Show l AUCTION g WHIST l UP f TO DATE 1 Three Tricks Lost by Not Clearing Partners Partner's D Declared Suit T IS the rubber game love all an IT livery Every ono one Is Ie going to try for the gamo am If It possible Z i Is the dealer and and the the cards cas are distributed as follows follow follows fol fol- lows low T. T Spades p de 8 E 2 3 Hearts ace 9 8 8 3 Clubs 6 5 Diamonds king 10 10 9 8 6 L I. LA 2 A A. A Spades ace queen quean Jack 7 Hearts 10 Clubs ace aoe queen 7 1 7 6 88 8 8 2 Diamonds Diamond ace aee 6 li on B. B Spades Spade 10 10 6 S 9 3 hearts Hearts king queen Jack j ck 7 7 1 Clubs 9 8 8 4 Diamonds queen 7 1 4 4 Z Spades king 9 9 6 5 4 4 Hearts C 0 6 4 2 I. Clubs king Jack 10 Diamonds Diamond Jack a. a 3 I Z 55 who ho is tho the dealer can only bid a spade or pass Ho He has nothing upon which ho he can make an opening bid Id A says one ono no trump and Y If Sf he wants to bid at all must say two diamonds diamonds diamonds dia dia- monds which he ite Is Justified In doing with an outside ace nce and a club At that state of the score with ano a ano ano no trump bid b by y the enemy he must make a forward bid B makes a very pretty bid Ho lie says two hearts This shows hows his partner that he can stop atop the hearts and Is a n. little more Informative than a a. no trump raiser would bo be c especially es especially es- es as it will cost coat the no trump no more moro to go on with his bid as s ho e can stop the diamonds effectually If It clubs and spades are safe Z and A both pass and Y sa three diamonds A finally finally finally final final- ly goes to to three no trumps which everyone passes and which becomes become a a. declaration Y 1 who has the tho opening leads lead a 1 low d diamond amond which A takes with his ace At trick 2 2 A leads his singleton 10 of ot hearts which Y 1 passes as ho must hold his only card of ot re reentry reentry reentry re- re entry until tho guarded queen of diamonds diamonds diamonds dia dia- monds ha has been taken from tram dummy A without another heart Is la obliged to switch Ho He leads lead his aco ace of ot spades o. o 08 and andI follows with the jack while Z takes I with the king Now that Z Is In Jn the lead If It ho he will put his hilt partner In with witha a D. diamond Y will take that trick with his king Icing and then lead the dummy dummy's s queen which must take a trick Dummy Dummy Dummy Dum Dum- my will then bo be obliged to lead lend a no heart heartso so as to clear them Y will w get In n with his ace nee of ot hearts heart and will make three diamonds tho the 10 9 8 After that the declarant will tako take every cry trick and tho the Icing king of clubs club will be killed All AU of this will happen after atter the de declarant declarant declarant de- de has hns been sot Jot to the tho tune of Unfortunately as 08 the game was played Ins Instead toad of leading the partners partner s de declared declared de- de uit which h h he was waa playing for Z lead the tho 10 14 of clubs Just because he ho saw that dummy was weak In clubs The Tho declarant got In with the tho queen of or clubs second hand and then led toward to toward toward to- to ward the 9 of spades his only re-entry re In the tho dumm dummy Dummy my leads a a. heart Y held up the ace as long as possible and when obliged to put it on led the king of ot diamonds diamonds then havin having only diamonds to the tho queen on the table The last heart mal makes es and the declarant takes every trick as s ho he got rid of ot losing clubs on tho hearts This wn way the took throe three tricky tricks while If Ys Y's diamonds had only been led before his aCe aco of hearts was taken 1 from his hand Y and Z would v have ve won six trl tricks tricks king king of ot spades king of ot diamonds ace of ot hearts 10 9 8 of or diamonds As s played tho diamonds were not es established os- os led In time and never nevor made the only tricks being taken wore Vero the tho king of spades the ace nce of ot hearts carts and the king of ot d diamonds amond Now Nov was It not the tho most moat selfish thing In the world for a partner who vho after atter he had made his king of ot spades was out of tho the game to stretch out a greedy greed hand toward the clubs of ot which ho ho had but three when his partner had shown five or six diamonds He lie not only accomplished accomplished actor pushed nothing by so doing but put his partner In a I position where he was robbed of ot his only entry re-entry and he also was put out of ot the he game tor for the rest of the hand The declarants declarant took ten tricks trick having bid to take nine nino so BO that they won the game and rubber and had A n. trick to spare If It the diamond bidders bidder's partner had but m made de dl the proper prop prop- er return the declarant would have e made mado only seven tricks when his contract contract con con- tract called for nine and would have o then been set I After Arter the same game me was as over and the rubber scored cored Z said that he ho thought he could make his king of ot clubs as he was leading up to such weak clubs inthe Inthe in the tho dummy and that he lie did not see sec seethe seethe the use of going on with Ith the diamonds as M dummy was going to take the tho third I diamond trick with the queen on the tho table There is Just ono one question that i Z forgot to ask himself and that Is why did A lead the 10 of hearts and stop Obviously because he had no more I Whore Where then was tho the ace ac of or hearts That hat dummy dUmm did not have havo It was Plain Plain- Iv lv to be seen en f Therefore Y must have han It Tho next question for tor Z to ask himself is i Is why did his partner having tho the ace of ot hearts hold It up allowing the tho 10 to be a trick winner and tho the only answer to that must be bo that Y could not to give up his hs only card of or re entry until another round of ot two of diamonds had been played If Z had only taken the situation seriously enough to do a B. little thinking ho would never have made the break of ot playing the enemy's game when hen the opportunity opportunity op op- op- op was In his own hand to play that which had been indicated by his partner It should hould be remembered that every ery time that a n. new suit Is 15 opened against a no it t i IB I for the advantage of tho the declarant now suit Is entirely established In Jn the hand of or the leader One of the things learned at whist and which Is la still eUll In hi force In auction tion Is la Never Nevor play for two suits suite Tho The only excuse that Z could have had f to not going going- on with his partners partner's su aw aul would have been not to have h bad hd 4 another an another i iother other diamond a It situation for tor which I h could not have been held |