Judge — October 1933 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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Tournament News HE tentative program for the Fall Session of the Seventh Annual Na- tional Championship Tournament of the American Bridge League to be held at the Netherlands-Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, the week of December 4th to 11th, 1933, is as follows ;— National Open Auction Pair Cham- pionship. Qualifying round—Monday afternoon. Final session—Wednesday afternoon. National Mixed Contract Pair Cham- pionship. First round—Monday eve- ning. Second round—Tuesday after- noon. National Open Contract Pair Cham- pionship will be played Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, qualifying down to 64 pairs for Thursday afternoon. Reducing to 32 pairs for Friday and Saturday afternoons. National Open Contract Team-of- Four Championship will be played in three sessions, all teams playing throughout Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday evenings. American and Canadian Bridge play- ers will be given their first opportunity to compete against each other in the Canadian-American tournament to be conducted by the American Bridge League at the Niagara Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls, N. Y., on October 19th, 20th and 21st. The two events to be played will be an open contract pair championship and an open team-of-four championship—one of the trophies will be donated by Canada, while the other will be provided by the United States. Reading, Pa., promises to take a prominent place in bridge activities of the future when it is host to the bridge players of the East at its first annual Eastern Pennsylvania Championship Tournament which will be held at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel on October 26- 27-28. Three events will be played—the mixed contract pairs, open contract pairs and open team-of-four championships. The dates for the annual tournament of Washington, D. C., have been tenta- tively set as Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday, November 2nd, 3rd and 4th at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D. C. Results of the First Maine State Con- tract Championships held under the auspices of the American Bridge League. Open Team of Four Cham- pionship: Won~by Winfield Towne, Norman J. Bonney, Herbert Monroe, Mark Noble. Runners Up: Lombard Williams, Philip Ammidon, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Landy. Open Pair Championship: Won by Milton Casson and William Campbell. Runners Up: W. C. Towne and Norman J. Bonney. Bridge Pa Actual Playing Problem No. 6 By Wm. E. McKenney ERE is the sixth of a series of problems designed expressly to help you improve your play. We will show you part of the hand and you must build it up to meet the requirements of the playing problem. $44 e South +o @ AKI S! Y $2 aft OA32 Op Spades are trump. South, the declarer, to make a small slam, against a diamond opening. Distribute the missing cards in the East and West hands. Remember that the problem must be made against the best possible defense. Solution to September Problem North @KQ32 9 Q65 0 K32 654 East 764 9 1094 > 10987 South #0518 @AS 9 AKJ32 QO AJ @AK32 West opens the nine of clubs, South wins with the ace and runs five heart tricks, West discarding two clubs and a diamond. North discards two clubs and East discards two spades. The declarer next takes three rounds of spades, East follows with one spade and is now squeezed in clubs and dia- monds. He cannot let a club go, so must unguard his diamond suit by drop- ping the seven and eight. South discards a small club, A small diamond is played from dummy, South winning with the ace. He now plays the king of clubs and West is squeezed in spades and dia- monds. If he drops a spade dummy’s three will be good, while if he discards the six of diamonds, North will discard the three of spades and the declarer will lead the jack of diamonds, win in dummy with the king and cash the three of dia- monds for the thirteenth trick. This is the type of hand which is gen- erally referred to as a triple spueeze. 20 times Double Dummy Problem No. 6 By Russell Roosen North @ A908 YAK > A6532 @54 West East @KQ7 @ 106 Y None Y Q10985432 © KQJ1087 o9 @ 10763 a8 South @ 5432 956 o4 @AKQJ2 Clubs are trump. West leads the king of diamonds. North and South to win 11 of the 13 tricks. The position of all cards is known to both sides, therefore the problem must be made against any possible defense. Solution to September Problem North @AK8 Y 9643 oO K54 A64 West 7 @ J 10743 9 None 9 J1075 © 86 © QJ9732 @KJ9873 re) South @ 652 9 AKQ82 > A10 1052 Hearts are trump. West leads the four of spades. North and South to win 11 of the 13 tricks. The position of all cards is known to both sides, therefore the problem must be made against any possible defense. East #99 Solution North Ke Trick 1 COSCO IIH HGH” Smaromusue POOH HHOPHOE uhaocasrau OOOGISHHS eRe ann on ws Duunuswuddsol SS owmsauewn : 3 **West is squeezed and must unguard either the spade or club. *If West, at trick 3, plays the King of Clubs the play is as follows. Trick North A West CUKSr Mawar PPPPPOOCH OHS aaeeruhacae PPPHP OOO ISS DewOuunuwaof COCHOCOSIISH* Srouusenrany eeeescosaael comicbooks.com