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CONTRACT

BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

If games and slams were bid on- ly when they could be made gainst the best defence, contract would lose much of its thrill. A player who never bids more than the cards guarantee is far too

conservative, for he falls to allow for the human element. Good de- fence is difficult, and the most akilful opponents sometimes fall short of perfection.

Probably the most interesting hands in the game are those in which the declarer kas overbid slightly, and requires just a little help from his opponents to make the contract. Here we find a true battle of wits, with the opponents trying to discover the perfect de fence which will beat the contract, and the declarer doing his best to conceal it from them.

The Bidding

To-day's hand was played in a rubber game, with North and South vulnerable. East and West not vulnerable. South opened with one heart, West passed, and North bid one spade, preferring to make A one-over-one force rather than to assist the hearts immediately. East bid two diamonds, South two hearts

hearts, and North four which closed the bidding/

The Play

West opened with the eight of diamonds in response to his part- ver's bid, and East won with the king. South unhesitatingly played the ning of diamonds to the first trick. carefully concealing the three. The eight was presumably

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West's highest diamond, so the ed clarer knew that East' could im- mediately mack him (South) with the queen and nine. To play the three at this point would expose the fact that he held at least three diamonds,

East followed with the ace of diamonds, on which South played the queen and West the six, and this, gave East n difficult guess. The fall of the cards indicated that South had no more diamonds, and that West held the missing three spot, for if he held 8,6,3 orl ginally be would play them in that order. A careless East player might have led his singleton spade, hoping West would have the nee jand return the suit for a ruff.

However, a moment's thought about the bidding woukl make it clear that South minst hold the ace of spades and five practically solid hearts, for otherwise he could not have opened the bidding and then re-bid his heart auit. In that case the only trick remaining for East and West would be the king of clubs, and that would not be suf ficient to defeat the contract.

There also existed the faint por- sibility that South had false-card- ed in the diamond sult, and West's singleton heart was on honour that could over-ruff dummy. West grasped this possibility like a drowning minn at a straw, and it proved to be the actual situation. He was later able to make his king of clubs, thereby defeating the con- tract one trick.

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By FREDERICK COPE, A.M.I.E.E.

Mr. Cope's striking articles on the world economic crisis which were recently published in the Hongkong Telegraph are now available in pamphlet form.

One of the features; repaying study, is the close similarity between the plan of reform suggested by this local writer, and certain aspects of the Roosevelt recovery programme, The author's ideas are naturally far too advanced for active promotion at the present time, but they are particularly interesting in view of the fact that President Roosevelt, in striking out on a path of his own, has travelled in the same direction.

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