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Bill Yates
"Your father has a cold.
lle lan dying of old age","
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1959,
Джтабой
"Wife's Birthday. She's always yakking
about wanting to see the world."
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CHINA MAIL BRIDGE SCHOOL
By FREDERIC LEWIS
SOME players
He went the wrong way
An queen. When this lost and European championship. The a queen in the same silt apade was returned, South had "Tame mistake was made, and ace-queen in the same suit En fall mel
counis as a trick and a half, OTI the heart the contract failed. find desse. This finesse was wrong.
while a king in one suit, plus á Three No Trumpe la prob- queen” in another salt-both Three No Trumps & and South had to lose three
spade tricks the king of hearts, ably the most frequenily, played guarded-count as half a trick. more difficult contract and the king of clubs,
game contract of all, and it will I said last week that you should pay big dividends if you learn aim to hold 2% quick tricks than game in a suit. In Unlucky? Not at all. South to avoid this kind of jätmil.. before opening the bidding, and the following example, must duck the first spade, in
not just why 13 or 14 points. Try first to knock out the Holding:- South took the wrong card suit.
case the lead was from a five- entry card in the danger hand the hand with the long sult
finesse first, and failed to make the game..
+42
Opening
Jend
+K674
N.
WE plays K
A36 J52
South took the Best spade and played
club to dummy's
A
At trick three, South goes—If you cari,, over to the table with the king
of diamonds Il plays the In this toxample, South should, heart fincas, which loses,
of course, have established tis hearts before touching clubs, as the only possible cord for quick entry to the West hand is the king of hearts.
defence; West now has no South wins any return and now plays the club Bresse, losing to East, who, has no more spades.
REFRESHER COURSE
Here in this week's guide for beginneTW:——
If East had hed another spade, the suit would have been divided equally (Le, 4—4) and South would have made his contract in any case..
There was R hand
very out quick tricks. A quick $imilar to this in
1958 trick is an nee, or a king and
the
•
Jou open 1 Spade-you have 21 gulck' tricks, plus, in honour Carda
End
biadable qull.
Holding :-
DON'T open the bidding with count.
• KJ74 ❤ 9 10 2 KJO
to
pass,
you will
do better Although you hold a thirteen You have no biddablo suit, I'll go into the question of biddable suits next week,
BISTRO BETS
HOUSEWIVES
HAVE
A FLUTTER
BEFORE
LUNCH
I
From SYDNEY SMITH
Paris.
REACHED out for my betting slip with one hand and raised a glass of hot grog to my lips with the other.
man or a
who had 12 bete to place for her paused for a coffee or a wine---
and hurried off to lunch. tigers.
I was spending a morning in one of France's 1,800 off-course betting agencies, having a glins and a flutter.
Busy Sunday
I wanted to see if I could give any ups to Home Secretary R. A. Butler on betting shops.
The French off-course betting is done in the neat pub-bistro to the French,
Bels are taken from 8 am, until 12.45 pan.
This is how M. Donnet or ganised his betting agency.
He has a little kiosk of wood and wire mesh in a comer by the bar. Some bar owners use
ordinary table in
just
corner.
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Inside M. Donnet's klosk sits his grey-haired, pallent, charm- ing but quick-thinking-Mine. Therese Toussaint,
Mme. Toussaint's kiosk, less than two paces from the bar, takes between £300 and £400 a morning in a good season,
Her salary, which may reach In-
Then, all the afternoon, while £50 in a good month, is more clients lunch at the zinc counter over a coffee or a glass creased
by a percentage on M.
of wine, others dash in and out Donnet's share. He gels one
io look at the tape-machine per cent of all bets.
leking out the results.
of
in
There was not a police- detective in sight. I was in one France's legal betting shops.
In the queue in front of me had been Mme. Therese Frun- chon, a plump and jolly house- wife with the day's lunch in her shopping bog.
She had just enough sous left In her purse for a 200-franc (3) 20.) lutter, the minimum allow- cd.
Behind me in the queue was
Bm, Mme Marie
He told me: "The theory is
nuthorised
nr. having These 1,800 betting that histros, of which 500 are in betting place in the cafe brings But only about five Paris, took £68,000,000 worth custaneTS.
or- per cent of those who bet stop
The
of bels last year. ganisers teil me that this to buy a drink.
year's total-with
France's
booming economy-wil reach the £100 million mark.
No gangsters
"I am not sure how many
My moning passed pleasantly who came back to get their win- the betting-bistro-tobacco, nings or watch the tape-machine shop of M. Albert Donnet in buy a drink as well-probably a
the Rue de la Boetie, near the lot. Champs Elysees.
There are two big and fashion- "But my clients, betting or able churches within a quarter drinking, are all every-day people. Individual bets are very
of a mile.
"So," says M. Donnet, "Sun- anall day is really my big day-what "There are no gangsters here. with everyone going to church and shopping and strolling on the Champs Elysees."
In foot the rush-hour of the woek is Sunday just after
I watched from the counter of church. From 11.30 onwards the Albert Donnel's pub-noisy, full queue is too big for the bistro,
of good cheer and warmth---- while the morning's
a concierge, queued to place their
betters bets--
Who makes money on all this? Well, after M. Donnet's ne per cent there is an organica- tion called Pari-Mutuel which runs the betting on a concussion. from the Ministries of Agricul- ture and Finance.
ARRISON Smith
HWilkes Barre writes: of
don't suppose you approve of the bidding of this hand. I was there and didn't ap prove of it myself but you can't find any improvement in South's play. "With the help of a favourable open- Do Part-Mukuch a com- bined group of French breeding ing lead South took all the
It is tricks." and racecourse societies, non-profit making and it pays 13 per cent of the bets it re- celves to the Government.
The rest, after the pay-out to the winners, is shared between breeding and racing organisa-
torm.
The French police dossiera show no relation at all between crime and the betting-bistros.
-(London Express Service),
I will go along with Har- rison and withhold a stamp of approval on the bidding although East did remem- ber not to double the five heart contract. But the play was certainly elegant.
JACKYS DIARY
by & X Jacky Mendelsohn
Age 322.
WEST
NORTH (D)
10
100
❤ 107 2
AQ 10 9 842 "A
AAQ8543
♥
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X6432
3+
SOUTH
EAST AK
QJ63
K7053
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43972 VAK804
• Mone 43 10 7
North and South vulnerable North Fast South West
Раз 3
Ja 14 Pass 49 Double Pass Pay
Pass Pass
Pors Opening lead-♦ J
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Last Week in GeogrAPHY WE STUDied aLL ABOUT EGYPT
ONLY NOT the Good Part of Africa with Lions & TIGERS, BUT tHe Part with JUST
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JACOBY BRIDGE
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West opened the jack of din manda and South discarded spade en dummy's ace. The ten of hearts was led and covered by East's jack. South won and noted that West dropped the nine. He entered dummy with the ace of clubs. The queen of diamonds forced East's king
and South ruffed.
WHS
The
of clubs queen covered by the king and ruffed smali ini dummy and now South discarded his three spades on three of dummy's dhunonuts,
The seven' of hearts was play- ed next and East was dead. It he covered South's whole hand would be good. If he ducked,
Egypt is A Foreign COUNTRY Which is SiteHVAited SiCHUWAited COAST
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found in
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South would let the seven-ride and resume the diamond parade.
**CARD Seritea♦
Q-The bidding has been: East
South West North 1& Double Pan 10 Pass
You, South, hold:
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What do you do? · A-Bid pie heart. You have s good five card heart sult.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner raises you to two hearts. What do you do now?
Answer on Monday
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CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
(Na 6122
Here is a problem by R. G.
Thomson (Chess Amateur,
1920). White to play and mate
in two moves.
Solution No. 5721: 1 R-K8 ch
fnot IRB, QxRch), K-92;
2 NR31, Q-K12; 3 RxB chi,
QXR; 4 R931, QXR; 5 X-
K5 ch, and 4 KixQ.
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EGYPTIANS are FAMOUS for building Lots of Pyramids in The middle of the DESSERT, which are LOOKED UP onas wonderful FEET of Engineering, EXCEPT NOBODY KNOWS WHAT They're good for
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