Judge — March 28, 1931 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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fourteen times National s department of Judge till the most remarkable card pla Q number of contestants in the ,000.00 Auction Bridge Contest written to me asking shich of the twelve problems was th most difficult. pparently simple question is practi- cally unanswerable, Many of the leading prize-winners failed ingloriously on problem number . Wherein a situation was portrayed that rather common occurrence and usually means the difference be- and losing a rubber. On problem number twelve, the considered by far the most intr less t two per cent of the solutions were correct, but nevertheless a num- her of non-prize-winners sent in per- fect solutions to this puzzler. Mr. A. E. Sperber, the winner of the Grand Prize, started out rather hadly but came within a few points of waking a perfect score on the last six problems. On numbers seven, eight, and ten, the difficult reconstru tion hands, he was one of the very fe contestants that succeeded in finding perfect solutions and scoring one hun vite have Curiously « five is a me tween winning nine dred per cent. Mrs. Sue White, the Peerless lady winner—or should I say the winner of the r—had a bal- anced score. scored perfectly on three of the reconstruction hands, but was just a bit off the line on the fourth, The third-prize winner, Mr. Wright, Jr., was never far out of the with any of his solutions. On number four he called off correctly the twenty-one bids exactly as if he had seen me bid the hands. Mr. St. J. A. Lawton was off his stride—or mine—on the bidding deals. But he certainly brilliantly iter the bidding was over with. Mr. Lawton, on the last eight problems, was almost perfect. Mr, Francis R. Stark, who landed in fifth place, started off at an unbeat- able y He actually turned in per- fect scores for the first six problems! The four bidding deals, with a total of fifty-six declarations, did not ap- Peerless. ¢ nicely shone ace. Newry and International Bridge and Whist Championships. derstand why Walbur C, ad has said: “Sidney er the world has ever known.” He did solutions on one © Mr. Stark a bit. from pear to fea not single vary bid. The sixth-prize winner, Mr. Robert K. Clifton, had perfect scores on prob- lems ; nine, ten and twelve. Just one of the earlier problems with a slight difference in treatment was d to put Mr. Clifton in’ first as it would have done for the my Howeve gnitude, in a tournament of this with thousands of good < participating from all parts of the world, it was a meritori- ent to run up a score 1 to qualify among the prize-winners. The situations presented were csssarily so close that many good play ers were nosed out by a point or two. In this issue of Juve, and a num- ber of following issues, hundreds of : appear of successful com petitors, y thousands of abov the-average players failed to get un- der the wire by a single problem. I feel sure that these players, who received no material reward, had just as good fun in working out the prob- and comparing their answers published solutions as if they tually won a prize. And_ furthermore vent them from ving that their answers were really correct and the entire fault was that I did not know how to bid, or lead, pard-r Auction Brid ny e already received a few letters from readers who could not re- sist pointing out my mistakes. With Contract Bridge fast taking the place of Auction, a number of players are clamoring for a Contract contest. Of course, would be in the bidding procedure. So many different systems of bid- ding are now in vogue that, unless the contest is run on a specified system, all will be confusion and chaos. In my coming articles I will discuss some of the different conventions in Con- tract bidding. a lems be too 27 what is to pre- | the only difference | Easter Gifts Come see what the Easter bunnies have brought to our shelves and windows for you! Countless tokens to everyone's taste, be they young or old. Shari perfume in the daintiest of packages, Symphony Lawn, the stationery of distinction, the specially wrapped Easter Candy shown above and, oh, so many more delightful remembrances for Him or for Her, are sold only at your Rexall Drug Store. Liggett and Owl Stores are also Rexall Stores. There is one near you. comicbooks.com