1959-11-28 — Page 12

BRIDE

NOUTH won the opening

Sound on onming

and played ace, king and a small heart which he ruffed. Since the hearts broke 3-3 South's troubles were over. He drew trumps, cashed the king of clubs, overtook the queen with dummy's ace, discarded two diamonds on dummy'a last two hearts and made his slam.

WEST

4532

J74

•AQE

NORTH 4K 10

WAKI63

04

A 1084

13

EAST 404

Q108 +38752

4052

AJ073

SOUTH (D)

AQJ907

82

• K 103

+KQ

Doth vulnerable

West

Pass 2▼

South

North

14

F'em

3 A

Fass

4 N.T.

Fast

G

Pass

Pass Pass

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1959.

JACKY'S DIARY

Last night Mommy read me an other FaiRY TAIL. THIS TIME IT was called "The SHOE Maker & The ElfS"

*

JACKY Mendelsohn

Age 321⁄2

aRE Little Tiny PEOPLE i

UP THEY'RE ABOUT A

ELFS never growed fooT High

With Whiskers

a Foot

and So WHAT do You Think he saw ?.. Two Little Elfs CAME Started in MAKING MORE SHOES, AND even Though, The ELFS were Very TinY, HE COULD See They Were dressed

TEAL POOR

Band!

SNIP!

TCHE Tche

Who

དང QELF

Anyway There was tHis Shoe Maker who, was VERY TiRed. So one Night instEAD OF MAKING SHOES HE WENT TO Sleep,

(Yawn

Being as His Wife was a real good Sewer, She Decided to sew the Elfs Some SUITS TO WEAR, SO SHE made Like Little DOLLS CLOSE & LEFT Them There for a Suprize.

As A

The next morning When He I GOT UP... LOW of Be Old! The shoes were all finiSHED

When The Elfs Came in & found THE CLOSE They Said:

}

TIPPEE

NOW THAT we gor new Close We don't Have to, WORK NO MORE!

And also the NEXT MOPNI- ng TherE WAS SOME MORE. | Shoes Made. So He figured he would stay up Thar night & find our whose doing it.

But anthow The Shoе макер bесаmе real Rich, from THAT DAY on He was very Lucky in all his Under Takings.

(Wow.)

Rip

Opening Tead—a 2

PAD

"Horseshoes," mumbled East. "You bid n bad slam and played it worse but the 3-3 heart break came to your rescue."

East was wrong on both counts. The slam was a good risk, although not a sure thing. To start with it would be a lay down if East held the diamond ace.

Or West might have decided to lead that card right off the bat.

have

1939 Kint Features Studicate írt, word nights Reserved,

10-25

So They Quir never came Back Again.

NO FOOLING, IF YOU COUNT

10

you keep a weather eye open for positions where it will pay you to play on the odds and save yourself a guess? If you do, and if you stick to your guns and don't allow yourself to be side- tracked by extraneous considerations which may prove unreliable, you will certainly add an edge to your game.

THE ODDS

By FREDERIC LEWIS

On the last spade West threw

Then South gave himself the best chance. If hearts broke 1-2 he would established one heart for a diamond discard. The play of a diamond to his king: The odds on the position of as otherwise you can't keep a would have been final the nes of clubs in the follows eard of exit.

ing example ure the simplest On this trick West played resort.

odds of all-exactly even. Bul. heart 8. Play a small diamond, This is a of course, a good defender will and put the 9 up. try 10 persuade you tu the guess, but the 9 holds. contrary.

You can now see eight telits should Trumps-ree in spades, two in hearts,

ldding, and three in diamonds.

#

When the hearts broke for him, he "had it made."

CONTRACT:

Spade 3 lex!.

3 No

♥+CARD Sensea♦ | by South, No adverse

Q-The bidding has been:

East South West

I ♣

You, South, hold:

North

4AQ76 AKQ 101 Q2 48 5

What do you do?

A-Double. You have not only

a good heart suit, but also good spades.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner responds one dia- mond to your double. What do you do now?

(Answer on Monday)

N

ФАКСЬ

❤903

•

A9

10 D5 2

8

A 3B1

AKT KJ 104 K43

How do you play? Run the opening spade lead, which loss to the queen. A low heart is Treturned, which you must win

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Why not four In diamonds? Well, because it is against the

dds

hat the queen will drop

a high club and, on his partnerk first lead of the heart sult at trick two, West had seamed to be in trouble; could he have been wondering whether he

throw the queen

of

CHINA MAIL BRIDGE SCHOOL

hearts from Q 87 If so, Wentes no-trump contract commonly hand may well be

holds a poor hand and is trying to find his partner with some tricks.

♣ 10 49

• QU

+ Q863

AJ76

This week's brush-up for be

with biddable

ginners

in three rounds-It might, but What do you think? All right, suits. you shouldn't count on it. So you think that's i So you

table.

you.

deals

Many players, holding enough you play off the ace of diamonds come to hand with the ace of high cartis te make a bild, are and cash the spades (which hearts, West throwing The fall evenly), ending up on the queen, play off the king of inclined to bid any old suit in

diamonds the queen not

fall which they hold four cards to

an Honour. but The contrack now seems to ing.

really never

This is often a mistake, and if depend on the favourable post thought it would-and throw tion of the see of clubs--but West in with a diamond to lead you are thinking of taking up Bridge again, try to avoid this does it? What about an end- away from his ace of clubs.

pitfall. I think you will if, play on West?

Well done. Unfortunately, lead of saying "ddable however, West's hand was 43 suit," we use the term "Playable 33, and he was able to exit suit." with a small heart. The ace of Here are some examples: clubs was with East, West had A K Q 8, AK JB, A Q 10 9, deliberately fooled South by or better of course, these suits discarding his high club. Bold are biddable, because they are and simple play would have playable, landed the contract.

REFRESHER COURSE

These holdings just won't play: A 3 2, Q1 5 2. K J 4 3 2 and so oni su don't bid them. You will look silly when the The moral is, of course, that opponents turn up with befter whereas the considerations cards in your suit than you

the which induced

end-play hold yourself.

appeared real enough, they were If your hand consists of this not as real as the actual odds, sort of werk sult holding, and which are exactly even.

the la strong enough to open There is a further small point, bidding at all," is likely to be and that is that a player who a No Trump. hand- subject I leads from a short sutt against shall deal with next week.

FOUR D. JONES

by MADDOCKS

HEY, MAN {WHAT THE H

E HECK 15 THAT?

THAT'S THE (RUSSIAN MOON

ROCKET

The Moral of this story is:

Help comes to him who helps

his Elf

I Love London- -But

LIKE

most adopted Londoners, my affec- tion for the place goes deep. No other city can work the magic for me that London does...

Piccadilly...

-Peter Burgoyne's.

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

And that's why last week's 'which less and less has a blazing row about the plan to place for them, redesign the place and erect a Thirteen-storey block there

'me.

has struck no spark in Though I must admit it cer

These are no hawk-faced, ear- ringed rovers. But for their

Fleet Street, an Architectural hodge-podge, more sizzlingly alive than any other street in the world. The great markets, Covent Garden, Smithfield, Billingsgate, with their traditions and codes and privileges as rigid as any

brown and usually mulien frees court's. The river, bustling

they might pass for camuni farra with tugs and tankers,

In both Houses of Parliament workers. Yet few farmers have waterbuses and self-import- Noble Lords and Honourable

anything

but

and ant police launches, The Members have been colourfully hostility for them.

rey Fast End, incandescent agitated about it. with Cockney spirit. The "Unspeakable building," "pro-

of (the) society has been ready to treat them as such. They have been spelt of a taxi ride along sultation of the centre the Embankment as the capital," "vulgar and unimaging banned, persecuted and even to- tive." Suchlike epithets were lights are coming on.

thinly tolerated,

That's the London I love, and I could rhapsodise for hours about how this wonder ful city rings a bell for me.

But always there would be an exception. Piccadilly Circus.

This, I know, sets me apart

from umpteen millon other people, But I can't help it. The place just leaves me cold.

Ite undistinguished buildings festooned with a gaudy spag- hetti of neon-tubing; poor little Erus frozen for excruciating eternity in the act of plonking an arrow into the

stelling

tainly has in others.

suspicion

They are society's self-elected And for centuries vulcasts,

bandied by outraged champions day are only

They make what money they

of the Circus.

need horse-trading, tinkering. Whether the Government will :whitding 'clothes-pegs, telling do anything to quell this outery fortunes. is not clear. But the respons- bility lies with London County dragged into the limelight last Reluctantly the tribes weza Council. And no British Govern- ment likes bulldozing Jocal week when from # chief public authorities it that can possibly health inspector In Kent came an appeal for tougher legisin- tion to cope with the gypsates,

be avoided.

Raggle Taggle

The moderate

langunge was mord but the sentiments were much the same as those EFIANTLY anachronis- that generations of respectable the

Die the

still

roam

gypsy

tribes folk have felt for Britain. Ob- roamers: "The invasion and de- spoltation of the rural parts of sightseers; above all its brash Hvious of the automobiles the district by roving bands of self-consciousness at being a swerving past them, their gypsler increasts every year." tourist attraction,... Perhaps moth-eaten nags drag the in the old days when it was less scruffy caravans endlessly meet on the tober the word will

So now when Who self-conscious I might havo learned to like ft. But not now, about a changing country pass to stay away from Kent.

IT IS

COVENA

RUSSIAN MOON ROCKET)

ON NO MAN, 13

CAN'T BE

MAYE, THAT'S!

WHERE I'M GOING

GREAT HAIRY SATELLITES! it's:

GONE BEHIND › THAT MOUNTAIN.

THE BALLOON LANDS ON ANOTHER

JROCKET BITE

"HEY! WHAT'S THIS? YOU'VE DOT A ROCKET

RETRY

YEAH MAN

NEW

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ILL TRY TO PICK UP.

THE BOUND) THERE'S NO PATTERN TO THE TRANS- AUSSIONS... NO SCHEDULE! THERE, ITS ON NOW!

HAM!'SOUNDS. LIKE THE EARLY SPUTNIK SIGNALE!.

KOU CAN DISMISS THAT? THE BOYS BEHIND THE IRON PRAPE ÅRE BLAMING.

US!

YOU SAY TRÈS BIENAL DISRUPTG ALL RÁDIS TRANSMISION ON

EARTH

By Paul Norris

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IT SPEKS TO BE ON ALL

WAVE LENGTHS AT THE

GAME TIME! ⠀

TOUCKING SEXTICHS

"THROUGHOUT THE

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