Show y BETTER BRIDGE By dy C. C H H. H GOREN North and South vulnerable West Vest deals NORTH NORTHA A 9 A 4 V 10 6 4 3 A 6 4 3 K 8 5 WEST EST EAST EASTA A 10 8 5 2 A AAK A K KV V 7 7 V K J 9 8 2 Q 10 7 2 9 98 8 J 10 7 2 9 6 4 3 SOUTH SOUTHA A Q J 7 6 3 V A Q 5 K IC J 5 A Q Bidding West Vest North East South Pass Pass 1 ly Dbl Pass 2 2 Paso Pass Pas 3 NT Pass Pa Pass Pass Opening lead Two of ot clubs Prevailing Pre over a field of or 52 teams leams th the largest in the annals of the Vanderbilt cup matches Charles Lochridge Lee Hazen Morie Elis Larry Hirsch and Harry F Fishbein staged a Frank Merriwell finish to annex the title in the final round by a margin of points after trailing by at the three-quarter three mark Neat card counting enabled the I eventual winners to register a al point gain on the hand shown I today East's third-hand third bid of one I heart and South's takeout double require no comment South's second second second sec sec- ond call can of two no trump may appear to some observers as the act of a timid player but his cauLion caution caution cau- cau tion Lion was well considered So far faras faras faras as he can tell partner may be completely for the two- two diamond bid was made under compulsion compulsion compulsion com com- of partners partner's double North having laving an ace and king more than he might have had carried on to game West Vest opened the deuce of clubs and declarer won with the ace That the spade suit would have to tobe tobe toe be e developed was quite evident but mt the usual method of leaning towards toward's ones one's high cards was going going gong go go- ing ng to prove awkward in this case because of a scarcity of entries to dummy It required no stretch of the imagination to place East with both high spades in view of his lis bid and declarer paused to form a preliminary sketch of the adverse distribution Since West Vest had chosen to leads lead I from a jack-high jack club s suit it in I preference reference to the suit partner had hadid bid id it was reasonable to assume that hat he had no more than one heart hearl The lead of or the two of ot clubs indicates that he has only four card length in that suit so that his pattern appears to be 4 T This h his i s conclusion was reached on the assumption that if f West Vest had held a five-card five suit he ic would have led it in preference to o clubs I If declarer is right in this diagnosis diagnosis diagnosis East must have the lone king ace-king of spades A small spade was vas led at once toward the dummy East Hast won with the king and returned re re- turned the nine of ot diamonds De- De clear took with the king in order to o re retain ain dummy's ace for future entry cashed the queen of clubs and led another low spade establishing establishing lishing the suit Copyright 1949 C. C H H. Goren |