1941-08-30 — Page 13

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 30, 1941,

CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

AND

How to Win

"By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-

Shrewd Throw-in Play

West could

WEEK-END WIT

TELLS ALLI -

The only thing worse than a man who knows it all is a woman who hears it all!

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PROBABLY SO

"YOU ilased me three times lást

out with another girland kissed her I don't know how many times)”.

"Oh, well, she doesn't count, any way,"

HAND played in a recent par clubs. But his security was short-night, and now I hear that you went championship gave many of the lived. Declarer laid down the du competing masters a chance to show mond queen and it was all over. their akili in preserving and grouping

cash his heart queen, every possible opportunity.

but after that could not exit without giving declarer a discard in one hand and a ruff in the other, which, of course, obylated

the necessity for conceding a spade trick.

South dealer.

Both sides vulnerablo.

A 100

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43

♣ GT

K 84

VR002 076

K072

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WE S

QJ732 ♡ J7 OJ 102

183

A 1084...

AQ 104

ABG

O QB

The bidding at most tables was: South Wcat North

East

2

Paas

2♡ 4V

PASK

PDAN

Рава J'ARA

Pain

A

This hand might be used as model for pinyers who want to brush up on their strip-and-throw-in 'ploys. It will be noted that a completo strip was not passible. If West, for exam- ple, had held three spades instead of two, or if East had been the defender will the three trumps, no method

of play could have fulfilled the con tract. This does not mean, however, that the declarer was extraordinatily lucky. His one hope, after falling to drop the queen and Jack of henorte in iwo lends, was to avoid the loss of a spade trick, and the only chance for this was to find a lay of cards pre- eisely like that actually existing.

and had

West opened the diamond king and, If declarer had gone on the DS- on receiving the deuce from East, sumption that "there was no place shifted to the spade ten. Whether to put the losing spado" this was won In dummy;or in the falled to strip two rounds of spades closed hund was immaterial. De- from the North-South hands, West, clarer then drew two rounds of hearts on taking the lead with either the and carefully cashed the other spade high heart or diamond, would have honaur before running clubs. West had his second spate as an exit card. hung on to his high heart, choosing The essence of good play is to take to discard diamonds on he last two advantage of favourable breaks.

BOOK OF THE WEEK

Mr Ingersoll confesses that ho

REPORT ON ENGLAND BY Ralph Ingersoll. John Lane. 78. experienced fear when he had 6d.

his baptism of bombing. He is Mr. Ingersoll's "Report on not singular in that, for most of England" is an eloquent as it is us have experienced it. But businesslike. It gives the con- he is interested in fear because clusions which a trained obser- "that is the principal tool with ver came to after a painstaking which Adolf Hitler has inquiry into the effects of quered-so much of the world." Gooring's first mass assaults He adds this:-

con-

and into the war-time organisa- "It's the Britisher's ability to tion and spirit of our people, cope with it and to survive_it Mr Ingersoll, the editor of the and to learn that it's a headache New York evening newspaper and not a fatal disease that's an "P.M.,"

rightly rejected any important part of my confidence sort of official patronage or that the British will withstand guidance. He went where and survive Adolf Hitler, and ho pleased and saw what there's absolutely no question he wanted. He wished his that they survived the terrific inquiry to be, as in fact it dose he gave them in September was unfettered. Because of and are flourishing under the that his testimony is first class; dilute solution which seems all and although many others both he is currently able to adminis- before and since. Mr Ingersoll ter now." wrote his record have praised The part of the R.A.F. in de- the fortitude of our people under feating the Luftwaffe's fierce bombing, not to acknowledge assault last autumn is described the warmth and sincerity of his in words worthy of the hero e own homago. would be un- theme. Americans have sent gracious and ungrateful. What us

things. Generous he writes about our fire, A.R.P., words are not the least of them, and other services. will be en- and of these Mr Ingersoll's own dorned by all who have seen deserve to be remembered and them in action.

MOTORISTS

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treasured.

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ECONOMISING

MISTRESS..."İ" forgot · put a stamp on the letter, Ann: I hope you didn't post it without."

Ann-"Yes, I did, ma'am. thought you were economising.”

WHAT A SET! 'Two commercial travellers were swopping tall wireless stories at the bar in the presence of an old country. man, whom they were trying to im- press..

You got a wireless set?" asked one of the travellers.

"Yes, sorr," said the countryman. "I got a very good ano,"

"Does it have good selectivity?" arked the traveller, with, a know- ing wink at bla companloit.

FIGURE OF SPEECHI

LAWYER—“You could get only two years in gaoi at the outside,"

Client"Yes, but the two years at the outsido will be on the inside.”

GENIUS To-day's idea of a manufacturing "Well, yes," said the old fellow, genius is one who makes a comma- "ll lins. The other night I was Hs- dity just strong enough to hold to- tening to a quartette, and I didn't -gether until the Inst instalment is like the tenor, so I just turned him

pald...

out and listened to the other three."

"Wilfred, we must stop seemg each other."

OUT DRIVING

HE pulled up carefully. "What's the matter, dear?"

map

road."

BLISTERS

There is a good deal of talk about the differences between the old style

basic diffrence seems

to be plain

"A puncture, my love," hissed h. army and the new style, but the "I'm not surprised," said she. "The

shows there's a fork in this chough: The boys who bump along In the tanks and trucks of the new army get the same number of blisters as the hiking infantrymen of the old. urmy did, but in a different place.

HOT STUFF

the soldiers have mustered on the Brunetic: "The papers say that frontier."

Blonde: "They were certainly hot stuff when I met them in the coun-

try."

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The trouble with most women is what you do when you're with most women!

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1. If you were served a steak that was coriaceous, could you eat it?

2. To which countries would you go to 500 (a) Matterhorn (b) Mammoth Cave (c) Fujiyama?

3. What season starts with the

vernal equinox?

4. For what class of boxers is

thera-no weight-limit?..

5. What was Barnacle Bill's

profession?

6. If suicide is murder of one:

self, what is uxorcide? 7, Pupil

is to teacher 35 neophyte is to?

8. What do the stars and stripes of the American flag repre- sent?

9. If you were suffering from convergent strabismus, would you have (a) round shoulders (b) crossed eyes (c) a swelled head?

10. What percentage of your weight is your blood?

Answers on Page 12.

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For different effects, try different viewpoints. Hare a low camera posl- tion eliminated distracting objects in the background to macentuate the subjects."

MANY things so into the making Anglo shots often result in dra

Lot an apponiing pléturo- and matte pleturos and they attract at- not the least important ́is point |ination because of their unusual- `ot viow, “You can' simplify back-ness, Tho illustration above, for ex- groundé, oliminate, undesirable parts amplo, was made with the camera of a scene, control' arrangemast—at a low level, and pofated "up. -ali by moving left or right, forward | wards. With the sky sorving BS'O or backward, or pointlug the cam-plal background, made poisililo by era up down.

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Astraight-og front view of atores, try shooting the same subject person" is all right at times. A froni sovoral different #lowpotuts, diagunal, quartor vlow, or a sido. Then compare the pictures, You'll vlow, however, whil usually yield a readily son, how a careful choice of more-appoallas picture. Of course | rfewpoint yields more appealing it thore le rent resson for taking | pictures. La front slow, by all means take it.

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