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THE WORLD RENOWNED COCKTAIL BACARDI

AND ITS MANY USES.

BACARDI RICKEY

Wine-glass of Bacardi

Juice of half - Lime

Ona lamp of ice

Serre in high-ball glass

Add Sparkling Walar,

BACARDI GROG

One quart of Bacanli

One pound of Sugar

One quart of Forino Oolong Te

Use the grog, adding ojumi

Part of very hot water

Serve with alises of lemon

Dissolve sugar in hot water.

AGENTS:

BACARDI HIGHBALL Place a piese of ice in giaus One glass of Bacanii

Fill glass with sparkling Water,

BACARDI MILK PUNCH One glass hot Milk

One tablespoonful of sugar

A punch ofautmeg

The yolk of an oxy.

A glass of Bacardi

Beat up thoroughly the yolk of the

Egg with the sugar

Add milk Bacardi and nutmeg

Mix it thoroughly

A delicious panch and a splendid

beverage for Colds.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 28th, 1928.

THE WORST HANDS NORTHERNERS

POSSIBLE.

THE ODDS AGAINST IT.

ORIGIN OF THE TERM **YARBOROUGE"""

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ROUTED BY BANDITS.

ODD SIDELIGHT ON THE WAR.

LOOSENESS OF CONTROL.

TeNorio, April 18th.

Some weeks ago a correspondent sent me a hand which he had held, containing one eight and no other higher card, and inquired whether

A traveller to Taian to meet the this was a record. I could do no mere than inform him that the odds Shantung Famine Relief Committee against a hand having no card above tells an interesting story of a re- an eight were about 17,000 to 1. A

very active bridge-player might ex verae for the Northerners, which pect to hold such a hand about once occurred near Yibsien, thirty odd

miles south-east of Tenghsien.

B year,

This letter repeats. & report

This reply produced in the following week a letter from another gentle slready current to the effect that

man who had held a hand with no

eard higher than a-7, This involved the reverse was, actually due to a me in further mathematics, ns afiarge body of bandite who attacked | result of which it transpired that the Northemers, solely in the hope the odds against such a hand were about 254,000 to 1.

of capturing some ammunition. On the publication of this result, While this reflects little giory on two more gentlemen have written to either side, it is a very highly prob me stating that they had held bands with no card higher than a six. One able story, far the writer has knewn of these had all four sixes, and for many years the fame of these the other had only one six, and rough mountain robbers who have neither of them hold any higher HONG KONG.

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cus Sun Mei Yao recruited his band for the now famous Linebeng affair

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exceed a thousand millions to one; that this small force of bandits! and that if he holds such hands with have been able to accomplish what any frequency his best remedy is to the combined armies of Feng Yu find a new set of friends to play

bridge with, as his present ones Haiang and Nanking have been srem a little too much for him unable to do all winter and spring. But no one can deny the possibility The South claims to have concen- of such a band turning up: indeed

it is more likely than a hand with trated 230,000 men nes: Hsuchowiu, thirteen of a duit.

but, until these hungry bandits!

A haid of more general interest is the so-called Yarborough. The cur- struck a blow for their own wel rent story that a former Lord fare, the Southerners were impot- Yarborough was in the habit of lay-ent. From the North, it bodes evil ing a thousand to one that any for an army said to number 200,000 | given hand would contain some cardi

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higher than nine. The real odds to be put to flight by a band of against a hand with nothing above country rebhers, but, on reflection, anine are about 1928 to 1. Supt is not surprising to any one at posing that Lord Yarborough's all familiar, with the looseness of actual bet was £1,000 to £1, and control on either side. Aupposing that he got this.bet on The writer has lately seen two 20,000 times a year, his average ex divisions of equal strength, living pectation would be an income of side by side in the same city, both about £9,000 a year. He may have calling themselves Southerners, but get it on much more frequently, for entirely independent of each other he could be betting with all the and apparently not concerned at all players in the room at the same with the presence of the other. It time, and on every hand that they is also true that the pickinga for picked up. A Yarborough Bas now the big officers are large and juicy, become name for any hand with but the common soldier does not nothing above a nine. It may also even get a look-in. On the other be used metaphorically, to connote hand, the robber bands, had a very extreme futility and weakness. One definite object, on which their very

CLOSING QUOTATIONS. writer has bad the inspiration to existence depended. Without car

APRIL 27TH, 1928, adopt it for a nom-de-plume: and I tridges, they could not exist for be. Bank .............

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Let ma now pass from the gloomy subject of Yarboroughs to the more cheerful side of bridge. The odds against a hand, containing all four aees are about 378 to 1. The 30- called "hundred aces" are of rather more frequent occurrence than five honours in one suit, which should therefore logically count more. It is quite reasonable, how ever, to score them both as 100; which is the maximum limit "of honours. I dealt last week with the chances of holding. 10, 11, 12 and 13,of a suit. Since then I have re- ceived a letter from Oxford Univer sity, stating that a band of 13 hearts was held there recently. As usual

on these occasions, my informant was not present, but refers me to someone else who was. There is nothing incredible about such a band; but it is so very rare that, at the best, the history of bridge. can afford but few instances of it.

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