Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-31 | Page 12 | Mistakes in Bidding at Auction.

MISTAKES IN BIDDING A AT kT AUCTION X t t y BY R. R F. F rosTER FOSTER t. t I r Under the new fleW count in which any Uit will wUl go gO game the dealers dealer's partner has baa a much freer hand in the matter of ot shifting suits because It Is so 80 much cheaper to overcall Under tinder the old count It if It th the dealer bid a a. heart and his partner had nothing but spades it was impracticable to call call four spade tricks Now one royal answers the same purpose The best beat rule for fot the beginner to follow fol tol low in this matter of shifting suits is 18 always to ov overcall his partner when hen unI un un- unable 1 I able to help him In the suit named pro pro- vided he has a good suit suit of h his hie own i Leaving t the e dealer In with his original I bl bid under such luch circumstances is a a. losing fame I The theory upon which the shift Is based Js Is this Tour Your partner declares on I average strength sa say cay ZIvo or six cards If you ae only one or none of ot that suit you will find only six or seven Soven trumps between n the two hands But It if you shift to a five or six card suit of your OUr own o your partner may have toor two to or three cards of it among his side I suits in tn which case caze you will have eight or nine trumps between you Instead of ot only onh six sir or seven zeven If you fOu do not shift shirt your partner I is Justified in thinking you can help in his hie suit to such Ruch an extent that ItIs it It Is not worth while to show a a. suit of I y your ur own on The moment you ou shift shifts he Is wamel and if he persists In going back baek backS I suit it Is with his e s i to his hie own eyes open S H Here r Is a a. hand that snows shows the effects effects' of oL a failure to shift S Z dealt and bid a royal which all all' panted aJ l d- d dY Y should have overcalled this with two towo hearts to show that he could not support the royal but had a. a good call calt of at his own Instead of ot this he looked upon his hand as cus an excellent support to his partner in plain suits S I fA A led ted the supporting Jack of clubs dubs and Sy 1 K Q 97 T t I 2 0 Q g 3 7 J. J JJ J I I J Y iff t o a I 0 J to 1 LAB B K 7 8 0 K 8 T r A JO e 3 A J JO e 8 g 2 Z r r 0 A 64 N t f 1 8 83 3 y 1 0 J 5 4 7 K Q 8 5 n th ind and nd I led lr trump trump- A Jed JadI led Jad I mother anther ther club aid ad on the third rOund Z ruffed rotted and l fed led d a trump leaving three good in As A's hand band all afi of or which made to together together to to- gether gather with the ac ace and king of ot diamonds dia dla monds so 80 that Z Z's 8 contract was set for tor Or two trick tricks It If Y t had shifted to two hearts as he should have done Z would have known the tho reason reMon for It at once and would have been glad to acc accept pt the change B would have havo led a a. club and two rounds would have exhausted the trumps so that all tho the tricks A and B would have havo made mado would have been the tho ace of ot spades spades' and two Iwo diamonds leaving Y and aud Z Z the game with four b by cards In hearts If the tho dealer doe does does' not like the shift shUt or ha has enough in his own hand to Ignore ig ignore Ig- Ig nore flora It lt he can always go back to his original declaration