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IN PRINCIPAL CENTRU RIVlERA HOTEL CANFORD CLIFFS BOURNEMOUTH FACES CHINE AND SEA AMID GLORIOUS SURROUNDINGS Quality· fare- prepared by first class chefs Perfectly appointed bedrooms and suites Cocktail Lounge-Tennis-Golf Telephone : Canford .Cliffs 285 · -·· Brochure on Request • You can alrvcrys rr~v 011 a good game u.f Bridge at The Ralph Evans's Hotel CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION VOLUME 3 APRIL, 1949 Nul\mER 6 VINAIGRETTES • CONTENTS • Page * * * 2 EDITORIAL .• ·. " Reely," MASTER PAIRS 3 5. Complained Ely, Lmmo~ FLITCH " This constant praise of Goren ·wALES v. scoTLAND 6 Is jus.t too boren." CHELTENHAM- 9 PACHADO 10 * * * To WHoM IT MAY CoNCERN 11 Before you dare to play PoRTHCAWL 13 With ""Harrison-Gray, INTERNATIONAL TRIALS ·14 Take a lesson in the Squecse INTERNATIONAL From Reese. Dr. H. Li!.ist 15 ENGLAND V. NORTHERN * * * IRELAND • • . 20 Non~ ·could call Standish Booka HUNCHES P. F. Saunders 23 A palooka . Save Rixi E.B.U. COMPETITION REsULTS • • 24 When plagued-by ?cr familiar pixi. funrrutsES AND REsPONSES (2) Norma11 Squire . 25 * * * APRIL COMPETITION ·29 " "Hell I " ANSWERs TO MARCH Boomed Geoffrey Fell, COMPETITION 30 " You ought to read Simon, * * * Nimon." All Bridge Correspondence to the · Editor: * * * GUY RAMSEY, " Arrest' er," 13, Cannon ·Place, Screamed Madeline Lester, When Madge Trollope London, N.W.3. Came down a wollope. All Correspondence 011 SrtbscritJtions or Advertisirrg to .. • Publishers : . * * PRIESTLEY,STUDIOS LTD., . Leo Baron Commercial Road, Implored : " Keep your baron " Gloucester. · When, down 1,400, Leist Claimed he had over-sacrifeist. A I \ E_DITORIAL A T A recent Final, the f?ll~w- . session a change of partnership .l"1. ing sequence of hiddmg and the introduction of a fifth took place. South, 1 () ; team-member, until then, for the - West, after a long trance, No ; session; acting as Reserve. At' the North, 1 + ; East, No ; South, end of the session, the _ player 2 + ; West, after a second long withdrew from the contest, leaving trance, No ; North, 2 NT ; East, (presumably) the ex-Partner and No ; South, 3 NT ; West, after the Reserve to carry on. a third. long trance, No. Unhappily, the ex-Partner was_ East led a Minor through unfit to continue : not solely owing Dummy's bid and 3 NT were to the previous fracas-flu (possibly duly rolled up. responsible for the errors that had After the hand, West turned on . occasioned the initial disagreement) East like a pickpocket : " I cannot was in full swing. understand," he trumpeted, " how The event was one in wQich a you could fail to lead a Heart on multiple-team movement was in such bidding. It must have been force ; and to scratch the team obvious I held the suit." He of which the offender was a member brooded slightly. " What else was, from purely practical con could I have been thinking about, siderations, impossible. - except whether to bid Hearts ? " The Tournament Director in This true anecdote has given:_ the general interest admitted a rightly- all bridge-players who substitute- not a member of the have heard it a hearty laugh. team. But it is no laughing matter. It is true that the offender Temperamental exhibitions, like offended-obviously, or he would those immortalised by the late not have voiced his criticism in Suzanne Lenglen on the tennis public- in ignorance. But the court, are always regrettable ; but " informatory " trance is, as all in a Singles event, there is the experienced players. are well aware easy, if disappointing, redress of (even if some of them still scratching the offender. In a transgress- without this gentle team game, like bridge, they are man's naive admission) unethical. unforgivable, for such recourse is It is doubtful whether the East unavailable. in question refrained from a Heart No game-even golf- is ~ore lead from purely ethical motives : productive of exacerbation, irrita ~me ~ather~ the st:mdard of play, tion, and not only temperament m this particular Fmal, was mixed. but temper than bridge ; but the But in such circumstances, East canon of sportsmanship is therefore ought to refuse to lead the suit. the more obligatory. In an~ther recent event, a player Bad ethics and bad sportsman was guilty of a temperamental ship are the left and right Achilles exhibition which, by the same heels of this game of ours ; and it token, must be pilloried in the is for all players- pre-eminently for interests of bridge. those at the top-to place before _ .This player, after a disagreement these vulnerable points the sure - with Partner, requested in mid- shield of their own example. 2 Contract Bridge J owmat Qfficial Kibitzers Report on MASTER PAIRS '. ' .. ORM at bridge, always Wit.h · many pairs playing in ~npredictable, and especially strange formation~ the standard F so this season, reached its was even less impressive than usual; peak 9f improbability in the T.B.A. A typical example of combined Masters Pairs, held, as usual, at operations by declarer and defence the Bemers Hotel before the usual was provided on Board 26. large gallery this event attracts. .+ K85 - Richard Preston . and Ralph \:) A76 Swimer, stalwarts of the Arnold 0 J62 Elliott Team, " caked-:walked " the + KJ96 event. + 94-3 + AQJ62 This came as no surprise to \:) 4- \:) KJ953 many shrewd judges who ranked 0 AS · _ 0 . 94- them, rightly, as one . qf the most + AQ8754-3 + 2 _ consistent ·pairs in the country ; _ • 107 but it is a fact that they were \:) Q1082 brought ·into the -entry as last 0 KQ 108 7 3 minute substitutes. + 10 With a 70 per ~ent. score ·they . Dealer, Vv est. North-South were still a fe\v points . behind Game. Kenneth Konstam ·and Graham Mathieson at the end of Session I ; 4- + was the popu~ar contract thereafter they had the field to but was only bid and made at one themselves. Forging ahead with table. In one case the play went scarcely. an indifferent board to as follows: South led ·0 K, mar their progress, with bidding dum~y won and ·\:) 4- was led: and play of the highest calibre, North hopped up with \:) A (one they eventually ran out winners rarely. loses by ducking in this by the record margin .of 53 match situation), cashed 0 J and led a points. , low trump. - Not to be outdone, Konstam and Mathieson were East made the classic play- ·of gallant runners-up, another knock ·winning with + A, cashing. \:) K for the selectors .who had un in a hurry and ruffing a Heart on . accountably omitted Graham from · the table. -+ A was followed by their original list for the Masters + 4-, ruffed by East and over-ruffed Individual. Incidentally, for the by South, who now made the latter event Swimer only_came in killing ·return of a Diamond. as a reserve, finishing eighth ; Time stood still ' while East Preston . was left out-. altogether. considered this Greek . gift. Playing their· own version of Eventually ·he .trumped in his own .. Streamlined Acol,''' Ralph Evans hand, led another Heart and ruffed and Victor Mollo brought · off a' with dummy's last trump . .North fine and popular performance by obliged by over-trumping with finishing third. + Kl 3 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL It will be seen that if North lets 2 \7, . South . concluded 0at she dummy hold ·this trick, East. (who had read 2 + as a cue btd ; she now has left + Q J and hts last could scarcely hold four Hearts or Heart) can make only one more she would have bid 1 \? over trick. West's 1 0 ; therefore she was 1 As the mistakes of the Maste~s bidding on a three-timer I In the are usually more popular than thetr end 3 + was bjd and made for a occasional scintillations, we quote poor match_ point score. North two bidding sequences that caught came out best in the post-mortem, our fancy. for she could point to the fact that 1 NT doubled by East, on + A 10943 the " obvious " lead of + K, \? would have yielded a cold top for 0 Q73 their side. + A 10 8 7 3 • J7 53 + K1084 • J 5 \? 7 2 KQJ8 \? AQ6 \? 0 10 8 7 2 0 A65 2 0 J10 + 642 + QJ5 + A742 • Q 962 + 953 + A762 \? A65 \? 8742 \? KJ3 0 K984 OJ5 OAQ63 + K9 + Q 10 8 5 - + J 9 Dealer, North. East-vVest Game. + KQ 108 BIDDING \? 10 9 5 0 K95 NoRTH EAST SOUTH WEST + K63 No bid 1 + Dble 1 0 Dealer, North. East-"'est Game. No bid(!)l NT No bid No bid Dble No bid 2 + (I) No bid BIDDING 2 ~ No bid 2 + No bid NORTH 3 All pass EAST SOUTH WEST + No bid 1 • No bid No bid South, who was conscious that Dble 20 Dble 2 + he had overdone things a little 3 0 {!) All pass with his " Lederer " double on the first round, was naturally When South heard the musical horrified when his partner came sound of \Vest's preference of to life in doubling 1 NT.