1940-03-26 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 26, 1940

By BUD FISHER

MUTT AND JEFF

MEN, THE SKI PATROL WILL NOW REHEARSE AN IMPORTANT DE ATTACK! THERE IS A CERTAIN ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REHEARSAL AND THE

REAL

THING!

YOU! DO YOU KNOW -THE DIFFERENCE A BETWEEN A REHEARSAL)

AND THE REAL

THING?

YESSIR, IN A REHEARSAL WE HAVE EVERYTHING BUT THE ENEMY!

RIGHT! AND YOU, WHAT HAVE WE IN THE REAL THING?

EVERYTHING

BUT THE

GENERAL!

"Cards On

The Table"

Today's Wireless

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota- . tions.

7.02 p.m-Studio-A talk on The West Country Illustrated by music of the Counties.

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Compositions of Dvorak.

Slavonic Dance No. 16 in A Flat Major Czech Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Vaclav Talich. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55, No. 4....Kirsten Flagstad (So- prano) with Piano.

Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 51....

Lener String Quartet.

8.45 p.m.-A Light Orchestral Concert

with Richard Tauber (Tenor). 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Cards

on

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

the Tablo".

9.45 p.m.-Bizet-The Fair Maid of Perth-Sulte. Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

- "Poar

10.02 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording -

Old Sñall". A Sketch. 10.15 p.m.-Selections from Gilbert &

Sullivan's "The Gondollers". From The Sunny Spanish Shore; In Enterprise of Martial Kind.. Henry A. Lytton, Bertha Lewis, Mavis Bennett and Arthur Hos- king.

O Rapture When Alone Together, There Was A Time....Mavis Ben- nett and 'Arthur Hosking.

I Stole The Prince....Leo "Sheffield, Henry A. Lytton, Bertha Lewis,

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

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

ken

CHOICE OF PLAYS

It is very seldom that a will be forced with the choice of two plays, each of which offers exactly Almost an even chance for success. always one play will have some slight advantage in its favour. The bidding may have given a club, or, as was the case in to-day's hand, it may simply be a question of pure mathematics.

South, Dealer North-South vulnerable

A Q 8 2

10 9 6 G

✅ 10 8 7 4.

AK J

◊ 9 8 8 JAQVI

WE

Declarer the spade by a successful heart finesse. Pondering on which finesse to take, South finally concluded that there was one slight advantage in adopting the heart play. There was a chance that the diamond King might be singleton. Declarer therefore laid down diamond Ace with the further inten- tion of taking the heart finesse if the King did not drop. To his joy, the King fell and now no finesse was needed..

KJ 4 Q9 B ◊ 7 8 3

10

*

Mavis Bennett & Arthur Hosking. | But, Bless My Heart; Try We Life- long....Mavis Bennett, Leo Shef- field, Henry A. Lytton, Bertha Lewis and Arthur Hosking.

HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS

London, To-day.

The following were the results games played yesterday.

Coventry

MIDLAND

10 Luton

West Bromwich 4 Birmingham

Lincoln

Notts. F. Rotherham

Chester Stoke

EAST MIDLAND

WESTERN

5 Port Vale

NORTH-WESTERN

4 Blackburn

3 Southport FRIENDLY GAMES

of

Dvorak

Quartet

Bridegroom, and Bridel....Chorus.

When A Merry Maiden Marries .Aileen Davies and Chorus, Kind Sir, You Cannot Have The

Heart....Winifred Lawson. 10.40 p.m.-Mozart-Symphony In D Major ("Paria"). Sir Thomas Bee- cham conducting the London Phil- harmonic Orchestra, 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

TO-NIGHT'S BADMINTON

Following is to-day's programme of Colony badminton matches:

MEN'S DOUBLES

K. L. Yong and H. F. Chew

ог

H. M. Lau and 8. C. Chung v. F. Koh

2 c. K. Chaah and T. T. Chin v. C. Au and Patrick' H. Wong (King's College, 8.80 p.m.).

N.W. FRONTIER

and C. Y. Yung (King's College, 8 p.m.).

1

1 Chesterfield

4

MEN'S JUNIOR SINGLEB

1 Barbsleyi

0

3 Notts. C.

2

W. Gillfen v. P. Wynter-Blyth. (King's Collego, § ̧p.m.).

2 Tranmere

2

1

ALL QUIET ON THE

Barrow Carlisle

2

2

Bury New Brighton

4. Accrington

1 Southport

Blackpool

1

West Bromwich 1 across

6

Doncaster

were the border 2 Friday last.

5 Wednesday

.2

0 Bolton

1 cast

5 Preston

5 Swindon

Cardiff

Leeds Leicester Liverpool

Northampton Manchester U. the Plymouth

Rochdale Wolves Newcastle Halifax Yorkshire

You were Oswald Jacoby's partner Saturday and held:

x x x

♡ I I

◊ A q x x AKXX

New Delhi, To-day.

"All quiet in Waziristan" sums up

the present position of operations in

0 the Ahmedzai salient, where cleaning

0. Manchester C. 3 up operations against bad characters

3 Army team Oldham

3

2 Everton

2 Sheffield U.

2 Bradford

4 F.A. XI

-Reuter.

SCOTTISH CUP SEMI-FINAL

begun on

Though it is still too early to fore-

a lasting improvement it

is.

1 evident that the heavy casualties sus-

2 tained by raiding bands have had a

1 sobering effect.

1 The gangs

In question consisted

1 mainly of criminals and outlaws and 1 they had been using the Ahmedzai

1 district as a base for, operations. 1 Reuter.

The following is the draw for the Semi-final of the Scottish cup which will be played on April 13.

Hearts or

Airdrie.

V Dundee U.

Xud Maler 20 Pass

(7)

(At Edinburgh). Rangors

v Motherwell (At Hampden Park).

-Reuter,

The bidding: Jacoby Schenken

14

Pass PUHA

ANSWER: Your correct bid is four spades. Your partner has rebid. his suit, and although you have but three small spades, your fine side strength Justifles this bid.

9.7 32

A 3 6 2 AQ J 10 84 K88

2A

The bidding:

South

10

West North Pass

20.

· Pasa”

INT

50

Pass

East Pass Pass Paas

Pass Pass

HIGH CARD VRLINES OF THE FOUR-ACES SYRTEN

Against six diamonds. West made the only embarrassing lead - namely, a spade. The Queen was played from dummy, East covered and South won with the Ace. Declarer was now forced with the choice of two Anesses. It he took the trump finesse" and it proved successful, he would make a Grand Slam, as the losing spado discarded on dummy's club

ACE KING QUEEN 1 JACK

be

Score 100% for four spades, 70% for three spades, 60% for three clubs (unnecessary,) 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 867. Merwin Maler is your partner and you hold:

The bidding

-bid? (Answer

Bell Syndicate.

PUPPET BODY FOR......

NORTH CHINA

Peiping, To-day.

A North Chiná political council is being formed early in April, accord- ing to reports current here.

It will take the place of the Peiping provisional government which has been dissolved.

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