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MUTT AND JEFF

ONE, TWO.

"UP THESE RADIO EXERCISES,

ARE NO GOOD FOR REDUCING, M'LOVE! I'LL SHUT IT OFF! YOU NEED SOMETHING HAY

MORE STRENUOUS!

THREE, FOUR!

A FEW ROUNDS.OFS): BOXING WILL DO YOU MORE GOOD AND IT'S FUN! COME ON SWING!

SOCK!

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1940.

By BUD FISHER

TWO, THREE,{ DOWN, ONE.

THREE, FOUR

Classical

Requests

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.-Muriel Brunskill (Contral- to) and The Scottish Country Dance Orchestra.

Strip the Willow (arr. Dlack); Petronella (arr. Diack)....Scottish Country Dance Orchestra cond. by Michael Dlack.

The Banks of Allan Water (Scottish Bal- lad): Sink, Red Sun (Coleridge & del Riego).....Muriel Brunskill (Contralto) with Piano.

Triumph (Trad.).... Scottish ... Dance Orchestra.

Country

7.15 p.m.-London Relay "The Voice of the Nazi":"What the German Heare". Talk by Professor W. A. Sinclair,

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

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

9.52 Megacycles

Report and Announcements. 8.08 p.m.-Short Mozart Programme.

Rondo (from Serenade in D Major "Haff- (Violin) with ner").... Fritz Kreisler Plano accomp. by Franz Rupp. Overture "Cosi Fan Tutte"....The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra cond. by Sir Adrian

Boult.

8.15 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor) with E. O'Nell Shaw at the Piano.

1. (a) Il Mio Tesoro Intanto ("Don Glo-

vanni'-Mozart).

(b) Se Il Mio Nome ("The Barber of

Seville"-Rossini),

2. (a) Morning (Tchaikowsky),

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.

DOUBLING ON HIGH CARDS

In competitive situations the double | down one trick. Hence, the double of an opponent's below-game contract would have gained 100 points for East merely on high cards in side suits is often likely to prove disastrous. At the same time the potential profits therefrom are not great since you will take no tricks in trumps.

East, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable East-West 60 on score

A 10 8 8 2 ♡AK 76

· 04:3 &T 8

A K 4

♡ Q 10 3 04 10 87 8 AK:10 2

AAJ 9 ♡ J 9 8 6

4:2 ◊ A K

5 8

Q'7 68

J 6 9 AQ JB84

The bidding:

Hast.

South

1♡

**

Weat 2♡

Pass

·Pass · A

Pase

3.V

Pass

Dbl.

Pass

Rass

North

3% Pass Pass Pass

干

SIGN CARD VALUES

OF THE POUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE

The King of hearts was opened. Declarer trumped and led a spade, dummy's King

forcing East's Ace. East led a trump, but it did no good be- cause the only addi- tional tricks Declarer had to lose were the Ace-King of dia- monds, and he made

KING QUEEN 1 JACK

his, contract, for the rubber.

and West, whereas it actually cost 580. "Why didn't you bid: four hearts?" West asked his partner. "The only reason you would have failed to make it, was the fact that all three trumps were bunched against us in one hand. As long as you're going to gamble on the hand, why not gamble where you have a chance to make something worthwhile?"

X I

**

:

(b) Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

(Stephen Foster).

(e) Oft in the Sully Night (Trad. Irish

Air).

3. (a) Mattinata (Tosti).

(b) Luna d'Estate (Tost!). 8.40 p.m.-Compositions of Elgar."

SPORTS PARADE

tori

(Continued from Page 24)

THE lawn bowls season started on Saturday in far from promising weather which did not cause the nùm- ber of postponements, that the dis- comfort most of

Lawn Bowls those who played experienced, might have warranted. There is no keener sportsman in Hong Kong than the lawn bowler and he takes the game far more seriously than most.

As my contemporary, "Skip" re- marked in his column last week, the trouble with most bowlers is that they think they are better than they really are!

الار امید

That this statement is not far from the truth, was driven home in the. course of the week. Several con- veners, with whom I held converse, have thus early in the season experi- enced the trials and vicissitudes which always confront the unenviable fellow who has to select the teams...

Hour Of

Dance Music

Prelude "The Dream of Gerontius",

38....The B.B.C. Symphony Orche cond. by Sir Adrian Boult.

La Capricieuse, Op. 17....Bronislaw

berman (Violin) with Siegfried Schu at the Plano.

Serenade In E Minor for Strings. Op. ...London Philharmonic Orche

cond, by Sir Edward Elgar. Contrasts, Op. 10, No. 3....London H harmonic Orchestra cond. by Sir Edw Elgar,

Shepherd's Song.....Light Symphony.

chestra cond. by Haydn Wood.

9.16 p.m.-London Relay-News Su

mary.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"World

fairs".

9.45 p.m.-A Request Classical P

gramme,

"Rienzi"-Overture (Wagner)....Phila phia Symphony Orchestra cond. by pold Stokowski.

Elegle (Massenet)....Georges Thill (

or) with Orchestra with Violin Solos Krabansky.

What Is This Feeling? ('The Marriag

Figaro"-Mozart)....Elisabeth Schum (Soprano) with Orchestra, Toreador's Song ('Carmen'-Bizet)...

cardo Stracciari, Appoloni, E. Ticozz Chorus with Orchestra. Sonata in. C Sharp Minor ("Moonligh Op. 27, No. 2 (Beethoven)........Egon F (Piano).

Overture "Merry Wives of Windsor"

colai)....The B.B.C. Symphony Orc tra cond. by Sir Adrian Boult. Onaway Awake! Beloved ('Hiawath Coleridge-Taylor)....Tudor Davis ( or) with Orchestra. Myself When Young (from 'In a Per

Garden Lehmähn)

Oscar Na (Bass) with Plano accomp. by Hu Greenslåde.

Sonata in. C Minor, Op. 45 (Grleg)

gei Rachmaninoff (Plano) and Kreisler (Violin). 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN...

foresees trouble ahead if the ambiti

the near future. one's request is not complied with

novice, but who, in all fairness,

Yet another player, a comparat made tremendous strides at the ga has suddenly gone all temperamen and does not want to play in a c tain rink because a certain fellow recently passed rather a cutting mark about his play, is a member

One of them had trouble with a Yesterday you were Merwin Maler's player who has his own peculiar ideas as to how the game should be played, partner and held:

∙and, as such, does least harm at num→

ber one. This chap sees in himself ait. heaven-sent number three, however, Under normal circumstances and Goebbels' propaganda machine right thing to do with a chap like t has nothing on him when it comes to is to say: play in such-and-such a r shooting a line! The poor old convener, or don't bother to play at all. with only a bare minimum of players you see the difficulty! from whom to select his three, rinks,

The bidding:

Melor

2

Barnstons Рава

You Schenken

(7)

ANSWER: Your correct response is two notrump. The opening two-bid is forcing, and two notrump is the res- ponse to show: a hand without high cards.

Score 100% for two notrump, 0 for any other bid.

QUESTION NO. 408

Again you are Morwin Maler's part- ner and again you hold:

X I

Q Xxxx I

The bidding:

3♡ Pang.

Barnstene Του Schenken

Paak

(1) What do you bid? tomorrow.)

(Answer

East's defence of his double lay in the fact that it was certainly tough luck to And South with a vold of hearts. West pointed out, however, that if there had been no void of hearts, the hand would have been 1 Inc.)

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