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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934:
CONTRACT CHINA'S
BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
Solution to Previous Contract Problema.
LOCAL
OLYMPIC XI FOOTBALL DEFEATED CHATTER
(Continued from Page 8.) Robertson had dropped back and To-day's hand is one of the `eld-playing bla usuni bull-dog game timera. It has been used in con-managed to get in the way of tests and in series of problems, but To'a Lost movements. a great many of my readers have been writing in about it, so I am going to give the answer to-day. If you have seen it before and have tried it, you have found. It unusu-. ally interesting.
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1 am afraid, if you set this hand up for your friends and asked them to bid it, that no two of them would bid it alike. However, it is not a bidding problem, but rather one of play.
The Play
West opens the king of clubs, which South wins with the ace. He then lends a small heart and wine in dummy with the jack. The uce of spades must be returned and the ace of diamonds discarded by South, Now a small apade is played and trumped with the seven of hearts.
The eight of hearts then is led and won in dummy with the queen of hearts. The Juck of spades is | returned and trumped with the nine
of hearts.
For the first fifteen minutes the Olymple were doing all tho, press ing.
CONTORTIONIST CORD.
Wong K1-leung had developed a alight limp from one of the tackles in witch ho gured.
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A centre from the right came Just right for Malpas's head and he made no mistake in giving the Rest the advantage at 4-3.
Chlueso The
preased strongly than ever and it seemed that the defensive polley of the Rest would prove thoir undoing unless their forwards could give them relief.
(Continued from Page|B)
will finish the season with un- completed fixture lists.
THE aunual dinner of the Hong-
kong Football Club on Satur- day was one of the most successful events in the history of the club. Conviviality was the keynote, and It expressed itself in the speeches, which were of admirable length and sentiment; in the muscial pro gramme and in the comradeship of the company..
MR. M. K. Lo's reply on behalf of V the guests was a typically in ident neat speech, couched terms. Especially happy nad ap- propriate was his reference to sport which he said knew bounds in either class or Another happy thought was his de-
bo
race.
Goanne saved a cornor by punt-finition of sportsman: it couldn't ing it into the new stand but play be expressed in words, he said, but wax continuously in the Rest aren one could always tell the sportenan
With Cord on his toes or stomach when one met him, most of the time the Rest goal experienced some marvellous escapes.
Ridley wng blinded with mud and the ball was in a melee of player from which a goal seemed cer- tain. The Chinese missed their opportunity again when Cord just got to the ball first and punted It over the bar.
A shot from four yards out
found Cord still in front and the rebound went outsido for another
corner.
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The game concluded with bombardment of the Rest goal and up to the last moment it appeared
rawn. that the game would at least be
Mrs. M. K. Lo presented medals
to the winners and silver spoons
to the losers, both clovens joining in hearty cheera for her and for the Club.
Now the ten of hearts is played SUNDAY BASEBALL
and won in dummy with the king. The nee of hearts is played and the king of diamonds discarded. Of course, the trump has been picked up and the queen, jack, ten, nine
AT LAST
and eight of diamonds are all good Pittsburgh State Law.
in dummy. Thus the declarer makes his grand slam.
Today's Contract Problem
North La playing the hand at mix spades. East opens a #lub. · Should the derinrer al- tempt to ruff the Joxing clubs? Or how would you play the hand?
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Madrid, Apr. 29. Senor Ricardo Sumper, Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Lerroux Government has agreed to form a new Cabinet,
is:
The personnel so far announced
Prime Minister. Senor Ricardo Samper (Radical).
Affairs,
Minister for Foreign Senor Leandro Pitu Romero
| (Orga_group. Independent).
Minister of Finance. Senor Manuel Marraco (Radical).
Minister for War, Senor Diego Hidalgo (Radical).
Held office in the last Cabinet. United Press.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Permits
Now York; April 29. To-day was Pittsburgh's first home game of baseball on Sabbath day under the State laws making the play per- missible.
Rew
Playing in the National League, Pittsburgh wiped out Cincinnati despite two homers by Shiver and
Wohnson.
with a homer.
Babe Ruth for the New Yorkere and Cleveland, eclipsed Detroit with a margin of six clear rann.
THE Rev. Lewis Bryan is quite the most indispensable after- dinner entertainer the Colony
bonsts at the present time. Ho tept the gathering uproariously amused for half an hour on Satur day night.
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YESTERDAY'S match must have given the C.A.A.F.,” football selectors some food for thought. To be defeated by a Colony cleven. which although fairly representa. ive, was not perhaps the strongest that could have been fielded, must have come as a big shock to the chosen Olympic players.
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CONDITIONS, F'am told, greatly
affected the Chinese, who are never at home on the mud because generally speaking it is somewhat foreign to local football. Further- more they lack the weight.
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NEVERTHELESS I should not
be surprised to see somo alterations in the Anal line-up of the Chinese XI at Rizal Field next month,
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CORD'S great work between the sticks only serves to emphasise how rich the Colony has been in season. goalkeeping talent this Wherens George Rodger stood out hend and shoulders above his con- temporaries some three or four. years ago, to-day he is well match ed by Cord of Kowloon, Smith of the Borderers, and before he left, Heath of the Lincolne, not to men- tion McHardy the Interporter.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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THE friendly THE
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DINNER DANCE UNIVERSITY GRADUATES AND
CLUB ENTERTAIN
A Ladies' Evening in the form
the President, Mr. R. C. II. Limi
in rendering thanked Misa D. Ma for her kind- a plano selec.. tions, and also Mr. Lau Man Hing and his "gang" for voluntarily sup plylag the excellent dance music.
Much of the success of the even-
the scene of another "hard of a dinner dance, organised by the luck" penalty, Syd. Strange was. K. University Graduntes A6- ing was due to the charming por the victim. His "banda"
sociation and the University Club, sonalities of the hostesses, Miss A. about the most accidental affair was hied at King's Restaurant on Ho and Mies K. Lai, and the untir- imaginable, but the full penalty Saturday night was attended ing energy of the Hon. Secretary, extracted, and the Chinese were by about 90 min and guests. Dr. K. D. Ling. The dance ter-
After welcomian Che gathering,¦minated of midnight.
enabled to reduce the deficit.
Bad to Worse!
By Blosser
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He Looks SLIKE HE COULD DO IT! GOLLY!
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I UN'ERSTAND YOUR KID
BEAT UP ON MY POOR, DEFENSELESS
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