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CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

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How to Win

•By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

Valuable Convention -

WHERE.18 one conventional bid that, trump as an ald, South would have is not generally known and yet to be satisfied with either doubling which is extremely valuable,

defeating them es-the opponents and

and good, but he might just as well guess to bid five clubs or five dia- monds, and North would then be unable to correct the

pecially against opponents who in-one measly triekt, or making a pure

I refer "stab" at a suit bid of his own. dulge in shut-out bidding. to the four notrump overall, which he happened to hit hearts, all well is just another form of takeout dou-. ble. In the following den! South used this convention correctly, and it was only North's stubborn refusal to cooperate that spolled the result.

Match-point duplicate. West dealer.

North-South vulnerable.

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K 109 4

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0852

994

KQJ10

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J 10 6 6 3

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VAQJO

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The bidding:

West North East

Pass

South Pass Разв ANT Pane Pass

North, Junexperienced player knew very well what South's four notrump bid demanded but, with spade stopper of his own, and a king and queen on the side, he arbitrarily decided that notrump would be na good as any other contract. He was soon to regret this autocratie deel- slon. Not that the contract was not made it was. But North-South still came out with a bottom score, be- cause every other team in the room played the hand in hearts and made six-odd.

South's bid had been conventional and forcing. The four notrump overall is a valuable bidding device invented for just such hands as South held. Very often, when a player has great strength in three sults, the bid- ding will be opened pre-emptively against him, and it then is his task to find his own best contract within the limited bidding space left him. Without the conventional four no.

contract. The four notrump overcall solves this dilemma. Il says to partner: "I have tremendous strength outside the opponenta sult, and merely want to know

sult you can support.

Please advi

The mere fact that the responder holds a stopper in the opponents' sult is not sufficient reason for fail- ing to follow orders. In this case North should have jumped at the chance to bid five hearts-Indeed, six hearts would not have been any great stretch on North's honour hold-

Even ing.

five

heart

coniraci, however, would have been superior to the four notrump, and only a small

amount of care would have been re- quired to fulfill a siam contract.

The spade ace would win the first trick and declarer should immedi- ately ruff a spade, cash the heart nce, then overtake the heart queen. He' should ruff the lost spade with his own last trump, dummy with the club queen, draw then re-enter trumps with the 10 and 0, discard- ing his own low diamonds and, final- ly, concede a

a club.

To-morrow's Hand South dealer. Match-point duplicate." North-South vulnerable.

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Q8782

109043

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84 1096

J052

N WE S

AAJ 1075

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September 10, 1941.

By Walt Disney

JIFFY

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We're All Wrong

WHAT

About

By Mrs Fred Maturin

(the traveller and travel writer)

HAT is all this fuss about food? This argument, for example, about whether food-ships shall be allowed into "starving" France?

It is, I know, extremely hard to starve, even if you want to.

In fact, the war will teach the valuable lesson that the great majority of people have always eaten double-even treble--the quantity of food neces- sary for health,

Thousands of deaths occur yearly from over-eating, but very few from under-eating.

The African native keeps well and performs strenuous work on two small meals of grain a day. Often the grain is uncooked though mixed with water.

It is only when a shooting- party comes along and 'em- ploys natives us servants and carriers, giving them double the food they ever had before, that they lose their health.

My own treks in Afrien _were_an__education on this point. At first, we began by over-feeding our retinue as well as ourselves.

We were used to it, like most Europeans. With us, ill-effects would begin only after middle-age.

A Sudden Change

But the servants and car- riers changed suddenly. They had all sorts of pains-bolls, sore throats, eyes, ears, noses and feet. They lost their spirits and became slack.

Settlers had warned us but we had to find out for our selves....

It's queer how long it takes to learn some great truth in life. Some big shape-up is I got it usually necessary. on a trek from Nairobi into Abyssinia.

Near the border the party split up temporarily.

The Dutch driver, three of our friends and most of the natives were going with the wagon, along the Old Slave Roud..

My husband, myself, two friends and three native ser- vants were taking a short cut across rough-ground and vir- gin. forest..

The two groups were to meet that evening at any easy landmark. We arrived there-but the others didn't.

Almost Foodless

As it later transpired, they had lost themselves In A waterless desert, and several of the oxen had strayed off; making movement difficult.

Now the wagon had all our. stores and food. Without it, in the wildest of wilds, wo 3 woro in serious" trouble.

We were hungry, cross, worried. But at least thero was a river nearby, We drank. heartily and felt better.

Food

That was the beginning of fourteen days with practic- ally no food at all.

My husband had a rifle, but only

one round of ammuni- tion. The first morning he tried to kill a reed-buck with it, but missed.

"How long can people go without food?" he asked me.

"A long time, with water, I've been told," I said. "Per- haps we'll see."

Then we had

a piece of luck. The native cook who was with us produced a small bag of self-raising flour, a half-packet of table salt, and a few onions. He had been carrying them as a little' standby for himself.

Food Truths

We decided to turn this small hoard into rations for two weeks. One teaspoonful of flour each per day, with half a small onion for dessert.,

The flour was made into tiny flat cakes mixed with water and cooked over a wood fire,

For the first three days we felt very hungry indeed. But not ill.

After that, food didn't seem to matter much, so long as we drank plenty of water.

All the time we worked hard in various ways and without feeling any weak-

ness.

We made a bridge over the river. We made a hut of tree branches.

On the morning of the fif- teenth day, a scout from our party found us.

He brought food-a cooked ham and four empty water- bugs with a pitcous note ask- ing for water.

Although they hud a large store of food, their water had given out after a few days- and within a week, through thirst, they were all too ill to

move.

When we met them, they looked like shipwrecked mar- iners, while we had not felt so fit for years.

Even Doctors

That experience helped to teach me that we are all wrong about food in the "civi- lised" parts of the world.

Only a few doctors under- stand the truth. One of them wrote thus to the Press some time ago:-

"I have a fine practice and many patients, most of whom are within four days of per- fect health if they would, do as I tell them.

"I have vainly assured them that they will not drop down dead if they will do a three

or four-day fast, but will emerge cured of their all- ments, and that if, after that. they will cut down their food to half they won't want me again.

Will they do it? Not a bit of it!

"They much prefer medi- cines, poultices, aches and pains, and even death.

"And so, my conscience be- ing clear, I continue to build up a fine practico.”

'Strongest Man In The World'

Killed By Cannon

Mr Warren Lincoln Trovia wos

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feet 8. He welghed 120 pounds and he was a very strong man-much stronger he boasted, than Eugene Sandow or Louls Cyr or Arthur Saxon. He once held in eleck wo teams of brewery horses struggling off in either direction. He won the "Police Gazette" diamond belt in 1918 for feats of muscle. He W28 physical instructor to the Police De- partment under Theodore Roosevelt.

Back in the days of the John L. Robinsan circus, Mr Warren

Travis put his back to ac

bearing an upright piano and two horses, He lifted them air the ground. Thus he went through the

admitting years, never

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soon after Mr Warren Lincoln Travis had just played to the last 10-cent audience. He lifted a can- non that weighed 1,000 pounds and then sat down to rest. He never got man in up again. The "strongest the world" had 'died, 68,

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"Tin Hat Day”

At a meeting of the Ladies' Com- mittee orgonising the "Tin Int Day." in ald of the Bomber Fund, presided over by Lady MacGregor yesterday, it was decided to invite those who wished to make advanco contributions, to send their cheques either to the President, Lady Mac-

or, "Tandaragee,"

Gregor,

372 The Peak;

or to the Honorary Secretory, Miss S. Bander, Morning Post Building.

It was also decided that the em- blems, in the form of "in hats will not be on sale until the morning of October 4.

The following members of the committee were present, Mrs A. N. Braude, Mrs A. Hyde-Lay, Mrs II. F. Phillips, Mrs E. C. Ritchie. Mrs J. A. Ritchie, Mrs H. A. Taylor, and Miss S. Bander, (Hon. Secretary).

U.S. NEW ENVOY

TO THAILAND

SINGAPORE, Sept. 9 (Reuler),—— The new American Minister to Thal- land, Mr Willis R. Peos, arrived in the same clipper here to-day as Mr A. Duff Cooper, the British Minister. Mr Peck and Mr Duff Cooper travelled all the way from the United States together and took the oppor- tunity to have a number of frank talks which both state will probably he very useful in future.

Enemy Railways Hard Hit

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Sept. ↑ (UP)—The Air Ministry announced to-day that great destruction was caused last night when the Kassel railway shed was guited and a foctory building” set afire. The attack was short and sud- den as well as heavy and many great fires were started. The bombers at tacked from as low as 400 feet,"

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