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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
PERHAPS NOTHING WILL 80 MUCH
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World's Best Bridge Players.
By Lt. Col. WALTER BULLER, C.B.E.
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aro vacilinting and fumbling la that they have never had the cour age of their convictions. They are nirnid of Japan, and of the con- sequence of Inalating on her honour- ing her pledges." These are strong words, but they do reflect a very considerable body of responsible opinion. American Views нест equally definite and outspoken. One journal says that Japan's use of the favourite "mailed fist" policy
TT is clear that Sir Max Pember-¡tricka is, presumably, a convention against China has aroused all the
ton playa bridge, but la net too! the N.W. on bridge player.
The Portland Club, ho says, is Intent suspicion of land-grabbing at the expense of a war-torn and en-
He told us in a recent article about to give up playing conven- that the Portland Club la about to tlons. It is not going to give up feebled neighbour; whilst another His Lordship Bishop Henry Valtorta abandon all conventions, and that anything. It has merely act its declares Japan's activities to be an extensive Pastoral visitation to methods are to be adopted; that ng stunts
returned to the Colony yesterday after henceforth "Go As you please" face against silly and everchang.
imported from the.. aggressivo resort to violence the Hol Fung district.
Culbertson domanda that whon and playing contract in bridge as our forefathers played he bids Two" of a suit, his part. iner shall bid "Two No Trumpa" Thle, he says, will not be bridge on a Yarborough. Here we have
undiluted artificial convention. but bumble-puppy. "It will make
Mr. Ewart Kempson, the noted us the butt of the eard-playing, W
ridge authority, puts it well. nations.'
"In asuming that members of but qualifies it. He says a mo
He user the word "convention," the Portland Club are about to driver's signals are conventional, motor make a change in their methods but they are not artificial. A fair Sir Max is in error.
definition is, "An agreement to follow a course of action which
such as was adjured by the Krilogg Pact, and dangerously like the ear- ly stages of the "assimilation" of Korea. Sufficient has been written to show that there is a steady ani growing volume of world opinion against Japan's polley.
When we come
to analyse the situation as it exists at present,
we find that, despite all the pres- sure by the League, Japan has not given way an inch. She is still in nccupation of Chinese territory, and, in fact, has spread her ten-
Котся.
the club advises "patting back the clock"
The RMS Erntess of Japan
from Shanghal at am on Manila at 6 p.m. on the 26th.. Christmas Day, and will leave for pre-convention whist.
The Sessions case in which Sit Shek was charged with indecently anasult- iag two-year-old girl concluded yesterday afternooo, when the jury returned a unanimous verdict of "Not Guilty."
The Portland's Lapse.
U.S.A.
We have received from Menara. Dodwell and Co., Ltd., an effective Three years ago Mr. Harold has no natural common-sense wall calendar, issued by McEwan, Vanderbilt invented a convention basis, It is behaviour equivalent excellent coloured studies of sport in It lasted alx months in the U.S.A. tell your partner and your oppo- Younger, Ltd. and bearing some known as the "Vanderbilt Club to raps on the table, and you must Scotland.
Certain English writers boomed it, senta what your proposed raps aro Fifth-rate players adopted to mean. The Hiengkong General Chamber of
Fow in this country appear to tacles over a wider area in Man. Commerce and the Exchange Bank, patronising attitude towards their charia. The drive against "ban-gesting that, as New Year's Day falls convention you knew
have written to the Government sug partners. If you did not play this realise that these conventions are nothing nothing but professional dope for dita" looks suspiciously Ike a con- on Friday,
the "mug" public in America. the Saturday following about bridge. timation of the process.
should be declared a general holiday,
Even the late Hugh Elliot, Aret-They bring fame or money to the At any
as it is already in Shanghai. class player and anti-convention- laventors, or both. rate, since the change of Govern-
int, adopted I.
I cannot for the life of me un- ment, matters have so developed as
But his heart was not in ft. Hederstand why the Portland, of all to suggest that a very much more
id it for fun.
clubs, should be jeared at for not vigorous policy has now been de- cided upon, possibly betokening a belief that the League of Nations is powerless to do anything to up-found, set the programme which the new Tokyo administration has in view.
Hongkong Telegraph.hoped were a thing of the past.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931.
JAPAN UNDER
SUSPICION.
The World in Disintegration.
were
between
week-end was
Club, which had refused to accept
It was a dig at the Portland adopting them.
My answer is this!
to
G. F. Gaak of London University. The standard of play at the
me
Childish Devices,
43
would be
be astonished if anyone described them as among the best
in Britain. None were members of the Portland or of any club of similar bridge standing,
None of us had played "dupli-
An unknown Chinese committed suicide by jumping into the harbour from the lower deck of the Yaumati Terry-boat Man Ying whilst it was halfway
Hongkong and
Because this club and all Arst- stopped and a search made for the Auction. Yaumati last night. The launch was his plea for majority calling at
claas players in this country re- missing man. but no traces could be This time, the Portland, assailed fuse to indulge in these childish on all aldes by pro-American pro- devices they are condemned as nin- paganda, fall from its high catate. compoops by some critica. The return of nolifiable diseases In "Vanderbilt" WAR already dying
are all described as “gucus- THE HONGKONG HOTEL if this is a correct interpretation December 10 shows
the Colony during the week ending out in America, but membera diders!" "What chance have wo got," three cases of not know that. They gave it a asks Sir Max, "against one of Mr. of the position, then the latest de-diphtheria, two of enteric fever and trial, and within a few montha Culbertson's picked teams?"
one of cerebro-spinal fover. There they discarded it. I have recoun- velopments must be regarded as of
I will tell him. 48 deaths from pulmonary ted these facts to enable me
The best team in Britain would extreme gravity. for, apart from tuberculosis. The record for the mako statement which will sur-overwhelm any team from the
two cases of enteric ** the immediate issues, it will be a fever while one case af diphtheria was Priae Sir Max Pemberton.
United States. sorry day for world peace and reported on Monday,
With this one exception, this This opinion is based on fact. concord if one Power is to be per-
kolated fall from grace, no "conven- The only recorded match is that Dr. S. W. Phoon has been success- finus" have ever been played at the in which I captained an English. mitted to defy world opinion and ful at the recent examination for the Portland Club.
side against Culbertson's best resort to methods which we had all Dr. Phoon is the first graduate of Max, their bridge fs, and always they are, those who played for
degree of Master of Surgery (M.S.), It follows that, according to Sir team of four. Good players the University to get this honour, and has been, "bumble-puppe." It is of Interest to hear that one of the examiners is the well-known Prof, To the already burdened debit Assistant at Guy's Hospital, London, the world. After working
Orthopaddle Clinical Portland is easily the highest in side of the international amity led-Dr. Phoon worked in a similar capacity There is only one player in New ger, France now adds an effort to at the Hospital for the Ruptured and York that I know of, H. L. Sims, cate" or indulged in match play deprive a foreigners within her return to Hongkong he was appointed the Arst ten at the Portland. He played together. The Americans Crippled in New York. Upon his who would be considered as among of any kind, and we had pover borders of employment.
The re- Assistant to the Professor of Surgery. is a Celulan. I appreciate that had been playing as a team in it is evident that world opinion solution passed by the Chamber ile resigned from that position to be here
duplicate matches for five yaara. Dn giving contemplates the application of the come the Superintendent of the Tungno in Sir Max. Has he ever play- on the Manchurian situation la beban not only to public services, but
opinion, but What happened? Wah Hospital.
During the first two days we coming increasingly suspicious of to private enterprise. employers
ed at the Portland? I played there daily for ten years. It is relevant were all at sen. After these two Japan's policy. So long as the being subject to fines for keeping Mr. Ramsay MacDonald agreed to ask what class of bridge he days (not five years) of team work Wakatsuki Government remained foreigners in employment without a few days ago that the world was his opinion and mine
Let us, however, ignore played five more days' strenuous
experience
af duplicate" we in power, there seemed a possibility special sanction. It is n commen. In gradually increasing economic, down to facts.
and get
bridge, and on balance we won 600 of a more or less satisfactory settle-tary upon the times that the decresc social and political disintegration.
ing these Ave days. points
We were pitted against the ment of the crisis, but with the has not filled the air with protests. He hoped that the conference to "convention?" His whole case is ventors of the
In- Forcing Normally, it would bewilder. To be held in the middle of January based on the frequent use of this a system which Sir Max Pember administration,
word; yet he does not define it. Fears have become intensified, re-day it is looked upon as another would afford a permanest cure.
ton supports. I wonder has be Common-Sense Play. acen the published record of every flecting a general belief that the serious manifestation of the world's But every sign of to-day declares LANE, CRAWFORD'S SILVERWARE. military faction
travail. Peoples seem latterly to the impossibility of the realisado many professional bridge wri-
He confuses the issue, as indeed bid made and every card played? has gained the have lost all sense
if "it" was the avstem that beat of spiritualtion of such a hope. The spirit of The report, allegedly values and right human thinking.so few nations is willing. Exploita- moves on a par with prearranged day out of seven. This was the
ters. They upper hand.
put common-sense us, then it succeeded on only one from official sources In Tokyo, that The crisis has turned the nations tive and political greed uppear to artificial signals.
second day's play, the day that lost General Minami has been selected into u tribe of Kilkenny rats, dominate. These false gods have Sir Max says, "If my partner us the
of scrambling and fighting to
bida "One Diamond" has be 2
me match. as the first Governor-General
Actually, on this day only one save failed, but still have their
quick tricks or is he merely a foreing bid made by our oppon- Manchurin, coupled with the belief something, they know not what, out shippers. Pence ΟΠ earth and
joker?"
ents had a successful result. On expressed by reputable diplomatie of the wreck of our economie foun- goodwill towards men! The world
He implies that to bid originally this hand they made 370 points, correspondents that Japan has dedations. The spectacle is a sorry seems to be mocking at the spirit when you have tricks is a converdue solely to bad bidding by the
English side. finitely decided on annexation, fol- cult of economic nationalism, which
The of Christmas.
tlon, and to pass when you have nơ lowing the same procedure as in
means nothing less than bitter war the case of Korea, reflects the without placing armies in the gravity of the present outlook. It battlefield, is gaining new or keener is true that the League is sending adherents. Mutual adversity, far out a Commission of Inquiry to from performing its traditional" study the situation on the spot, but function of developing the finer long before it arrives, many more
fruitages of human understanding, "Incidents" may arise giving Japan ternational friendship. Britain im- Is fast destroying the spirit of in- the excuse to extend her sphere of pones emergency tariffs, urges her
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The latest comments of the don Press serve to Indicate the people will understand our difficul- atrength of public opinion in Bri-ties and that the isolation is only tain against Japan's tactics. They for the period of emergency. Every re-echo much that was written country in Europe raises its econo- weeks ago. For example, one of nic barriers, and the action of the French Chamber yesterday shows the leading political reviews, cam-
how far the nationalistic god will menting on the situation at the take the peoples of the world if a end of November, with particular definite check is not placed upon reference to the wranglings at such
destructive
nre
re-
movements. Geneva, declared that the funda- Governmental Interference with mental issue remained the same private enterprise, alike in com. namely, whethor Japan was to be merce and finance, has become dan- allowed to maintain her occupation gerously formidable. Bankera can- not do as they like with their of the Chineso territory she had
money. Business men ecized in violation of the Covenant stricted in a hundred different and the Kellogg Pact. "If Japan ways. The object of these wore Ruritania," and this journal, aures is said to be to avoid the "there would be little doubi of the effects Internally of the colossal answer. But Japan is a first-class world attempt to liquidate the cre- Power, and Chlon is not. Tho dit upon which trade and true reason why the other Powers, morce has beau based. And every auch restriction throws recovery great and small, which are repre- and confidence a stage farther back.
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mea.
com.
wor-
favours.
And
What does Sir Max mean by during
"Gentlemen, we've got to get behind this article!"
Bystem,"
During the bidding of the whole 100 hands only 17 forcing bids were made. On four of those there was a successful rosult, bat In each case this was due to poor bidding by the English team. Six were unsuccessful, and on the ro- maining seven the results in both rooms was the same. In the 400 hands, only twice was the much- advertised "strong two employed. It cost the Americans 970 points.
*Systems" No Good.
Here we get fasts. The Americans won because they played better natural bridge than the team opposed to
them.
If they had not mado Isolated at- tempts to play their forcing Byn- they would have won by a much larger margin. I have said enough to show that "conventions! and "systems" are no good. I appeal to card players not to be influenced by unsupported stato monts.
Culbertson bas A
sense of humour. He must be laughing up his sleeve at this adulation of a worthless stunt which he well knows le a fallure.
The
cause of British bridge is so dear to me that I throw modes. ty aside and
reviawer ort out that every
Anglo-American match has put me easily first among the whole eight players. I am not unduly elated, since I do not
think the company, takon all round, was first class. In many Independent reviews, Ely Culbert- sen, fine player though he in, is placed no higher than ofth
Sir Max Pemberton la only one of many who have encouraged the
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