Judge — July 18, 1931 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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ARE YOU CONTRACTING ? (an insincerity complex) A YEAR AGO you could get by with— "Sorry, but | don't care for contract bridge. The old game is good enough for me.” NOW, cnybody would know that you were afraid Contract was beyond your capabilities. ANY BRIDGE PLAYER may be- come a sound Contract player study of “MY SYSTEM OF CONTRACT BIDDING" (Third Edition) after ten minutes’ This book explains the One-Two- Three System of bidding. Simple, Logical, Conclusive. Also a full exposition of the Challenge Bid, to take the place of the Informatory Double, which has been offi y adopted by the Knickerbocker Whist Club and the Contract Bridge Club of New York. JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., Inc 18 EAST 48th STREET 7-18-31 NEW YORK, N. Y. Please sond me System of Contract Bidd Edition), by Sidney S. Lenz. per copy. including shipping. copies of “My ng” (Third $1.10 1 am enclosing $ Send C.0.D. at $1.10 per copy, Porcel Post collect copies of "My System of Contract Bidding” (Third Edition), by Sidney S. Lenz. NAME ADDRESS .. CITY | in duplicate HOW GWD \e PRIDGE E? remarkab after the secured, the made and the dummy the declarant’s ability important cards not in happens that, has cr OFTEN contract been lead hand exposed, the ht, means the to locate or losing of eventually—the rubber. In my last bridge st, a number of such situations were fea- tured and a surprisingly large number of contestants succeeded in correctly winni contract—and placing every essential card. A reader, evidently not too inclined towards credulity, writes me inquir ing if, in actual competition, I would ave been able to mark every card as as I did in my problems. I wonder why people will persist in asking such awkward questions. If such a query had been put to one f our leading bridge instructors in w York after a certain studio epi- he would probably have refused to answer on the legal grounds that his reply would be degrading and in- erimi The studio is to demonstrate some teaching procedure at this a number of prepared deals, arranged boards. On one very pretty deal, the game could oaly be made by clever card-reading and skil- ful end-play. Our hero had lectured on this deal and shown that it was yractically as easy to read cards as books. After the reg! duplicate game was played with the especially dozens of times lesson expert teaming up with one of his prize pupils. Through inadvertence the board containing the trick deal managed to slip by without being shuffled and a strange whim of fate brought the big hand to the teacher. He flopped—ignominiously. The deal illustrated last week could have been played to land the game by two entirely different meth- ods and if one little four had been a five, a third way would have ap- peared. It is worthy of comment that 26 Sa paper the's Uist, Championships, eleven out of twelve tournament play- ers failed to fulfill their contract on this deal, simply because it required treatment other than the stereotyped cut and dried method. @eKQIWI65 4A KQB 653 The Bidding souTH __ WEST NORTH EAST [1 No Trump | 2ttearts |¢Spaded P |tSpaded Pass Pass Pass | sast led the King, Queen and Ace of Clubs, North trumping the Ace and taking two rounds of tramps. As West has now shown out of both k suits and is marked with the of Hearts, both from his bid and East's refusal to lead the suit at the third trick; North has the unusual situation of ing a finesse with a singleton card of the The four of Diamonds is led the ten i 1 from dummy. Even if West had held a Club, it would not e prevented declarant from winning the » of the tricks. North could won four odd by the play. Leading all the trumps but one, West must discard down to five cards and with dummy retaining three Diamonds and two Hearts, either the low Heart is made or West is thrown in with the Diamond. Had dummy held a second trump higher than North's lowest, the extra entry card would have permitted ruf- fing all four Diamonds and then throwing West in by ducking the first Heart lead. suit. re- —-J comicbooks.com