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●JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Take Bid Lesson, Win Many Games

By OSWALD JACODY

WEST should have opened the

bidding with one heart Instead of one no-trump

in today's hand. The count was right, since West had 18 pointe. The stoppers were right, sinco West had a stopper in each of the four sults. The shape was wrong, however, since la not wise to open the bidding with one no-trump when your tribution is 5-4-2-2.

-

North Fut # reasonable double ut

no-trump. uni penalties. jor

One

South passed

In

West sought the safety of long heart uit. whereupon North and South proceeded to overbld up to four spindles. abort, the hand was nol 1 well blo, but it led to Very interesting point of play,

West opened The

hearts, rich

drearst

Vu Haw

uk

Ice That he was doomed to Thero lose a trick In each suit.

NORTH

11

4QJ663

A82

◆ KC 7 3

KQ

WEST (D)

EAST 48

AA4

WK 10873

• A984

MAJ

SOUTH

Q91

◆ 2003 2 487012

AK 108T2

J5

QJ

10 9 5 3

Both sides vul. North

Wert

1 N.T

Double PALA

2❤

Houth Pass Роба Pasa 2

PRET Pask

Pass 14 Расс

Opening lead-♥ 1

was slight hope, however, anth South decided to try for 11

Declarer played a low Herl from any at the first trick,

1 was remotely

ibles

that West had led low from the

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Bust won w

with the of Heserts and the suit, forcing out

200

returned dummy's

Paper knocked out the

are of ungis, rufted the heart return and led the king of clubs

1 force out the ace of clubs

فنا

West could have taken the ace of diampada at this stage defent the contract, but he thought he could get more it he walled. This was, however, the wrong time to be greedy.

West returned the Jack

+ulis le dummy's queen andk

South Tad his flest moment of real hope He led a trump lo his own hand and returned the Lite H of diamonds towards elasty

West quickly plaved low.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1954.

"Sort of going overboard on these second breakfasts,' aren't you, Jason?”

YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA

PORN

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

you

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

NACHTTARIUS (NOY, 23-ber, 22) This can be batiner day for all your effort. Take full advantage excellent nspecto now

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Keep

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BY THE WAY

By Beachcomber

BIG-GAME hunter tells of

u tiger which leaped at him, and, as he sidestepped, stunned itself against a free, And I bel it whispered, when it came to. "So near and yet safari, Where

175

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Once when

was In the

hoping that his partner had the Pyrenees, at the top of the

queen and th

wouki, Berosque pa55, South

a crocodile bil tome of Bransons to that card. This my hat off with a savage snip,

had Was the break Bat South

wanting for When

pack of diamonds held the trick. South could cash the ten and nine of clubs, discarding dum, my's

remaining diamonds. was then cosy, of course, to ruff is own last diamond In the dummy

thus make the "Impossible" game contract.

VECARD Seniseć

1 turned quickly and rammed

the hat clown Its throat, thus chaking 11. while Timothy Shy held its tail.

TALRUS

[Ap 21-May This be one of those days to make leaps Dupress by

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Across

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10. Turn back the read. (4)

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1. This describes the pot at the

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captain's

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18. Last clue.

make

Yesterday's solution.

CHESS PROBLEM

By JOHN KELE Black, pieces.

White, 10 pieces. White to play: mate in two.

Solution 10 yesterday's problem:

1. K-K4, 1... R~KI; 2, Q— K5; 1 R-KBI; 2, Q-84; 1 R-KK11; 2. Q-KM; 1 ... 8-R1; 2, Q-R4; 1 others; 2, Q-KI.

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Are You Prettier Than Your Picture?

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By EILEEN ASCROFT

recent

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Baron: "The most commnen best results.

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE SPECIAL, FOR

How to Cross a Brook

-If You're a Snail, You Can Ride on a Duck---

By MAX TRELL

G

LIVE the Snoil Was in LL hurry to meet his cousin

Prodnose; Are there crocodiles Slug who had promised to take

It

in the PyrenNCES?

Glive to dinner,

Myself: it was a sham one,

"'t know where there is a

He

With either wide vulner- able, the bidding has been: South

East West North

1 Spade Pas 1 N.T. 2 Dmils.

You. South, hold: Spades:

Dla- A-K-J-7-8-4, Hearts 6-2, monds Note, Cluba K-Q-0-8-4. What do you do?

A-Bid three diamonds. This is a game demand, showing a void in diamonds or possibly the singleton ace. In addition to a very strong hand. You

wil

lost of Fishguard,

like the whale the film company beautiful mulberry bush," Slug had said to Glive when they had made the appointment the week before.

To speak seriously Lor #1 tr:onent, the Macaroon Mincaroon, after

of

"How?" asked Glive.

Blockle. "Swim nerves," said

"Thank you," sighed Glive.

Then Blackde went on to his work. Glive was a land snail. couldn't swini. There was Ho would

no use even trying.

imply sinic to the bottom.

AL that moment

another

the friant of Glive's came along. It

was Willy Touri

of ច

There a gathering of

nothing in WOB the clans at Macaroon, seized world that Glive enjoyed more

leaves what looked like his bagpipes to than the tender

tae the Braes o' mulberry bush. play "Awa Mar" After 懂 moment be found he was playing an octopus, which he subsequently presented to the Perth Aquarium. We didn't care

Transportation Problem

trouble. There was only one Cousin Slug and his delicious two mahouts mulberry bush were both on the other side of the brook. It was

There WAA I had any adventures a wide brook. with

elephants, you ask. bridge across it. When was staying with

HAVE

Hai

no

On reaching the brook, Glive the Rajah of Dumdhurtipore of the Snail stopped. If he went probably wind up playing the Slaphappipalam, we set out any further, he would topple hand at four spades OT fivo

a huge beast to hunt dacolts. clutis, but a slam is not com-

We sat in our howdah under a into the water. If he turned

and pletely out of the question.

around

went back, wouldn't get to eat

TODAY'S QUESTION

With neither side vulnerable,

the bidding has been:

South West North East

"Very easy to get to the other Lida"

Willy answered cheer- fully after Glive had explained his problem. “All you have to do is hop aéross,”

***Thank

you, Willy." sald

Glive, the Suail, mat on the

white Luck's back.

"Thank you," said Glive. But his voloo was as sad as a snail'e volco could be.

Glive.

A Courteous Duck

Then Willy hopped off again.

Just white Duck was about to waddle off when sud- Glive didn't hop

across, of denly she said: "Come to think course, Gilver couldn't hop. It of I, I'm going to the other was even harder than swim- side myself, I know it'a 110 ming. It was quite impossible. trouble for you to paddle across --no trouble for anybody--but I Finally a white Duck came don't mind if you climb on my along.

back. I'll paddle you across; myself just to have your com

canopy, but the elephant was 50 big and fat

the mahout that couldn't get it to move. "Shall leaves of the mulberry bush. "So you want to get to the

we got out and push?" vouch-

So Glive just stood

of the

still.

other side, eh?” said the Ducis, safed the Rajah. How I Laughed gazing across the brook with r'll tell you exactly how to do "Nothing hard about, that at all. at this sallyl ""This

la longing, for there is bowenh-do," I riposted,

nothing

it"

finc

Then

"Paddle across," anid Duck

the

1 Spade Pass 2 Clubs 2 Dmds. we both laughed so much that more discomforting (either to a

we fell off the elephant, which small or to anyone else) than "Yes, please tell me," urged You, South, hold: Spades Kande

to be hungry and to have your Clive. He waited anxiously. wandered away, the mahout Q-J-7-6, Hearts A-9-4, Dio-w

at its neck like the dinner on the other side of a monės 7-5-2, Clubs A-2, What dangling

anchor of

wide brook. a mackerel-trawler do you do?

after a mudden storm. Back in

Glive was a very small snail, the palace We laughed even not much bigger than a penny. more loudly, until saucy female The brook was not much wider faces peered from the zenana. then a sidowalk but to him it "Could this happen in Eng seemed to be wider than the land?" asked my host, scratching Mississippi, which is a mighty his turban.

could not resist wide river indeed.

Answer Tomorrow

DUMB-BELLS

AND SOMETIMES,

IT WILL BE

UNDER

NECESSARY STAND

FOR YOU TO

HELP THE

BUTLER

UPSTAIRS,

answering, "Yes, we have no zenanas," The whole thing socma rather childish when I look back on it.

Glive

Was

A Labouring Beetlu..

standing there minutes-and several

getting hungrier every minute when

Bootle

N actress at Blacklo

MAM

WHEN

In passing

HE'S HAD

ONG TOO A&MANY

A moda e laurent found on trying to go to the other

she had to money, As she was side of the brook," - Glive 'ex- Q. Irequent customer, she was plained to Blackie, "only as naked to sign the bill. She put there is no bridgt, 1 don't know across at the foot of the bill. how I can do ISLAN

When they protested to offered Blackle was drossed in his her thumb-mark. "Surely you can write your siame," said the overalls and had shovel over ammaster","!! What good would fils shoulder, being on his way that do

more inquired, to work on a new hou with a lift of her ham ye building uncwigroka

Brows:

Don't

pany."

white Duck wanted to have his Glive was delighted that the

сотрацу. It saved him the trouble, of explaining that he couldn't any more paddle than he could swim or hop.

But perhaps the wilto Duck know that anyway.

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