Judge — December 12, 1931 — page 23: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

— HOW Go ReCISELY the same clear and con- structive thinking is needed to cor- rectly diagnose an exceptional situa- tion in Bridge as to do so a real me of Contract 1a prize problem hand. Many good players accomplish this more or less instinctively while others are compelled to consider every angle before they can arrive at a sound conclusion. In the annual bridge contests appearing in Jupce the contestants have practically un- limited time to solve the problems and, irrespective of their final standing on the p list, they should reap a sub- stantial reward by improving their standard of play, especially when close decisions must be mad The illustrative deal last week was not at all difficult and yet it stressed a point that arises all the time. When the final declaration, in suit, clarant often feels in duty bound to finesse against the player who has doubled. The doubler. taking advantage of such tendency, talks profoundly of his “psychic,” but what he r mind is “bluff.” ds are marked is doubled, the de Hy has i When certain high in one player's hands, bluff or psychic doubles should be disregarded. 9765 © KQ85 #10973 @K 108753) eAIG6 92 GVAQIS O10 32 OT64 #362 @AKS UR FRIDGE CALIFORNIA TRAVEL TIPS, g The biddi SOUTIL WEST NORTH EAST ENo Trump | Pass |Pass | Double | | Pass 2 Spades |Pass_|aSpades| | © Pass |#Spades |Double |Pass | | Extra Comforts But No Extra Fare OS on the "ANGELES LIMITED Unequalled riding comfort over the smoothest roadbed on earth, Finest food and service. Dining car all theway. Mechanical train temperature control that makes this a “warm winter way” to Califor- nia. Thrilling scenery enroute. After three rounds of Diamonds were played, North was in the lead and led the five of Hearts. Of course East must play the Ace, as without the King of Hearts, South had no part of a no trump declaration. In last week's presentation only the East and West hands were shown, but after the first three tricks the bal- ance of the high cards should be marked with South. | [" was barely possible that South could have held three small spades or the Queen-low, but imagination could hardly extend beyond that point. The play should have been to put up the Heart Ace in dummy, lead | the Ace of Spades and follow with the | Ja If South properly refused to Kansas City, Omaha, Den. cover (covering an honor with an | ver, Salt Lake City and honor here could accomplish no good | California. Thru Pullmans but make it casy for the enemy), the front Minneapolis and St. +k should be finessed without Paul. Dependablearri qualm. The bugaboo of North pos Coivenientssidetrip! to sibly having the singleton Que Hoover (Boulder) Dam. not worthy of consideration, because | if that were the situation South would have opened the bidding with a no trump de ration on an ab- solute minimum holding and nothing PAC f F | Cc in the spade suit but the four and two. THE OVERLAND ROUTE Large fleet of daily trains between Chicago, St. Louis, S. It is true that such bad bids have been made in the past and will be made every so often in the future, but the chances are very much against them. After all, in Bridge as in most everything else, the exceptional hap- penings cannot be weighed on an even balance with the strong proba- bilitie: i ' J. P. Cummins, Gen'l Pass'r Agent Room 192 . ' a 1 ' ' Union Pacific System, Omaha, Nebr. Please send me complete information and booklets about Name. 21 comicbooks.com