Show MISTAKES IN BIDDING V AT AUCTION V BY E. E P. P rOSTER POSTER V PASSING SPADE BIDS EmS V t V V BY BT B B. F. F FOSTER rOSTER Under tinder the old count it was a a common common practice for tor the dealer to bid a spade when ho really had a good hand but with some weak spot in it it the idea o of the spade bid being to make mako it easy eaBy tot foi the partner to show what ho he had in any ny suit This compelled the third hand to tomake tomake tomake make a bid of ot some kind In order to pull pun his partner out of ot tho the spade beCaUse becaUSe because be be- cause the dealer might have havo a hand that would go game If It he got ot a n chance chanco to bid it up to its full value on the second round It would bo be a a. sad cad waste of or ma- ma to leave him In with th the tho spade The principal reason for tor Insisting that the partner should pull tho the dealer out was that tho the opponents were wore not like to do so eo if it tho the dealer had a a. strong han hanas hand as u there were only two suits that offered an any chance to go game gamo and th the tho dealer who bid a spade usually had one o of these two in view for tor his second bid if it not a no Whichever it was there was not much chance for tor the opponents opponents opponents to bo be able to make nake any declaration declaration declara declara- tion worth while so the dealers dealer's partner partner partner part part- ner had to be depended ed on to give tho the dealer a a. chance to amend his original bid But in royals royal under tinder the new count all this I U II changed and the opponents have bave all aU four suits to pick from In any of which they have have a chance to go game and upon some ome of ot which they will probably proba bt bly bid therefore the dealer no Iong longer r makes make these tentative spade calls on strong hands and his partner should never take him out unless he Is pretty sure of ot his ground Any player r who bids just to show snow what ho hohM hohas hohas has hM runs grave gra risks 0 An As an example of such rashness take I th the tho following ln case A 2 A 3 2 V 7 73 S V I I Q J 8 5 7 2 A B K 8 I J 10 K J 9 06 6 Z V 6 43 I 6 4 oa 4 2 Z dealt and bid a spade which A passed as 38 he should nave have done as he cannot go game gamo In clubs clUbS' unless his lils partner part part- ner nur has a a. no O even when hen clubs are worth 6 a trick Y declared a a. heart and B doubled chiefly to show his partner partner part part- ner net that he could stop th tho heart suit ifA If It IfA ItA A had anything good but A passed again and Y could not do anything to get out of It On the tho pla play Y made mado only four tour tricks losing points If the student of ot tactics tac tac- tle tics will lay layout out the cards and arid pIa play tho the hand he will see how B starting with the ace and another diamond to get rid of ot the lead V Y should r have ha passed his partners partner's original spade calland call and let the adversaries a ries do tho the bidding V because under tho the new count no good player as dealer will call a spada with as good a a. hand an nH two sure tricks Count up Ya hand and add to it only ono one trick in th the hand band that v will willbe willbe l be his dummy and the thet weakness of ot his heart call can will UI be he at one apparent U Uder UnI Un Un Under der del the tho old count such Dueh n. n bid bid was vas all allright I right but not under the nosy new |