1939-05-19 — Page 29

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1989

CORRESPONDENCE

CONTRACT BRIDGE

Sir Your correspondent S.L.P. should realise the time honoured adage S.L.P. should that silence is golaen. have been silent after his "deplorable result" instead of rushing into print to justify himself or alternatively to con- demn his all-too-correct partner.

Having broken his silence, S.L.P. re- veals both his ignorance of bridge and of logic. Out or his own mouth it is possible to judge S.L.P. Did he not, Mr. Editor, submit to you that com- monsense, is essential to good contract bridge. Commonsense should have taught him not to bid "four clubs" over his partner's "three spades" unless he was in a position to fulfil his contract, Where was S.L.P's. commonsense when he made that bid.

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Presumably S.LP, insists that partner should not only possess com- monsense but the sixth sense of know- ing what S.L.P's. hand was!

Yours etc.,

Dub Bul.

ANOTHER VIEW

Sir, The first mistake in the bidding on the hands set out by S.L.P. was, no matter what system he was play- ing, the opening preemptive. of three diamonds. The diamond suit was far too strong in top honours for a stifling bid of that kind. Nevertheless, error one having been followed by a correct bid by North of three spades, North should not have left in the ghostly four clubs bid however puzzled he was by it. His correct call Was Four Spades and this was, except for worst possible distribution, makable.

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ONE DIAMOND.

been:

CHILDREN'S PUZZLE

REVERSAL

HEN THE CORRECT

THREE WORDS ARE PRINTED ABOVE, THE SAME LETTERS, READING BACKWARD, WILL SPELL THREE OTHER WORDS.

SHE DEFINI-

TIONS ARE:

1, AN ACTOR WHO PLAYS THE LEADING PART; 2, ONE WHO UTTERS FALSEHOOD; 3, To GIVE DINNER TO.

Answer to yesterday's puzzle:

Answer to-morrow.

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