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CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney.
Secretary, 'American Bridge League.
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932.
Some any that contract bridge is all in the bidding but generally you will find that the maximum bidding forces one to play their very beat. Proper deductions and a good end play produce game for the declaror in the following hand:
Q-10-6-4 ♥6-2
8-4-3 4K-9-6-4
▲ A-J-9.
7-5-2 ✔10-8-
7
NORTH
F
♦ None
A-8-7-
3
Dealer SOUTH
K-8-3 A-4-3 +J-10-
9-6-2 Q-10
A Nono
♥K-Q-J-9-5
♦ A-K-Q-7-5
J-5-2
The Bidding.
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South, the dealer. holds two five-card suits. With two bid. able five-card suits, the higher ranking suit should be bid first, therefore South opens with one beart, West overcalls with one spade, North pussen, East jumpa to three spades. South shows his other suit by bidding four din monds, West goes to four spindes which North doubles. All pass,
The Play. North, who
the opening tead, lends the top of the first suit bid by partner--the six of hearts, Due to the fact that North refused to help his partner and later doubled, the dechrer is led to be lieve that all of the missing spadles, are in the North hand, and pro- bably the king of clubs. A small heart is played from dummy. South winning the trick with, the jack and returning the king, which is won in the dummy with the nce. North, by playing the six and dence of hearts shows he is out of hearts. The declarer next plays the deuce
KING'S BIRTHDAY
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The King's Birthday will celebrated in Hongkong to-mor- row in the usual fashion, the prin- cipal event being the march past His Excellency the Omeer Ad- ministering the Government, who will take up his position at the Cenotaph at 10 am. Hin Excol- lency will take the salute from the various units, comprising Naval, Military, Hongkong Volun- teer Forces, and civil units,
At 11 am. His Excellency will hold A Consular Reception at Government House, at which the Consula and their wives will be present. The -oMeinl luncheon party will be held at the Hong- kong Club at noon.
At 9.30 p.m.
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A detachment of three officers and fifty men from H.M.S. Corn- wall and a similar detachment from the 2nd. Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlan- of ders will net
Guard Honour to His Excellency during the Cenotaph ceremony. Upon his arrival. His Excellency will be met by the G.O.C. British Troops in China, the Naval Com- Senior Officer of the Royal Air modore in Hongkong, and Force, and will be received with a Royal Salute by the Guard of Honour. A Royal Salute of 21 after H.E. guns will commence inspects the Guard of Honour, and 11 feu de joie will be fired the 3rd. Battalion 9th. by Jat Regiment. At the conclusion of the salute the National Anthem will be played by the band of the 1st. Balt. South Wales Borderers.
The March Past. Naval and military units will then march past His Excellency in through columes of route, and certain streets of longkong. The Royal Navy will be represented by one company of seamen from one company H.M.S. Cornwall, from the Eighth Destroyer the 4th. Submarine Flotilla. Flotilla and H.M.S. Sandwich. The Royal Marines will be repre-
of diamonds from dummy, trump-sented by two pintoons from ing it in his own hand with the deuen of spades. A small club is lex by declarer and won by North with the king, dummy playing the ten and South the deuce.
H.M.S. Cornwall and one platoon from H.MS. Tamar. Offers and crew from HMS. Orpheus, Whit- shed, Wild Swan and Verity will also participate
North lenda the eight of din-
The Military forces will be re- monds, dummy playing the nine, ! South the queen, the declarer presented by 144 members of the lumping with the five of spades. British Heavy Battery Royal Ar A small club is then led to dum- tillery, 75 ranks of the R.E's, 20 my's queen.
Phe king of spades Royal Signallers, 460 members of is played from dummy, South drop- the 1st Batt. South Wales Bor- ping the seven of diamonds, the derers un. 100 Second Bait. declarer playing the seven of Argyll and Sutherland Highland- spades, and North the four of ers, Other units participating in spades, The six of diamonds is the march will include the Second. the next play from dummy, de Fourth and Fifth Heavy Batteries, clarer trumping with the nine of Royal Army Service Corps, Honk spades. The ace of clubs is then kong Mule Corps, 3rd Batt. 9th. fed and the four of hearts disfat Regiment, and the Royal Air
carded from dummy. The declarer Force. then leads the eight of clubs, North plays the nine and declarer trumps
The Hongkong Volunteer with the three of spades, South Forces, including the two new discarding the seven of hearts. units, the Anzac Corps and the It is easy for West, the declarer. Anti-Aircraft section, will parade to count the North hand as heat full strength and will be fol- halds nothing but spades, therefore lowed by members of the Mer- the jack of diamonds is led from chunt Nuvy, St. John Ambulance, dummy. When South plays the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Guards ace, the declarer discards the ten Association. of hearts which North is forced to trump with the six of spades. He must now lend
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