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IF you have ever gone to

the races, you may have

heard the cry over the loudspea- ker of:

"Hurry, hurry, don't get slut

oul!"

Of course, if you get shut out

of a horse bet you probably have

THE CHINA, MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

A life on the open sea.

SIMPLE SAILING

saved money, but when you get (for beginners)

shut out of the bidding you nearly always wind up a loser.

West's opering diamond bid was a minimum, but he held a good six-card suit. Hence, fler East responded one heart und South bid, a spade West should have bid two diamonds right away but made the mistake of passing

North

He never recovered. raised to three spades. East wanted to do something with his

NORTH 4AQEZ

19

Q8

432

+Q876

WEST (D)

A 90

EAST 44

❤ 2

●AQ 10878

AJ102

A0654 K95 K954

SOUTH

◆ KJ 10973

KJ 1073

East and West vulnerable

3

West

North

1+ Pass

East I ♥

South I A

Pass 3

Pass

Pass Pass

Pass

Opening lead- 2

good hand, but a raise to four

or

diamonds with only three trumps rabid to four hearts was too rich for his blood, He passed and South went on to four spades.

The hand woen't a total loss since West opened his singleton heart and three aces and the heart ruff defeated the space game,

Now let's see what would have happened it West had bid two diamonds, North would still have gone to three spades, but East would have tried four diamonds and the chances are that West would have gone on to game.

He would have had no trouble with the contract. In fact, it he guessed the queen of clubs he would make six.

♥*CARD Sense♣♦

Q-The bidding has been: West

North East 14

1

Pass 34

You, South, hold:

South Pass 24

Pass

7

4Q98 12 AJ987 4854

What do you do?

A-Pass. You told your whole story when you gave the single raise,

TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has over- called a one-heart opening with one spade. This time you hold: AK876 32 4AJ987 465 4

What do you do?

Answer Tomorrow

The rules for salling races are governed by the biternational Yacht Rac- ing Union. The Racing Rides are basically the same for sailing craft of all sizes, from the big ocean racers down to the smallest dinghies,

The progress of a race can easily be divided into three parts: The Start.. Sailing the Course, and the Finish.

The STARTING LINE imaginary ling on is an

The

the water, defined by two

marks. conspicuous helmsman knows when he Is crossing the line sceing these marks "in transit." The line can be

by

endless, or may be also defined by distance marks (these need not be exactly on the line),

Starting signals

These are the

START-

ING SIGNALS (each is accompanied by the firing

WARNING: of a gun):

Ten minutes before the start the flag denoting the class to race is broken out On the signal mast. PRE- PARATORY; Five minutes before the start the flag representing in the International Code, called the Blue Peter, is broken out. START: At the ex- minutes piration of five exactly both flags are lowered.

Competitore are subject to the Racing Rules from the preparatory signal (Five Minule Gun), and to start have to cross the

line not before the starting signal, in the direction of the first mark of the

course.

If any part of the boat

is across the line when the starting signal is made, she will be recalled by the sailing committee. who will fire another gun after the start if any boat

was

across the maturely.

London

line pre-

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CHILDREN'S CORNER

The Frog That Blew Up

-Knarf Tells Everyone A Very Strange Story-

By MAX TRELL

to happen? What did you know was going to happen?""

TT was just beginning to get “Well," said Knarf, "it all dark and Hanid, the Shadow started about an hour ago. Girl, and Teddy, the Stuffed "I didn't have anything much Bear, and Mr Punch, and Mary to do, or anywhere to go. Then Jane the Rag Doll, were set. I saw the Mother Goose Book tling themselves down in their lying on the bookcase and I different corners of the room uccided to pay my friend Sim- to go to sleep when all at once ple Simon à visil. Hanid said:

"Where's Knarf?"

No one knew

"So, continued Knarf, “I made myself small-"

"How anall?" Teddy Inter- rupted.

About as small as a postage

There was the Bull Frog,

getting bigger and bigger.

No one knew where Hanid's stamp and just as flat. Then I brother Knarf could be!

squeezed myself inside the book. They looked for him all over But I guess I must have picked try to make himself as big as the wrong page or maybe it the Cow, but he wouldn't listen was the wrong book."

to me.

4

the room:

Under the chairs, and under the carpet, and in the cracks in the floor, and behind the cur- tains, and behind the bookcase. and behind the wallpaper.

"He Just isn't here," said Teddy.

the Stuffed Bear, to Hanid

"Then where can

usked Hanid.

She called loudly:

"Knart! Knarf!"

he be

Everyone called

All the others called: "Knarf! Come out wherever you are!!!

But Hanid shook her head. And then, all at once, Knart

came cut!

Wrong book

"It was the wrong book," said Mr Punch, who had gone up to the bookcase and looked at the book lying there.

*You

thought it was the Mother GOOSE Book. But it wasn't the Mother Goose Book at all, It was a book of Fables."

Knarf nodded his head.

***I can do it," he said," "Then he drew in a deep breath, and got bigger. Then he drew in another breath, and got even bigger.

"He kept drawing in more and more breaths," said, Knart. "and kept getting bigger.... and bigger....and...."

"And?" asked everybody in the roun anxiously 06 Knatt "That was the mistake 1 stopped. "What happened made. Because, instead of find- next?"

ing myself in Simple Simon's garden, I found myself at the edge of a pond right next to a

Didn't wait

Geld where a big black and "I didn't wait," said Knarf. white Cow was eating grass. "The Frog was almost as big And there, sitting on a white as the black and white Cow.

He only needed one more breath

He came flying out of the Stone, I saw a Bull Frog. Mother Goose Book that was "A what-Frog?" asked Mary- and he would be as big as the

lying on top of the bookcase. Jane the Rag Doll, He landed in a heap in the middle of the room.

The next second there was a loud bang from inside the book,

He knew it "There he goes!" said Knari as he sat up on the floor. "I knew it was going to happen!"

Blowing himself up

Cow But I jumped. I got out of the book as fast as I could.

I knew what was going to, hap-

"He he burst?"siced Ted-

"A Bull Frog," Knart repeat- pen!"".

ed. "A Bull Frog is a big-fella

even

Frog. But this Bull Frog was dy, the Stuffed Bear. "Was that

bigger than most Bull the bang when he burst?" Frogs....and there he was,

Knarf only nodded sadly. blowing himself up.

"Blowing himself up?" asked

By this time Hanid and Ted- Mr Punch. "Why was he doing dy, the Stuffed Bear, and Mr that?"

Pretty Bull Frog

"He was really a very pretty

Bull Frog F'm sorry he tried to make himself as big as a Cow. Now he's just a lot of

together again," said Knart..

Punch and the others had all "To try to make himself even golten Knart on his feet again, bigger," said Knarf. "To try to

"Now what is this all about, make himself as big as that big little pieces. Knarf?" Hanid asked him after black and white Cow that was "I hope he can glue himself she had sat him down quietly eating gross in the field right in her comer. "What were you next to him”

But neither Hanid, nor Teddy, doing inside the Mother Gonse "What a foolish Frog!" said nor Mr Punch, nor Mary-Jane- Book? And what was that Hanid.

knew whether he would ever be banging noise? And why did "That's what I thought," said able to make himself into an you say you knew it was going Knarr, "I told the Frog not to ordinary Bull Frog again.

Grow up in

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6

WHEN DO CHILDREN

UNDERSTAND FATHER?

NEVE

Bays.

"

TEVER be deceived by do but gym turdes, and dorms point of view. Eton is one, but! the touchingly be- and tuck boxes and waving I don't much like its point of view. Winchester is another, bravely to us from the train. father wildered

who

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don't get nearly an urban life and that girls

the sports job. I just take my orders enough exercise in London day part is properly organised. AQUARIUS (January 21- ever though his visit may like the rest of the family." schools and I think that's im-

be timed inconveniently. February 19): If you are

"On discipline, I bdlove in portant, Actor, and father of three,

explaining things as much (August in a position to help some VIRGO

"With the boy (Jonathan, Anthony Quayle starts off this very one out of a tight spot,, September 22): A give your time ungrudging- valuable assistant will be way. But like more and more thrce) it's rather different be possible, pointing out why it is

to plan ahead wrong to do so and so. you and you will modern fathers it soon becomes cause you have leaving

"I don't think women do this ly to the effort.

clear he has plenty of views with boys.

probably quite enough. They be hard put to find a about bringing up the young. suitable substitute.

It suddenly happened to him,

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Rupert and the Squire-27

The Squire and, Connable them by accident. And, look. Growler, both trying to talk to here's something better stil. He gether, stare at Rupert and at takes the necklace out of his Beppo and at the cap, and demand pocket. The Constable is Loo to know what in all meant and fabrycted to speak Sudenly how, Rupert of all people

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