Evening star. [volume], May 24, 1936, Page D-12, Image 44

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Contract
IT THE FOl'R ACES.
(David Burnstlne. Michael Gottlieb, Oswald
Jacoby and Howard Schenken. world's
leading team of tour, inventors of the
system that has beaten every other sys
tem In existence.)
Troubles.
hT IS customary lor newspaper
|g| columnists to take time off, now
H| and »then, to discuss their own
| trials and tribulations. Each one
thinks he has particular worries, but
we believe that none of them have the
troubles of a bridge columnist.
In the first place, the bridge !
columnist must show a bridge hand
and it has been commonly accepted
practice to show all 52 cards. Hence,
the really fine plays that come up all
the time and that involve card reading
and psychological inferences are
barred to them because their readers,
who see all 52 cards, will say to them
selves, "It looks very fine, but actually
didn’t Smith make a lucky guess and
figure out his reasons for the guess
later?”
Then we have that class of hands
w here the declarer has his choice of
four or five lines of play and, after
careful study, figures out the one that
will succeed against practically every
possible distribution of the missing
cards. However, the adverse cards
were distributed simply and the hand
in reality was an absolute laydown.
It doesn't really detract from the de
clarer's play, but it spoils the hand for j
an article.
Then we have deceptive plays, de
signed to force your opponents to make
a mistake. They work in practice be- |
cause we have yet to find the bridge j
player that doesn't fall for something
or other. But they are no good for an
article because when you see all 52
cards, the play just appears stupid, ■
and yet the player making the error
may well have been one of the best 10
players in the world.
Remember, errors are an integral I
part of all games. Bobby Jones has
been known to miss a 2-foot putt;
Tiiden to serve a double fault; Babe
Ruth to strike out. Why should not
bridge experts, by the same token,
make plenty of misplays.
We are going to show only the de
clarer's hand and- dummy and let
them figure out the play.
North, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
* 10 9 5 2
¥ 9 6 2
* A Q 6 4
* 10 5
W + E
S
* 7
* K 5
* K J 10 9 7 3
+ A K Q 9
Mr. Gottlieb.
The bidding:
North East South West
Pass Pass 1 ♦ Dbl.
3* Pass 5^ Pass
Pass Pass
West opened the king of spades and
East dropped the jack. The ace of
spades was continued and East follow
ed with the three of spades. Michael
T. Gottlieb trumped in his own hand
with the king of diamonds and led
the jack of diamonds and overtook
with dummy's queen, both opponents
following suit.
The nine of spades was played from
dummy. East discarding a low heart,
and Mr. Gottlieb ruffing, Mr. Gottlieb
now' led a second diamond and won
with dummy's ace, East dropping the
deuce of clubs. Mr. Gottlieb now led
the ten of clubs, w’on with his ace, and
entered dummy with a third diamond,
both opponents discarding low hearts.
He now led the five-spot of clubs. East
again played low. and now Mr. Gott- I
lie'D had his choice of the following
plays: ■
He could go up with the king of
Clubs and continue with the queen,
discarding one heart from dummy.
Should the jack of clubs drop, he would
now be able to discard a second heart
on the nine of clubs and eventually
ruff one of his two hearts in dummy,
thereby fulfilling his contract. Should
the jack of clubs fail to drop, he could
trump the nine of clubs and lead a
heart from dummy, and should. East j
hold the ace of hearts, he could still I
fulfill his contract.
His alternate play was to finesse the
nine of clubs. Should West hold the
jack, he would immediately lose his
contract, since the ace of hearts would
be cashed, while should East hold the
club jack, Mr. Gottlieb would make
the hand. j
-—xv*i. vjubincu
did, we ask our readers to make up :
their minds as to the correct play.
Mr. Gottlieb reasoned as follows:
West's double had clearly marked him
with the ace of hearts. Therefore, un
less he could finesse the jack of clubs ;
or drop it, he would lose his contract.
East had originally held two spades !
and one diamond, and hence ten cards
In hearts and clubs. Had East held as
many as six hearts, he undoubtedly j
would have bid three hearts over i
North's three-diamond bid. Hence,
East held a maximum of five hearts',
and either five or six clubs. If his
original holding was six clubs, West
would have no more in that suit and
the finesse would automatically sue- j
ceed, while if the original holding was I
five clubs, West would have but one
club left. j
Mr. Gottlieb decided to play per
centage and gamble that West would
now be void of clubs or that his one
remaining club would be a low one.
not the jack. Accordingly, he finessed
the nine and made his contracr. The
actual East and West hands were
*AKQI a j 3
6* N V 10 8743
V A Q J W + E ♦ 5
♦ 8 2 S * J 7 6 4 2
* 8 3
We are now going to become even
meaner and show a hand whim Mr
David Burnstine recently pla; ed at a
«ix-dlamond contract.
A K Q 6
♦ KQ4
♦ 8 6 3
+ A 6 4 3
N
w+e ;
♦ A 7 3
»A85
♦ A Q 10 5 4 2
♦ 7
Mr. Bemstine
The queen of clubs was opened and
won by dummy’s ace. Mr. Bumstine
now led the three of trumps and East
played the seven. Which card did
Mr. Bemstine play from his own
hand, and why? ‘
(Copyright. 1U36.1
The Four Aces will be pleased to answer
letters from readers If a stamped. H-cent
self-addressed envelope Is inclosed with
each communication.
The next article In this series will
appear tomorrow.
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“The Negro as a City Worker” will
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lin Frazier, professor of sociology at
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