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Dollar linere in trans-Paethe service offer two anilings ench month, reaching San Francisco via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu. Dollar linera afford four sailinge each month to Manila; there to Singapore and beyond, round-the-world, on fertnightly echedule.
All-outside-staterooms are big factors in Dollar Line popularity. Buite. de luxe are such as you would expect on ships that maintain the famous Dollar Line cuisine. Decks and social hills are spacious. You will enjoy travel on these clean oil-burning liners,
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK VIA MANILA-STRAITS-COLOMBO-SUEZ-PORT SAID
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CARD INSTINCT.
WHAT AUCTION BRIDGE
» SUCCESS DEMANDS.
formb his plan of campaign. Boforo the last few tricks are played he can often place with absolute accuracy to a pip the cards held by his opponents.
The main difference between à
A HURRICANE.
100 PEOPLE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED.
The "Auction Bridge Magazine," good player and a bad one lies in
Nosanu, Bahamas, July 30, publication long overdue, has this capacity for drawing infor- A hundred and fty peoplé hro made its appearance "under the ences. Of tourse, there are believed to have perished here it very able directorship of Mr. A. other differences-card-memory, the hurricane. E. Manning-Foster, who has long imagination, judgment, and so since won his way to popular forth. favour amongst lovers of the game.
Lator. "In auction, every card tells its The first number augars well. It story, and the observation of the hurricane and the damage is eati Nassau bore the brunt of the is attractively presented, and its low cards is all-important. The
Ruin-Runners 'Suffer.
drives aro
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Bories of articles will'informative-bad player holding a sequence of anted at least eight million ly encourage the beginner and low carde-say the 5, 4, 8-thinks dollars. enrich the mind of the more it does not matter how he plays Many families are homeless. mature' player,
them. They were all of equal The beautiful Under the heading "Card value, partner,' he explains at the tered with broken glass and miss- Instinct" the Editor writos:--- end of the hand, when he is asked new of debris. Nevertheless the "Is there such a thing as card why he played the 4 before the inhabitants eagerly joined in the instinct? All the brilliant bridge 9. He does not realise that sq search for the picturesque sponge players I have seen or heard of trivial a matter, as ho considers it, fleet, consisting of some two have gained their skill by constant could affect his partner's play. hundred small sloops and schoon- practice. It has not come at a
of the "A great many players fall tours, among which most bound or by inspiration, Of master the Eleven Rule, the pona
150 missing persons are believed course, the natural aptitude must asinorum of Bridge. And yet his to be drowned. be there. Without that a man elementary method of drawing There were sixty fishing smacks might deyote his whole life to the valuable inferences of the No arrayed in the harbour before the game and never improve,
Trumps game is elaborately ex-storm, and only three survived. Butt what is generally called plained in all the texts books and The outer islands suffered con- card Instinct has nothing almost universally adopted, « 'Tsiderably. For instance, eight hurled miraculous about it, nor is It could not be sure how many of rumrunning boats were birthright. It can be acquired your suit you held, sald a player. up the beach of one island and The crews That knack of doing the right Yes you could, replied his smashed to atoms. thing at the right mement, that partner. I led the 2, and so you had previously rowed ashore, "so quick apprehension of values and could know for certain that I had there were no casualtics possibilities, can be learnt.
Reuter's American Service. only four of my suit. "The average or poor player may "Here is another simple infer- marvel at the results achieved by ence which is often helpful. At
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A first-class practitioner. But the score of love the desler bids a tion, it is often possible to place, they fail to realise that the real minor suit-Clubs or Diamonds, with almost absolute certainty, the secret lie sin perfectly intelligible What can you deduce? (1) That podition of the high cards after mental processes. From the play he does not hold three Aces; (2) Dummy has been disclosed. of the first card the good playor That he has not a major suit of "Watch most carefully the starts making inferences. Every five cards with top honours; (3) Declarer's discards from Dummy, eard tells him something fresh, That he has not a No Trump' From them you will frequently be and from its play he makes cer- hand. The realisation of these able to gather important infer tain swift deductions. The de- three facto should be most useful ondes. The habit of drawing ductions may not always be cor- to you both in your declaration deductions once started, the player rect, but at least he has made and in your play. By a similar is on the high road to a good, them, and according to them lie process of inference and elimina-intelligent game,"
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Steamers From
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Expected Will leave
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For
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Thiliwong Java
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