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@JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Make Luck Your
Bridge. Partner
By OSWALD JACOBY
DART
of the art 'of
I playing bridge success- Fully is to work with your luck instead of against it.
Everybody has a mixture of good luck and bad, but the cureless player wastes saine of his good luck-as South did in the play of today's hund.
West took the top dia- monds and then shifted to a low club. South won with the ace of clubs, entered dummy with a club, discard. ed a heart on the jack of diamonds and then discard. ed another heart on the queen of clubs.
R
ROMANCE
takes a KNOCK-OUT
in the Barton Plan for Living:
ON BARTON. "the Apollo of the Boxing Ring, ran
a stubby wine list. finger down the looked up with triumph in his blue eyes and said, "That one." It was a Nuit St Georges.
The Wine List has no terrors now for the boy from Plaistow. He is taking And while French lessons.
By this time the eight of clubs had become establish- he may be still a bit diffident ed, much to South's sur about actually speaking any prise. If he led the eight of French ("Until I've had 2 and few more lessons") he is not clubs from dummy threw away the queen of letting that get in the way hearts. East would surely of a choice of good wine. ruff. The question was whether South would still have to lose a trump trick if he adopted this plan
The problem was a rather knotty exercise in pro- ability, and South may be
WEST
$52
KJB
AK $2 6532
NORTH
4783
054
• J.DS
4XQ44
EAST
QJ10
732
TARGET
N T
17
X
108 13 -J100
SOUTH (D) AK984 AQ 10 6 +Q7
South
1 A
A 7 North-South vul.
Eart -West North
Pasa 1N.T. Pas: Pass 24 Pas Pass Puss Pass Opening lead-♣ K
D
EE
How many
WOTIES HE four letters or mate c yon make from the Jetters
the square on the left- Buklar
P
1A
eich word the letters in each of the small squares may be used often only. Each word must contain the large letter in the centre square, and there must be a1 least ane nine-letter word in the list. No plurals do Tareign words: Bo proger TELES TODAY'S TARGET: 18 words, good 21 words, VETY FODA? ZA words. excellent Solution
on Monday.
·YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Allen aline nine sione ancle aut anile calcine elien cancel car chellee chancel chiete elancer clench clinch clone contentie: COCHINEAL cochten zoalie coil enlie concent conical
haif hale halo heel hole tahale jace, lacanic late in 'tancu lamp teach lean lano licher hos hum Hon loack loan inca inin lone il nail olen.
excused for guessing wrong. He chose to finesse the queen of hearts. This lost to the le king, and declarer eventual y lost a trump, going down one trick,
CHESS PROBLEM
By L. A. GARAZA
Black, 4 pieces.
South would have made his contract if he had discarded the, queen of hearts on the eight of Elubs. East" would have ruited with the ten of spades, to be sure, but this trick would have cost him the trump trick he was bound to win in any case.
The true point of the hand is however, that South shouldn't
ave had any have
such kaoítý problems to solve, He should have drawn two rounds of the trump with
"ace and king White to play mate in two. immédiately after taking the sce Solution "to Lesterday's of clubs. Only then was it cor- problem:
White, & pieces.
reet to enter dummy with a club1, Kt-a7; threat 2, Kt-Q6
(ch). 1
and take the discards,
If nothing very fortunate (el); 1 happened in clubs, South would fehz).
Le in position to try the heart finesse, When the eight of clubs established, however, becumve
and
South could condently lead it throw the queen of hearts. The ruff would surely cost the defenders their trump trick. thanks to declarer's precaution of drawing two round's trumps before entering the dummy.
VCARD Sendek
Q-The bidding has been: North
South East
1 Club Pass 1 Spade
Pass
? You, South, hold:
2 N.T.
West Pass
of
AK 1075 W394 +976 MA42"
What do you do?
A-Bld three no-trump. Even
if North has his maximum value of 21 points, your 10 points will
Inake the partnership total only
31 points. You need 33 points for a slam, so you are content to bid only a game.
TODAY'S QUESTION
The bidding is the same as in
the question just answered. You. South, hold:
AK 10753 304.4076 $12.
What do you do?
Answer on Monday
Across
1. Motorlat is well ad- vised to carry a few. (B)
8. This
CIOW frighten
the others,
sometimes. (5)
AWAY ---
9. They make their mark
with a cross. (8)
10. Anything this may bo
noteworthy, (3)
11.
Wiry
fellow.
18, 7)
Etio
12. Baitor on the road. (3)
14. Inquire. (3)
19. Upit and polish for
this (10)
20. There's much of this
Is Shakespeare. (3)
Yesterday's solution
-
K-Q2; 2. 8—Â÷ K-K12; 2, KI-Q8
ANNE SHARPLEY wines and dines with
the gourmet champion... the master of self-defence who intends to stay handsome
at all costN
1
ex-
For id the Earton Elan for Living (lucprin: by his manager Arthur Boggis, boxer, butcher and bon virru") there are two resolutions;
1-To stay Good Looking. 2-To take up Good Living. Instruction in the noble art of staving Good Looking has come. from Boggis who realised the of self-defence. he purposes says, too late to save his own good looks. but is determined to
save Barton's instead.
"Good boxers stay handsome," sirys Boggis and was accordingly very cross when Barton, collect- ed a black eye from Arthur Howard this January,
it
And Bartori admits that has something to do with his knock 'em out-in-the-first- round technique.
No slogging matches for me."
ho, says.
A
So those women who take nou-boxing interest in Barton's already slightly flattened but decidedly handsome nose. need
not fear that it will get flatter.
Hems in the plan for Good. Living are:
A large American car (the colour of an opponent's broken nose) with the word "ChaNTI- pien" scrawled in gilt across the dashboard.
Continental cooking. Barton has chosen the gourmet path to full heavyweightdom. (He is at light heavyweight.) Italian
present
Soho and French, Greek cooking for him. And a dish of scampi a day. A
dish
has even been named after him. (Scampi. Ron Barton---simmered in butter, scattered with parsley.)
Wine, "He drinks no beer or spirits-only wine." says his manager, 'Barton orders Bi sherry. Instead of insisting on
dry sherry as though it were.. a scutic sacrifice--he's frank about it and orders. a sweet. Mr Boggis beams.
The Wine List holds na terrors ter the boy from Plaistow.
YOUR WEEK-END PUZZLE CORNER
DARTWORDS
OR all you wees
end puzzlers START ghostly hextaning HERE
Dartwords presenta
and tisica) ending today. You have to make your way from EEHIE TO BOLERO 01 rearranging the other 49 words in such a way that the relationship between any one word and that ext to it la governed by one of all rules.
AULES
17
1. The word may be
3 Anserm of the word
that precedes it
2. It may be a syno
nym of the word that
precedes. it
3. It may be found
by adding a letter to.
or
subtracting
ane
letter from, or changing one letter in the pre ceding word.
4. It may be
8801-
ated with the preceding word in aaaring. simile, metaphor. or association of 1desa.
5. I may form with the pre- ceding word a name of a well- known person, place, or thing ip fact or fiction.
21. Man in the water off
Cowes (8)
23, You may not and one for your dead-cert bet. (5)
23. Cease puzzáinz. (6)
Down
2. Material for schoolboy
battles, (7)
Bay your pieca, (8)
Scrubs clean. (6)
3. End of the wassal
b. Gambel - apt
(8)
Zago Eight,
from - (6)
7. It's lined with the
enging, as ġften
not (0)
13. Alt anon, "and' change
14-Bad-Pat" adjusts "nim- "
self. (6)
15. Kiss O..that's an
other mix-uD. (5) 16. Hope for a tower ? (8) 17. Tightened or tested..
.18. Heron has <basa-de- scribed, as a grill on these, (6)
LINK
BRINK
HAND DANE FISA
6. it may be associated with the preceding word is a title oT' la the action of a DOOK, PLAY, OF other composizion
A typical successsion of words might be Year Leap Lean Lan Petticoat Sip Sip Sop Gerberus.
(Solution on Page 20)
Ta
19
CROSSWORD
120
12
3
319
ALERT
NEMY
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boxers - be- he's
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a sort
massive still nes. "And. he's learned a tip
two
about answer- ing questions from the oysters he's been eating. Bul for Lhose increasing numbers of women who may not know a feint from a bottle of smelling salts but who will suddenly start taking an
terest
in-
to
in bexing here is my best lady novelist's description of what you really want to know about Barton.
(Particularly for the Lady who wrote to him “Since I saw you last on TV Y haven looked at my husband once.")
He's get the usual Irish curly the sports hair but not as writers have been telling you
jet black. It's dark brown and special Barton
cut in the
manner-no parting, cut close
at the sides and a short mop en_top.
The Barton smile, when it comes, is a dazzler. Shy, with a good show of teeth, and a hint of embarrassment in the blue eyes that he should be doing anything so unboxer-like as smiling. Apd, girls, bls shoulders are. Endless.
HUSKY, VOICE
Tease him about his good. looks and he'll drop a pair of eyelashes that if they belonged to your best girl-friend, you would certainly say were false blush, and amatber. "D'you
mind?" in a husky voice.
Ask him what he likes to do In the evenings and he'll say. dancing, (He startled the Cafe Royal with a spot of real fiving *ccently).
Which brings us to the ques-
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