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HINTS ABOUT FINESSING.
FOR SERIOUS-BRIDGE
PLAYERS.
[BY HUGH ELLIOT:]
A very common type of hand, in which players often go wrong is that where a fincasa can be taken in two different ways)
Suppose, for instance, that the declarer holds A, Kn, X, X, spades, and dummy “holds K, 10, xx, there are three different ways in which the suit may be led There are nine spados between" the two hands, and the declarer may either lead out his see and king of |spades on the first two tricks in the hope of dropping the queen or he may play the ace on the first trick and nesse the 10 on the second¡ or "he may play the king on the first trick and finesse the knave on the second. In different circum- stances any of these three ways may bo right.
If there has been no bidding and no clue to the adversaries' cards the correct course is to play out the nce and the king on the first two tricks. But it there has been any bidding, the case is immediate
altered. If one adversary' has bid no-trumps, he is more likely to have the queen of spades than his partner. If, on the other hand, ene adversary has bid hearts, dia monds, or clubs, he is less likely to have the queen of spades than his partner, for his hand is marked with several cards of the suit which he has bid, and there is by' that amount less room in it for the queen of spades.
- Is There A Cluat Before starting to play his apades, the declarer should there- före consider what clue he possesses as to the position of the Queen. If he has no clue, be will play out the Ace and King on the first two tricks. But if there is the least presumption that the Queen is in one band rather than the other, he will assume that it is in that hand, and will fincase, against it on the second round, if it has not fallen before the finesse becomes neces- Kary,
Finessing against two cards, in troduces somewhat greater compli cation. If, for instance, the do clarer" holds A, Q, 10, x'x, of a suit with a few small once in Dummy, the best way to clear the suit is to finesse the 10 on the first round, and the Queen on the second If these are nine or more of the suit between the two hands, the should be finessed on the first round, as that gives the best chance of establishing the suit with out losing a trick
This rule, again, only holds good in the absence of any information about the adversaries' hands. There are cases in which it is right to finesse the 10 on the first round, even if there are nine between the two hands. The reader will have no difficulty now in distinguishing these cases.、
PRINCE ON TRADE OMENS.
LORD HAIG'S BELIEF IN
VICTORY.
ON THE UPGRADE AGAIN-
BRITAINS REWARD FOR
HOLDING ONE
RUBBER AND MINING SHARES.
A TALE OF BLACK SUNDAY. QUOTATIONS AND DIVIDENDS.
BE NOT AFRAID NOR
"DISMAYED,"!`
A remarkable story revealing "We have started on the up-Ear Haig's deeply religious' grade again, declared the Prince character and his calmacas in face of Wales, who, in a speech at of possible disaster was told on Birmingham called attention to February 1st by Professor George the brighter prospects for "British S. Duncan, of St. Mary's College, industry b
St. Andrews, who was Presbyterian Chaplain at the British General Headquarters in France from 1915 to 1919.
The Prince who was the princi- pal guest at the annual dinner of the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths Amociation, said:
A Prequent Mistake, While on the subject of finessing, I may perhaps be pardoned for mentioning a mistake, which is often made, although it is of a very rudimentary character. Where the declarer has A, Q, x, x, x, of a suit and his dummy hus Ka, X, I it is surprising how many people persist in leading the Kn through. The correct procedure, of course, is to lead a small one from dumny and to finesse the Q. If the finesse comes off, the A should be played en the chance of dropping the K when the En becomes good in dummy, and the suit is cleared: without the loss of a trick. If the Kn is led on the first round the suit cannot possibly be cleared without losing a trick for it is bound to be destroyed by the K. whichever side the K may be, and either the first round will be won by the R or the third round, by the 10. The Kn therefore should not be led from dummy unless it is backed by the 10,
"There is one reminisces of Earl Haig which so far I have re
Your industry claims to be one of the oldest, if not even the oldest, of human handicrafte. I garded too sacred for print, but have even moen it stated that in the time has now come when it may the history of civilisation ornattingly be made public," he said. ment comes her dress Out in France Earl Haig at - I would not like to say postended service regularly at 8.30
of caring
mally sprang from be Human
in before the iden of a pair users; but I most certainly noticed that when ever freshtirees of the dark ages are dug up by archeologists the evidence always goes to show that about the first job of the prehistoric craftsman was to turn to and make attractive ornaments for his lady friends.
Even before the latter had awoken to the decorative proper- ties of diamonds or rubies they seem to have insisted on having necklaces made from the teeth of faflen enemies, or of the animal off which they had just dined.
Balled Shirt" Misery.^ Ladies fashions-deep waters into which I do not cars to ven ture must have been the hope and the despair of jewellers from time immemorial. I feel on safer ground in the matter of our own made attire. For example, we would not be wearing sleevelinks if lace rules were to come in again to balance this it is quite impossible to wear an elaborato watch-chain on a golf pull-over. That reminds me of another curious Sastance of how change in clothes affects the wearing of jewellery. Have any of you ever thought why all wear these sti armour-plated shirtfronts f
served as
arved as the Presbyterian Church never absent it in the neighbour at General Headquarters. He was hood, but on that black Sunday following the outbreak of the great German offensive in March, 1915, I-reatised he could not be with us. He dared not leave his deek, I felt.
inore probably he bad gone for ward to direct operations.
Resolute As Ever. "I could not believe my eyes when he appeared outside as calmi and resolute as ever, but on the ramparts of Montreuil we shook hands in silence and scarcely knowing what I said, I expressed the hope that things were not too bad.
replied, They will never be too Quietly, but reassuringly, he bad No. I said you who were through Mons and Ypres in the Brst year will never think anything too bad after that.'
to the church,
** With these words he passed in
"It showed an amazing power of detachment that on so critical morning he could think of motor ing, as he did, two miles to attend a simple church service
Afesses, Carroll Bros, have been advised of the following quotations and dividends on rubber and min- ing shares:
Quotations.
$9.00
1.95:
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310
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Kedahs Malaka Pindaa Pajams
Dividends.
North Taiping 10 per cent. final, making a total of 30 per osat
North Taiping: 10 per cent. first interim.
Sungei Way 8 per cent interim,
making a total of 6 per
Ulu Benut 8 per cent. Bual.
cent.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONE
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And then he end, in a lan gunge of a kind which I had never beard him use before, for though he lived his religion he did not talk about it, This is what you once read to us from the Seconder boats... Chronicles, Be not afraid nor dis Banguota magad. by reason of this great mult nude, for the after sheet your Langkate but God's (2nd Chronicles, Bhaz, Exploradans Chapter 20, Verse 15).
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Odentals, Cotton
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I have been told the origin of them is this: about 100 years ago men wore soft pleated shirts in the evening, and then, when mangles were invented, it was found that the shirts were turned from the laundry with the buttons ground and broken in fragment of studs were in vented. But study, won't stay putin' soft shirt, so our ances tors, decided to have their shirts starched, and that, I believe, is the evolution of the hailed shirt, which has caused ne and, in fact, the whole human race,tory, such untold misery.
Encouraging Trade Signs. Observing that the fortunes of the jewellery trade were closely in terwoven with those of the whole industrial community," the Prince continued:
I am happy to say that the year 1927 has realised some of the hopes with which it began after the long industrial strug- gles of 1998, age
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"Little wonder that he came to K pray, and, as it happened, on that Sunday evening he did the biggest thing of his career, for, returning to Montrem after midnight, after a fruitless consulation near Amicus with Marshal Pétain, he immedi-Do ately wired to London urging that HK Electrics.....$72) bay, steps be taken at once to secure a Macae Electrics domain 11 buy, Generalissimo for the whole Allied Telephone ... $4.40 bay, 4ị xa.. front
Chine Bus By so doing he made what, for Singapore Tractions...11/9.nom. a Commander-in-Chief, was the sup: China Sagare in $10.40 buy.
Malabon Bugara8.71 nom Cements, (combined)................. $11.80 buy
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Employers and employed have meme sacrifice, but the line was come to see that, whatever differ- | saved. ences there may be between them in matters of detail, their funda- mental intereste in large produc tion, and thriving
trade" are the
sume.
Evidence of this can be found on the trade returns for 1997 which were published the other day. Those show that, despite the black spota still to be found on our businges horizon, despite the handicap under which we restarted work at the end of 1926, when many markets had been bemporarily dost, we have really wiped out all our deficit and have started on the up-grade again.
Few rules in bridge are so adam. Another encouraging
ant, however, as never to be worth breaking. If the declarer holds Q and small ares in his own hand, with Ace and small ones in dummy, he would naturally never dream of leading the Q. But even this most rudimentary of all rules may rightly bo broken at times.
We Bluring.
is
that our imports of raw materials. have been well maintained in' re- 'cent, months-an (augury of goodl trade in the future, while reports es to the grunth of our home trade are also distinctly en couraging. Our manufacturers and exporters are therefore in good heart and are looking for ward to the new year in a mood
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Da (old) these good amens may be fulfill ed. We have sat long in the HK, Ropes (oil) 59.70 MOT. sombre darkness of post-war de- Do,
(new) se pression, and we have been delus. United Asbestos ed more than once by what has Dairy Farm proved to be only a false dawn; Watana we have learnt to mistrust the Der A prophete, and Heaven forbid thas and
should try to prophesy.A
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Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the 20 years-old son, of Bir Austen Cham- herlein, delivered his first public speech in responding to the treat of The Visitors' His father was prosent, denn
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— If the declarer holds §. x în bis own hand, with A, x in dummy, and wants to make two tricks in the suit, he appears to be confronted with a hopeleza proposition. The only course that would naturally: occur to him would be to place the Head so that the adversaries will be compelled to lead the suit But often this may be impossible, and coup may then sometimes be brought off by boldly leading the Q. If the adversary on the left has K. x, x, he very likely will not cover, for he will see that his K must be good on the third round, if he retains it: he will assume that the Q is backed by the Kn; and it will not seem to him that the de clarer is playing like a schoolboy on holiday. Such play is, of course,
bluff; but situations not mir quently arise where bluffing gives a chance that would not exist for cor. reet play and where there is no my here, or in any other gathered to the ocho, the whole company, thing to lose but something foing of my fellow countrymen, led by the Prince, standing and * For he's a jolly good
gain, bluff is always worth while, Evening Standard,
ly unusual. I had always looked cate stomach lining, form gea, and, upon our family as part of the by interfering with proper nourish furniture of Birmingham.ment, actually break down health
When one travels abroad there The surest, quickest, and only seems no end to the things that logical way to reheve indigestion Another happy sign is the Are made in Birmingham, Last to neutralize the said and stop summer, in the Sunny South, I the food fermentation which causes tremendous demand for space at the British Industmes Fair, heard someone say that even our it; and Bisurated Magnea will which it due to open in your
foreign policy 16 made in Birm- do than instantly. "The sour" "fer-, nmgbbourhood if the near future,
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like most things that are made in healthy stomach conditions are re what an important event in your borincas yene this Fair has coms Birmingham it seems, except to stored, and painless, healthful to be, and I take this opportunity a disgruntled few, satisfactorily digestion follows at once 1 Bisur, which promists to achieve the world of wishing at the record success to stand the wear and tear of sted Magnesia, removes the cause.
It is not necessary for me to. His happy little speech was chros-
how vary earnestly I hope that singing (Continued on next Column), follow.
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