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MUTT AND JEFF

M'LOVE, THIS CHICKEN

MA, PLEASE CAN I HAVE

CERTAINLY

CICERO!

SOME JAM

TO PUT ON

DELICIOUS!

MY BREAD AND BUTTER?

WELL! UPON MY, WORD, YOU'RE GETTING TOO DAINTY FOR 'ANYTHING!

WHAT ARE YOU HOLLERING ABOUT? AIN'T

YOU GOT CHICKEN?.

10-30

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1939

By BUD FISHER

M'DEAR, THIS KID'S

SPOILED! THINGS HAVE

TO HAVE JAM AND

COME TO A PRETTY PASS WHEN HE HAS THANKS,

MOM!

YOU'RE WELCOME,

GON!

LISTEN! WHEN

I WAS YOUR AGE

BUTTER ON HIS

BREAD!

I WAS VERY GLAD

TO GET DRY BREAD TO EAT!

DRY

BREAD?

TAP \\TAR

-THEN YOU HAVE

MUCH BETTER GRUB

LIVING WITH US, DON'T YOU, POP?

Programme of Dance "Hits"

Of The Moment

Today's Wireless

5.45 p.m.-STUDIO-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.47 p.m.-PEGGY WOOD (Soprano) In Songs from Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet".

I'll See You Again: Dear Little Cafe.... Peggy Wood & George Metaxa with Orchestra.

Zigeuner...Peggy Wood with Plano, 7.00 p.m.-GERRY MOORE (Piano)

and GERALDO and His Orchestra. Geraldo's Lightning Hit Switch.

....Geraldo and His Orchestra.

Quickstep-Day In-Day Out.

Slow Fox-Trot-Mine Alone.

....Gerry Moore (Piano).

Slow Fox-Trots-I I Didn't Care:

Pretty Little Quaker, Girl.

The

....Geraldo and His Orchestra. Quickstep Medley-I can dream, can't I;

One Song: If Dreams come true. Slow Fox-Trof Medley-Serenade to

Stars: Sweet as a song.

....Gerry Moore (Piano).

the

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

9.52 Megacycles

Fox-Trol-You're A Sweet Little Headache | 8.45 p.m.-STUDIO

(alm, 'Paris Honeymoon').

...Geraldo and His Orchestra.

7.30 p.m.- LONDON RELAY --The

News.

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Bignal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-BRAHMS—Double Concerto In A Minor, Op. 102.-Jacques Thi- baud (Violin), Pablo Casals ('Cello) and The Pablo Casals Orchestra, Barcelona, conducted by

Alfred Cortot.

8.35 p.m.-Some Brahms' Songs.

Little Sandman: In Silent Night....Comedy

Harmonists with Plano.

Nachtigall: Standchen....Elena Gerhardt

(Mezzo-Soprano) with Plano,

Winning

CONTRACT

(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.

BAD DEFENCE

-

Talk "East of

Vienna". 9.05 p.m.--Plano Bolos by Paderewski. Minuet In G Major, Op. 14. No. 1

(Paderewski).

Mazurka In D Major, Op. 33. No. 2

(Chopin).

Mazurka In A Flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2

(Chopin).

9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY. - News

Summary.

9.30 p.m.-GERSHWIN-Cuban Over- ture. Paul Whiteman and His Con- cert Orchestra.

9.44 p.m.-Songs by Bing Crosby.

The Funny Old Hills (Alm 'Paris Honey.

FOOTBALL

R. SCOTS DRAW WITH 8TH R.A.

(BY "REFEREE)

Royal Scots, holders of the Junior Shield, were fortunate in facing a

Children's Hour And Songs From

"Bitter Sweet

"

moon').

I Have Eyes (film 'Paris Honeymoon'). Mexicali Rose (Stone-Tenney).

9.54 p.m.-Short Programme by Eddle

Peabody (Instrumentalist). St. Louis Blues (Handy)....Eddle Peabody

playing his Banjo.

Some Of These Days (Brooks)........Eddie Peabody playing his Banjo, Mando-'Cello, Mandoline and Banjoline. With Plano. Just A Crazy Song (Smith and Williams); This Is The Day Of Days (Dixon & Woods).....Eddle Peabody playing his Banjo, Guitar, Mandoline and Mando- 'Cello (With Own Vocal Chorus. With Piano.

10.06 p.m.-Some Dance "Hits" of the

Moment.

11.00 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-"Back.

ground to News",

11.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

were very safe in the second period.

The Gunners scored first through Owens but McKay equalised. Cross placed the Gunners in the lead again and in the last minutes of the extra The period McKay equalised again. replay will take on Wednesday at 2.45 p.m. at Sookuǹpoo.

The R.A.: Perdue; Doyle and Wong; Wooldridge. Barnsley and Marsden: Owens, Burgess, Woldrich, Cross and Dunne.

Royal Scots: - Salter; Fowler, and draw in the last minutes of the game Parnaby; Gibb, Fraser and Mitchell; · in the Preliminary Round encounter | Crawford, Moore, McKay, Williamson at Sookunpoo yesterday against 8th and Holmes. R.A. when both sides scored twice in the extra perlod.

The game was not of a high stan- dard, and there was little combina- tion by either sides.

R.A.S.C. Win

At. Sookunpoo yesterday, the Ser- vice Corps defeated "A" Company Middlesex Regiment, by four clear Both sides adopted wrong tactics goals after a goalless first half. Mar- during the game. Royal Scots wing-tin (2) Young and Glen scored for ers were inclined to hold the ball with the Service Corps. the result that McKay their centre for- ward was often caught off sides.

North's raise to two notrump was again on lead with the heart ten. ridiculously optimistic, for he had West now fixed things properly. He little more than a minimum opening shifted to the ten of clubs! Declarer bid, especially as a one-notrump | naturally covered with

dummy's takeout is the weakest possible res- Queen. East won with the Ace, and ponse. However, although East and then the defence cashed the two re- West were both expert players, they maining heart tricks. Now, oddly The Gunners after securing a lead were not at their best for the hand enough, Declarer had nine

tricks in the second period of extra time and developed in a remarkable manner. since the spades were

divided and knowing full well that the Royal Scots the King-nine tenace in clubs lay were out for their equaliser still kept over East's Jack.

Wong their best player in the attack.

Perdue played a great game for the Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's | Gunners. His safe handling and an- partner and held:

North, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

A K 10

♡ 6 5 4

◇ AJO 2

4979

J 7 8

N

A 9 6 6

Q 10 8 2

✪ KQ 6 6

W

E

10 4

KJ 7 3 04

AJ 8 6 2

Q 8 4 2

A B :

10 3 7 8

K9 5

10

2NT Pass

Pass INT Разв 13NT Pass

Want

Pass" Pase

The bidding:

North Bast South

West opened the deuce of hearts. East played the King and South won with the Ace. Having noth- ing better to do, South led a low dia- mond and finessed dummy's nine, which, >much to his surprise, held the trick (think- ing that his partner hight hold the dia- mond ten, West Had refused to split his honours).

3

HIGH GARE VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE KING..2 QUEEN I JACK

Having nothing to lose, Declarer now led a heart from dummy, and when East played low, West was

* *

*

A K Q J 6

K Q 8

◊ 10 8 5

7 4 3

The bidding: Maler Schenken 19 Pass

Burn-tone

You (7)

ANSWER: Your correct bid is one spade. This hand la strong enough- to make a second bid irrespective of what your partner's next bid la.

Score 100% for one spade, 60% for two hearts (inadequate), 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 277 You are Howard Schenken's part- ner and hold:

(1)

K J

OAK 10 x A QJ 9

The 'bidding:

Berastòme Pasi

****

Échenken

·

Pash

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)

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ticipation were features of his play while Wong at back was a safe de- fender and when he moved to the at- tack Initiated both the movements which produced goals.

McKay was the pick of the Scots attack and scored both the goals but he-did not receive the passes desired.

Fowler and Parnaby (not the senfor player) played brilliantly at back and

K.F.C. BEAT H.E.'S TEAM

At Government House yesterday, a team from the Kowloon Football Club beat His Excellency the Gov- ernor's team by 64 shots to 55.

Dr. Atienza, C. M. Manners, T. Ferguson, and B. D. Evans (skip) (K.F.C.) beat J. A. Fraser, N. L. Smith, J. Deakin and His Excellency (skip) 21-19.

S. Wong, J. Gibson, R. Hughes, and V. Chittenden (skip) beat W. A. Cornell, S. H. Dodwell, Sir Atholl Macgregor and E. Searle (skip) 18-17.

T. White, J. Ross, P. Morgan, - and W. Field (skip) beat F. Collin, R. E. Lindsell, A. E. Milne and W. Walker (skip) 25-19.

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