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Radio Bridge Analysis
Being a Report of Bidding and Play Over
the Air from KWWG
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The eighteenth of this season's
radio bridge games went on the air
Tuesday from station KWWG.
with Mrs. Annie Adair Foster, of
Atlanta, Ga., as Mr. Whitehead's
partner, and Major Lewis W. Col
felt, Philadelphia, paired with Mr.
Work.
Mr. Whitehead, as Dealer, in the
South, picked up 100 Aces in this
hand: Spades, A, 8. 5. 4. 3; Hearts.
A. Q. 8, 3; Diamonds A. Q. 10:
Clubs. A. Mr. Whitehead might
be said to have had an option be
tween bidding one Spade and one
No Trump: but with four Aces,
and with the second best of his
five Spades only an 8-spot, the No
Trump certainly seemed more j
promising, both for a big score and
for making game. Mr. Whitehead
bid the No Trump, not because of
the big honor score, as the expert
player does not sacrifice a better
chance for making game merely for
a higher honor count. He was in
fluenced by the fact that his type
of hand, combined with the aver
age Dummy, will produce a game
In No Trump much more often
than it will game in Spades: also
the difference in honor score might j
be as great as 130 or 140. since ad
versaries mieht ho’d 30 or 40 honors
in the Snadc suit.
M. Work, in the West, held:
Spades, 0, 7. 6. 2; Hearts, K. J:
Diamonds, 5. 4. 2: Clubs. K. J, 8. 6 j
Ms. Foster. North, had: Spades,
K. 10; Hearts, 9, 6. 5, 4, 2; Dia
monds, K. J. 7. 3: Clubs. 10. 9.
Major Colfelt. East, held: Spades.
Q. J: Hearts. 10, 7; Diamonds. 9, 8
6; Clubs. Q. 7. 5. 4. 3. 2. All passed
the dealer’s bid; therefore Mr.
Whitehead became Declarer with
his contract one Ko Trump.
Mr. Work, West, led the 6 of
Clubs, fourth best of his stronger
four-card suit, and from Mrs. Fos
ter’s hand, which became Dummy.
Mr. Whitehead. Declarer, mayed
the 9 of Clubs. Major Colfelt,
East, here made ajaplay whi^h in
dicated the high caliber of his
game. He assumed that the 6 of
Clubs was his partner’s fourth best
of the suit, a conventional lead.
The 6 was also his partner’s lowest
Club, since Major Colfelt himself
held every Club lower than the H.
Consequently, Mr. Work’s Club suit,
if the fi were the fourth-best, was
of exactly four cards. With two
Clubs in Dummy, and six in Major
Cnlfelt’s hand, it was apparent to
Major Colfelt that Declarer could
hold only one. This probably was
either th<* Ace or King, since witn
a worthless singleton Declarer
would have avoided a No Trumo
hid. If not the Ace or King, then
Declarer's singleton was either the
Jack or 8 snot, the only other Clubs
higher than the 6 for which Major
Colfelt knew, by applying the Rule
of Eleven to Mr. Work's lead of the
6. that there were outstanding. In
the three hands other than the
leader's, five cards higher than the
6 led Of these, only four were in
Dummy's and Major Colfelt’s
hands. The fifth, therefore, had
to be in Declarer's.
Regardless, however, of what De
clarer's singleton might be, whether
Ace. King. Jack or 8-spot, Major
Cclfelt realized that he should not
play his Queen. Should he do so.
Mr. Work’s four-card Club suit
would block Major Colfelt's six
card suit; and the latter, without
a re-entry in his hand, would be
unable to make his two long Clubs.
Therefore. Major Colfelt played his
5 of Clubs on his partner s 6. Mr.
Whitehead. Declarer, played his
lone Ace. Mr. Work. West, could
readily read it as being a single
ton, and therefore was able to read
Major Cclfelt as having held six
Clubs originally.
Mr. Whitehead, though unable
from the play to read the exact
Club situation, realized that the
entire suit was set up against him,
seiicusly threatening game. He
could, however, count, in addition
to his Club trick, four sure tricks
in Diamonds, two in Spades, and
one in Hearts—eight altogether,
one short of game.
Apparently the game trick could
be made only by a successful fin
esse against the King of Hearts.
Therefore. Mr. Whitehead planned
first to make practically sure of
his contract, and thereafter to take
the Heart finesse in a try for game.
Accordingly Mr. Whitehead led
the Ace of Diamonds, to which Mr.
Work played the 2; Dummy the 3,
and Major Colfelt the 6. Mr.
Whitehead’s Queen of Diamonds
brought the 4 from Mr. Work, the
7 from Dummy, and the 8-spot
from Major Colfelt. Declarer then j
led the 10. over-taking with Dum
my's Jack. Mr. Work played the
5 and Major Colfelt the 9. Dummy
led the thirteenth Diamond, the
King. Major Colfelt discarded the
7 of Hearts; Mr. Whitehead the 3
of Spades; Mr. Work the 2 of
Spades.
At this point Mr. Whitehead
could have taken his King and Ace
of Spades, thus assuring his con
tract, one No Trump. The Ace
of Hearts would have made it two
odd. and a successful finesse of the
Queen of Hearts would have pro
duced game. Failure of the Heart
finesse at this point would give the
adversaries a Heart trick, plus all
their Clubr.
As to the Club situation. Mr.
Whitehead could tell, by applica
tion of the Rule of Eleven to the 6
of Clubs oiginally led that Major
Colfelt must hold two Clubs higher
than the 6; and since he did not
play either of them to the first
trick, but instead underplayed his
partner's 6, it was evident that he
was long in Clubs. Otherwise
Major Colfelt would have played
one of his high Clubs to force out
the one Club higher than the 6
which he could read as being in
Mr. Whitehead’s hand.
Having thus read Major Colfelt
as long in Clubs, Mr. Whitehead
reasoned that there was no possi
bility of either adversary holding
as many as seven Clubs. Conse
quently, five tricks would be the
maximum the adversaries could
make. Thus, even if his Heart
finesse failed, Mr. Whitehead could
still make his contract; and should
the finesse succeed, he would have
game. Therefore, while still hold
ing control of the Spade suit, Mr.
Whitehead proceeded to take th«
Heart finesse, leading the 2 of
Hearts from Dummy. Major Col
felt played the 10: Declarer his
Queen, and Mr. Work, West, won
with the King.
Mr. Work then led in succession
the King. Jack, and 8-spot of
Clubs. Major Colfelt, East, cov
ered the 8-spot with his Queen
and then took his two long Clubs.
On these five Club tricks Mr.
Whitehead. Declarer, discarded
down to the Ace of Spades and the
Ace of Hearts, with which cards
he won the last two tricks, giv
ing him a score of 10 points for
the odd trick and 100 for four Aces
in one hand.
The bidding of this hand at Con
tract would impose some little re
sponsibility upon the South play
er. With every suit stopped and
a count of 20 (4 for each of his
Aces and 2 for each of his Querns)
he would be well over the 17-with
four-suits-stopped requirement for
a bid of two No Trumps, but he
would be one short of the requisite
21 for three No Trumps. Even if
he held ; n extra Jack, giving him
the 21 count, he properly would
hesitate about bidding three No
Trumps because of the singleton,
even though it is an Ace. Two
No Trumps would seem to be his
sound declaration. Over South's
two No Trumps. North, with a
count of 7. of course would jump
to three No Trumps. The play be
ing the same as in Auction Bridge,
the Declarer would fail to make
his game by a margin of two
tricks.
GAS OVERCOMES 87
Belfast.—Gas that escaped from
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Scout Leaders At
Session In Pharr
Make Up Study
PHARR. March 13.—The Pharr
Kiwanis club, offering the fifth ses
sion of the course, "The Elements
of Scoutmastership.” had 2 3 Valley
scout leaders attending the last ses
sion.
Mapping, how to read. Orient and
making maps from field notes,
were principal themes of the eve
ning. H. H. Kidder. San Juan, in
structed the class, by taking them
on an imaginary field trip, said to
be very impressive.
Bob Lyon led a group discussion
of the judging requirement.
"Why Boys Drop Out” was an
other subject for close study, and
remedies planned to remove any
cause of such action.
A resolution of thanks was voted
to those who have made the scout
masters’ school possible.
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HAVE REGULAR MEET
Employes of Edelstein's furniture
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week were addressed by E. J. Tuck
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National bank officials, and by T.
A. Kinder, local attorney.
The meeting was held Monday
night at the store on Elizabeth and
Thirteenth streets.
Tucker and Longoria applied the
installment plan to banking and ex
plained how systematic saving
would create an estate.
Kinder spoke on installment con
tracts and chattel mortgages.
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