Evening star. [volume], April 18, 1937, Page A-19, Image 19

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CAPT. JULIA FLIKKE
ARMY NURSE HEAD
Succeeds Maj. Julia Stimson
Around June 1, Says War
Department.
• Capt. Julia O. Flikke, assistant su
perintendent of the Army Nurse Corps,
now on duty in the office of the sur
geon general, will succeed Maj. Julia
C. Stimson as chief of the corps
about June 1, the War Department
announced yesterday.
Miss Stimson, after 18 years of
Army nursing service, will be relieved
of duty about May 15 and placed on
the retired list May 31. She was
director of the nursing service of the
American Expeditionary Forces in
•Prance during the World War and has
been superintendent of the Army
Nurse Corps since 1919, holding the
rank of major since 1920. Miss Stim
son is recognized throughout the
world as an expert on nursing ad
ministration and education, the War
Department said.
Mrs. Flikke, who will be promoted
to the rank of major, also began her
■Army nursing career during the World
War. She was born in Wisconsin
March 16, 1878, and was graduated
from the Nurses’ School at Augustana
Hospital, Chicago, May 10, 1915. She
took a post-graduate course in the
Teachers’ College of Columbia Uni
versity in 1915-16, specializing in
nursing education and administra
tion.
She was appointed an Army nurse
March 11, 1918, and was promoted to
chief nurse a month later. She served
with the A. E. F. at several base hos
pitals and with hospital trains. Since
the war she has served at a num
ber of Army hospitals in this coun
. try and in China and the Philippines,
Heads Nurses
CAPT. JULIA O. FLIKKE.
-Harris-Ewing Photo.
including Walter Reed General Hos
pital. Mrs. Flikke has been as
sistant superintendent of the corps
since September 13, 1927.
Miss Stimeon, a native of Worces
ter, Mass., where she was born May
26, 1881, now lives at 149 Mount
Vernon avenue, Arlington Ridge, Va.,
but gives New York as her permanent
address.
Meeting House Is Topic.
“The Friends’ I Street Meeting
House and Its Colonial Background”
will be discussed by William E. Rich
ardson at a meeting of the Columbia
Historical Society at 8:15 p.m. Wednes
day at the Mayflower Hotel.
Music will be offered by Mr. and Mrs.
Frank K. Sanderson.
Winning Contract
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Third-Hand Suit Defense.
HE defense of many hands Is
thrown because of laziness or
ignorance on the part of the
opening leader’s partner, so
today we shall discuss first principles
of defense by the third hand against
a suit contract, including both his play
fb the first trick and his subsequent
defense. In other words, many third
hand players seem to feel licensed to
sit back with their minds dormant
merely because they are not saddled
with the responsibility of making the
opening lead, while, actually, their
efforts can be of even greater im
portance to the success of the defense.
To begin with, partner (of the open
"ing leader) is in a unique position to
diagnose the best defense against the
declarer from his view of the dummy
hand, his knowledge of the bidding,
and the inferences to be gleaned from
the opening lead. It may be said that
the leader very often outlines a policy
of defense and it becomes necessary
for the partner to confirm this proce
dure or point out a better one.
If the opening lead is in a suit which
you have bid, try to figure out the
leader's holding in the suit and, there
fore, the declarer’s. If you do not or
cannot wjp the first trick, play an en
couraging or discouraging card, de
pending upon whether or not you wish
the suit continued. Of course, should
you win the first round, your prob
lem is to decide whether to cash your
high cards immediately, force the de
plarer to ruff, attempt to secure a ruff
in the leader's hand or shift to an
other suit. *
Vl/BEN the opening lead appears to
be a short suit, a close choice is
often presented whether to blindly
t)lay “third-hand high” or to preserve
protection In the suit, and sometimes,
upon winning the first trick, whether
to commit the entire defense of a hand
to a possible ruff in the event that the
opening lead was a singleton (or a dou
bleton, you having won the first two
tricks). However, more often than not
you should attempt the defeat of the
•ontract by cashing your high cards,
(f sufficient in number, which in
cludes leading up to a weak suit in
dummy. For example, in most any
hand, if third-hand holds queen-jack
ten of a suit, and dummy three small,
It is paramount that the queen be led
at the first opportunity, thereby pos
sibly trapping the declarer's king with
partner's ace, or driving out the ace
In declarer’s hand so that one or two
tricks can subsequently be cashed.
On the other hand, there are times
when you hold high cards over the
dummy and it is vital that you be
content to play a waiting or passive
defense; otherwise, while you are win
ding tricks yourself you will be estab
lishing other tricks for the declarer and
actualy simplifying his play of the
tend.
In explanation of the general rule
"third-hand high.” This means that
If the lead by your partner is a low
card, usually you should play your
highest card unless it is touching or
in sequence with one or more lower
cards. Suppose, for example, that
your partner leads a low diamond; the
dummy contains 10, 3, 2 of the suit,
and you hold queen, jack, 9. If the
2 or 3 is played from dummy, you
should play the 9; while if the 10 is
played, your proper play is the Jack.
Note that under no circumstance
should the queen be played to the
trick, although, subsequently, when
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you, yourself, lead the suit, the proper
card would be the queen. The reason
for being careful to play the 9 or
jack, respectively, is so that your part
ner can infer that you may hold
higher cards, and that in any case you
do not hold the card immediately be
low the one that you play, viz, the 8.
An exception to the "third-hand
high” rule occurs when you hold ace
jack of a suit, dummy contains the
guarded king or queen, and your part
ner has opened a low card of the suit.
Here you should finesse your part
ner's lead, that is, fail to play your*
highest. The reason for this play is
that if your partner has led away from
the queen or king, respectively, you
stand to gain an extra trick oy playing '
the jack instead of the ace. Of course
a degree of caution must be exercised
because of the possibility that the de
clarer holds the missing face card, and
that it is either solo or that he can dis
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card on an established suit In dummy.
There are other occasions when
a finesse Is permissible. You hold
king-10-small,* and dummy has a
guarded jack or queen. Assuming that
dummy plays low, your 10-spot may
force declarer’s ace, leaving your king
in a commanding position over dum
my's Jack or queen. Of course this
can be done more freely when you
know that your partner is not given
to leading away from an ace as a sur
prise lead.
Again, suppose your partner opens
the jack of a suit, dummy plays small
from the guarded king or queen and
you hold the ace—declarer of course la
marked with the missing face-card.
Now, If you play the ace, you practi
cally ooncede two tricks in the suit to
the declarer, whereas, if you play
an encouraging card (if possible), re
taining the ace, you may succeed In
limiting the declarer to one trick in the
suit. The advisability of such a
finesse requires keen Judgment de
pending. as It does, upon your knowl
edge of the bidding, the strength of
dummy, and the number of cards (of
the suit) in sight.
Applicable to both suit and no
trump defense, learn to use the "come
on" card and echo. For example, It
your partner opens with an honor in
a suit and you follow with your lowest
card, the play Indicates weakness and
suggests that he shift to another suit.
Therefore, when It appears desirable
that the suit be continued, you should
follow with the highest card that you
can afford—come on I By afford wo
mean never encourage with a card so
high that It may cost the defense a
trick.
rPHE echo consists of first playing
some intermediate card and sub
sequently playing a lower one. For
example, If your partner opens with
the king,of a suit followed by the ace,
and you follow with the live and then
the deuce, you tell your partner in
this way to lead a third round of the
suit because you hold the queen or are
ready to trump.
Another echo that Is Used fre
quently Is the “high-higher” discard,
which means that you wish your
partner to lead two rounds of the suit
and then shift. For example, you are
defending against a spade contract
and your partner opens the king of
elute. The dummy holds two small
and you Q-10-9-2. If you play high
low, your partner will play the third
round and declarer may be able to
ruff In dummy and discard a loser
from another suit. At the same time
you wish to win the first two tricks.
Hence, you play the nine, asking the
leader to play a second round, and
follow with the 10, requesting him to
discontinue.
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