Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-06 | Page 14 | Bridge Puzzle

t N K cl-K K Q D-Q r. r F NORTH None fJ S 'S I- I H H 7 3 fJ I x D K K Kf J. S-K-J S KJ I D-A D f C- C 10 10 I t SOUTH r rt t I 5 None S-None None H H i J A-J Ii j 0 10 0 MO C C-A-a 3 as Clubs are trumps and South has the lead North and South must wi win wil five of the six tricks against a perfect defense 1 Lay Layout out the cards on a table as shown hown in the tile diagram and study the situation See if Ir you can finda find a j d of play that will net North and South five l of the six THE HE SOLUTION Many players If confronted with this distribution of cards in an Actual bridge game would probably immediately concede their opponents to t-io tricks It is true that the situation situation situa situa- tion tia looks none too good with the jack 10 of or trumps at the left lefto o of the lone ace Yet overcoming ing this disadvantage is not half halt so 50 difficult as it may at first appear i South leads the ace of or hearts and i lien U the e jack of hearts North orth discarding discarding dis dIs- carding arding his losing diamond alamond South now SlOW leads lead's a a. diamond and North I trumps North must next lead a spade but South no no IO matter whether or not East ELst covers discards his last diamond Iamond And West unfortunately Isnow compelled to trump and then lead to-lead a trump from his minor ten ten- fe to South's major I The opening lead load of or a trump int in inthis t this Ls problem or 0 of a diamond brings obvious defeat If the jack of ot hearts is led to Norths North's king North Is Js placed lace In a helpless position T There here is js only one way wray to play the hand and to overcome West's advantage in trumps Copyright 1928 NEA Service Inc mc