Judge — September 21, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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HOW WOULD you like to win The Ruxton . . . America’s first front-wheel drive Motor Car... priced at above $4,000? or Maybe you would like to take the Frank Tourist Co) pany Eighth Annual Medi- terranean Cruis de Luxe, New York on Janu- ary 28th, for sixty-seven days leay or A sixteen-day Cunard West Indies Cruise or Win a Royal Portable Type- writer or A Terri Lucerne Style Van- ity Case or A Benson & Hedges Humi- dor with capacity for 800 Cigars or An Invincible Steel Office Cabinet containing a Con- cealed Safe for Executive's private use or A box of twelve Dunlop im- ported “Black” Golf Balls or A box of twelve packs Con- gress Playing Cards or A Clark Lighter Set. All of these and 500 more prizes will be awarded in the LENZ BRIDGE CONTEST Mt HOW GwD Ie PRIDGL SIDNEY Q@ LENZ = Mr. Lenz has held, fourteen times, the National and International Bridge end Whist Cham fionships. T head has sa ever known M will welcome @ s related to Auc! « es for reply. Solutions to the Bridge Contest are coming in thick and fast. And by “thick” I disclaim all in- nuendo or double meaning. As an actual fact the percent- age of correct answers will sur- pass the estimated figure by a considerable number of points. It is almost incomprehensible that such a large number of con- testants persist in completely ignoring the rules of the contest. Whether they fail to read the conditions or, having read cannot grasp their importance, is hard to state, but surcly the value of the prizes in this contest should make it worth while to preclude the possibility of losing points th.ough clessness. It may seem merely a meticu- lous detail to ask that the number of the problem be clearly written or printed on each sheet. Solu- tions are sent in without this iden- tifying number. ig As answers come in daily to all problems, the only way ‘an un- marked solution might be identi- fiable would be to compare it with all the problems and fit it in where it appeared to belong—al- ways provided that it had some distinguishable feature. So, dear careless contestant, I am all in favor of a round of golf and you take a nice fat goose-egg. Next in the line of foozlers is the solver who answers half a dozen different problems on the same sheet, notwithstanding my ing plea—don't do it! “Solutions to more than one problem must not be submitted on the same sheet.” Each problem is a separate entity and the solutions are tabu- ondence from Judge reade nd Costract provided correspondents send stamped addressed se tho follow this department of Judge will understand why Wilbur C. White- Sidmey Lenz is undoubtedly the most remarkable card player the world has will deice ond answer lated and filed and put to rest, under a specific number. Of course, I could copy the five problems that do not belong, on five separate sheets, but I am sure that the contestants who comply with all the conditions will join with me in a mild protest against permitting Miss De Mean to ride in a Ruxton, or to listen in on a Graybar Radio Set—with tubes. Should it so happen that a potential winner is demoted for some such irregularity and is awarded a Lenz-Rendel book properly autographed—in licu of a round-trip to Europe on the S. S. Berengaria, I may expect to have the book flung at my devoted head. Which reminds me. The chair- man of the house committce of a prominent metropolitan club was shed by a much agitated nd asked for advice. was pathetic: sing a rubber of Bridge with Colonel Hotspur as my partner and I suppose I did make a few little mistakes. The Colonel seemed very much irri- tated and when I trumped. his King—I really didn’t remember that the Ace had been played—he got up and threw the cards in my face. Now, anything in reason I would not yplain of, but that was altogether too much to stand for. What would you advise me to do?” The gentleman appealed to pondered a moment, and doubt- less having in mind the terrible game of Bridge that the aggrieved one was capable of, replied: “My good friend,” he said with deep feeling, “I would advise you to go on your knees and thank the Lord that you were not playing horseshoes. Ww