Judge — August 1934 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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DEAL (Continued from page 2 ud should have three aces, he must yw that his partner cannot. possibly slam try unless doubts about immedi five no trump you will be showing three aces; and if in addition you have you can safely bid six. a king, Probably you can picture every card in your partner's hand and say to self, “His three and a half primary high you tricks make six sure, and if he has nething in reserve it is up to him to Solutions to J Actual Playing Problem No. 15 North @AQ106 vj42 Oo A976 #9 West @jos4 8732 1098 96 J104 Oo Q8s esi4 @KQUW6S South @k Y AKQ753 >K32 esse Last month the North and South hands were shown and you were in- structed to distribute the balance of the cards in the East and West hands so that nuth could make his contract of seven hearts by a triple squeeze, West to open his fourth best spade and later amonds, Lin clubs and ¢ to be squeezed in spades and ¢ Kast to be squeez Trumps to be divided three- one, All the hands are now shown. monds, West's opening lead is the four spades which South wins with the A small trump the jack dummy. sof trumps are take \ the ace in is won w Two more rout fast. diseardir two clubs. ull club is won in dummy wi Declarer cashes dummy’s a South diseardin A small diamond with de Z declarer take West diseare cards a wy and a d, and East lets spade and «clu The situation is now down to where West holds the jack of spades and the jack and ten of diamonds. Dummy holds the ten of spades and th holds the queen and eight of diamon and the king of clubs. The last heart is led by the declarer. West is squeezed in two suits. He can- not let go the jack of spades because und queen of spade: a club and a diamond. is now led and king, oN rounds of trumps. won wv the clubs, dummy d diame ace and nine of diamonds. East of dummy’s ten, so must drop a yo seven.” At another time, with only responding hand might have such outside values that he realizes two ace n he can bid seven straight off because his partner must have two aces as well as the nee essary kings or queens in order trump bid at all. here ted should t partner to assume or to have an The met enable the ility and enable both ibilities in Problems Declarer then plays the ten of vades in dummy and East is squeezed in two suits. He cannot let go the king of clubs, bec of South’s jack, » he discards a diamond, and now the declarer wins the last two tricks. Double Dummy Problem No. 15 North @AK as 974 &AKOINSS West East 2 @ 596043 J10963 2872 J83 OA6S Hlsot eo7 South @ G10875 AK4 KO 102 2 South is the declarer, Tt is six spades. contract West opens the jack of hearts. South to make six spades against the best possible defense. Trik West North Kast s 1 J G) 2 > 3 4 6 3 3 $ 7 4 6 7 x s ts Ae Te Py 6 x ” A 7 2} Ae a) + 8 oe Ka oe 1” » xa oe "ne 74 10 J te s kK n ° Ke oe xe 2 14 sa 2¢ 0 13 w we ee Oe *At the ninth trick, if East refu to ruff the queen of clubs and disc the diamond, South will discard the amonds and will then lead from dummy. with the four overruff with He will then lead the three of club will have to ruff spades, South will seven of spades eight of spades and win with the king in the North hand. He will then lead another club, and tin he has th queen and ten of spades over jack and nine. | lation. Its threefold purpos: ADISTINCIVE AMERICAN BUSINESS Te Bell System is a widely owned organization operating a public ce under federal and state serv regu- is to give the public the best telephone service at the lowest possible cost, give steady work at fair wages to its hundreds of thousands of em- ployees and pay a reasonable return to the men and women who have invested in it. In the truest sense, the Bell System is a busin y—born in America, brought to its present stat- ure by American enterprise, financed and operated by and for the people of America, BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM comicbooks.com