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Eight Tricks.

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contracts are not necessarily eas ler to make non-vulnerable, in fact often more difficult..

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Ban On Women Smokers

Nazi Decree In Sacred Town of Kevelaer.

Cologne.

CHILD'S UNUSUAL APPETITE

Prefers Linoleum And Table - Legs.

Kingston, Pennsylvania.

The change of penalty for look ing at a "quitted" trick is curious. and I should have thought quite One innovation in the scoring unnecessary. The old penalty was

A two-year-old girl, whose is good, and that is the abolish- 50 points and I have never once The Nazis at Kevelaer, the name is kept a secret by puzzled ing of the bonus of 50 points seen it enforced, and I have rarely well-known Rhineland pilgrimage physicians, is in a hospital be- A closer examination of the new for bvertricks made and the seen the rule infringed. The new town, have launched a campaign cause of an unusual appetite for International Code of Laws .con-i

substitution of the trick value of penalty is the right to select the to prevent women smoking in anything painted. Physicians say firms me in my first feelings of dis- the suit declared. Previously, if suit from which the offending alde public there."

that she prefers linoleum, lega appointment. There would seem One Spade were hid and three is to lead when next it in the turn

Thousands of Catholic pilgrims for tables and woodwork gen- to be much that called for redress

made, 30 were scored below the of that side to lead.

visit Kevelaer each year, to prayerally. which has not been tackled, much

before the picture of Our Lady She was brought to the hospi- line and 100 above the line; now that is superfluous added, and

only 60 will be scored above,

of Kevelaer preserved in the tal suffering from lead poisoning. Attendants said that at first she Church. many of the new provisions are

The increase in the grant slam complicated and badly drafted.

penalty is perhaps justified, cer

Many of the inhabitants refused all normal food, and However, having regard to the tainly on figures, but again the

consider that the habit of chewed off the leg of a painted conflicting interests of the three inadequacy of the non-vulnerable

women smoking in public does doll-Reuter, nations concerned, and the neces-penalties will tend to reduce the

not attune with the holy sily for concessions by and to each value of the additional bonus,

character of the town. it is hardly surprising that the re- in the example I have previously sult is somewhat of a patchwork given.

character.

The most absurd innovation, however, is the rule that touch Ing a card in Dummy Is equiva lent to playing it unless pre- faced by the formula "I arrange" or words to that effect, or if the player is manifestly touching it! for some other purpose.

Who is to decide whether the The Nazis have asked the pro- player is manifestly touching it prietors of restaurants and places The present grand slam bonus is for some other purpose or not? of entertainment to prohibit The two main purposes which now exactly three times as much asean foresee much arguing and women from smoking in their

this establishments.-Reuter. - the legislators should have had in the small slam, where previously wrangling and Ill-feeling. if

seriously enforced. view in compiling the new code it was only. twice as much. This rule is ever are, firstly, the simplification of thould give the more precise grand Suppose the declarer touches four- the scoring, and, secondly, the slam bidder a great advantage and or five, or even all the cards in where cards are stated as not liable shortening. if possible, of the time will undoubtedly make a very con- Dummy: which card is deemed to to be called in certain circumstan taken by the average Contract rub-siderable difference in the results have been led 'or played, and by ces unless the other opponent secs ber.

of most duplicate matches. whom is this question to ba de them. cided?

I can see little or nothing in the new code in furtherance of the lat ter object, and very little in respect of the former, although in some respects it in true the scoring has been simplified.

Non-Vulnerable Problems There are many way, however, in which the scoring could have been made less ocmplicated and Improv We recommend reliable persons

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mous advantage over. the vulner able side in the bidding.

The non-vulnerable side can still afford to go down 5 or 6 tricks, or even more, on an impossible bid, und be justified in the matter of figures.

Take this case. Suppose the vulnerable side have bid Seven Hearts, a non-vulnerable opponent | holding QJ 10 x x x x Spades can afford to bid Grand Slam in Spadea,

TO-DAY'S BRIDGE TIP

NORTH:-~~

B-5, 4, 3.

EAST:-

3.-Q, 0, 2,

South is playing No-trumps. West's opening lead is, the King of Clubs. Which card should East play?

ANSWER

The Queen. West is leading from four or more Clubs bead- ed by A K J or six or seven to the A K. In either case he will be more likely to continue the suit if he knows the posi- tion of the Queen. If a small one is played

the first On round and West continues with Ace, the Queen will have to be played in order to unblock. It is better, therefore, to play it the first round.

Then there is the question of: four honours in one hand, whích)

00

So much for the new scoring, which still leaves much to be doi

un absurd bid on the hand, and go has been left undisturbed. and |down 8 tricks-2200. He will save which I have many times advocat 1000 points if the opponents Granded in these columns should be abo- Slam is assured, for they will make lished as putting a premium 2250 plus 210 plus 600, the value luck and being at the same time of rubber game-3060 points, an insult and a source of irritation

The fact is that it is so difficult to the skilled opponent. to adjust the vulnerable and non. vulnerable penelties on any basis of equity that the vulnerable sired. feature should be abolished al together, and the game, of Con

As to the alteration in the laws. tract would be no less attractive. I themselves, the new revoke penalty There is no adequate reason forjia prehaps the most sweeping, aad giving a side 700 for a two-gains in principle, good, although it may rubber and 500 for a three-game well lead to increased revoking. A rubber, while at the same time revoke now merely allows the ep-| penalising the side that wins a

ponents to take two tricks from game by subjecting it to increased the offending side for a first revoke penalties that more than outweigh and one for the second, subject, the additional rubber bonus. I however, to the important proviso

Asking for Trouble

is merely giving with one hand and that no transfer was included in taking away with the other, and trick (1) before the first revoke It makes the game lopalded and the bidding unbalanced.

occurred or any trick transferred from the other side.

The Overtricks Bonus

This does away with the penalty Sooner or later I believe we shall in the many cases where nothing see the vulnerable feature eliminat has tended to prejudice the oppon- ed and a flat 600 given for the ents and the revoke occurred after rubber points. The French, in contract or game is made. A fur- their game of Plafond, fail to re-ther concession is made, that no re- cognise vulnerablity, and I feel voke can be established in the sure that time will show they have twelfth trick, which is intended to hit on the most balanced: and atallow'rovokes carelessly made late. tractive form of Contract. More in the hand to escape.. over, many players have been put off Contract by the vulnerable fea ture, which they often fall to un derstand, and the heavy vulner able penalties.

Another advantage would be that the so-called Psychic bids would find little place in the bid- ding. Again, on the piex of aim- plication, I would give the same Bonuses for grand slam and small alam, whether the declarer be vul- nerable or not vulnerable. These

The new revoke penalty reada aimply, but when it comes to "cal- culating the number of tricks to be taken in particular circumstan- ces, particularly when both sides. have revoked, it becomes very com- plicated.

1 predict that for some time there will be confusion: in carry. Ing out this faw, and there will be a natural tendency to be less careful in play now, that the penalty is relaxed.

POP A Little Boy With A Great Big Ego

WHAT IS THE

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LEAVES COFFIN TO

DO DAY'S WORK. Strange Behaviour, Of

·A· Corpse.

*Vienna.

A bookseller's assistant named Again, in the definition of "ex-Fargas lay in his coffin at I see no reason for the rule at posed card," any card dropped Kecskemet, Hungary. Mourning elsewhere than on the table when friends were about to take him As an instance of bad drafts-the offender's partner sees it to the grave.. manship, Law 21 (b) states that a face, is deemed exposed, but not Suddenly he woke up, climbed card is deemed to have been played when it is seen only by an oppon-out of the coffin, and weds off to when placed or held 'so that his ent. It is going to be a matter of work as if nothing had happened. to He worked till evening, came partner sees any portion of its extreme difficulty and doubt face. Again, who is to decide prove that the offender's partner home and ate a hearty meal. whether the partner sees any por-ever saw its face, and, in fact, tion of the card? And there is almost partners will take care similar expression in Law 26, avert their eyes.

Next morning he was found to dead again, really dead this time.

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