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MUTT AND JEFF

YOU HEARD ME! I SAID YOU WERE

DOING SIXTY MILES.

AN HOUR!

IPD.

BUT WE HAVEN'T

BEEN OUT AN

HOUR!

HOW LOOK,OFFICER!| IF WE WERE DOING GIXTY MILES AN HOUR,

AND WE WENT EIGHT

AND A HALF MILES IN TWENTY MINUTES, HOW FAST WERE WE GOING ON FIVE AND A HALF GALLONS AT SEVENTEEN | CENTS A GALLON?

I KNOW?

HOW DO

WELL, THERE

You

ARE!

1-8

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1940

By BUD FISHER

YEH, SOMETIMES

HOW THEY

WHAT A [COP! DON'T 】 YA WONDER

KNOW HIS ARITHMETIC! FORCE!

BOT ON THE

Studio Recital By Miss

Doreen Ma

6.00 p.m.-"FOR THE CHILDREN",

Today's Wireless

with

6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotations. 4.32 p.m.-AN HOUR OF VARIETY

Jack Savage and His Cowboys, Frances Day, Leslio Hutchinson, Clapham and Dwyer, and Others, Vocal-As Long As Our Hearts are Young (Kester & Hil); Just A Vagabond Lover (Kester & Hill)....The Vagabond Lover (Tenor) with Orchestra.

7.30 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather Re-

port and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.-This Week's Programmes. 8.07 p.m.-STUDIO - Piano Recital

Doreen Ma.

by

1. Is that the way to treat a Sweetheart,

2. Waltz Medley: (n) Roses of Picardy; (b) The World is Waiting for the Sun- rise; (c) When Irish Eyes are Smiling.

3. Over the Rainbow.

4. It took n Million Years.

8. I Cried for You,

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

9.52 Megacycles

8.25 p.m.-PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDEON

BAND.

Medley of Dance 'Hits' (Series 4). Intro: Alone: Poor Little Angeline: Goody Goody; The Touch of Your Lips: Three Minutes of Heaven; In a little Rendez- yous in Honolulu.

"On With The Show''--Selection. Medley of Dance Hits' (Series 5). Intro: I'm putting all my eggs in one Basket: Please believe me; Don't Save Your Similes.

8.41 p.m.--HAWATIAN MUSIC.

Smiling Eyes (Nawahl); Hawaiian Love

Bird (Denniker & Razak).... King Na-! wahi's Hawaiians.

Drifting and Dreaming (Gillespie); Chi-i

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 beaten every other system in cristence.

ken..

WEAK DEFENCE

To-day's hand was played by Lewis | The contract was now home, for Schamberg in a Duplicate game at dummy's Club Ace could now be the Harmonic Club in New York. Careful analysis by Mr. Schamberg showed that in order to make his four-heart contract he would have to induce his opponents to err.

Duplicate Bridge North, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

4 A Q

♡ K Q 5 3 07 6-4

AK 10 2

KJ 9 8 2

A 6 3

10 9 4

♡ 8 7

O AQ 9

3

W

S

E

O J 8 6 2

#J9874

▲ 10 7 5 4

VAJ G 2

OK 10 3.

+65

Mr. Schamberg

The bidding:

Easi South West

North

1%

4♡

Pass 1♡ Pass Pasi

14 Pass

utilised for the discard of a second diamond. Of course, his opponents were now out of trumps. Hence, Mr. Schamberg was able to ruff two dia- monds in his hand and his two spade losers in dummy. If West, instead of trumping the club return, had dis- carded a diamond, the contract would have been defeated.

Saturday you were David Burnstone's partner and held:

You

A A QIx

VA XX

Bruce

O JI X

* J I I

Burnstone

1

Jacoby Pass

The bidding:

Maler Pass Pass (7)

ANSWER: Your correct bid is one spade. Even though you have passed a hand which you might well have

West's opening of the club Queen bid originally, you should not crowd

convinced Mr. Schamberg that the lead was from a short suit. If such were the case, a cross-ruff would not work, and in addition it seemed certain that the diamond Ace lay over his King.

INGH CARD VALUES ON THE FOUR-ACES SYETEN

ACE

KING QUEEN 1 JACK.NE

PORAL MANNE NO TAIL SE

the bidding by an immediate jump.

Score 100% for one spade, 60% for two spades, 20% for two notrump (a bad bid).

QUESTION NO. 337 You are Oswald Jacoby's partner. Neither side is vulnerable, you have Mr. Schamberg play-a partial score of 80 and hold:

ed the King of trumps, then a small trump to his hand and then led his remaining club. While he had little hope that West hald

the club Jack, Mr. Schamberg never- theless finessed dummy's ten-and East won the trick, East returned the club nine.' Mr. Schamberg discarded a diamond and West made, the fatal mistake of trumping.

XX

The bidding: Jacoby Schankem

You

14

3♡

Pass

INT Pass Pása! · (1)·

́ ́ What ́ do^ you bid? (Answer tomorrow.),

(Released by The "Bell Syndica Inc.)

quita-Waltz (Wayne)....Hawailan Gut- tar Duets by Ferera and Panluhi. A Little Rendezvous In Honolulu-Hawai- ian Fox-Trot; Honolulu Stars and Ha- walian Guitars-Hawaiian Fox-Trot.... Roy Smeck & His Hawailan Serenaders. My Little Grass Shack In Kenlakekun

(Noble & Others); Hilo Hanakaht (Hale kalea)....Kanul & Lula-Hawallan No-

velty,

9.05 p.m.-WALTZES.

April Smiles (Depret): Spring Waltz

(Lincke)....Vienna Boheme Orchestra. Volga (Composer Unknown) .... Russian

Novelty Orchestra.

9.15 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-News Sum.

mary.

9.30 p.m.-LONDON RELAY "This Fran. dom"-7. Talks by Sir William Beveridge and G. D. H. Cole.

9.45 p.m.-"FOLK MUSIC OF MANY NA.

TIONS"-1: English.

The Comical Fellow (arr. Porter)....Folk

Dance Band cond, by Ronnie Munro, The Berkshire Tragedy (Broadwood-Mait- land): A Sad Ending (trad. Arr. Gris wood): Oliver Cromwell (Broadwood. Maitland)....Our Bill (F. H. Grisewood) with Plano.

The Tempest (arr. Vaughan; Williams): Thady You Gander (atr. Arnold Foster)

BIG WIN FOR C.B.A.

Talk On "This Freedom"

.... Folk

From London

Dance Band 'conducted by

Ronnie Munro.

10.00 p.m.-COLERIDGE TAYLOR - Three Dream Dances. London Palladium Or- chestra conducted by Clifford Greenwood. 10.10 p.m.-SELECTIONS from Gilbert and

Sullivan's "lotanthe".

Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither.....Cho-

rus of Girls.

Every Bill and Every Measure....Bertha

Lewis & Mixed Chorus.

When All Night Long....Sydney Granville

(Bass).

Iolanthe From Thy Dark Exile....Bertha Lewis, Nellie Briercliffe & Chorus of Girls.

Leslie

Good Morrow, Good Mother Rands & Chorus of Girls. 10.28 p.m.-SOME OLD DANCE FAVOUR.

ITES.

Fox-Trot-

Fox-Trot-industan....Bob Crosby's Bob Cats: Fox-Trot-Oh Bv Jingo... The Kraka'ax: Tango Fox-Trot-Marilou.... Rov Fox & His Orchestra: Ain't She Sweet?: Quickstep-Somebody Stole My Gal....Brian Lawrence & His Quartet; Slow Fox-Trot-Moonlight and Roses....Henry Jacques & H Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra: Quickstep-I'll See You In My Dreams....Mantovani's Orchestra far Dancing: Rumba-The Peanut Vendar.... Henry King & His Orchestra: Fx-Tent--Sweet Run, Fred Jackson & His Orchestra: Waltz-Blue Danube.... De Groot & The Piccadilly Orchestra.

11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

RADIO SUCCESS

At Caroline Hill, Radio and Postal Sports Club beat University by 6 goals to 1. The half-time score was 4-1.

Scorers were J. M. Pinto (2), Gur- bachan Singh, Awtar Singh, Kar- mindar Singh and M. H. Hassan for Radio, K. S. Oh for University.

The teams were:- Radio:-U. B. Souza; A. E. P. Guest, J.

Though considerably - strengthened by the inclusion on their team of three Rajputana Rifles players, Kow- loon Indian Tennis Club proved no match to Central British Association in a Hockey Association Tournaments. Grewal; Jaggeet Singh, M. H. Hassan and match played at King's Park yester- Gurdayal Singh; Karmindar Singh, day morning.

Having the advantage of playing on their own ground, C.B.A. swept through to an 8-0 win.

C.B.A. scored through S. A. Fowler (2), E. Fowler (2), G. H. Fowler (2) and D. S. Blake (2).

The team were:-

C.B.A.-H. Lockhart; J. T. K. Gilchrist, V. C. Bond; M. Dunne, N. B. M. Whitley and D. H. Taylor; D. T. Smith, 8. A. Fowl- er, E. Fowler, G. H. Fowler and D, S. Blake.

Gur- bachan Singh, Awtar Singh, J. M. Pinto and Jangeer Singh.

University:-N. C, Sen Gupta; K. Y. Tam, N. H. Low; B. K. Hul, W. Abraham and O. C. Low: L. H. Tan, N. V. Lingam, S. H. Ling, K. S. Oh and Hans Raj.

BRITISH ARMY WINS RUBBER

K.t.T.C.:-Iqbal Singh: Datta Ram, Kar-

Lilles, To-day. nail Singh: Mohinder Singh. Bagh Singh,

The British Army beat the French Narindar Singh; Kalwant Singh, Lt. Indar- Army 2—1 (Association Football) in jit Singh, Pyara Bingh, Lt., Mukhtar Singh' the third and last match of a series,

and F. X. Pinto,

thus winning "the rubber."

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