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Show WHIST ONCE A CRUDE GAMC First Known as "Triumph," Whenco tho V.'o-d "Trumps" Is Derived. Whist was first called "triumph," a name which was afterward corrupted into "trump." Tho eighteenth century saw whist in Its primitive form, the wholo object of the game being to win tricks by leading high cards or ) trumping. Then came the era of lloylo, which may bo said to have lasted from 1730 to ISfiO, and taught players to think not only of their own hands but of tho other hands also, and to take nil-vantage nil-vantage of the positions of tho cards in them. lloylo also taught that trumps might bo more profitably employed em-ployed than In simple trumping nnd showed that tliey might bo used to disarm the adversary and to obtain secondary advantngo In trlck-ninklng by other suits of less apparent power. It was not until 18(10 that tho philosophical philo-sophical era can ho said to have begun, be-gun, and the origin of tho now movement move-ment was a knot of young men ol Cambridge, England, known as the Llttlo Whist school. This body kept, records of its games, but no one thought of making tho data known until un-til 1801. Coherenco In tho system ol piny was still wanting, and tills was supplied In 1S01 with Dr. Polo's eshny on tho theory of the modern aclentillc whist. |