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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 27, 1938

By BUD FISHER

-BUT I GET

AWFUL

THIRSTY!

"MUTT AND JEFF

COKIB ON, LET'S TIKE A WALK! IT'LL DO YOU COD!--- HOW 16 YOUR OPERATION?

OH, IT'S ALERICHT, BUT I CAN'T BEND! THE DOCTORS LEFT A SPONGE IN ME ACCIDENTALLY!

A SPONGE?

MY GOSH, WHAT DID THEY DO?

OH, THEY WANTED TO OPERATE ON ME AGAIN TO GET IT OUT

·BUT I GAVE 'EM A BUCK AND TOLD'EM TO GO BUY ANOTHER

SPONGE!

WELL, DON'T THE SPONGE PAIN YU?

NAW, IT DON'T HURT

Classical

Request

Programme

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.

Today's Wireless

Fox-Trots-You're Lovely Madame; What

Have You Got That

Gets

Crosby with His Orchestra,

Tangos-Tango Marina:

Me.....Bob

When A Gipsy Played....Emil Roosz & His Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-Ain't She Sweet.

Quickstep-Somebody Stole My

Gal.....

Brian Lawrance & His Quartet. Fox-Trot-Sweet Genevieve, Wallz-On The Sunny Side of the Rockles

....Ronnie Munro & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-llo'Dja Like To Love Me?; } Fall In Love With You Every Day.. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra. Quickstep-old Tight,

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

9.52 Megacycles

Fox-Trot-I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, Tangos-Mano A Mano; Por Vos Yo Me Rompo Todo....Orquesta Tipica Fran- cisco Canaro. Fox-Trota-Two Little Fles on a Lump of Sugar: Just A-Wearyin' For You....Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.

Comedy Waltz-The Travelling Salesman. Comedy Novelty-A Feather In Her Tyro lean Hat....The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has heaten every other system in existence.

ken

GETTING TO SEVEN

To-day's hand, which is a laydown Grand Slam in spades, notrump or diamonds, is given as an example of elegant bidding.

West, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

♡ K Q10 8

AK J 10 8 65 ♡ 3 OK QI4 473

(9) South is now convinced that

Skaters' Waltz In Swing Music - The

Swingtime....Bob Crosby & His Orch. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.01 p.m.-B.B.C. RECORDING~"The "Heart of England". A Programme from the Midlands arranged and pro- duced by Robin Whitworth.

LONDON RELAY 7.30 p.m. —

News.

The

8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.

gramma.

Classical Request Pro-

"The Barber Of Seville"-Overture (Ros

sin!)....Philharmonic-Symphony Orches- tra of New York cond. by Toscanini. Questa O Quella ("Rigoletto"-Verd!).... Tito Schipa (Tenor) with Orchestra.. Overture "Merry Wives of Windsor" (Ni- colat)....The B.B.C. Symphony Orches- tra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

("La Musetta's Waltz Song

Boheme"- Puccini)....Grace Moore (Soprano) with

KWANT! RACER

HAVE YOU

his partner holds both the King and WON?

either а spades or - sufficient

all for discards

Queen of diamonds and singleton heart to provide

his

the results of cash Following are sweeps at the Kwant Race Meeting South yesterday:

RACE 1

(South's) losing hearts.

Incidentally at Duplicate

have bid seven would probably notrump. But in Rubber Bridge the hand extra points for playing the

in notrump and the bonus for honours are not worth while when compared with the Grand Slam, bonus.

Fisher.

B.B.C. Recording: "The Heart

Orchestra.

Of England"

Perpetual Motion, Op. 11 (Paganini). Dance Of The Goblins, Op. 23 (Bazzin!). ....Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) with Plano accomp. by Marcel Gazalie.

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt).... Phi- ladelphia Symphony Orchestas conducted by Leopold Stokowaki.

Spanish Dance (Granados, arr. Casals). Vilo (Spanish Dance) Op. 54, No. 5 (Pop- per)....Pablo Casals ('Cello) with Piano accomp. by Nicolai Mednikoff. Mouvements Perpetuels (Poulenc); Stude

(Stravinsky)

Beno Moiseiwitsch (Piano).

Onaway! Awake! Beloved ("Hiawatha”---- Coleridge-Taylor)....Tudor Davies (Ten- or) with Orchestra.

London Bridge March (Eric Coates)............. New Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by Joseph Lewis.

9.05 p.m. — STUDIO - Commenta

Recent Events.

on

9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY — Nows

Summary,

9.25 p.m. - VARIETY

with Sidney

Torch, Al Bowlly, Ruth Etting and Others.

10.15 p.m.-Dance Music,“ 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN. -

C.C.C. BACHELORS

·BEATEN

at

In the annual cricket match, Craigengower yesterday, the Married 86 members beat the Bachelors by

runs.

Married:-199 (for 5 wkts. dec.) (A. R. H. Esmail 55, H. P. Lim 58 notlout, G. Winch 2 for 56. F. R. Zimmern 2 for 39).

Bachelors:-113 (G. Winch 28, F. R. Zim- mer 14, E. H. Eamall 13) Way 3 for 14. A. B. Hamsom 2 for,7).

H.K. ELECTRIC MATCH

At Sookunpoo, the Local Staff of Hong Kong Electric Company beat the European Staff by 53 runs in their annual cricket match.

European-Staff:-128 -(W. Stoker 31, Mc Kenna 37).

Local Staff:~~~170 (A;, K. Minu 58, S. M. Rumjahn-45, S. A: Ra-Bux-33).

RACE -5.

No. 20206

$ 19,773.54

-1934

15705

5,849.57 2,834.78

No. 755

N

♡ J. 5

7 2

W

0 10 8 2

8

3

J 10 8 6

100

*

*

Q D $ 8

4

♡ A

♣AK

753

Yesterday neither side was vulner- Schenken's able, you were Howard

3047 728 Unplaced Ticket No. 1,032 gets $25.

RACE 2 No. 506

$ 1,206.69 344.77 05

172.38 -1042 Unplaced- Ticket No. 157 gets $50.

- RACE 3

656.00 187.44 03.72

No. 432

$ 1,331.40

partner and held:

974 254

380.40 190.20

The bidding:

West North

Pass

PALL

East Pass

South

10(1)

1♡ PABE

24(3)

Pass B♡(3)

10 # OK 10 # *K**

RACE 4

Unplaced Tickets Nos. 23026, 11645, 9570, Unplaced Tickets Nos. 138. 373 and 1,102 36489, 18158, 37838, 31872, 24390, 34843, 29418:

3299, 5867, 10778 get $341.43 each. get $50 each,

RACE #

No,

544 851

# 1,269.80

40 (4).

Pass

40(5)

The bidding:

45

#

Pase

4A(6)

Pass

BA(7)

Bernatone

Pass

40 (8) Pass

Pass

70 (9)

Pass

PAM

Jackky 10

Bobenkeg Dbl.

862.80 181.40 Unplaced Tickets Noš. 1178, 405, 1108, 1875 get $50 each.

Pass

Pass

(1) South's hand is

No. 1387

"

713

805

$ 1,337.28

383.06 191.04

Unplaced Tickets Nos. 919, 367, 135, 635,'

| 1167, 1947, 288, 301 get $50 each.

HION CARD VALUES

OF THE

FOUR-ACES SYSTEN

AGE.... KING QUEEN 1 JACK.....':

ANSWER: Your correct bid is two

not strong enough for spades.

a suit two-bid, but is Score 100 per cent. for two spades, strong enough for 60 per cent. for two notrump (you two-notrump open-have nothing in hearts), 20 per cent. ing. However the dis- for one spade (inadequate), 0 tribution indicates the

pass (this last is a very poor advisability of a suit.

since you are probably giving away a game for a small penalty).

(2) With a singleton heart and a Ane, Stufor his partner, North, who doriginally, decides on a

has

ind« control.

t-round control.^

----- (8) North is afraid of two possible

lowers in the club sult.

(7) First-round control

clubs.

(Rales

QUESTION NO. 293.

the dealer and hold:

for

bid

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