Show William Wi McKenney I Improving Your Bridge Edward Hymes Jr who with Mrs A. A M. M So Sobel l captured the eastern s states t tat a t e s mixed pair championship is a life master whose skill in dummy play is second In today's hand he scored a top by making an extra trick at four spades while some other pairs who played that contract were set one trick On the opening lead East covered covered covered cov cov- ered with the jack and Hymes sitting South held up the ace East shifted to the queen of spades which h South won South led the queen of diamonds bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing out the king and ace Dummy led a diamond for South to ruff South cashed the heart ace and ruffed out his heart loser with dummy's last trump Then another diamond was ruffed Clearly Hymes read the trump break for now now instead of laying down the king of spades he cashed the ace and king of clubs and then ruffed a fourth round of diamonds That reduced his hand to one club and the king 10 of trumps West was stripped to three trumps When South led the losing club West was forced to ruff and his return lead gave South the last two tricks IA 43 87 7 N V 10 1093 9 3 W WE E ES K Q J 6 S 7 4 y J 4 7 5 2 Dealer Deater Hymes 2 2 Q A 10 3 Duplicate Duplicate- Duplicate tc-N tc None one South West North East Salt 1 4 Pass 2 4 Pass 3 A Pass 3 N. N T T. T Pass 4 A Pass Pass Pass Opening Opening V V 10 21 |