HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.
How to Judge Whisky
The Colour of Whisky
Do you make a practice of judging whisky by its colour or by the strength? No good judge of whisky takes much notice of the colour, nor is a good judge favourably impressed by the bite or kick in determining the age
and quality of Scotch Whisky.
If a glass of colourless whisky 'were put before you it would be received. with grave suspicion, and sipped with great caution.
Whisky can be matured and still be almost colourless. The colour in whisky is obtained from the particular wood in which it is matured, and if matured in plain oak casks for a period of years there would be little or no change in the colour of the whisky. Do not, therefore, judge whisky by its colour. It does not always indicate the age or strength of the whisky.
The Right Way to
Test Good Whisky
·
The expert tests whisky by the nose and by the palate. To tell a good whisky by the nose is rather difficult, unless you are an expert, but most people can rely on their palate, and if you have a sensitive palate you should have no difficulty in detecting the fine qualities of
NEW LAWS OF BRIDGE.
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not features which it is desirable, to eliminate. The penalties, if these bids are doubled, are" such that their use is confined to the daring.
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Is there any good reason why overtrick points should be higher than trick points? Is there any ground for rewarding the vulner- able more highly than the not-vul. Each evirtzick nerable for their overtricks? Some think that these two contentions are equally strong when the tract is doubled. The main reason why the present premiums have litla sam bid & wor
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WHITE HORSE." Where there is a bite or kick in whisky it does not signity that one
one whisky has more alcoholic strength than the other. Cheap and imma ture whisky has a very decided bite or kick. If whisky is matured for, say, 20 or 30 years, the strength is reduced very considerably indeed. It tastes like cream.
"Marrying" of "White Horse"
to
For "WHITE HORSE" only the choicest makes of Scotch whisky are selected. They are matured for a long period in sherry wood before blending. After the first blending operation "WHITE HORSE" is allowed lie in wood for a further period, in order to allow the whisky to become properly married." The contents of the casks are again put in the blending vats and again allowed to lie in the wood. The general public have very little knowledge of the time and the care which are taken and the expense which is involved in this blending and reblend- ing, or marrying" of "WHITE HORSE" whisky before it is bottled. A more mellow, generous and delightful spirit than "WHITE HORSE" is not obtainable. This Real Old Scotch, which is the senior Whisky of Scotland, will sustain the tone and dignity of any Club, Mansion or Cottage, in any corner of the globe,
MORLEY
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD.
HONG KONG
occurred or any trick transferred game is quite inapplicable where contract principlo rules, the Morcover, the offence is far more frequent and its remedy far more important in Auction, where the value rule is still to govern the bidding.
from the other side under this law. Apart from the acoring changes, this provisa will probably be ranked as the greatest improve ment resulting from this revision. It abolishes penalty in those many Cases where no possible injury has been inflicted, and it graduates the penalties with some relation to the possible injury. Moreover, it goes
pay for similar slips themselves, Declaror's left, so instead of finess they were hauri to exact the ing the ten he would put up the penalty. Hence the law. "A re- Ace and finesse the Knave on the voke made in the twelfth trick next round, never becomes established" should prove very popular.
One is naked: “What is there to
follow
This certainly makes out a strong case for introducing a penalty, but it still seems, a casa of the just suffering for the unjust..
the suit from which the offending side is to lead when first it is the turn of that side to lead." (53).
Minor changes: The player who looks at his cards during a deal is to be subject to our penalty, but only when a card is exposed "in consequence of his action. (38) prevent a player ruffing the twelth When the auction proceeds after trick, although able to an out-of-turn call it is the player suit?" Section (5) meets the case: whose turn it was to call (not the An opponent of the offender, be player on the offender's left) who fore a revoke is established, may larer wrongly plays before his calls next (38) (From American demand that a correct card may partner, unless the Declarar has law). The penalty for drawing be substituted for the revoking played from both hands before attention to the position of a trick card." Since that revoke is never either opponent has played, the is made to apply definitely to the established, it is never too late to old penalties of the offender's partner being made to play his dummy (52) Other changes too have it rectified.
Other than in the last two tricks, highest or lowest of the suit,, to small to deserve mention are made
The Greatest Change. The greatest revolution in these his contract if affer paying over new laws is that a player can make
Exposed Cards. When an opponent of the Dec-
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A card now ranks as exposed if vita" owner's partner sees it, even if,!
dropped on the floor,
Outting for Deal.
**** Our law remains 10 force for the Auction ganie, but for the Contract games the Ameri can law has been adopted with an amendment, which confines the to relieve from pentity these silencing of the offender's partner harmless revokes which so often to one round of the auction. (40) occur in putting down cards to Calls out of tum. Illegal calls wards the end of a hand. (Bubsec Card exposed during the auctions In the French laws and in ours, tion 6 of Law 55.)
The provisions governing the giving the player on the offender's right to inquire, and the point of left title to claim a new deal has time when correotion ceases to be been the universal remedy In in laws 46 (2, 3 and 3) and 47 (1)c. a revoke is established by either win or not win the trick or to America much thought had been It is only when requested to do the revoker or bis partner playing discard from a named suit, till available, have been carefully re- rised with three objects in view. given to "making the punishment so" that a player who has called to the next trick, not by the quit hold good, but if the offence is jus First, to reduce to a minimum the fit the crime" 17 penalties had attention to an irregularity may ting of the trick, but if the rovoke the twelfth trick his two cards socasions for argument and diabeen devised for 17 different phases "state the law on the subject consists in not leading a suit when now become exposed, and either of pute; second, to secure to every of these offences, and in some (60.) And the law-ns to misstate required to by the laws, then the them may be called.
ments of fact or law now only re-fact of the partner playing to such player full opportunity to prevent cases there was choice of two or the hammer falling before a porsi more-in one case after consulta lates to misstatements of law. (81.) lead establishes the revoke.
Simplifications: The laws of ble arror by his partner has been tion. The exchange of a cumber corrected; and, third, to limit to of printed documents charged one the pumber of cards which can with weighty argument brought to Part VII, deal seriatim with the have been exposed by the non-offen- light further distinctions of which irregularities which can occur (1) ding side before the correction. account had not been taken in this during the auction and (2) during distinguish tious relating to all the different more important to calls which forestal n partner's paises and incidents of these irre tricks remaining. The alternative troduced because there he was, i (55) (1) call from those which do not than gularities. As there are only 1 of 250 points instead of two tricks that an unscrupulous person could
to distinguish passes from other of these laws with two subsections is abolished, and the penalty for cut a high or low cand by obse calls, it was also seen that the ex-piss on the average, there is no subsequent revokes is reduced to ving how far a card slid when the It is to ho remembered that osare of any card intended as a need for search or index when an one trick. There is a further pro pack was spread, the lowon "failure to lend or play as duly load to the last bid is often more irregularity occasiona reference to viso that no tricks can be taken having leas paint on them, being quired by or under these laws when important than the accidental ex- the laws; and these are usually the from the revoker which he had supposed to slide further,
How for this may be true ons is cases when such reference is need-made before he revoked. This able to obey such requirement" is rosure of a card of honour rank. ed.
seems perfectly fair- revoke, and, that, in view of the in result, our old remedy to There will no longer be any her partner has tempor edly the way which has just been A revoke camiot be claimed. if not prepared to say, but undoubt The little slam_premiums of 500
"The Provisions Related. now pusity imposed on a declarer
abolished was WOTE, A Cabling | apply except-in these three cases: and 750 were well chosen: the move
who leads from the wrong hand,
1. For a pass when no bid has doubt as to which opponent 14 to from a safe five to a doubtful six The changes for our playera are
quent than failure to follow suit.
turn of the opponent on the right new deal or to impose on select the of the suit he has renounced player with whom it is desired, to offers, in each case, a chance offre taken in the order of their importance. The numbers given
(def. xxviii)
no penalty: after any other call. penalty for an offence. In each
It is considered that the new cut certainly improved the chances gain equal to the loss which is are those of the new laws
Declarer claiming uncertain in the turn of that-opponent: the case the opponent en the offender Revoke Laws are dest, concise of getting him, since many trick risked Not so the grand slam Declarer leading from the wrong tricks-An opponent who holds & offender's partner must pair when it complete adoption of and well framed, and that they consist of four carde of the sette
turbod by a casual shuffle. premiums: here the move from a hand:-The peculiarly appropriatorgotten trump or an unsuspected next it is his turn to call (39) French Cuplu nu pus treat the offence with great fair suit, and they are not greatly!
defence in suit has often been
In the rare case of a
call
vary slightly but affects American Nessy- safe siz to a doubtful seven offered ate American penalty has been adopted. "Either opponent may
Dummy's Cards, deprived of his just hopes by other than a pass after the auction players more. In their lawn there are (taking the case of a major suit) a require; him to lead from the cor
declaror's claim to the remaining
is closed the declarar may call a wore nina cases where either oppo- The now fole that touching One, wonders if the tramers
boca retained for doubled tracta is that it is not thought desirable to give too much encour agement to the daring expedient of the deterring or defensive double, for which the term "psychic" has also been forced-into-service...
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PENALTIES:
One welcomes the return to the
(Subsections 24 of Law 35.) After subdivision.". It was seen to be the play and they contain subace the penalty tricks he has enough | old law," Cutting by its was in
the correction a card played from the hand of the offender's partner may not be taken back.
this failure may now be more fro been made or a pass mada in the decide whether there is to be arily left the table, unless, his card next to the one chosen by the
opponents has been eliminated.
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opponent asks him if he has none
During
maximum gain of 450 (730, for the vulnerable), while the correspond-must, if he can, lead a card of the given to devising adequate proder the first time it is the turn of two consultation was allowed", "consing it will have a lot of fumbling, which might sccrue from being
same suit." (46.). This penalty tectish in those cases where the that player to lead." (41) sequently there was a code of rules and is therefore to be welcomed to forbid a player, to lead from ing loss stands at 1,055 (1,830 for small and innocent as it appears, claim may save the declarer from fit. If a single card of free thin with penalties to prevent improper but one cannot feel that way about suit of a card, below an hono the vulnerable). The lose items in-will greatly affect our game. The the consequences of his mistake, honour rank has been exposed consultation.
the penalty for the Declarer lead-uxposed by his partner during offence to which it relates probably In the usual case of forgotten without intent to lead "the player There will no longer be any ing out of the wrong hatt din auctions: 11% North, bide, thre clude the anal slam premiums occurs more often than all others trump or an unsuspected defence who becomes the declarer may doubt as to whether an irregularity in such an easy mistako to miske, minor auit, showing which would Have been scored in taken together, and our tiny the important question is: In either (a) treat the card is an ex has been condonad. Following the especially when playing quickly established sult, and East wadition to the trick points, the pensity has failed to suppress the what order does the declarar proposed card during the play or (b) Americans plan, the one easel in It sit done frequently Every day smell Fnade, South may fe
nuisance. The new penalty epose to make al tricks? In penalty for one undertrick and the fan bless just instead of possi and rarer cases it may be Does Prohibit the offender's partner which it nunded action by botir quito, innocently, and generally in the South may
mocuously, so that the peak of no Spade average value of game.
bly assisting the offender raho intend to repeat--nese Does rom making his first lead in the suit of that card." (43.).—ly (11)
the right hand may be very heavy It is no wonder that grand slam finess, the mistake, may now rob he mean to establish cards by and part of (ii) the American Further Analysis having to lead the sump suit find forbid the lead of
ruffing 1 or Does he think he can law is adopted.
Undoubtedly pride of place;1 bids have been extremely rare with him of a fruitful fiperse and cost
him a trick or more.
Jead through a winner and refrainLooking at a quitted trick must be given to the Ravoke Laws, which the side system in
The RevokeThe penalty for from trumping unless it is play Experience has proved that our In the past theso have certainly with an even chance of success have an established and detected reed Under the new law, it he
Lever toxunted Panda there has been the case of a technical revoke in may gain informa to risk more tamn twice as much vuke has been placed all below the hinto make a complete statement penalty of 50 points is seldom, if been too harsh, inore especially in
level of that now included in any of his interions an
imilar experience elsewherewith Theist-two, tricks... ng they can gain
cale, Two tricks are to be transco his statement A hasz
Fothergroint', penalties. This new has one seen great reluctance dia the Jent, IF Dam and logical expedient of L ving forced for the first and one for
toda has no point penally (even played in claiming a tovoke Andye and othare for the revoke) and in this case this stage of the game, espe premiums to be scored by the gach subsequent revoke, subject al ways to the important proviso that ful grand slam bidders this transfer shall eludeany balance has been adjusted
trick won before the first revoke
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The insufficient bid
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it impoere one which is much more when the revoker likely to abate the nuisance-Theing by his error opponent on the left y galicia laver folzthat and
One of the framers of the has explained that the popalising it is the
1ly larer Ace,
gain noth- Dummy leads yers," how turn and is not -hud-to-l suggest that:
penalty of 3,00 a valteles! somewhat severe.