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MUTT AND JEFF

WHERE YOU GOIN,

MUTT?

OUT TO BUY A

NEW HAT! IF I

DON'T DO IT RIGHT

NOW I'LL NEVER

DO IT!

THAT LOOKS,{ TO ME, FINE ON YOU!

TO YOU? MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE MIRROR!

NO, I

DON'T

HAT'S

LIKE ANY OF THESE ON ME!

(AH, THIS ONE'S PERFECT! HOW MUCH?

ALL ONE' PRICE! FIVE DOLLARS!

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1939.

AHEM!--WELL,

How Do YOU LIKE

MY NEW HAT?

By BUD FISHER

WHAT NEW HAT?

THAT'S THE SAME OLD TONE YOU

WENT OUT

WITH!

"All-In Bee

薯薯

From Studio:

Law v.

Medicine

Today's Wireless

6.00 p.m. "For the Children".

Nursery Rhymes - Medley (Intro- ducing Eight Nursery Rhymes)..

The New Century Quartette with Orchestra.

You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach

Baby (film 'Poor little Rich Girl'); Oh, My Goodness (film 'Poor little Rich Girl')....Mae Questel (The Betty Boop Girl).

Studio Story by Aunt Susan. I'm Popeye, The Sailorman

(from

the Popeye films)....Sydney Kyte & His Piccadilly Hotel Band with Vocal Chorus.

Lullabyland. Intro: Ma Curly Head- ed Baby; Honey; Hush-a-Bye- Baby....Len Fillls & His Novelty Orchestra.

6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota

tions.

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 megacycles)

6.32 p.m.-Louis Kentner in a Piano

Recital of Liszt's Compositions. Benediction De Dieu Dans La Soli-

tude; Scherzo Les Patincurs (Meyerbeer-Liszt).

7.00 p.m.-Puccini's "La Tosca" Act II. Singers in order of appearance: Guseppe Bottini (Boy Soprano), Piero Pauli (Tenor), Carmen Melis (Soprano), Nello Palai (Tenor) and Giovanni Azzimonti (Bass) with Members of the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Carlo Sabajno.

7.30 p.m.-Quilter's "Where The Rain- bow Ends"-Selection, Organ Solo

by Sidney Torch. 7.39 p.m.-Marek

Orchestra.

At

Weber and His

The Tchaikowsky Fountain- Fantasia (Urbach); Forest Idyll (Esslinger); A Night In Venice- Porpourri (Strauss, arr. Wenin- ger).

8.00 p.m.—Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-"All-In Bee"-No. 2: Law v. Medicine. Compered by the Church. 8.30 p.m.-Compositions of Mendela.

sohn.

Fingal's Cave-Overture....St. Louis Symphony Orchestra cond. by Ru- dolph Ganz.

Song Without Words....Ignaz Fried-

CRICKET A

Winning

CONTRACT POPE'S BIG

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

DUMMY REVERSAL

Although a trick taken by dummy hand, and now play a low club. As- is just as valuable as one taken by suming the opponents led another Declarer, nevertheless it is surpris- | trump,

Declarer would win in ing to note how few Declarers make dummy, lead a third spade, trumping full use of their dummy. In parti- in his own cular, one has no idea of the number dummy by ruffing a club

hand, and get back to and lead of contracts that go down simply be- cause Declarer tries to establish his the suit while

one more spade, thereby establishing he still had a good own hand without realising that a trump in dummy. Of course, if very simple play will

make all of spades and hearts had both broken dummy's cards good. For instance, badly, he would have lost the hand here is a hand we recently saw play-on this play. But it is far easier to ed at four hearts:

establish a six-card suit than a five- carder.

AQ & 7 68 9 7

10 5 ♡ 4 8 ◇ AKB 84W

K

♡ 5 8

A Q 10 2

8

QJ 197 JQ 8

2

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN

ACE ...

3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK

♡ A Q 10 8 0

◊ 8 2

♣ K 8 7 6 5

·

A diamond was opened and con- tinued, and then the defence shifted to a trump. South won in dummy, led the singleton club and went up with his King. West won with the Ace and played a second trump. At this point Declarer saw that has could, not set up: his clubs, so in: desperation he went after, the spades, but it was too late and the kids wanreet..

1

**

*

*

Yesterday neither side was vulner able, you were Howard Schenken's and held:

▲ K 10 x I

♡ A I

O Q B X I ઉદય

The bidding: Rechenken

12

Barnste

Juroby You

20

(?) ANSWER: Your correct bid is to double. There is a good chance of inflicting a substantial set, whereas game is far from certain.

Score 100% for double, 60% for two notrump, 0 for pass or any other. bid.

QUESTION NO. 256

To-day you are Oswald Jacobyła partner and hold:

***

The bidding: Babenken 14

2 What do you bid? tomorrow.)

However, if South had started after spades immediately, he would have had no. trouble with his con- tract: Without botharingito-finesse, he should ceah the Ace of spades and "lead a low-one, buying-in his own | Trto.)..

Malez

Риво (?)

(Answers S

(Released by The Belt Syndicate.

INNINGS

Fine innings by C. Pope, the captain of the Police, and A. Kirby, featured the whole- day cricket match at the Valley yesterday which Po- lice won by 67 runs.

Pope also bowled well to take 4 for 30, while P. J. Billimoria, the Crai- gengower left hander, met. with hist first success with the ball this season to take 4 for 47. Scores:-

Police-208 (C. Pope 74, A. Kirby 62; P. J. Billimoria 4 for 47).

C.C.C.-141 (T, Locke 30, A. H. Esmail 22; Pope 4 for 30).

Field Ambulance, H.K.V.D.G. win

Third Act

Of Puccini's

"

La Tosca "

man (Piano).

"A Midsummer Night's Dream"- Wedding March; Nocturne....Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. On Wings of Song.....Guila Bustabo (Violin) with Gerald Moore at the Piano.

9.05 p.m.-Studio-Comments on Re-

cent Events.

9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.40 p.m. Tino Rossi (Tenor) and the

Orchestre Raymonde.

Gounod In-Vienna (arr. Walter)....

Orchestre Raymonde:

Le Chaland Qui Passe (Bixio); C'Est A Capri (Grosz)... ......, Tino Rossi (Tenor) with Orchestra.

{

The Grand Duchess-Galop (Offen- bach); Tritsch, Tratsch-Polka (J. Strauss)....Orchestre Raymonde. 10.00 p.m.---An hour of Dance Favour-

Ites. 11.00 p.m.Close down.

SOFTBALL SCORES

League Softball scores over the week-end were:

MEN'S

International 7, Machine Gun. nera 5.

Hong Kong Baseball Club 11, Filipinos 3.

Hong Kong Ball Club 8, Min- danao 4.

*13.

GIRLS'

Wildcats-9, Wahoos 6. Pirates 12, Cardinals 7.

Canadian Chinese 27, Panthers.

Rearelo 16, Hong Kong Ball Club 11.

FRIENDLY

Recreio 8, Chung Hwa 6

K.C.C. TOURNEY

okfulum Field Ambulance Company of H.K.V.D.C., assisted by . An American tennis tournament such ane cricketers as H. L. Ozorio, was held at K.C.C. yesterday when of Recélo, and other club, cricke-60 people in all participated, 15 ters, beat University by 68 runs. courts being used. The women's Field Ambulance--165 (H. L. Ozorio | prize was won by Mrs. E. Curtis with 58, E. W. Stout 25; S. Mahmood 5 42, and Mrs. Kevan, was runner-up for 44, K. Y; Tam 3 for 18),

University-102

(Chin. Thiam-

tslew 32 and S. Mahmood 25 not out; H. L. Ozorio: 8. for 28).

with 39.

The men's prize was, won. Jointly by R. T. Broadbridge and:. J. T. Tanner with 40,-

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