Show Mistakes t in n Bidding at S Bidding to Get a Us Useless less C t By R R. F. F Foster No o mistake Is more common at aL auction than that of making a a. a declaration which will be of no use to the pla player cr If ff he het Is- Is left with it IL Th Tho pr privilege of f playing the hand may be c valuable In several ways Sit It ma may pr prevent h cl from adversaries going go- go In ing game gam on on their cards carde and by not letting let Id Un ting them it t mii may may- you enable to game yourself It may h help lt you oU to es escape escape es- es I es-I cape ape a a. loss 1058 which your partner h has J laid laid himself open to If It you transfer the lead ta tol your left hand adversary instead of ot leaving lea It on your right But there are some Home hands which it cannot cannot cannot can can- not do you any any possible good to to play These are the hands ha none of the above reason h haMs on on which you OU ou cannot go game hands In which the ad adversary's adversary's adversary's ad- ad declaration cannot win ln it hands halida that Ee present ent no nn dan danger erl t to your p partner To bid on such hands bands at tall all is a mistake mi take Tike Take this cases case S S I 1 I S 0 4 5 S jo g 8 5 a y I Q J 40 l 42 4 p I K oJ 7 2 A. A B 3 A It I oi z J a i I ci 10 G a aI I K Ic 7 4 4 Z d dealt alt and called the conventional spade A overcalled with one club which is a mistake there thero is la not the slightest danger that Y and Z will ro Kt game In spades nor is there any possibility pessi- pessi blUt of As A's going game Jame In fn clubs The question of relieving the partner from rota an awkward situation has hu not yet et arisen S Look at the matter as you ou will it must bo be clear that this this' bid of As A's Is Ss a a. mIstake mistake mis mIs- take because no m matter what we ma may charitably suppose to tobo bo his object he Is 18 bidding to get a a. useless contract for the contract goes with Ith the bid unless unless' It IsI is I overcalled In this case It 11 was not overcalled and andA A was ag left to play It as aa Y could not 8 ee see anything any in his hand that would Justify him In pulling A out of ot ofa a a. hole so he icon con contented ten tented ted himself with a double to which B B. B had hf nothing to say and A has no safe sate place to Jump to I In the pla play Y T led three rounds of ot hearts I Z ruffing the third and coming up to the i dummy's weak suit with a a. small spade A A. lost no time in trumping trumping- this second secondhand hand and leading out two rounds of trump trumps so as to exhaust Z Then he ha led leda a small diamond put on the ac ace and finessed the Jack on the return This trick A rutted ruffed and picked up As A's remaining trumps after which he made three spade tricks setting the contract for tor points ou au the double All AU this Is due to As A's bidding for tor a a. use use- lees contract undertaking to mf make e seven tricks in a n suit that can never go game when his adversary is saddled with a still wor worse e contract In a R. still cheaper trick Such bids are arc always a a. mistake |