Judge — March 1934 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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card vetting to four ¢ process of stopping short of his desire does arise in y on the second re can only rould instead of | bid your sui ally, ding a no trump, : x to correct an e d you are now try rror due to a the mind or even perhaps a slip of the tongue. Ins to work out hope for the be: lip of h cases you must att your own and t blame salvation > but you mu yourself if you wreck the hand you do , your According to the system, whe der t conditior partner may definitely take it as being suit of more than four ¢ on trump s for a five card suit but totally ra four card suit. If 1 kind, T wow! idding a four ds, and may port which d- made not try to correct it suit. I would gamble the hand at no i ossibly in) my partner's suit if had b able to bid one. T have not yet encor where, having bid a no t under the reason for rd suit he will explain. in hid four ¢. with one no trum a slam try at the level of four or up- wards, This has no part in dev © bid for game purpose appear ui the game aspect is disp of and slam hopes have a another issue we will discu Sims a later art suits after having oper . but only as part of s actual ex- amples of second round bidding with led long suit. Tournament News HE Bridge L held its second « al Mid-W pionship tournament at Hotel For Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa, Janu- ary 18, 19, 20, Paul S. Junkin of Fair- field is the President, A. Hayes, Sec- a Mrs. Preston Daniels was Tou ament Manager and Florence Samuels Wright, Official Scorer. Results: Sheaffer Trophy for Men's Championship: Dale Z. Gor faughn, of Bloomfield, Runners-t + Gough—Max Fisher, of Perry. Towa St Pair ar Rapids Trophy for Ladies’ Pair Championship: Mrs. W. H. Ust Mrs. Victor Shewbert, of Des Moines Runners-up: Mrs. F.C. Byers—Mrs Carl Jordan, of Cedar Rapids. ler Memorial Trophy for t ‘aul S. Junkin—E Hayes—Dale Z. Goode—J. B. Va Runners-up: Peter Gough—Max Fisher —B. L. Crane—E. J. Collins Sioux City Trophy for Mixed Pair Championship: Mr. and Mrs, Murray Campbell. Runners-up: Dr. E. B. Neti and Mrs. Joseph Neff. haripi championship By Wm. B. MeKe mney North rearts by South. is one of the strategic plays In this problem the mi t be distributed in t $s to combi s, one by the declarer and The deel. s his or ntract, but his is off-set by a hold-up on which de by West 1 Oppone irer mu y¥ possible to make ce le Opponent contract. The openin lution to F y Problem @ 54 AJ 874 1093 La h only the North han The complete East and West hands are now give Is were shown. West’s opening lead is the king of puth im the third round, dis ing the three of diamonds dummy on the third spade. The queen arts is led, East winning with the East 1 club or a diamond. e South wins with the ac Let us assume that a d nd is r Declarer must immediately and king of clubs, estab- est’s queen. The ten of hearts is played and the f heart tricks wo s the nine of clubs and monds. West discards two spades, but on the fourth heart he is squeezed. If he discards the queen of clubs, dummy’s j will be good, while if he dr the jack of diamonds, the ten of diamonds is led from dummy, st hold up and refuse to win wu ard- from the Tn either ca six of 20 overtaken with the king, and the of diamonds i The ° he worked of the z and kir play xd in declarer’s } ueeze pl. Sou known as a Vienna Coup Double Diinmy Problem No. 11 By Russell Roosen eowo2 West @ OJ W562 8632 10.2 East @ Ko K 109 KOJ6 aos 5 Sc @\ Vos 98353 @AKI uth is the declarer. West leads the que st take I Clubs tricks defense Solution to February Problem Wes @ 010 KOw9 J10987 105 : is the trump contract its. South ainst any defen > oF POE oe oer POD > POPE ED At trick 11 South leads the king of clubs and West is squeezed. Which- ever card he discards, declarer will win the last two tricks. *Attrick 2 West obviously cannot lead a heart, but if he leads a spade, North wins and leads the king of diamonds, East wins and returns a spade which rth wins. North leads a low diamond while South discards a spade, and the balance of the play is the same as above comicbooks.com