Judge — February 16, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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1840. EICHTY-NINE-YEARS -OF SERVICE: 1929 Cunard... The Shortest Bridge To Europe Travelling Cunard almost brings European Winter Resorts as close as Palm Beach and Sarasota... The fastest way over... the accepted crossing for season-followers who rely on Cunard speed... for those to whom February means the Cote d’ Azur and March the Grand Nat leave New York on Friday because their hotel rooms are booked for Nice or Liverpool, for Aintree, in a week's time... nal... who must Cunard crossings are in the blood of in- veteratetravellers .. inherited from g eration to generation . . . These people consider travel values before every- thing ... speed ... perfect service... express regularity... For these reasons, in season and out, the Cunard trad. persists ... It literally bridges the Adantic ... TO FRANCE AND ENGLAND Aquitania March 1 March 22 Berengaria *March 8 March 29 Special Grand National Sailing CUNARD LINE See Your Local Agent CUNARD TO HAVANA EVERY SATURDAY S.S. CAMONIA. LARGEST AND FINEST LINER TO HAVANA ond Ii pues are a number of re- curring situations at the Bridge table that continually lose close games for players who are quite willing to admit that they play a good average game. These “averagers” are keen in remember the high cards that have been played, take the usual finesses, and occasionally even distinguish themselves with a squeeze-play or a grand-coup. But, like a leaking fountain pen, th re bad holders! And that over-worked plaint covers more Bridge sins than all the charity in the world. Only last night I listened to one of these self-confessed martyrs rail at his luck because every card lay just right for the adversary, whose bid of six No Trumps had been doubled and re- doubled. It was the rubber game at Contract and the difference be- tween defeating the bid and mak- ing it was a mere detail of 2480 ints. The play was cut and dried ex- cept on one suit, which was dis- tributed thusly: Q56 South was the D at the proper time led the Queen of Hearts, which East covered. South won and then craftily finessed the nine of Hearts on the return, gobbling up the enti suit. Of course, East, the mar- tyred one, had ready the old platitude, “Had to cover an honor with an honor.” I am not prepared to admit any such arbitrary rule or convention of play, although as a general thing, the cover is more apt to win a trick than to lose one. There is, ¢ 28 for Lenz solution to Problem Thirty-four Bridge tof Judge wel ey Lenz is un a8 ever known however, one rule in reference to covering honors that is based on sound principles. When the suit led is exposed in| Dummy and contains two equal honors, Second Hand should not cover until the second honor is led, if it is thought advisable to cover at all. The cover once will not complish anything that the second round cover cannot do, and it very often can and does save con- siderable. How often have you scen a player cover an honor with a King, only to have tie partner's singleton take the trick? In this instance, however, the refusal to cover on the first round would have won a trick in the suit against any method of play. If the Jack were led at the second round, st must cover. A low lead would permit the partner's ten to win, unless South went up Ace. As the adversaries ady won one trick, it will be secn that proper procedure would have gone a great’ way towards combating the evil of every card being rightly placed for the enemy. I wonder if able to ny Jupar reader wa ather in as few as two tricks on the deal published last week that contained eleven of the twenty honors? The De: clarant undoubtedly had very bad luck in the play, but it seems to me that after his partner had shown two suits, the deal should have been played at Spades. comicbooks.com