Judge — December 19, 1931 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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

ind in one Ive Get it wer vin sled mal pth Ask irk’s ‘gon. Jef- leon izes one will ce is men. thes that, Iture. son's, 45th, | olice- ‘mar kal Is of Jena will start the solutions of the problems in the Contract Bridge Contest. The list of prize winners will be published as soon as possible. The contestants who were unable to refrain from bidding the first four 's issue deals by double-dummy methods will be just a bit disappointed in their scores. It was quite simple to study all four hands in each deal and find out what procedure would produce the hest results. In actual play it is only possible to make sound decisions, based on the cards held and the bids of the other players. The question of so-called psychic bids did not figure in this contest. Psychic or bluff bids are becoming quite a factor in contract bidding, and many players are disgusted with this angle of the It is cont continually bid psychics, without ever being assaulted by their partners, are cither canny, el: change in scoring penalties m e this evil, ayer who is not vul- y bid a no trump over nd register an he does not If a contra 1 were doubled, a big differ- evil it be in one single trick. based on a psychic | it would of course ma ence, but the psychic bidder when doubled usually escapes into another hid that will score a loss very little more than the equivalent of an ad verse game. The penalty for anythin over a set of three tricks should be increased, so that it more than com- pensates for the loss of game, even if undoubled. Sometimes a psychic can be nailed, instanter, as in this instance. The dealer opened with one spade and I, second hand, held: @KQI94 OK10 OK @AKI82 National and Int vill understand hist Champion C. Whitehead My bid of three clubs was over called by my partner with three no | trumps, whereupon I responded with six spades—and made it. If my partner's free bid had two stops in the adverse bid spade suit, as it should, then the original bidder was trying to put one over. al was bid at the kerbocker Whist Club recently that, although it appeared to be the progenitor of all the psychics, was really a conventional showing of bid- ding over an adverse suit. The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTIT EAST 1Dia. [2Dia. | 3Din. | 4Dia, | Dia. | SSpades | Pase ; Pass | Pass | Pass N outsider would find it difficult to make up his mind whether he was attending bocker or The de @AKQ872 OKQs9 © None SAss @so6s VAW82 rococo GF wme North’s Diamond lead was not so | good, but Archie Milne, who sat West, could not be stopped from making the small slam on any opening. | So the head chef cooked her meal himself peek little lady. The doctor had said, ‘* Your food must be cooked just a certain way.” And here she was in a big hotel. She called the manager and told him. He sent for the head chef and the head chef cooked her food himself. Just a little extra service, per- haps not worth telling. Buc it's one of the things that bring people back again to United Hotels. Of course our rooms are bigger... our closets larger... our cafeterias low priced. All that counts. But it’s that extra effort to please that really sets people talking. Try us... then you'll understand. Extra service at these 25 UNITED HOTELS NEW YORK CITY'S en/y United ....The Roosevelt PIULADELPHIA, PA. The Benjamin Franklin SEATTLE, WASH. ++ The Olympic ‘WORCESTER, MASS. . «The Bancrofe seeee The Robert Treat ++» The Alexander Hamilton +The Stacy-Trene The Penn-Harris ~The Ten Eyck The Onondaga « The Seneca The Niagara HARRISBURG, PA... ALBANY, N. ¥. SYRACUSE, N.Y. ROCHESTER, N. ¥. NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. ERIE, PA. + The Lawrence AKRON, O10. -The Portage PUNT, MICH. : The Durant KANSAS CITY, MO. The President TUCSON, ARIZ. 1 Conquistador SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. « The St. Francis SHREVEPORT, LA. ...+- The Washington-Youree NEW ORLEANS, LA. -- -+++ The Roosevelt NEW ORLEANS, LA. « -- The Bienville TORONTO, ONT. sees The King Edward NIAGARA FALLS, ONT. «0. .2.++++ The Clifton WINDSOR, ONT. ....---++ ++ The Prince Edward KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 8.w.1.. The Coastant Spring “> —$ JUDGE comicbooks.com