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Pre-emptive bids of four of á suit are made primarily to shut out the opponents. They should be mado only on hands containing a defen- long suit and little or no sive strength,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932.
PLAYGROUNDS FOR
COLONY
ROTARY CLUB DECISION NOT UNANIMOUS
H.K. PRE-HISTORY
maintain the two existing grounds, but a resolution for pro-" viding two more met with some dissent,
The queation of providing more the children's playgrounds in Celony came up for discussion at yesterday's Rotary Club luncheon, which was held in Mesara, Lane Crawford's restaurant under the chairmanship of Sir William Hor- They indicate to partner that nell. It was unanimously decided with the auit you name aa trump to you will take eight tricks-in other words, you are over-bidding your hand two tricks. If partner happens to hold two tricks, you may be suc- The Chairman welcomed the cessful in making your contract.
following visitors.-The Rev. E. C. Under the writer's system, it is H. Tribbeck, Capt. Hopkins, of the Impossible to make a pre-emptives. Yatshing, Rotarian G. J. Mc- bid of three and they rarely, if ever, Carthy and Rotarian Yinson Lee, accomplish their purpose. If you both of Shanghal. are going to pre-empt, do so high
The Chairman said: On August enough to keep the opponenta from
25, the Club carried the following arriving at their best declaration. resolution unanimously; "That ap-
There are a few hands where pre-plication be made to the Govern emptive bids
of four in a minor ment for the use of Blake Gardens will work out well, but generally and an area opposite the Soldiers' the best minor pre-emptive bid in
and Sailors' Home on the Praya original bid of five. You are
Enut Reclamation; that the Govern- only endeavouring to accomplishment be asked to enclose and level one thing with a pre-emptive bid, these grounds, and that the Rotary and that in to stop the opponents Club equip them with games ap from bidding.
paratus and pay the salary of a Play Director by n levy on each member of the Club, and that the Chinese Y.M.C.A. be invited to Recure the Director and supervise his work."
an
Support Pre-Emptive Bids As partner has told you that he is overbidding his hand two tricks and na no side strength, do not support his pre-emptive bid even though you hold quick tricks, un less you hold a sufficient number of
pre-
You will notice that the Rotary Club's undertaking to equip the playgrounds with games apparatus quick tricks to assure a slam. The
and pay the salary of a Play Direc- main point to remember in
tor was not limited to any specific emptive bida is that if the operiod. However, on writing pri ponents should overcal partner'svately, as I did; on August 26 Inst, original suit bid of four and your
to the Hon. Colonial Secretary, Í two han contains only one to
said that the Rotary Club's. quick tricks, you can make a good guarantee to find the cost of the sacrifice bid by supporting partner.
initial apparatus and the salarles With partner advertising no defen-
of a Play Director and grounds- I added I hud sive strength and you with very
men was for a year. little, undoubtedly the apponents
no doubt that if the experiment was have game.
successful, and I was sure it would the Rotary be auccessful, that Club would assume practically permanent responsibility for this work, which it would almost cer- tainly try to extend.
When you support partner's bid, holding one trick, you can expect to go down only two tricks, and in the majority of cases for a very good sacrifice. If you hold two tricks, partner should be down only
one.
Extension Recommended. You have before you, in The Bulletin, certain proposals of the
Service Committee. The first recommendation in that the present work be maintained. The third recommendation is that the prenent arrangements with the Chinese Y.M.C.A. be continued. The second recommendation is that two new grounds be applied for, and
Pre-emptive bids can also be made after the bidding is opened: c. g. partner bids one heart, oppo-Community ments pase, and you bid three or four spades. In either case, this would be purely a pre-emptive bid informing partner that your hand was worthless for anything but apades. There are very few hands, however, where this will prove suc- cessful na generally, the only one it shuts out from bidding is part-fourthly that the amount required be raised by voluntary subscriptions from members of this Club.
nur.
Again, supposing that opponents opened with one heart. If you bid three or four spades, this would be two or three more than necessary, and would in no way be a forcing bid. Partner would immediately take it for a pre-emptive bid in which you were announcing that you had nothing but spades. This type of bid is used more frequently than the overall of partner's suit with a pre-empt.
LATE PRÉSIDENT DOUMER
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ST. JOSEPH'S
A communique from the Colonial Secretary says that telegraphic in- formation has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the funeral of. M. Doumer will take place to-morrow. All flags on Government buildings and launches will be flown at half- mist from 8 a.m. to sunset on that day.
Now, I hold that the Club has running, as committed Itaclf to organised playgrounds, the exist
ng ground at Wanchai and that which occupies half of Blake Gar- I propose, however, to put dens, it to the Club whether or not the existing playground work should be maintained and maintained on the same basis, that is to say at a cost as per the estimato in The Bulletin of about $1,360, and also whether or not the present arrange- ment with the Chinese Y.M.C.A. should be continued.
There is also before the Club a proposal that the playground work should not only be maintained but extended. I aincerely hope there is no one here who would wish to close down the work which the Club There may has already taken up. be members who feel the exleting work should be maintained but not extended. Both those who feel that the work should be maintained, and those who feel that the work should be extended, should voto for the resolution which I shall shortly put to you, that the play- ground work of the Rotary Club Vice-Admiral Herr, Commander-be maintained. in-chief of the French Naval forces in the Far East, will be pre- sent at the funeral service which will be celebrated in St. Joseph's church at 11 a.m. to-morrow.
SALESMAN SAM
AN OLD FRIEND TO
SEE YOU, MR. GUZZLEM!
Additional Cost. Having got this resolution ac- cepted, if it is accepted, I shall put (Continued on Page 10.)
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