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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1932,

ALLEGATIONS OF IMPERSONATION.

CHARGES AGAINST A YOUNG CHINESE

A case of alleged Impersonation Editor's Note: This is the second and fraud was heard by Mr. of a series of articles by Mr. Me Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis- Kenney explaining the one over ano Bustem for contract bridge. Tracy yesterday afternoon, when Iu 4stem is now employed by practical Shing-wan, unemployed, was charg- It all experts

ed with impersonating a detective of the Secretariat of Chinese by Affairs and obtaining sums means of a trick. Three different incidents were alleged, of how int the assumed role, he carried out complicated schemes and obtained money in two casca.

When contract bridge was Arst played, we were taught not to make an original bid of one no trump when the hand contained a biddable suit-in other words, to bld one no trump orginally wan to deny the holding of a biddable salt. This theory has been con pletely changed in moderu 200- tract bidding.

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For the Police, Det. Inspector Shaftain sald that the tenants of the second floor of 176, Quçen'e Road West on a recent night were An original bid of one trump now shows a very fine hand disturbed by someone apparently which should contain from 3% to trying to force open the door. The 4 gulek tricks. It denies a bid-polse ceased on an alarm being dable five-card major suit, but not given, but it was repeated the next

two nights. necessarily il good four-card major suit.

It shows a hand that may gain a trick by the opening lead by be ing led up to rather than through. In the majority of cases it should have all four suite stopped.

However, there are times when An original no tramp bid must be made on hand having only three suits stopped, but the fourth suit should contain at least four small cards,

Defendant Appeared.

Little Mischief !

Full of pranks maybe, but ulko

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Baby's Own Tablets have a gentle, natural laxative and cleansing action on the child's internal organs. There with ennsequent pain and sometimes none of the griping and purging, even injury to the delicate mem- branous linings of the passages, which nre AxЯociated with crude, old- fashioned purgatives.

WISE PARENTS RELY UPON BABY'S OWN TABLETS.

Baby Own Tablets are the iden An agitated tenant next inter-corrective for babies and children's viewed the Police, and that same stomach and bowel troubles generally, uight when the occult happening re-for constipation, indigestion, Batul- aence, colie, dlarrhoga, worms, colds curred, she went out to fetch policeman. The prosecution sugand ximple fevers. During teething than a they settle the stomach, thus essing rested that it was more coincidence when she met the do- pains. fendant In and brought him back to the floor in the belief that he was a representative of the law. The same impression was gained by two To become a successful contract genuine policemen-a Cantonese player. It is necessary to learn and an Indlan-who arriving there the manipulation of trump at the same time as the defendant, contracts. One of the first ques-did not demur when he assumed tions naked by many players re-direction of affairs. He even car- garding this new type of no trump ried the matter further, said Ins bids is how to distinguish whe-pector Shaftain, by actually going ther hand should be bid one of with the frightened woman to the a suit or one no trump when con- district Police Station to report

the happening. taining 3% or more quick tricks.

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ALLEGED ROBBERY CHARGE FAILS.

DEFENDANTS FOUND NOT GUILTY

At the criminal Sessions yester day morning, further evidence of the hold-up at Happy Valley Race- course was given before the Puisno Judgo (Mr. Justice Wood) by Tsang Koo Foon, the girl who was with Lum, the architect's clerk the when they were attacked on night of October 4. The After lengthy summing up by the Puinne Judge, and a brief re- tirement, the jury returned a ver diet of not guilty in regard to un these both defendants and charges they were nequitted.

Chi Fook then faced a chargo of the Deportation at lof a brench was left

pleaded

The following day be visited the floor, and convinced the woman that the attempt to force the door was the work of personal enemy, and urged her to recall one who would most likely fit the theory. woman had to go as far back as two years to recall that at that period she had a tenant with whom she quarrelled and who finally shifted out.

Old Enemy Recalled. The converantion

The rule governing this is very simple. Don't open with one no trump if your hand will lose no- thing by becoming the dummy at a o trump contract; eg, if you beld spudes AK xx.

hearts Axx, diamonds A K, clubs x x x x. Here la hand captaining five quick tricks, which should not be opened with one no trump, but with a bid of one spade. This hand has nothing to gain with the that, but subsequently she was re-Ordinance, to which he opening lead. If there is game in minded by the defendant coming guilty

Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith said there the band at no trump, undoubted-to her with the Information that he ly the extra trick will be made had traced her ancient enemy to were two convictions against de- with partner as the declarer and house in Temple Street, Yaumatt.fendant, when he served two imprisonment in cach this hand as the dummy,

He declared that immediate action months With hand containing top was necessitated by the discovery case, and on the second Instance for 10 years. It i tricks, partner's hand undoubted- and said that it would be necessary was banished ly holds cards with tenace posi-to see the Secretary for Chinese was on this order that he was now! tlons, and therefore the gain will Affairs for protection and for a charged.

be made by having his hand led up to rather than yours.

However, Auppose your hand held spades A Kxx, hearts KJ x, diamonds AQx clubs K xx. With this type of hand the proper open ing declaration le one no trump and not one spade.

If you were to open the bidding with one spade, partrier, in all, probability, would answer

with

one no tramp and you would then have this hand being led through rather than up to.

warrant of arrest of the enemy. His Lordship sentenced him to which warrant, he told her, would 12 months hard labour. cost five dollars," said Inspector Shaftain.

puzzled, they decided to go them- To complete the Illusion, it is selves to the Secretarint for elucida. alleged, the defendant that night tion.. brought two other men and all three slept on the floor, this, he told the woman, to necord her all the necessary protection,

Inspector Shaftain spoke of the investigations which followed, lead- ing to the arrest and exposure of the defendant. On his person were The next stage in the scheme, in found the following articles: A the view of the prosecution, was the truncheon, an Ambulance Brigade finding by the woman of two unbelt, an Ambulance Brigade badge, stamped letters in her mail box, an Ambulance Brigade book of, They purported to come from the rules. He suggested that the Am- You can easily see the advan-former tenant necusing her of vile buinnco Brigade articles had sery- tage of playing the no trump con-conduct, and finishing up by deed the defendant's purpose in de- tract with this hand as the demanding the sum of $100. clarer rather than dummy, as you are, in all probability, sure to win an extra trick on the opening lead, and can then govern your play se

Saving the Situation. The woman's first thought after reading the letters, was to see the defendant who lived in the same

ceiving ignorant people into think- ing he was indeed a detective.

A letter was also seized, and proved to be a draft of an applica- tion to the Hon. Mr. S. W. Tao, a Re-

us to throw your left-hand oppo-street a few doors away, but as he/ Commissioner of the Police

nent into the lend.

Suraming up original bidy

one no trump we find:

1. They should contain 3% more quick trieks,

of

or

2. At least three sults must be stopped.

3. They do not deny a biddable suit, but show a hand that prefera

to have the opening lead come up to it rather than through its

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was not in, when she went there, she took the letters to the district

Police Station. When he came to see her that evening he was much annoyed upon learning where the letters had been taken.

serve, for enrolment in that body.

the

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Another Charge. Detailing the second charge

Inspector against the defendant. Shaftsin said that Iu went to an ac quaintance Lai Fook in Possession It was suggested that defendant Street on October 24, and repre- had in view the saving of the situa-sented to him that he was Number

Department at tion when he next proceeded to the One of a address at Temple Street, there saw Secretariat of Chinese Affairs and 4 woman who was not the former in charge of eight polleemen. tenant of the complainant, but was said that a vacancy had just oc- merely a relation, and dramatically curred amongst this number and accused her of sending bad charac-ggested to Lal Fook, who ters to the floor at Queen's Road looking for a job, that he should fl West. Next he ordered her to go. Lai Fook could only scrape to- to the floor at a given time, and the Rether $1.50 when told that $10 terrified woman promised to come. would be required of him, but pro-

mised to return with the balance. A Hitch.

Before this, said Inspector Shaf- She turned up. very much Intertain, he had shown a form on which than the appointed time, with the the defendant had entered his par result that she did not see the de- ticulars to a friend, who advised fendant, but.saw the complainant. him that it was not genuine. Both women discussed the case, and The case was adjourned.

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