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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935

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FOR

BRIDGE NOTES

Under-Bidding For Safety

By Ely Culbertson

While Duplicate Bridge, when played in the form of team-of- four tournaments with cumulative scoring, is a great test of skill, at times it leads to strange varia- tions from what is ordinarily can-| sidered good Bridge. I once play- ed in a tournament in- which my partner and I deliberately refus fed to bid a vulnerable Small Slam which we thought that we could probably make. This sounds like an indictment. for we sacrificed 750 points by stopping at game; yet when one considers that it was

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playing, and all the attendant cir- cumstances. analysis will con- vince him that our underbidding was so well justified that if we had reached the makable Small Slam contract we would have been guilty of an error.

In effect this underbidding, is ja safety measure. In the case I 48 speak of we had completed boards of a sixty-board match. At the end of the forty-eighth we were leading by 1,700 points, and the next eleven hands were of the dull type in which no more than [a part-score can be bid and there is little opportunity to gain or lose more than 50 or 100 points. On the last deal we were vulner- able and knew that we were still

at least 1,500 points ahead. We picked up the following cards, I being the South` player.

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North and South vulnerable.

SQ98 HK Q DQJ9 54

Wext-

H-J 10 9 4 D-10 6 3.2 C-K J3 2

East-

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D-A &

C-Q 10 6 5 4

South-

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The bidding:

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Pass

ADAMSON IS ANNOYED BY THE FLIES.

ST. TERESA'S CHURCH

Forthcoming Week's Services

FEAST OF ST. LOUIS

The following are the forth coming services, etc. at St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon Tong:-

OLD “HELL FIRE

CLUB"

Relic For Nation

HILL WHERE MEETINGS WERE HELD

High Wycombe. Sir John Dashwood has de- cided to hand over the famous To-morrow Feast of St Bar Church Hill at West Wycombe tholomew, Apostle. 3pm) (associated with the notorious Meeting of St. Teresa's Chinese Hell Fire Club) to the National Young Men for visit to the sick. Trust.

Twelve months ago the trust Sunday, August 25 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost-Feast of took over the ancient village of the St. Louis, King of France. West Wycombe, which

7.30 am. 1st Mass with Sermon Royal Society of Arts had restored from dilapidation. The in English

9.30 am 2nd. Mass with sermon hill comprises 50 acres of open in English, followed by Benediction land, and is topped by à matiso

Heum and the curious Church of of the Most Blessed Sacrament

3 pm. Meeting of St. Teresa's St Lawrence The golden ball CYMS. on the Society's Pre-on the church tower is a land-

mark for many miles.

mises..

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will

BUSINESS GUIDE TO SOUTH CHINA

Publication Coming

Shortly

LOCAL FIRES ASKED-

TO CO-OPERATE

The Bureau of Foreign Trade be broadcast-to-day-from-thejal the -Chinese- Ministry of-In Hong Kong Broadcasting Station dustry is now in process of com- ZRW. on a wavelength of 955 piling a book entitled: “Importers Limetres.

and Exporters Guide, which is

(845 K.Cs). ·

Daventry Gordon Harker in "Fine expected to be published shortly.

Mr. M. ✪ Ha," of the Bureau, Pianoforte Recital

is now in Hong Kong and is busily 12:20-2.15 pm

Proengaged in collecting information

and material for the book.

European

12.30 pm-Recorded Musica

I p.m.-Local Time & Weather Be-

} port

LIS pm-Hong Kong Hotel Erch L30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletin Rugby Press News, etc.

2.15 p.m.---Close Downl

4-7 pm Chinese Programme.

It is his earnest détire that Chinese and foreign firms and factories in Hong Kong and

South China will kindly co-operate

and furnish him particulars

健

their establishments with regard

7-11.30 pin.—European Programmelto (1) Name of concern, (2) Ad-'

7-7.28 pm---Band Music.

The Mill on the Rock-Overture

(arr. Winterbottom)

Mirella-Overture......

(Gounod," zit. O'Donnell) ( The Milf in the Black Forest *(Ellenberg)

March of the Mountain Gnomer

Ellenberg)

ad-

[dress. · (3) Cable and radio

dresses, (4) Code used (5) P. 0. Box No. (6) Telephone Nos. (7) Nationality. (8)· Date of Estáb- [lishment, (9) Head Office, (10) Branch Offices, (11) Imports and country of origin, Exports and destination. - (12) Agents-for which the firm is represented," |(13) Bank references, (14) Other The World is waiting for the Sm-General Information, either ad-

rise-Len Füllis -

[dressed directly to the Bureau of Song

Foreign Trade, Shanghai, or c/o). The Girl I knew ("Glamorous Mr. Lin Chia-min, Central News

Night”)Elisabeth Welch

Amoretten Tanze (Gung') Valse des Alovettes (Drigo)

723-7.50 pm:-Variety. Guitar Solo

Agency, Chungtin' Baiting. Des

Piano Duet

Variations on "Who's afraid of the Voeux Rd. Central, Hong-Kong.

Big Bad Wolf Jacenes Fray No charre or obligation will be and Mario Braggiotti. Voesta

¡made for insertions.

Oh! Leo

Transatlantic Merry-go-rom Rock and Roll

("Transatlantic. Merry-go-ro

The American Eton Boys. -~

Xylophone Salo

Joey the Clown

Rudy Starita 7.50-8 pm. From the Studio. "Book Reviews” by Sabring (

Local Time & Weather Re-i port; Closing Local Stock Quotations. 805-815 pm A Night with Paul Whiteman at the Biltmare".

8.15-880p.m.-Fron the Studio.

A Pianoforte Recital by Lindsay Laford, FRCO, (CHN) LEAH ARCH

い

Drinking Parties

Programme Rev. Fr. P. Law will deliver a

The ball has room for 10 |1 AD 1620-Macdowell: lecture on "The necessity of Union

In Autumn-Macdowell people. It is said that Sir 2 Le Cygne Palmgren Among Chinese Catholics Light Francis Dashwood, lord of the 3. En Valsant Ignar Friedmann

refreshments will be served. ånd

East

South

Pass 28

Pass

West Pass Pass.

Pass

door.

ad-

Members of the Catholic Chinese manor in the eighteenth cen-4.

tury. had it built so that he Community of Kowloon are

might hold drinking parties free mitted on presentation. Tickets

of interference. Under the hill will be obtainable at the Church is a network of passages and a large underground chamber, 4 p.m. Meeting of St. Teresa's where members of the Hell: Fire a diamond I had visions of & POS-Chinese Young Men for proceed Club held meetings sible Slam, which were enhanced

When my partner opened with

when North raised my forcinging to Tsung Wan for voluntary

takeout of two spades and prac starts on that day.

teaching. The English Sunday

tically, assured me that the suit

was solid Nevertheless, I con-

Monday, August 26-7.30 am

A SOHO CLUB

tented myself with bidding four Low Requiem Mass for the Sonks spades, and since my partner did in Purgatory, Phrase.

not bid again the bidding was Tuesday, August 27-Feast of

the Seven Joys of Our Lady. closed-

5. p.m. Little Flower Choir Prac tice.

7.30 p.m. St. Teresa's CTMS Choir Practice.

“Run By Criminals For Criminals”

MAGISTRATES CENSURE.

West opened the Jack of hearts and I made six-odd by setting up Dummy's diamonds and discard- ing my losing clubs and heart

"It seems to have been a club The reason for my pessimism Wednesday, August 28Feast run by criminals for criminals," was that, being 1,500 points of St. Augustine Bishop and said Mr. J. B. Sandbach, KC, ahead we could afford to lose the Doctor.

the Marlborough-street magis:

750 points of the Slam bonus and Thursday, August 29.-The Betrate, recently, when four men still win the match; but let us heading of St. John the Baptist. were summoned as a sequel to suppose that I bid six and that Friday, August 30-Feast of Sta police raid on the Imperial Cinema and Theatre Club our opponents in the other room Eose of Lima had also bid six.

8 pm. St. Teresa's C.YMS. Dean-street, Soho.

the Perhaps some lucky break such Committee Meeting

Inspector Deller said as a good opening lead against Week-days: Masses at 6.30 and police were the only respectable people there on the night of the

them, or a choice in playing the 7.30 am Dummy, would have led to the

Confessions are beard before raid contract's being made at one and after Masses in Chinese, table and lost at the other. Our English, Italian, French, Spanish opponents would then be plus and Portuguese.

1,430 points whereas we would be

minus-100 points, plus the honour

in each case. Our net loss

that case would be 1,530 points, sufficient to cost us the match.sh.

PRIZE BABY'S DEATH

The Sentences The defendants were dealt with as follows

Joseph Owen," Orsett-terrace, Bayswater, fined £54 and £15; 158. costs for selling drink with ↑ out a licence, or three months. “After winning the first prize at Alfred Wilson, Tulletson

As it happens, our opponents in a baby show at Thorrington. Es-road, E., fined £66 and £15 158- the other room did bid and makes Doris Cathleen Grainger, costs with the same alternative six, since South bid four notrump (aged 2, of Plough Road, Great for a similar offence instead of four spades and North Bentley, near Clacton-on-Sea, fell Kenneth McLean, Cambridge went on to six spades. On the dead while running in a field. Itlet, Bayswater, secretary of the same opening lead the Sam was was found that she had an enlarg-club, fined £2 and 38 costs made, but we still won the matched thymus gland and any excite for using the club for gaming. I cannot help but point out, howment might have caused her to A summons ever, that if I had bid the Slam collapse.

Jandsif: West had chosen to open

a club instead of a heart, I could sur

for aiding__and] abetting in male of drink dis missed under Probation Act on payment of 23 Ss costs,

Joseph Wright, Beverley-

THE Undersigned have received ant, without losing a sinh trick. Cocktails And Caviare, drive Migware, fined £10 and

Anction

suit,

instructions to sell by Public and the match would not have out so well. It often pays asure small loss just matter of taking out insur-

1935

TEN KILLED AS TRAINS COLTIDE

At this time of year, when every ordered to pay body feels more or less jaded and laiding andə abet Out-of-sorts, there is a tendency to the club for gaming. samlate the enfeebled appetite by means of cocktails" "aperitives" and 5 d

fonds The result is a W of a laxativa

BUBONIC PLAGUE STRIKES

Chorale Preludes:

“Ertod "uns durch dein", Gute” Bach, trans: by Rummel. "In dir ist Frende"

Bach (arr. Busani) 8.30-8.47 pmSong Memories. It's a Lovely War Medley

FURTHER CREDIT REFUSED

Cork Council In Diffienities

Cork City Coane, the largest county council in Ireland was unable to pay its employees last month

There is no money in the Treasury, Clerks, workmen and roadmen had to go without wages. Some had not been paid for a month. The council has a bank overdraft of £160,000 and a further credit of £80,000 was refuseda

The council complains that certain grants to which it is entitled have been withheld by the Free State Government. If these were paid," says the cou Quar-jcit, it would be solvent. The

(arr. Debroy Somers) The Open Road—A. Hiking Medley

{arz. Debroy”Somers) 847-9 pm--Virtuoso String

tet.

Orientale · (Glazouzov) Gavotte (“Mignon" (Thomas) Molly on the Shore (Grainger) Tambourin (Gossec, azz: Sharpe)

99.15pm Relay of the Daven try News Buletín (Copyright by Reuter).

9.15-10 prn From the Studio. A 45th Rochel of Gramophone Ee- cords by The Hev. C. B. K. Sargent,

10 pm-Ben

Press Bulletin..

council is taking legal proceed ings to recover the money-

10.06-10.45 p.m.-Dance-Music.

Daventry

10.45-11.30pm—Á Eclây ve vlada

Gordon Harker in Tin He's in the Army, now) 11.30 pm-

REPULSE BAY

LIDO

DINNER, CINEMA & DANCE SATURDAY, 24th August

AN

Premier Showing in Hong Kong of

FLAMING ROMANCE!

HAUNTING

PULSE STIRKIN

BAXTER

GALLIAN

DNDERE

DINE

at 9.30 p.m. DANCE

Hp