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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY '11,

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CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

Until recently practically all, of the good bridge players you heard of were from New

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ar Cleveland, but to-day you find good contract players wherever you go. There is a young fellow down in Atlanta, Ga., by the nume of Ed Nix who has inde a good! record for himself at the Atlanta We can Bridge Club there, and expect to hear a great dent about him in the future.

He brought to my attention the and following interesting hand, remarked, "Here is a hand where you make a losing card work for you."

The Bidding

South bid one heart, West dou- bled, North bid two hearts, East passed, and South went to four hearts. West did not make the mistake of doubling and thereby disclosing where all of the high cards were located.

The Play

West opened the king of din- monds, followed by the queen of diamonds and then the ace, which;

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South trumpet with the six of hearts.

Three rounds of trump were

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which picked up East's trump. West signaled in spades, thereby loent- ing the king of spades for Mr. Nix, the declarer.

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careful not to discard his amalihim in with a club and make him; Mr. Nix had a losing diamond had the nine, and discarded club, bat to play his jack of clubs, lead the good spade so was pre- in the dummy and a losing club attempting to unblock the hand paring to unblock. However, Mr. in his hand. Also, if he takes the his so that he could not be thrown Nix defeated this play by cashing spade finesse, that will lose. Here in the lead.

his nee of clubs and then leading is where he decided to put Mr. Nix had the West hand the deuce of clubs. When West losing cards to work for him.

He led the eight of diamonds counted perfectly and West real-played the queen, dummy's king

from dummy, knowing that West ized that he would try to throw won the trick.

his

losing club. This forced West to win the trick with the nine and Nix's ace and queen of spades. he was forced to lead into Mr. By making his losing cards work for him, Mr. Nix made his contract of four odd.

REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

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