| Show l 1 German Game of Latest Rival of Bridge 1 Unless UnIes all aU gl signs ns fail tail there will vIl bon bo be boa a U new UC candidate for fOl public favor or In InS Inthe S the line of ot card games this winter and that Is 1 says aS a'S the New Now York Sun The wor word Is a German S on of oC an nn Italian term teran In and Is pronounced with the long n un a S us If Ir f j It were ero spelled An Any one ho ha has watched the history r or of cards mu must t have remarked ed the t. t curious regularity with which the favorites favorites fa orites come and anel go In 1896 when S whist was at the height of Its fame and the animal con congress res o of the Amerlean Am- Am in- in erlean Whist hl t league brought y r delegates at the Oriental together hotel hotelS S from all paiLs of the United Stales nn and even en from England n R writer In luj the Sun declared that the day was I S not far distant when bridge woula oula I supersede all other forms of whist About seven years eaIS ago the Sun announced announced an announced an- an that bridge was the coming game although It was still unknown unknownS unknown'S S 'S outside a few of the leading clubs and not a single text book on the game tame had lial been published There Then was a t time when ouch euchre re was waN as I the lIw national game Jamo in lit America and whist was waN vcr very little played When er was vas at the of oC Its Us larity among fashionable people and hero thero were verc six fifty women's ol 1 poker cr clubs meeting In single uptown hotel in New the Idea that an any game r-ame cou could III e ee ever e I hike e Its place especially especial such a simple game as whist was wasi wasl laugh laughed cd at What game ame was there thore people asked that cou could III touch poker 1 j But the till game came and It it was straight whist without honors Years before duplicate was heard of whist t was the fashionable craze In society When duplicate came caine in 1891 it 5 knocked out whist a game which is hi isnow no now obsolete r Ten Tell years 11 a ago o two forty two papers in the United States we wore devoting from two to four COtH columns a week to duplicate duplicate cate whist news and notes Eye Every one C. C said that nd u no game could ever take the lie place o of duplicate and anti the few ew S. S who had over 1 heard o of bridge e con con- l it as simply a gambling which would do for Cor an occasional variation from froni the thc real game like S. S piquet or 01 S 1 Is Dropping Out Euchre is still n a popular game It i 1 Is true but not with the people who vho deS de de- S mand greater gloater opportunities for Intellectual Intellectual Intel- Intel rivalry than such a simple I game ame affords Euchre has dropped 1 v Into the thc second class and is now a round game g-ame like pinochle f Poker Polor I Is still Mill popular but only as a gambling proposition anU behind cbs clos ed cel doors It Il was waR never a game which could be u used ed for social or charitable purposes g In III largo large gatherings Of the fOlt two forty two papers that pub pub- whIst whilst columns ten years ago but hut t two o remain and although h th the grime game J still stI among the clubs that belong to the whist league It Is seen S. S only on regular club nl nights Before BeCore nn and after the compass game and at all nil other times the pIa play Is bridge There uro aro still trophy matches maches and tournaments but whist has hag practically disappeared from the thc social world ne' ne Is Js never neer asked to dinner with whist h iL r gam ls is y iii J r y Bridge Ilc is unquestionably the pres cut ent favorite and In spite of all that has hax been written and preached against it il card cani players seem scorn cm to be bridge mad The same extravagant ant assertions of oC undying popularity ole are today put forward for for- ward warl in favor of oC bridge that were heard years ago ngo about euchre and and whist anti and duplicate One Ono continua continually 11 hears the a assertion that there cannot be a u better game and that nothing can caner ever er take e its Hs i place They said precisely the same things about duplicate ten years ears ago Slay 1 lay a it be not possible that the they are I equally In error about bridge Chall Change Is Welcome People love loye change and card play ers arc are always read ready to take up tip something some some- thing thing- new but the standards s which I have been I set et by such games as whist L Land and arId bridge have educated people up Ur to demanding games r which offer tho thi I fullest opportunities Cor or nr the exercise of or tho the Intellect and it ma may safely h be said Id that no game gume will wl over ever be widely popular in this country in which th the mental enjoyment derived from froni th the tho 3 play of the cards canIs Is ls not lIot more of oC ai an all I object than the mere mero winning or losing of tho samo arne ane itself Games Gaines of this high class s are aie no not t Invented in a n day clay and ail no absolutely 5 HOW now game gamo has ever er become th the fa fashion h It on ma may be comparatively un titi known but hut it must be matured It Is I me J nl product that can ever I be lw a favorite in Pr the tho first set el All hI the great reat favorites of or the past jast havo have been old The origin or of pf euchre Is Js lo lost t in the lie mists of antiquity It II looks like a variation of or the oldest ImO known Il game of if cards spoil live P Pol Poker kei cr came caine to tn America at the lime line of or Uie UlC revolution lc The TIlt civil war var and Ill lie tho Introduction of oC the tilt draw dra made inside it popular Whist t was us oo years caa old when America took It up and had Its rage In England a century before Bridge had been played In for fOl fifty lifty years at least before New cw ew York ever evel heard o of it Il and it was known In Eng Brig la land d as far fur back at 1870 1871 1 Depends Oil on I Merit The fact that a game l IM aJr already all known or oi ha has been played for COl years In Is no lie la reason on wh why it Il should not step lute Into I the front rank arid and become the fashion Cashion It Is Is not the Intrinsic merit of a gamo I that thai makes malc it a f popular favorite but borne fortuitous combination of oC circumstances cir cir- CUan that brings it to the tho notice ur of people that have han Influence anti and following following fol fol- fol lowing In such tuch matters The Thc favorite at court COUlt Is never nc a born new baby but some on ono one that i is picked lIcked out from rom the throng that al always always always al- al ways surrounds sun the throne Every E game has Its da day an and there may many be he hearns hearn's games gaines now how but little known which will willbe willbe be he all uJ the rage JaJO In th the tho to 10 corne come Some of oC these games with possibilities I- I tics could be e named but bul the he visible ble hIe cloud upon the Ire playing card horizon hori zon 2011 now Is No o hiS hiS' bigger el than hair a li aman's amans limans liman's mans man's hand halll but full Cull of oC portent portent portent por por- tent for fOI the tho future It Is not a now new game ame and amid it Is 18 not by an any means unknown There are arc I players In this tins country countr to today tc- tc C- C da nay day with a a. well organized league which has held lucId annual congresses r sluice since 1898 At the last meeting hold lucId holdIn In III Buffalo In fn Jul July more than 2000 players assembled from all parts of the country countr and antI they had automobiles J for prizes In fn the lie tournament But nut people will never nc give up I bridge o for or say 13 the tho bridge en en- en I en-I THat Is what the they said s-ald a 11 few years cars S ago about giving 1 up whist for bridge rho Those e who have a hand on the tho pulse of the cur card playing public know bet bet- ter Bridge c In Second Place From whist and bridge clubs In iii widely separated cities Buffalo Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton Indianapolis noche Rochester Chicago T Toronto and Memphis comes Memphis conies the tho in in- in formation that bridge Is gradually giving way to and that those who have got far enough Into the game same to tc see Cec Its line points will not play bridge If It thc they can got get et a game or of One Ono of oC tho the best known women womer teachers of oC bridge In New cw York was war I. I asked what she thought o of Well ell shoji s raid ald I had fourteen I cl classes se at a a w watering place tIace near neal Do Dos Bos ton this summer Thc They were organ organ- to learn bridge or Ole rather to per feet themselves in game ame but bul L Ih they all took tool up kat Instead Th Tho best woman bridge player I know who I I lives hives In iii Buffalo wont won't to touch ch the gamo amo If it she can get et kat I expected to toI C I I teach leach the game ame ip Ir Now New York all this winter hut but I r find thc they want In hi I j I fact they arc are crazy for fOl It Ii when once r they get to know lenow It A 4 well known man teacher of whist and bridge and the author of more mOIe than hair twenty hooks books on card games gaines ames wa wat asked the other othel day what whal he Ire thought about While I have played for years yean he said sall and arid belon belong to both the German and till the American lean leagues my attention was first called I Ito to tire the po possibilities of the game ame by a n astory story told mo mc by Lady Ialy in London I last spring It appears that tome seine people at a dinner party parly were plais In lug ing the he attractions of bridge in iii tin tin- presence of oC the In King the till King remarked ed that he thought was va the better belter sameI game same I quite agree with the tire King that thai in some respects Is a n hotter better game ame In fact act It has bras several cral points In Iii Its favor Ot that no other othel game garric can an boast of or Good Gallic Came for Three cu 1 To 10 begin with It Is one of the few really II good gOOl games for three players hut but If IC there arc are four or 01 live e candidates candi candi- dates the they pa call cati all aU pla play and even six may ma- make make- makeup up a actable table This Is in in in- finitely better than whist hist or bridge In which if IC there are arc not exactly four It is either impossible to pla play or 01 some ont ono must sit out and anti watch the game Jam all aU through a rubber In Iii a newcom new new- com r never neer ha has to wHit wall for COl a n seat eat and aul the s game me is finished any finy time lime you ou want to stop does docs not lint the element lt It to 10 make male It interesting Ic t ii like bridge C or ol In bridge you must play for Cor money or there would he be no restraint on in the thc declarations lIons No matter how rash the make malic may be in bridge e it is po possible to pull It of off but In It Il Is useless to lo overbid your hand because you ou know In advance advance ad ad- vance that you ou must lose In bridge you declare with a view to winning as ns l much uch money as aN possible In rn shut you declare In order to get the privilege liege of playing In the one you ou must declare win vin vinor or lose In the thc other othel you declare only when you have the odds in lii your Ca favor 01 Many Ian of the elements that make bridge 80 so ar are are to be found In n such as ns the sole ole regJ responsibility on I ItOI lot or the result of ot the declaration rest rest- in lug ng with the player who names the I and the tho combination of or two acher adversaries R against him But In I there heie Js 8 s VIe aWl that the thc I t adversaries aiL Ie not always the sani m 1 i pair pall as na Y th they are rc 1 irr bridge With a t. t table blo of four players there thele areno areno are areno no less q i than nine different ways was In which one Ol plu player cr naming the trump ma may be opposed to a different partnership partnership partner partner- partners ship I In bridge c there are only two games game trumps and no trumps and I there lucre i is Only one wa way of or selecting them them to to name them In lii lh there re are ale seven games and there are re three different ways of oC selecting them con Coil considerable judgment bein being required In Inthe Inthe the choice of ot methods N Not ot t Hard Hurd to toAs lAua As to the game tame Itself there seems to be he a general but hut mistaken impression sion that it Il Is complicated and anti difficult to learn Iud Judging ing from the tho description tion of or it this Idea Ilet of oC the game ame must be a rifle one Both the teachers quoted above in insist sl t that If IC the game gamo am Is properly presented pre pre- to the pupil It Is ca easily II mast mastered red redIn I In ten le lessons ons of ot an all hour each and anti atthe at ni atthe the end of that thal time line any person Ierson of or ordinary Intelligence will be a better shut player than the majority of oC those I Iwho who have havo simply picked up the thc game same e Cs cn c Oil en If IC the they have ha played It Il for COl years cars Is played with a pack Jack of thirty two cards all iI below the thc seven being thrown out Put As in hr all German games the lie 10 ranks mules s next to tl the ace and anti then her comes collies the K Q Q 9 D. D 8 8 7 i. The Tho four foum Jacks arc are always alwa's tho tire best bt cards li ii lithe III I Ithe the pack lack no no matter what the lie trump I suit ma may be rh There re ar arc never more than three ac ac- l live ive pl players In acl leal although four r rr o or 01 r live Jive ma may maIt sit It at the same samo table amid tal take alec c their thell turns to III p become active c players Each individual I Is for fUI himself him s self elf and anti th the final linal result t is an arm Individual ual scorn score Each i deal feal Is IN practically a L complete game gamo in It Itself clr but it Is usual t to 10 o finish a a- a around round so that each cach may have dealt un air HI equal number Humber of oC times Any ny one olle can live bye the 1 deal whIch It passes in lii order older to the left leCt The Ihie cards card are arc given out three at a 0 aline time line for Cor the first st round then two are laid aside face down for fOl the thc then four our more to tn each player and finally finally- three e. e sa SQ that each humid hand consists con c 0 of ten ton cut UI da ds When hien hen four time the dealer our play takes no cards When holl five fi play h ho he gives cs to 10 tile two hl his left mId arid tho thur one on hl his ugh right I. I i There arc several varieties of oC game I to bo bt lilaY played d. d and the players bid a against uric mile another for the privilege of saying what hat the thc game shall Rhall be the tho one ono offering to play pIa the game which will vIii win or lose the time greatest r number of oC points having the choice Bidding I 11 Is i Done This Thin bidding is done b by naming the lie he figure value alue of a game such as twelve sixteen sixteen sixteen-or or thirty as rime case cuse may be If no one bids lids the player on the tho dealers dealer's dealers dealer's deal deal- ers er's left has ban the right to name the tho game g-ame Alm Any 11 bids are made madl to him hun first by bythe bythe bytho the tho player on his hilS left leCt If IC ho he has a game worth as much himself ho lie f says a 80 so and arid the other must bid higher or em pass The I survivor U rv 1 01 of oC this first bidding bid bid- bid I ding is 18 then open to bids from Crom the i third man who must of offer reI higher than thai I the lie last bid or pass The successful bidder ca who Is called I the tho player can name numo as 98 much more expensive a a. game Jame a as he lie pl pleases a s but buthe he lie cannot name a n cheaper one If Jr Ithe I the he bid on OR which he holds It Is twenty he lie must pIa play a game worth at least twenty Having stated |
