Judge — April 23, 1932 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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AND NOW... The Dr. Seuss COASTER year Dr. pictorial-zoolo- During the past Seuss, famed than 18,000 miles, racing about the has covered more continent installing murals in the private bars. nation’s most exclusive Let the de try’s most fa rer of the coun- astic playrooms bring a little touch of color to your own home. ONLY Fish INDULGE 'N SPLASHING Protect your Tables from Rings, Stains and Splotches with Dr. Seuss’? Absorbent Coasters Attractive Colors Dr. Seuss (Coaster Di JUDGE, 18 East 48th Si Dear Dr.: t of a Box » N. Y. City My s need p on to the exter Name City and St * at Fifty Cents | | tricks that could pos. YOUR BRIDG By Sidney E Lenz of distribution as illustrated last week, that permit a holding of four Aces, four Kings and four Queens to be set four hun- d conversely, allow the s to score that number of points with no card above a Jack in their hands, tends to prove the old Poke: ying, “a big loser generally holds big hands.” Which means of course that it is far more expensive to lose on four Queens than to lose your voice saying, “I pa: In one of my earlier books, I showed a deal where one error in lost all the bly be lost. A Grand Slam was made by the North and South players, which was not at all bad, as correct play would actually taken the entire thir- teen tricks for the East and Westers. 3ut the distributional limits for all time, were reached when a declara- | tion of five Hearts was doubled and redoubled, with the declarant taking in all thirteen tricks. As the doubler and his partner played perfectly and still could not possibly win a single trick, it might appear that the double was not so good. Well, the venturesome doubler ap- peared well fortified as his holding consisted of: Q 9 Q J ; J ae AK It looks fool-proof, but looks are deceiving at times. To distribute the opposing cards in such a manner that this aggregation of high honors cannot take even one trick, notwith- standing the play is flawless, would seem almost like an impossibility. Which all tends to prove that dis- tribution is the real thing. When a hand is nicely bid and a close play cleverly guessed, the re- ward should be a won game. An early error on the following deal would have been retrieved, had the enemy been a trifle less vigilant. 28 AAKQE 97 OTT64 % 1092 a1074 QI1O84 A102 eI8 South West 1 Club 1 Heart 2.No Trumps Pass Pass Pass North 1 Spade 3 No Trumps Pass HE Queen of Hearts was opened and won by South. As dummy has no cards of reentry aside from the Spade suit, South is in a quan- dary to the best procedure for establishing the Clubs. If he enters dummy with a Spade, he is forced to take the Spade tricks at once or he may never make them. In any event one Club trick must be lost, so the declarant leads off the Ace and makes a fine guess in leading the Queen, thereby dropping the Jack and King together. On the Heart return, South plays low and if West clears the suit, South will discard from dummy the blocking ten of Clubs and win the game. West, however, figured that if South had held more than one Spade he would have put dummy in for the Club finesse, so he switched to Spades and wrecked the hand beyond repair. Of course, if declarant had hap- pened to think of unblocking on the first round of Clubs, it would have saved lots of gray matter—and some cash—at the finish. When the eight of Clubs falls on the Ace, the nine instead of the two, should have been played from dummy. The declarant made the common mistake of doing his hard thinking just a bit too late. comicbooks.com