Judge — September 14, 1929 — page 27: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

nae @ LENZ = Mr. Lenz has held, fourteen times, the Nat pionsinps, Those tho follow tins departmi head has sa ever known, Mr. Lenz will welcome corresp nce from Judge readers and will give adi ional and International Bridge and Whist Cham Judge will understand why Wilbur C. White “Sidney Lenz is undoubtedly the most remarkable card player the world has ¢ and answer ei questions related to Auction and Contract provided correspondents send stamped addressed cavelopes for reply. The last of the twelve problems in the $14,000 Prize Bridge Con- test appeared in the September 7th issue of Junce. Contestants who have missed one or more of these problems may obtain back copies of Judge and send in their solutions so that they are received not later than September 30th. All solutions received up to that date will be given equal credit. Priority is not a factor in this contest. It gives pleasure to note that the most delicate situ- ations in extremely difficult hands are perfectly diagnosed by bridge-players in remote com- munities. This shows that the standard of play in large cities is very little, if any, above that in small centres. All ts of the globe are well represented. Solutions have come in from Great Britain and France, Hawaii and Alaska, Vir- gin Islands and Philippine Islands, South America, India and China, While each problem has been correctly bid by many solvers, very few contestants suceced in aking the hurdles on all prob- lems. So an aggregate score of somewhat under par will doubt- less ride off in our de luxe Ruxton. On October 19th Jupce will contain the solutions of Problems One and Two and each succeed- ing issue will have two more solu- tions until the series is completed. In every instance, where a close point is involved, I will explain in detail the reasons why I prefer making the selected bid, in pref- rence to one that may seem equally efficacious. The system employed in grad- ing the solutions is quite simple and unique. Every bid or pass that agrees with my deposited, sealed solu- tion will receive credit for one point. Immediately a player de- viates from the prescribed bid, his point scoring on that specific hand will cease. Thus, it will be seen, a per- fect solver might register on each problem, as little as four points, or as many—well, let us say, a good many more than four. Of course, the first bid in the hand is by far the most important because if a player comes a crop- per at the start, he n score nothing on that deal, For this reason, I have endeavored to make the opening bids clear and defined, in accordance with my published works. The contest conditions permit a contestant to send in three solu- tions to each problem. When ad- vantage is taken of this right, the the average score for the solu- tions submitted is credited. This apparently is a bit puzzling to some players, judging from the inquiries received ask- ing for an interpre of this rule. Let us problem has fourteen points—a sort of Woodrow Wilson. The solver sends in three solutions, one perfect, one swerves at the ninth bid and one gocs wrong at the fifth bid. He scores fourteen, eight and four points, which is totalled, divided by three and the net result is 8 2/3 points. If the player had been content to stop y the first solution he would have scored fourteen points, but if the perfect solution was the third chance—well, it seems to work both ways, does it not? It is curious how some folks will spend hours in working on a problem and neglect to devote five minutes to reading the conditions. Contestants were requested not to give the play of the hands. One carnest worker sent in three solu- tions to one problem, gave the play in detail at each bid, and each solution started with the wrong bid and ended—not so good! Some day I will ask George Jean Nathan or Pare Lorentz to judge the play. 25 you may win The Ruxton . . . America’s first front-wheel-drive Motor Car... priced at above $4,000.00 or may take the Frank Tourist Company Eighth = Annual Mediterranean Cruise de Luxe, leaving New York on January 28th, for sixty-seven days or A sixteen-day Cunard West Indies Cruise or Two readers of Jupce may enjoy a round-trip flight from New York to Boston by Colonial Air Transport —and on any of these trips carry with you a fine Reve- lation Suitcase. or Maybe you would like a Graybar Radio Set, with tubes. Value $405.00 or One Hundred Benson & Hedges La Yerba No. 1 Cigars or Boxes of twelve Dunlop im- ported “Black” Golf Balls or A Community Plate Tea Ser- vice or A case of College Inn Tomato Juice Cocktail or An Invincible Steel Office Cabinet containing a Con- cealed Safe for Executive's private use. All of these and 500 more prizes will be awarded in