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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 29ND, 1992.
LOSSES AND GAINS AT BRIDGE.
[DY A. E. MANNING' VOSTER.] Anlaying my Bridge accounts for the year, I am confronted by a strange phenimeuon. Although they pan out quite satifactorily au the year (thank you very much!) and that. I had three very bad, months....
They were so bad that I was inelized to think nothing quite so disastrous bad ever happened to me before. But-and this is the strange part-ou examining old diaries I find that for, the past seven years (all the records I have preserved) I have experi eaced serious losses in those selfsome thrus months. You must understand that those months were not merely bad but signally bad. I don't attempt to explain it. But if it is muere coincidence is is certainly a re- markable coincidence."
A very careful and consistent club player who keeps elaborate records told me that he bad had 428 "sittings" this year. Tois means that he has played every day, and on some days has had two "sittings. On 429 occasions he has won and on 199 lost
He calculates that the best player cannot expect to win in money-more than S per cent. on bis annual turnover. The actual turnover for a man playing fairly high-siy 42 per hundred-may easily amount to £100 per sitting. By that I mean the amount of money that actually changes bands. So that anyone playing 400 tim a year would have a tarnover of £40,000. If he contrived to win 3 per cent, on this sum he would not be doing badly.
In the ordinary way, and trusting to the chance of the deat, the percentage of luck at Bridge is generally estimates as being from 85 to 95 per cent, the determining factor. The answer to the question of whether the percentage of akill is as low as 5 or as bigh as 20 depends on the calibre of the player. Even the very beat, according to the American writer, Mr. Hilton Work, are not considered to have more than 20 per cent, advantage over the mediocre.
In other words, in any one sitting luck will give the weaker pair the victory when. ever if furnishes them with cards one- fifth above the average. In the long ru skill will tell, and that is why the un- nual reckoning at Bridge is so necessary. During the course of a twelve-month, experience proven that things do average themselves out in the most remarkable way. If you consistently lose year by year you may be sure there is something wrong with your game or you are playing beyond your class.
But someone must loss, you say. Quite trac under the conditions we play. Yet if you put your players of exactly equal merit and the difficulty would be to find thefa for a whole year playing together they Would come out practically all square,
But it does not really matter at Bridge whether you win or lose as long as you enjoy your game.
PEER'S 67 YEARS ABSENCE.
LEFT ENGLAND TO SEEK HIS
FORTUNE A SQUATTER".
Among the passengers on the Blue Furnel Liner Ascanius, which reached Liverpool at the end of March from Australia, were the new Earl of Ducic aged 87, and his daughter, Lady Beatrice Moreton.
The Asconius left Melbourne on. Janua
28th, Hon. Berkeley Basil Moreton, sack bis fortune in Australia, and there the earl left England 67 years ago to he made his home.
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He now becomes the fourth Earl of Ducie by the death of his brother, the
ago, at
"MANCHURIA RAILWAY third carl, several months
OPERATING ALL LINES SOUTH MANCHURIA AND. CHOSE (KOREA) EAST OF MURDER
the
age of 84, the third earl's son having died two years earlier,
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kong Coast Parts, &c. A typhoon of "May 21st, at 11.21-Warning to Hong- aknown intensity within 80 miles of Lat. 11 dag. N. Long, 129 deg. moving N.W.
est over N.B. China. It has increased con- May 9lat, at 11.33-Fremure is still high-
Philippines this morning the depression, or siderably at Neurs and slightly over the
typhoon, was passing over the southern
At
Visayas in north-westerly direction.
Hongrong Hainful for the 24 hours sexting Tat 10 am, 21st Mar, 0.02 inch. Total since January lab, 16.83 inches, against an Avaraga of 1865. Insbes
The family scat in England is Tort worth Court, Falfeld, Gloucestershire, and there the octogenarian peer proceeded
He was met on landing
in by Mr. Spencer Ponsford, who was secretary to the late earl and has been appointed secretary to the new holder Hongkong to Gap Rock of the title,
The forecast for the 24-hours ending si goon to-day is an follows :—–—–
FOLECANY
Liverpool
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moderate; Ene.
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Formosa Channel
The same
No. 1
His Lordship, who is a benevolent old-
of the most cheery temperament, with a keen sense of humour, favoured his cabin when the Acantus came along-South coast of Chains between The same as press representative with an interview in side the Prince's landing stage.
Hoogking an i Tara soka į Seth costs of Cham bo woon (The same s
Hongkong an.Hafnin f No. 1.
I
her, 1955, in a mailing ship called the I've been in Australia ever since. If
England for Sydney in Novea
Waterion, about 100 fons register, and had not succeeded to the carldom, 1 they should not come back now, unless 'me out. What have I been doing all these farming-and helping to do my bit in the years? Well, I've been squatting-sheep way of government.
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Colonial Secretary and Minister for Pub Lord Ducie has been Queenaland's lic Instruction, besides holding other Government some of offices, and helping to make
changes which have been made Mon 12 in Australia,"
Asked if he had been interested in pub Fea
those of a schoolboy, laughingly d hand at Thur 25 carl, whose spirits were as buoyant na Wad. 24
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to England, "I'm very curious to see what date 27 m. it looks like," he remarked. "It'e & long KONGOSAN. The famous Diamond Mountain of Korea. A special time-67 years but now I'm going to Bax 23.9
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Summer Resort rivalling svitserland for climate and sommerHis Lordship's wife died about eight Beautiful peaks and pharming esscades. Grand
Grand recuperative or nine months ago. His son, Lord stations at. Wagga Wagga, where he learn
After three years on one of the Mackay qualities. Kongosan Hotel (10 rooms) at Onseiri and Choanji Moreton, and Lady More on are coming ed abeep mangement, he went overland
from Australia in a few weeks
Lady Hotel (11 rooms) at Choeurf."
Beatrice Moreton, the earl's daughters land, where he took up a station in the to Melbourne and embarked for Queens- gave
during Wide Bay district- the W&T.
When the earl landed in Sydney in Maryborough constituencies in the Legis Later bo represented the Burnett and 1885. 11, the height of the gold digging indive Assembly of Queensland, and in days, he made a long journey inland to 1888 was appointed to the Legislative Bathurst an horseback, in the company Council. -***
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