, good defence beats him if he wins the first trick in dummy with the ace of
hearts.
No defence enn touch him if he refuses the first trick. And this is, of course, the very best reason for refusing it.
If the defenders continue with another heart, South wing in dummy, gets to his hand with
By STELLA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29
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By U, LANCIA Black. 12 pieces,
Today, and converted to your White to play: mate in twos distinct divantage,
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IT has been pointed out
that peatedly
to-way streets, intended to relieve con- gestion in one, two, or three- way streets, can only hereuse
the present confusion. 1.
stree!
itself
The no-way would, of course, be free from trafle-jums, as there would be
no traffic, but how
on earth
сип this relieve the other
streets? In fact, street is mere
attempla to solve
traffic-jomy of
in
the no-way
defcutiam. It
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The Child Who Is Afraid
THI
Of Everything
By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.
\HINK of all the grown- there is something or somebody
ups you have known new to him. who are afraid to try now
"We read a great deal to himm things, even to learn & and aro kind to him. Up to or four, he had a lot of frightful simple "parlour" game
engage in some party fun. experiencee, as his poor health mado us take him from doctor Such fears had their begin- to doctor. (гота hospital to
ning long ago, often in in- hospital.
fancy or early childhood.
From a Florida mother, comes a letter which tells vividly of her child 51⁄2, who
MARKED FOR LIFE?
"Could these unfortunato ex-
has an amazing number of periences have marked him for
The rest of his life?” fears of this sort.
"He is afraid of almost every-
My reply in part; The doctor and hospital experiences could thing опе сап think of," she have been factors, since
your says, "and chiefly of trying any-
own fearn about his fears have thing in which he mightn't
been so marked, But they are excel.
picture,
only a part of the
Obylously you parents have
"Knowing that there was to Ob
to protect him pala and <ilscomfort
be an egg hunt at kindergarten tried so hard next day, he didn't want to go from all
10 school, lest he wouldn't And that he has constantly practised
uny
escape,
and
hasn't faced
and the cxgs
children at would laugh at him.
Another reality. day, he refused to go to school for fear he wouldn't know how
Apparently you have not The pressed him to try new expert- ploy the new game
act the stage BG he teacher had promised to show ces nor
would, nor let him fall at any-
to
them,
WON BY ACCIDENT
"Having won a certain game by accident, he would not play it again lest he might not win. One day he ran from class to the bathroom, when his class were supposed to copy numbers. Said he was afraid he couldn't do it.
thing and loka the coll
sequences, No doubt when you raced or played anything with him, you saw that he always won. You didn't let him take the normal bumps.
The way ahead for you parents and this child is hand.
Either
other person will have to harden hin gradually, and to do so will re- quire no end of skill.
you or
some
"Another boy was showing him how to catch a ball and to
In some instances, you will When sweeping a large room. harmonise with the predominat-hit it with the bat. He took have to force him to make the do one section at a time, toking ing colours of the room and the bai, then dropped it, saying: first try, talos the first leap and up the dirt in a dust pan before table settings.
What if I miss?'
meet and play with' now sweeping the next section,
the table is small, the
children. It is most important centrepiece should be small; 1 "Ho refuses to go on tho for him to spend more timic the table is long and narrow, playground apparatus, or on any with other children of his age; When decorating 11 dining the centrepiece should suggest of the kiddle merry-go-rounds; with one at first, and more table for a luncheon or dinner, the same proportions. A refuses to aproach any new later. At best his improvement do not use flowers that have a centrepiece should be sufficient-chlid; refuses to go (even with will be slow, but his approach heavy
odour, as this may be ly low so that the guests con me and a tle friend) to any and normal courage should not
see each other across the table, plenic or Sunday school where be impossible,
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Solution
of the
flowers
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
the problem Blackie's Table Manners
by ignoring them, and living an stoof life what Mrs. has well called an ivory street-tower. It should
own).
of its Cyprian Bowle
-Even for a Kitten, They're Very Bad 'ndeed-
By MAX TRELL
manners that no one ever dis-
is-Never uboys
there's one thing you table!" "N
don't know," Hand, the shadow-girl with the furned- about
name, sald; "it's table MAIZES. You really
don't
be clear, even to the Ministry NOW of Transport, that the more no- way streets you have, te fewer
kefl
to open are the streets
and trafic. Singing heigh-bu off to the fair.
the ace of diamonds, and ruits | Mistaken identity
a heart In dummy. He is now
in position to cash two high Before the man
diamonds in order
wurd to discard
He but
They
his last heart and a club. must lose a trump trick, he makes
scoring the rest, game, rubber, and an overtrick.
If the defenders load anything but a heart at the second trick. the ace of hearts remains in the dummy as an entry to the dia- monds. For example, suppose which West shifts to a club, happens
be his best defence.
ace.
South wins with the acc, clears the see of diamonds out of
the way, leads a heart to the and cashes two high diamonds to discard a club and a heart. Now he cannot lose his contract, and if he makes the right decl- sion he can make an overtrick,
walk on the
Very Bad Manners
Hand waited for a minute or
kazow them ad all, Blackie. two for this to sink into Blackie.
You're
the most untable-
"It's bad toble manners to mannered kitten in the whole walk on the table," Hamid re- aworld, I guess,"
posted.
could say
like G
hitre charged maddened herd,
down, and And knock litri trampled him And almost tore him limb from
Kimb Then, laughing wildly through
their tears,
They ripped
hts clothes
for
Blackie looked at Heald with Blackie the kitten was sitting an expression on her little face in the middle
of the rocking that seemed to say: "Did I ever chair, right in the middle of the walk on the table, Hanid? You spot of sunlight, She blinked must be mistaken. When did I up ut Hanld but she didn't say
ever walk on the table?" mything.
souvenirs And pulled the shoes from off
his feet, And left him lying £11 the tatile
Altret.
But one, awake,
whose wits were wide
Feared there had been a alight
mistake, And thus addressed the hideous
chits:
"Table mariners,
"You walked on it yesterday.
10-15
Hanid sat in a rocking chair, lecturing to Blackle, the kitten.
and
1 saw you myself" said Hanid. Instructing A Kitten
"I'll tell you just when it hap- Hand made her move over a pened, Mother and Father and Little and sat down beside her. the children had just finished bone. That was really very bas! did "I don't suppose." Hanid went their dinner. Mother was just table manners! But you on, that you've ever heard of going into the kitchen with something even worse. Instead
when.... have MRZLICTS;
you, some of the dishes
eating the fish bone on the of without a sound....quick as a plate, which is what a good- Blackle?"
flush.
the table-mannered cut would have Blackle didn't say whether sho
..you sprang from had or she hadn't.
floor to the chair, and from the done, you heard Mother return-
the kitchen dear chair right up to the top of the ing from my Blackle, are the manners you're table!"
instently sprang down from the Hanid paused to see if Blackle table with the fah bone in your
mouth. supposed to have when you're
K
thero's For instance, we listening. She was.
anything sitting at table,
"Then what did you
then jumping upon do, worse It means that you don't cat soup with a fork, or stir your Blackic? You wadlood up and table, Blackie, it's jumping down pudding with knife. Do you down the table as though it were from a table" understand?"
a sidewalk. On one of the plates you found a fish bone. How could Hanid STRIKE called by the
know Oh, how bright your eyes shonet caplain of a public school whether Blacido understood or When you spled that fish bone, North East South West Rugger team is unusual enough not? She just kept blinking up, you snatched it up in your teeth
"Now there's one rule in table Narkover comment. The icam is on strike as a protest manners, Blackle, that no one disobeys....not over # against the demand of the head ever master that a place in the team kitten.
♥&CARD Sense“
Q-With neither side vulner- able, the bidding has been:
+
1 Spade 2 Clubs Poss Pass Double Pans
?
You, South, hold: Spades 8-2, Hearts 9-7-3, Diamonds K-9-7-2, Clubs Q-10-8-3. What do you tlo?
"Girls! The serong star's been
tor to bita.”
The Narkover strike
A
for
A Naughty Kitten
0
Blackio listened to this whole story without a single word of Sho just lay there protest. blinking up at Hanid and finally Hanid walloed off not knowing whether Blackie intended to im- prove hur very bad table man-
You may be sure that "Now It was bad enough," mens or (which is more kely) be found for a boy who is the worst tabis manners in the the fable and find a piece of fish what Honid had said.
tin-anyone who does disobey it has continued Hanid, "to jump upon didn't understand a word of able to pay the fee. The boy's father, in low water at present, world. And this rule in doble
old friend of Dr Smart- ju ar Allick who promised that the He A--Pass You will probably
boy should be in the team. take two clubs and a diamond is quite a good wing three- but his Inclusion would
trick on defence, and your part.. strong bidding Indiestes
that he can take at least 1hmid/naturally be resented by boys
tricks himself.
on
great part who have to spend MICROD YOU will of their earnings at curda probably beat two clube, and securing places in the team. A you may even murder that consenior master suggested that the traði. Even if Esst makes two clubs he will nos noore a game for: it, so little harm will be dode.
MĀ TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same so lu
head master should advance the money to the boy's, father, byt Smart Alitek replied that It is no part of the duties of a head master to lend money to parents for the purchase of places in tcams.
Another household hint -
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