Judge — March 21, 1931 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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HOW Gwd \e GAME PRI poe contestants, to- gether with a partial list of winners additional major prizes the Auction Bri Contest, will be found in this issue of Junge. The first six prizes range in value from .000.00. ns embra the fine points in bidding, le playing that arise in practically A few of the de were so close that some of the con- testants seemed to Is t the so- : least as good as my published answers. sibly they were right, but by a strange coincidence most of the dissenters who went to the trouble of writing to me flopped deplorably on problem num- her twelve. On that problem no ques- tion of judgment was involved. An incorrect opening lead or wrong discard at the first trick pr saged certain ¢ t. ch problem, with the exception of the last one, was correctly solved by thousands of con- testants, although no one succeeded in doing all of them correctly. On prob Jem number twelve less than two per cent of the answers were correct. That such a surprisingly large number of bridge players sent in perfect solu- tions to most of the problems proved hese twelve 1 most of Pos- that the average play is very high, In most instances where t procedure was not in accord with my answers, it was nevertheless what I might term a ood second choice. (And only last week, when a player asked me if his opening lead was correct, I was forced to reply that it would have been my thirteenth choice.) Quite a large number of solvers cluding some well-known experts, claimed that problem twelve could be done with either of two opening leads. They were wrong! And I might state right here, for future reference, that any playing problem, whether it be bridge or chess, is not considered first class, if it can be solved with more Championships. aid: "Sidney questions play. Such “duals” ire too plebeian for rank- ing players. od mm give any d rect opening lead of the Club in the final problem. The North player was void of Clubs and had a c three suits to discard from. ral inference that any discard would do, when, as a matter of the problem was doomed to defeat un- less the Heart) discard imade. Yhere playe »peared to succeed in fulfilling the conditions with incorrect play, it should be apparent that they did not employ perfect defense by the Fast and West hands. In last wee published solution I showed the ma defenses that would defeat certain plays, but it would have been impos- sible to cover every possible variatio Players who still feel that they h: discovered a method of solving this problem, by play other than my pub- lished solution, will save thei trouble and confusion by having the best player they know defend the hand against their 4 A number of cont: ate the pretty variation low Heart by trick and the y contestants omitted to was was mselve: tants failed to of the lead East the third subsequent discard of the Queen, On this play de dis- card by North was disastrous. Mg of the experts did not think it necessary to have South discard the h Diamond at the second. trick. They rectified this error by making the opposition take three rounds of Hearts and on the third Heart trick the ten of Diamonds was given up. Of course, perfect defense would not permit West to cash in the third Heart at this point and the North- South combination were out of luck. A number of other neat situations cropped up, where the taking of the third Heart trick had to be deferred, or incorrect play would have been suc- cessful in solving the problem. 24 | virility | they to Judging the Books (Continued from page 1) drips. For instance, Fowler has a seen: of the death of the pri hter, who has gone blind, In the awesomeness of the passing of the mighty | loka someone whispers bs “Hush! He's gone ups that we don't object to Winnie-th: Pooh, but we hate worse to have dweat big he-men hiding behind his li'l pan ties and making faces at life. In other words, this hardness of the reporter is really It is defense-mechanism wearing a phoney crop of hair-on-the-chest bespeaking 9 that isn’t there. It is using terrible oaths to cover up a lot of near-beer whimpering. It is talking a lot about “guts”; it is saying to th: self. “My. how bitter life is and how weakness. | hard I'm fighting it.” Hr Peoresson Jastes ‘Taennen, who recently helped blow up sex with a more or less loud thud in a Freudian kid-book, ther book labeled humor. ‘The Owl in the Attic.” aside the introduction, pally a pyychiatrick or two, it gor into whimsey, thick and has daringly put It is Toss which as cold pea soup Dealing with the insutticiencies of a Mr. Mon: and a nonentity, it re peats variations on this weak: several vignette lengths. as delicious. culin married s for Relievingly it goes into a burlesque on newspaper Pet Departments. This. is really funny—that is down to the The third scetion of the book is just so much whoosh, Averaging the of it all, we get—figure it out yourself. answers. humor ous value noire Lapy” is the work of John Monk Saunders, who has been eful to make this novel of the s in Paris entirely different Sun Also Rise In the y book all the gay young to Spain; in “Single Lady Porte Hemingwe heroine was a loose lady; Saunders a virgin. Hew drink for fun; $ have Hemingway, on his dedi catory page, from Gertrud: Stein “In a Conversation”; Saunders quotes from his own h Conversation.” Saunders has taken cally all of Hemingw. construction and changed everybod: so that nobody can pos: of it. Many people objected to “Th: Sun Also Rises” on the grounds that its characters were too trivial for the high purposes of Art; Mr. Saunders’ brain children are so colossal in their poverty of purpose, however, that th: Hemingway book looks Tolstoyan be side it, —Tep Suanr from * Hem people xway's young peopl vunders” use they ties. quotes ‘0, also “In a over comicbooks.com