Judge — May 3, 1930 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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HOW GwD I SO | GAME i SIDNEY @ LENZ = ional card pla Mr. Lenz will from Jud, related to Auction and Contract pro rew hundred y of reading was con what of an accomplishment. the deaf are able to read a sp lips, the blind read with their fingers and even Bridge pla are making d progress in card-reading. I have ceived many queries asking how to go about learning card-reading. ‘The only method of acquiring proficiency that occurs to me is to apply common sense to the fall of the cards. Let us assume that you are play- ing a deal at No. Trumps and thi opening lead is the two of Hearts. You win the trick and, finding it difficult to get into your dummy to take a finesse, you lead the Ace of Clubs from the Ac aie ack and three low cards. The rat your left plays the King. x ow your right- hand adver who has played but one card so nd flatters himself that he holds his cards close to his chest, is marked with holding origi nally exactly one Spade, four Hearts, five Diamonds and three Clubs. It’s really quite simple. The leader has led a two, the fourth best of his longest suit. As there is nothing lower, the suit consists of four cards. The fall of the King of Clubs under the Ace precludes any more of that suit. If either of the remaining suits had been of greater length than four cards, it would have been led instead of the opening lead. Hence the leader held three suits of four cards ton, which, when added to the cards in dummy and decla hand, show the number of cards in cach suit held by the leader's partner. And that's card-reading ! The quick-witted student who can apply the information obtained at the carliest possible moment is the one who generally scores games on elit nation and squeeze plays that elude the players who admit their ability to play Aces and Kings as well as any- body. A tournament game at the Contract Bridge Club of New York produced a neat deal, where card-reading was a bit helpfal. : any kind dered some- Now ers a known t's own WR PRIDGLE 4 corresponde d International Bri © advice and answer qu addressed envelopes for reply. The Bidding WE: NORTH EF SOUTH T 1NoTrump| Pass o Trump] Pass Pass Pass ss South's rebid was as sound as using a driver in a sand-trap, but sometimes | the end justifies the means. The Queen of Clubs was opened and won with the King. A low Heart was taken by the Ace and the return won by East, who led the King of Diamonds. South held off, West dis- carded the nine of Spades and South started counting. The opening lea of the Queen showed the Queen, J nine, t's six marked the le ader with the four, three and two, so he had a six-eard suit. Being void of Diamonds, he must necessarily have | seven cards in the major suits. If he | holds the King of Spad id the re maining two Hearts, the squeeze will be effective—with East's kind assist- ance. East could not sce anything | better than winning tricks with his big Diamond suit, so continued on with | the Queen, Jack and nine. The Ace won the ate trick and West had | left the two Spades and Hearts and three Clubs. North still grimly held on to the three Clubs and West found it impossible to guard three suits. If East had led a Spade after winning the third Diamond, South would have won with the Ace and the lead of the Ace of Diamonds would have pro- | up in a burlap bi | splints. duced the same result. 26 ; The Annual Meeting of Racketeers (Continued from page 5) and said: “I'll take of aspirin tablets in Cl of you gentlemen object.” “TE object,” “Sneaky” Bolton, alias Porter Richardson, alias The Moose. “Objection overruled !" Carpony, the The Moose pipe. Mr. the hijacking and if none said George replied Al gang | on the I sidney“ Buckle ished sawing off a shotgun “TL believe Tl add to my m ties this year and, besides my cus- tomary shake-down on children’s doll carri I think I'll smuggle in Chi- fiewe. My asscclation will see to it that every Chinaman gets safely tied After I get my I'm no longer responsible. Those are still alive when th will be forced to open dries, and when business is boomi men will visit c +k his week's wash, tie him up fresh burlap bag and hold him for ransom. If that isn’t a legitimate ket, TI steal each one of you a Pug-nose” fin- fee, who across each arm of the law cot, lighting eth. asked Cc match with his t The gang leader said: “I’ve at- ranged with the Mayor to have it fractured above the elbow and put in Our Mayor, unfortunately, couldn't attend to i H busy working his needle-beer_privi- lege on the t Side. Our Chief of Police put his name in for the fake label concession in the Tenderloin, I don’t know whether to let him have that, or whether it wouldn't be more business-like to drop him off the Peace Bridge with bricks in his pocket.” “It's office,” his “Let in the mar, driving ane of glass. for ‘a ride’ getting stuffy here said Capt. De I fist through take someboc | the air will do us good.” The gang leader said: “All right, fellows, but it’s pretty chilly out. I think I'll wear my heavy machine-gun and muffler.” The four business executives pulled their velour hats down over their ey blew out the candle—and the meeting adjourned. —Jacx Ciruetr The only mystery about a detective story we read recently was that some- adn’t shot the author. —Tue Paturinper Anyway, the London parley seems to have had the longest run of any flop on record. Y. Evenina Post comicbooks.com