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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1947.

People I've Met At

The Bridge Table

ONE CAN LEARN A LOT.

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ABOUT HUMAN NATURE THERE

By BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

his friends, and the caprice of the arts. Like anyone else, ko wank rather win thun lase, but he does both with emini gond humour.

fect manners, and was a most

companion at the The Duke of Mariborough is agreeable

the an excellent example of table,

Somewhat flustered by his player who is not ashamed to presence I hid und played even pause and think. He will gaze worse than usual, which is not at a card led by his opponents easy to do. The fullowing day as if it holds the secret of all he sent me nu autographed copy) four hands as it often does.

look inscribed: Once during the blitz he was of his newest

Not long ago when I seeing my fourteen-year-old auti off to boarding, school, I essay. ed the role of Palonions and gave him such 'good advice that if he follows half of it he will be a new edition of Richard Baxter, the saint.

Later on, though. I siil give kim same

further advice of a more worldly character. It will be something like this: CHINA'S GOAL

"Learn to play golf and aim at a alx handicap. This will im-Ton master of bridge with the playing in a rubber when, just as his opponent bid four spades, When the Pacific War ended,

press successful men who are author's compliments."

1 baked Culbertson a doubtful

qpes-a bunb. came whistling by, the China was unreservedly accepted never better than a

niany window. All four threw them. in the conity of nations as one of fourteen, but it will not make tion which has been in

"Can two, praple whin selves on the floor and the bomb rl Bh Five. 1 the last few them think you play golf to minds:

together avuld expleder half a mile away. dars, questions have been raised much, as might be the case. if play constantly

"I double," said Marlborough. ehenting

if they try?te in the United States, seeking you were scratch.

luconienfly: The late Lord Kenmare, het "Then learn to play bridge Culbertson replied pinion on whether China, ur de

bidding is far safer ter known as Lord Castleroste, demoralised, bankrupt because you will thus avoid the "Correct icated.

was the most talkative bridge Japan offers the surest agency loneliness of having to sit out, than cheating."

My Brat contact with cham-player of his time. It was sald which Though

the future and you will also escape

and stabi-boredom of conversation carried plonship players was in the of him that he never played a on long after it has lost roaring twenties when, arriving rubber at less than a pound a East

freshness and impetun

Inte at a large dinner party, I hundred, with a thousand words Yet with all his was introduced to everyono at on the side.

Irish win and verbosity he kept track of the cards as carefully

monic progress firv

For of the

Can

be secured. The deep and us. pleasing significance of those sim-

rears

its

"Another advantage is

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Autograph

the

Its

even

once, but carefully noted that the good-looking, silm, smiling young man opposite had the old name of Dumbell:

After dinner, 1 drew him as

"I'm afraid s," he answered. once played against the "Do forgive me and I pru-

although mise to do, betior next time." great Culbertson. there was no report of it in the My wife from an adjoining newspapers, nor any gallery or bridge table paaned me a note spectators. Like all professional which read: "Don't give your per.partner advice. He is Sif Guy Domville, one of the five best gamblers Culbertson had

players in England,"

100 Years

Ago Today

We have heard of two addie tional coses in which the chlors. form has been most successfully used by Dr. Harland at the Sen-

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"Mr. Dooley will see you now!".-

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Mere Protest

The Sydney News

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was fined.

tint ple facts, the indications of change you will learn more about hu man nature at the bridge ̈m-attitude-ul-mind that they retablo than from a library of Monilaat, are unmistakable, calling philosophers."

Here I must make a confes- fur no further comment than has

voiced by Generalissimo sion. In gulfing parlouco 1 am a a partner und opened the kid-} loquacious," but he is from brin Chiang Kai-shek ira numerous twelve-handicap bridge player ding with one spade. My part- Northern Ireland, which makes bid six diamonds, was a differenes. He, too, enjoys the Labis pronouncements both be who has partnered and eppesenter

companionship of the table as both

doubled and went down one. at once #

as the

the lore and since the February gold (sometimes

hazard of शारदे "Weren't you a bit optiris much ush in Shanghai. Whether Chin large number of scratch

aremendous even plus-two bridge experts, ante, my dear Dumbell?" I said cards. And he, too, is both can still rise to the apportimity offered by the new well as offers who thought they with a cordiality that would not graeful winner and laser.

A trip to the city eninciden day play in the match against detective. world situation arising from the were first class and were really have deceived à Scotland Yarti

Axis nothing of the worl

][ I had to name the best with the arrival of Mr. & Mrs. T. Wellington. The person whose un Allied destruction of the

W. J. He was these pressmen-Duckworth, Jen Powers is a matter over which

Iata plax.

other from thi player of my experience, I think.. Fortescue and child by th pleasant duty it was to remove

should nominate the it is still not outside her poiver

who died also a board. They un bound kins and ene

for

New Zealand for a brief holl plane was an ex-Hong Kong boy; E

Athol Dalziel. exercise control. important

in day before Sr. Fortescae leaves

Capt. T. H. Went of Ta Hing pulitical reforms are in process

Harcourt Johnston,

Govern for America to take up a poit

Kong) Ltd. nt Washington.. To him the pleasure of with UNO of development. Every encour

suddenly white a Minister

agement to her to establish and

Churchill's Coalition ment.

Sens anying brkige was in the concentration notice that young Adrian For. brought disquieting new..of the crasolidate her international posi-

of the mind. If he criticised his torcue was not too well when he China

he later de twners now have to

"demand notes" against tim is freely proffered by bork

veloped teasles, which In later years I played with partner, was quite impersonal, left the whip and Great Britain and the United

COUTAO,

contracted in the prescrib threat of blowing the ship up.

West in here to take de-. States. Nothing would gratify

him at various times and found a mere protest against a care- with two of the less appreciation of the obvious.

ed period. Thla misfortune. him blessed either mute than the emergence of

lle gave the impression, and gave it to his mother-caused a of two Australian-built.cor...

Bendigo and Bathurst, met engaging qualities of the stable China, exerting the in-

spirit-gouthfulness and gaiety, no doubt a true one, that after delay in the trip to NZ by ai vettes,

the and

a week was last before they which his company has bought fluence to which her size and

To him a bridge hand was great every trick he visualised

i were all-loaded from a plane that from the Australian Government the paklonger and for use in qualities entitle her, and assium-

the following fun. No wonder that even at the exact nature of every hand.

the Chita coast. cargo trade Perhaps

resentment was due to leave. LIT ing the sole of the stabiliser of

(Excerpts from the Ching Mail, end of the recent war when he

lortunate and the delay was only Asia. The opportunity is still

came out of the Royal Navy he against his thoroughness, the morning at dawn, but they were Francis Booth,, master of the there, Daubt

ally A£1400, in, the Special Court for head, April 18th, 1947).

till looked to be in his early fates frequently denied him the two days before they eventually meter-skip "Yunnan,"

element of Rick. It he had gone got away. While however, when responsible offi-

thirties. cials of the calibre of Mr. Peng

In for tournament play. I think Hong Kongites ran into N having brought into the port of.. he would have ranked first in Carter of the PWD, who is to Sydney 14 stowaways wlis wer

rohibited immigrants. This is in the coony turning Shuch-pei, Minister of Informa

Running Talk

by the first prosecution of this kind Britain's bridge hierarchy.

steamer "Ilwa Lien," Bill Shnable, tinn, still find it possible to issue

I am aware that I have men- Brendon Wilson, who is at Syl-, for 20 years. public statements such as that men's Hospital; the one an ani- Colonel "Peps" Beasley,

In all this, ney University, Enside Landau, giving warning that the Chinese putation of the arm, the other, other top ranker, brings ationed no women

Two Chinese nurses have ar fo but to quote Vic Oliver's ex-wife and son they are likely a appranch

for two- Government will take "adequate dislocation of the head of the

philosophleal

of why he keeps stay down here and Mrs. Stone, rived in Melbourne thighbone,

several weeks of

the and her year course of study under measures to force foreign aircraft

bridge. Ha running commen-planation standing.

the Miss A.LF.. Malayan Nursing, Scholar- two alters-in-law, "violating Chinese sovereignty" The first case was a native of tary when he is playing a hand moving when he plays his violin: formerly of Dodwell's,

Nora, and Dorothy Stone.

ebip Fund which was created an memorial 'to the A.L.F. fa Press Bristles to land on Chinese airfields and Indin, the choloroform-about two is acmething like this: "So you "I'm no fool." In bridge, as in

take action to destroy the air-drachme-was poured upon a had the knave of clubs? If I everything else, women

Malaya, I would have low unto themselves, and who

When the English touring tean

Mrs. F. de Carvalho, formerly craft in the air should the mea- large piece of spange, the outer had known that

Hello! am I to criticise the law?

Zealan was leaving for New be ignored. In itself, it part of it being covered with oil played just the same.

Bon one of the Qantas planes, and in Australia from America and may seent of un particular con paper to prevent evaporation. The You've led a diamond. What are So when next 1 don the roben several had to be off-loaded fret of Hong Kong has arelves hack

you up to? I think I'll put the of Polonius and give my sequence. In the mind of both patient being placed on a bed in

a herizontal postyre, sponge ace in it. A diamand you led... advice I shall suggest that he when Major Howarit, the M.C.C. intends to stay here. Questioned

13 good the Minister of Information and was applied over the mouth and That's

very odd. Partner, become

Recond-class manager, declared that if any of regarding conditions in Hong said that she had. spent three his questioner, it seems certan, nostrils and he was told to inhule there's rum business going on bridge player. He will learn a his men were taken off the plans Kong last October, Mrs. Carvalho was the incident at Macao last it, and in about three minutes be here. What about the nine of lot about human nature, and if the whole party would refuse to ninths there and was appalled at it go at nil it left the aviation the state of things. Thousands a opening bil la sound

thorities no alternative but Chinese from the interior wer Sunday when a private plane became quite insensible.

clubs? It's probably wrong but his

should not cost him more than ask newspaper, representatives 23 from Hong Kong was fired upon The second case was an English T try t

give up their sent. The Preis pouring into the colony and were parking themselves on the land- by Chinese troops in circling to scuman.

Another philosopher was the be can afford.

ings of flats occupied, by Turn- land in Macan. It may be as

Inte Lord Cralgiyle, who found

An bridge agreeable change sumed therefore that, in advance the foregoing. ile became Ingen-

Here is some news for philatel sible in about Ave ailoules, and of the full report

ista. Norfolk Island, which user from Hong remained so for 20 minutes, dur- Once as his partner 1 took

from his duties as a Law Lord.

Australian stamps at the moment, Kong to the British Ambassador, ing which the dislocution was re-

By Shepard Barclay

will sue is own stamps on June and any British representations, duced without much dificulty. view (a risky thing at

four

10,There will be 12 denomina- "The Authority on Authorities" ·· that may appear to His Majesty's On awakening, he described the time), and went down

tions from a half-penny to twa “ shillings.

inge. First day covers, plenipotentiary to be desirable, relief he experienced from the doubled. Naturally I apologised him with almost abject

and a stern competitor who never bearing a

and on- altered position of the bine, and to

24d. Stamp alt. Peug was concerned to

NOT A RUBBER · declared he

believed in giving any quarter of other bearing four stamps (1, had left not the humility.

DOUBLE

asking any. When the 3-Spades 2d., 3d., and Od.) will be available Flodden," he said in his jith

reached him, he weighed an a from the Fastmaster, Norfolk In match-point, duplicate, a Ecottish burr.

Island, for the equivalent of the sortment of factory,

With hir 67en distribution, and

A special J. H. Thomas was fascinated player faces a problem of thin

ated player fich would not even be no places for ruffing, he reckoned face while required, peeled by bridge, and brought to

considered in rubber bridge. This that his side probably had bid it to commemorate the 21st birth- Kame all that optimism and un-

arises most often when there has mit by going to 3-Diamonds, day of Princess Elizabeth. It wil is nothing more to he said.) There has been a fatal frucas expectedness of approach which been competitive bidding at low surmise in which he was correct, be lasted as soon as possible this

sovereign power, at Whampon between a party of did so

much to advance his levels and the opponents finally as it developed two tricks could year. is perfectly free

make Americans and some Chinese. to

career. In short, he was a gam- make a bid which seems likely to be lost in trumps, plus one each Jack Davey, one of the highest- On the sixth a robbery was

In hearts and clulk, ·

pal radio entertainors in Ausg regarding effected on board a chop boat bler with cards as he was with be set one trick if vulnerable ar

two tricks if not vulnerable, for judged, from the sound of the movements of aircraft over Ching belonging to Messrs. Hunt and life. or Chinese waters. When such Tobey. On the morning of the

So was the late Lord Birken. a non-doubled score of only 100 ding, that at many tables Soat and several head. When the two of them paints. If you decide your own would wind up. In 3-Diamonds and pay A £600 and costs agained rules are clearly laid down and seventh Mr. Hunt

10 could have made its make the contract to score 60 claim for A£2000. "pair

points for tricks plus 50 bonus Danes's played in a rubber their part-

attempted contract, of two in made internationally known, air- shipmasters landed

to seize

Royal Show craft in breach of them cannot Island unarmed

theners were in a constant state of major or three in a minor, to pro- for making a less than game con- offeriders. The latter resisted, admiration and bewilderment.

Main tople of interest this work duce a score of 110, and estimate tract tots! 110. complain of the ultimate con-

North also estimated that the being aided by a mob who pelted In the winter of 1940 I play that most other pairs would have

bone has boon the Royal Show, which records. sequences. It so happens, how the foreigners with stones. Mr.ed at a house by the sea with been left in that contract, your a-Spades probably could ever, that there exists a code of Hunt and his party were forced Mr. Thomas who had passed out only chance to beat them in match-ene trick, which would net hi shattered all previous international behaviour governing to retreat by swimming to their

point play is to double. But inside only 100 points, a bad score. Thousands came from all over the rubber bridge that would be too So he chanced the double, which. Commonwealth to exhibit or wil- greatest spec- military. It so happens that and

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The chloroform was up. piled in the same manner us in

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state China's policy, and in terms slightest pain during the opern- "There were worse losses at:

calculated to provide an answer tlon. before the issue has been raised.

The chloroform used was pre-

If the statement made in Nant-pared at the, Hong Kong Dis king on Wednesday accu.ately pensary. represents China's policy, there

China, as

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aviation, civil, commercial and boats in which were fire-arms; faire. Instead of his former risky, as making. the contract might possibly help the opponents Duas one of the

severe and savage was high stukkes, we played at six-doubled would give your ора to make their contract. But it did tacles that Australia

hot, as two tricks were taken in that would not be beers. Cattle in any China was a party to the framing he attack, that they were com- pence a hundred, and his bid-ponents' game."

man.

apades, one in hearts and two in part of the world presented an Inter of, the code, and that one of itspelled to Bre, killing one

clubs, Score 200 points for down unforgettable sight. The

"Orion," first of the commercial main features was an agreement wounding a second severely, and ding was be sound and sober as that of a widow with a pension.

one doubled. a third slightly.

Hiners to visit Sydney, since the that friendly courtesies' would be

Until recently, foreigners could Yet his irrepressible humour

war, brought 803 passengers to extended to civil aircraft of a land on Dune's Island in perfect broke out from time to time,

Sydney, and 300 of these have been brought out by the Commión- non-commercial nature, that they safety, but of late. the people and it was good to find that his would be allowed to land without have exhibited a hostile and un-penetrating

nct mind had

wealth Government to swell the- ranks of the building trade, fuse or formality and be given friendly disposition. This affray weakened through adversity,

The N.B.W. Police. Association Iy Losing gracefully at bridge is perfect freedom of the air over may involve peaceful relations

demanding equality of the boxed all countries. It happpens also, which have existed between the harder to learn than

A been bottle with a greased i or so we gather, that the Chicago Governments of Chia and the bidding. The most graceful

neck suspended across the top of 'n kerosene tin full of water was Convention has not been ratified

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