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BIDDING AT BRIDGE.

(A COMPENDIUM)

JKY SIN WILLIAM WILKINSON.]

APPENDIX.

NEW PHONE TERROR.

SEGRET RECORDS OF "CONVERSATIONS,

Then is a new terror in store for tele- phone users.

The head of a big business eoneeru in

FOSTER'S TRICK VALPE” SYSTEM. London nis installing an apparatus by

1-RECKONING "VALUES"

means of which any telephone conversa- tion at the office can be recorded on the wax eglinder of a dictaphons without the -Each guarded Ace counts values: each guarded King, 1 value. No other bowledge of the person speaking on the Honours count, except in certain coming line.

Should a member of the staff be en- hinations.

a conversation which he 691. Special values attach to the following: Sage in

sers it might be liable to record the Values.

asks the operator of the office branch ex change to connect the dictaphone instru

vartis

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QJ, 10 x x ...

Q.4, 1x 3.-The "defensive value" in all these cases is one half of the "attacking valna' BIS-DECLARISŲ,

| A—No-Trumpassi

1.You should have at least, & values distributed among three suits, or "among two suits, if a third is, sufely stopped.

-It is better to have 5 values for So-Trumps and strong major suit Spades or Hearts) should be given the preference."

A-Suit-cuils;~-~

A suit called by Dealer M HE consist of (a) four cards, either all of theut honours, or Ace, King, Queen and one small, de (1) tive or more cards,

In the latter case the hand should contain i 4 values, 2 of which at least are in the suit

declared

2.If the strength is in one suit only bid all the hand is worth; if in two suits, declare

1 and rebid later.

3-In a minor suit (Diamonds or Clubs) bid one only at the start, unless you của bid 5.Majorauits ask for support; minor suits offer it.

bid

-With five cards in auit (how-

ever strong)..

*

3.With

suit. With

six cards in suit, and 4

values in suit.......

seven cards in suit and 4

values in suit

eight cards in suit and 4

values in

"ist suit....

bid

#4

T

3 values in suit, never unless there are seven in

in suit, you may bid a.

6--With less than 2 values, pass; unless you have eight in Hearts or Spades, when you may bid 4 Hearts or 3 Spades, as the case ruay he.

7.-Don't rebid without assistance, unless alues, or rebil a second time son have a unless

you 8: or third time unless voo have 10,

K-1f you have been forced to bid one trick more at the start than you would have ilone with a free bid, you must delvet 1 value if you are callel on to rebit your Tauired:

DECLARANT'S PARTNER

1.-For assistance, count

(a) Three small truo s; u one of the fist three honours and one small,

(4) Four or more small; or one of the above honours and two or more

11 small, as (7) Two honours in trumps (kuave and one better) and two small, as d) A void outside suit................ fe A singleton is an outside salt... (f)Outside honours, as in sx. 1, (Col

1) of "Reckoning Values (supra (The small cards, the fifth especially,

}

may be ignore -Holding only small trumps, deduct 1 value. For only one trump, or none, deduct values. For an unguarded high honour, dedget value. If yours is a split hand (so that there is no possibility of a ruff) deduct . Note that five or six tramps in your but are worth no more than four.

3. Don't assist unless you have more 34 values. With assist once; with 51, twice; with 6, thrice

than

-If Declarant rebida, assist with 34; if he has rebid twice, with 2; if three times, with Tu

3.With only two small, "deny" (take out) the suit: bid any suit of four or five that contains 2 values; or even any suit of five. Do not deny an original "two" hir.

(For an illeutration of the System, nee Foster's Game, No. 5, pp. 188-190).

"For several years I have rever made any attempt to save a game or a rubber by averbidding my haud by more than une trick."-Foster. p. 228. ".

Maoning is the only writer to notice Foster's "Now System of calling at Bridge (pp. 79-81). He confines h.s quotation to the Declaration; and mak no comment.

TOO FEW KICH MEN. SIR A MOND ON TYRANNY OF SOCIALISM,

Sir Alfred Mond, M.P., speaking at an Industrial League conference at Oxted, Surrey, said:"

The miners of South Wales do not want to be directed by clerks in Whitehall: They want to have the mines and charge. more her the cunt.

Without birth control and conscription

I

of labour I do not think it is possible to organise the Socialist community...

regard "Socialism not as a form of idea! improvement "but Ba" a tyranny

terrible

I believe Socialism will lead to one war after another, because of the anta gonism of nations when they have control of industrial affairs.

The millionaire is the tool to make hun- dreds of millions for other people. Ho is a person of utility; there are too few of them.

لومة

It is by making neople richer that you are going to make the world better. That catt be done only by better production.

If you were'v talk about Bolsheviste miserab rapitalists you never get any farther. Instead of trying to score points we should get together and find common prints of contact, and the com- ren noints of contact are much nearer to gether than people think

t on to the line without the know- ge of the man to whom he is speaking. It is obvious that this device may even be used for recording private universi tions of members of the staff, and it is possible to foresee a binshing young clerk hearing, in, she presence of his chief, a long conversation with a sweetheart cars ried out in business hours and recorded by the remorseless dictaphone,

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