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THE CONTRACT BRIDGE WAR

By SIR MAX PEMBERTON

Ono gentleman in the Empire The Battle of "the Bridges" | Mrs. W. T. Southorn will hold an At contines to be waged furlously and business sends me a leaflet in which ho actually refers to our Home at Gevornment House on Em-to wax in verbal ferocity.

Upon the one aldo, we have those old supremacy in whist.

He might as well try to teach pire Day, May 24, at 3.30 p... when

who believe in and preach the there will be a rally of Girl Galdes.

doctrines of Culbertson and the golfers by recalling what the Capl. Eve, of 3, Armend Bullding, American school. Upon the other, Dutch did on the links of Holland various Leaguers, who clamour three hundred years ago. You do not "call" in whiat; the cards call reported the loss of A han

for you; while as for conventions, "No Conventions!" motor car last night whilst the car

was there over more unwieldy mascot which was stolen from his eloquently for Empire Bridge. was parked outside his house.

Empire Bridge! It has a pretty bag of tricks than that handed of us by Cavendish and his sound. Hearts, suppose, from to

stork

ing that it does not pay in the BEFORE MAN MADE US CITIZENS, long run to have large tracts of GREAT NATURE MADE US territory poverty-stricken or poli-J. R. Lowell,

financial tically unstable or in bondage. The peoples of the world are paying heavily for the stupid mistakes of short-sighted politicians

Ind profit-accking money-lenders. The world "safe for democracy" which the states- men promised is proving very different in reality from what the "democracy" itself envisaged. been National prosperity has saerificed to nationalist pride.

A Golfing Analogy. The danger of German militarism was destroyed by four and a half

Bridge is not whist and it is yeara of effort, but the dangers of

to the Government Civil perlaista tell us, and refuse to be not golf,

But when America is wrongly unarea. No with us, the "peace" are still

caught in American although we are now in the second Hospital and there treated.

conventions, no Culbertson, if you charged with passing on to us decade since the war ended. The

The death occurred in Washington! please. Card "sense" in all thut a burden of conventions, we may evil consequence of the

розвеза card of golf for an illustration.

Mon (and women) carry many embodied in the Peace Settlement on May 7th of Major General Enoch is needed. The fact that not three well turn to the modern history

11. Crowder, wartime Judge Advocate men in a hundred

Irons nowadays. Amorlen names have at no time borne more General of the U.S. Arms, former "sense" does not seem to weigh

nations heavily upon the

than Ambassador at Caba, and at one with these advocates. Sparton Radio-Phonegraph Model 30

We, the humble servers at lowly a club for every probable "ap- card-tables, take refuge from this proach." At St. Andrewa thoy. during recent months. Never intime Associate Justice of the Philip

pines Supreme Court.

brawling behind any human hedge used to have a saying, "Boware of FTER you hear the

values modern history has the world heen

We think that we the man with a single iron." In we can find. deep will have extra appeal. It seems faced with such generul,

A report was made to the police have met a good many of these it to be heard to-day, I wonder, or almost unbelievable that even seated and neute troubles. They

by last night by Tung Yuk, a tailor, of card "sensers" and have joined in are the admirable Scots now hast- Sparton, pacemaker in radio, are not to be accounted for

on the Yanninti ferry-boat Man Wai know the truth, and for the truth 3's, and No. 4's as America has should offer so remarkable "the wrath of God," but by the Bonhan Strand, who was a passenger paying their losses. We desire to ening to buy No. 1's, No. 2's, No. combination of basic engineering folly of statesmen who fashioned at 11 p.m., that another passenger we turn properly to the greatest taught them to do? improvements at present Sparton the economi: thongs which have jumped overboard and disappeared.players among us.

follies

Cuts to his forearm were sustained Canada; diamonds from South fellows! by Lam Yie, aged 20, of 120, Queen's Africa: spades from Australia: Road West, when he allpped whilst and clubs from Ireland.

We should play thus, the Im- carrying a plate of glass. He was taken

prices. See these new, super-brought the peoples to their pre-He was not seen again, nithough n

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No, indeed; good play at every game is founded on certain basic Our Leading Players,

principles, and It really does not What do these leaders, the salt matter whether an. Englishman or As-lan American teaches them as long Enjoy

of the carded earth, tell us? af models. range

7 There is obviously something

America, The General Post Office and branch tonishing. They say that there is as they be well taught. If the demonstration of Radio's Richest

radically wrong when Voice.

powerful and post offices will be open from 8 na. neither Empire Bridge nor Ameri-British school can show us that its one of the most

to nan. next Monday, when there' wealthiest nations in the world, will be ent collection and or delivan Bridge. There is only Bridge. teaching of these basic principles If we were to-day to take the is better than the American, well is brought sharply face to face very of ordinary correspondence

on Sundays, arl one delivery of re-vote of Crockford's and the Port-and good. We shall listen.

to the greatest team But if, on the other hand, we pressing with

financial and gistered correspondence ni 9 a.m. and Club economic dificulties which have The Money Order aflee will be entires in the world, I think that Colonel discover that American methods Beasley and his "oight" would be are based upon the most exact and heen so long the common experi-ly closed.

named without hesitation. Colonel scientific analyses of probabilition ence of other nations. The mas

Beasley himself must be nearly and possibilities, then wo shail. our enlighten- unemployment. semi-starvation,

the greatest Bridge player we turn to them for have. His team has recently been ment. poverty, dat.es and

Meanwhile, let us beg our "Bri- victorious in Vienna, in Paris, in

from which nflet the leading nations

Germany, and in Holland. It con- tish" advocates to refrain of the world continue because Ue

aists of Sir Guy Domville, Mr. Ed-spreading abroad the idea that been admitted causes have not

ward Mayer, Captain II. Renshaw, Contract Bridge is a gamo need:

BBER boldly tackled. War debts

Mr. George Morris, Captain Klessly complicated by bidding Hogg, Colonel G. G. Walsh, Mr.nystems and conventions which the have come from America and are Felix Llon, and, of course,

unwelcome. colonel himself.

This is quite untrue. The prin These great exponents do notj rlay American Bridge or Empire ciples of Contract bidding aro uni. Bridge. They just play the game, voraal, and the fact that American Recently in America Colonel players were the first to perceive Beasley played with Mr. Harold and to exploit them does not in d. Vanderbilt, Mr. Ely Culbertson, any way detract from their value. Mr. Von Zedwitz, and other famous Indeed, we might well any of this Bridge na Betay Prig leaders of the American Bridge "British"

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The forthcoming wedding between Tong Kwan Yuk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tang Kwai Pok, ofing himself with something out- Hongkong, and Soo Chong Hec.side the scope of the work that brother of Mr. Son Cheong brought him fame! That will be of Kampar, F.M.S. will take

By that net place at The Peninsula Hotel, the end of his fame.

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world. Of these games, he says: observed of Mrs, Harris, we don't they have convinced me that the believe there's "so sich person." principles, of hidding which the members of our team adopt differ' very little if at all, from those in general use by the first ranking players in America, and these may be summed up in two words: (a) simplicity and (b) accuracy.

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Happy Child Dancers

tennis as you please" will ever appeal the gentle art of executing the donor to thinking people is to perpetuate "splits," kicking hats held above

In delusion.

their heads, making "cart-wheels" appear things of beauty, and the various other accomplishments which are the requisites of a modern stage dancer.

For there is one motto which is applied to the world of profes- sional dancing, and it may be roughly summed up in the phrase: "If you want to do the splits, ¡begin young."

Healthy Girla

By HAROLD CONWAY. One of Britain's lesser-known none the less 11 memory. Her name, however,

(b) Bid your hands both from industries, but a

stage dancers-bas to become is on the lips of millions of young a defensive and offensive point of active one-training young girls

time view, and from a close estimate of

light by yesterday'a deputation to posterity. It will attached to a peach! That will the trick-taking capacity of the been given a place in the lime-

combined hands." be stolen by the object.always be a in mode. So Mr. Davis

Here is common sense, and, sure-the House of Commons to protest So seems to be the conclusion of may be assured that he will be in ly, common sense is of the whole ngainat certain sections of the

that sidered in Committee.

In many parts of the country. Mr. Dwight Davis, former Seere-good company if posterity does esence of good card play. If the Children's Bill, now being con- tary of War, former Governor decide to omit his public services British school can show us General of the Philippine Islands, from his record and make him, to American teaching has not com-

But for girls, of ages ranging from 6 to who laments that, though he has quote the dictionaries of 200 years mon sense, then it will be dang hundreds of enthusiastle Bitlo tried to build up a reputation as hence, "a kind of cup used as ait to pretend that a policy of "call 14, are now being instructed in u statesman, all his efforts have trophy In international been overshadowed by his donor tournaments: original ship of the Davis Cup. In Europe unknown!" recently he was the "victim" incessant tributes on this score, It is something to the good that, and on this score alone. That at long fast there is evidence of was the return he got for two a growing tendency on the part of years of a proconsulship in the the leading powers to seek the Philippines which he filled with nolution of the continued world merit and to which he devoted

arduously! There dopression by means of concerted himself

iN there In

for effort. Obviously.

a precedent

Mr. Davis's

the that

object common cause lying at the root expectation

that cause of his generosity will ΣΤΟΥ of the trouble, and enmiot be removed except by on him. Think of Colbert. Many International action. The Lau- will have to go the oney- annne Conference next month will.clopaedia to make sure of a very It is hoped, mark the beginning shadowy recollection of Colbert's

attainments N of a new era, resulting in big stature and measures of collaboration for the statesman. But they know him-- common good of the world. Whilst as a fish! Who doesn't know the evilonce of the depression is to sole that is colbert? Or, to go to be found all over the globe, there the Orient for another example can be no doubt that the menace among the many that are avail is particularly marked in South-able, regard Kang Hai, perhaps Eastern Europe, where conditions the greatest of the Manchu Em- recalls threaten not only the collapse of perors of China. Who

rare the Danubian States but of the anything at all of his whole of Europe.

scholarship, his surpassing wis- Despite a common recognition|dom, his wise rule? All lost in of the scope, tho dangers and the musty records. But he lives vase! urgency of the problem with gloriously, freshly-as which South-Eastern Europe han Many other ord among Mr. confronted them, the only Govern Davis's contemporaries who have ments by whom effective aid can bestowed their names on things be provided have so far falled to without counting the cost in y agree on the measures to be taken posterity's eyes. "Babe Ruth- even for temporary alleviation. is he to be known to the boys of It remains to be seen whether the fifty years hence as 'the Sultan of discussions at Geneva will prove Swat, tho peertons inoro fruitful. We are learning monarch, or as a stick of candy? what it means to be a world in Melba, tho great Australian We are discovering by nightingale her voice is already Dawn. hard, experience that it is folly

to

Ja

home-run

"We've had complaints about snoring at this address."

With very faw exceptions, the members of the British dance.

have which

become troupes popular in this country and all over the Continent have begun training not long after they have learned to walk, And, it to worthy of note, there are no more splendid specimens of healthy girlhood to be found anywhere than in the ranks of these troupes. At the beginning of their caroer they are taken by their parents to stage dancing schools. I have watched a number of theso. tests during the last few years. For overy 20 or 30 pupils who are wanted, somo 200 little girls are brought along by their proud. mothers,

The most likely pupila ure chosen, and they then bogin to attend classes regularly. after school hours. For a year or so the principal object aimed at is to mako their limbs thoroughly supple.

One instructor told me not long ago that it is an exception to find any girl between the ages of 6. and who cannot "do the splits quite naturally and without any effort.

The mombora of the classes are Invariably the happlest of friends, (Continued on Page 8.)