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CONTENTS Page CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL .6 KILLARNEY 25-26 LoNDO:-~ AND nm Soum . ANY· QUBSTIONS 27-30 by Terence Reese 7- 11 Ct.ua N tGHT- LoNDoN 12 OvER nm BoRDER by C. E. Dickel 31-32 ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION 13- 15

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SoME A VOIDANCE PLAYS OULDREN' S OtmNO FUND 35 by George S. Coffin 21-;-22 DowN YouR WAY 36-38 MtDLAN DS AND THE N ORTH by Harold Frattklill 23- 24 COMPETITIONS .,. 39-44 s EDITORIAL · The European Championship ha~dly likely: And if they did not teams have now been selected and patr up successfully, they were at least six men and six women automatically out. Switch j 0 g find no fault with the selection round to find a partnership for committee. · ' individual high class players must Reese, Schapiro, .Dodds, Kon- be done now for 1953 if it is to stam, Franklin and Tarlo should, ' be done at all. with any sort of ordinary luck, · The women's. trials also leave a come through the strenuous ten little to pe desired The cham­ days play in Dublin, with flying pionship team were given games colours and we shall be surprised . against Mrs. Lester, Mrs. Gard­ if they do not win the champion- · ener and Miss Shanahan, who ship. It is a good first class . have .had a highly successful workmanlike team. L o o k i n g season- four first class players backward~. this is probably the ; from Birmingham, and a couple six who would have been chosen from Wales. A' team from Scot­ had there been no trials. land was invited to the trials but The B.B.L. have decided to rely were unable to attend. on the same women's team that The three named ladies fully won at Venice last year and no deserved their chance of going to doubt finally came to the con- Dublin but if the others were elusion that it would not be a entitled to a crack at beating the sound policy to interfere with a champions, what about Mrs. winning ·side. Perhaps they are Rumer and Mrs. Cooper who had wise but we feel that the team such excellent results in last year$ could be improved on by the trials and who missed Venice by · dropping of one or two of the a hair's breadth. Surely they players for others who have should have had a further oppor­ recently shown consistently good tunity, particularly as they bad form. • Here again the team finished far in advance of some of selected is undoubtedly the one those who did play. Why were which would have been chosen they not included in the trials? without the trials. In many respects 'these trials Here are the two teams in full : have been far from satisfactory Open event : Major G. FeU. and to pair up players as late as non-playing captain ; Mr. L. J_une and July is just a waste of Dodds, Mr. H. Franklin, Mr. K. hme. You can't make Inter­ Konstam, Mr. T. Reese, Mr. B. n~tional Partnerships in five Schapiro, Mr. L. Tarlo. mt~~tes and some of the men's Ladies' event: Capt. E. Kemp­ pamngs were impossible from the son, non-playing captain ; L:ady outset. Suppose one of the scratch Rhodes, Mrs. A. P. Evans, Mn. couples had had a brilliant 32 A. L. Fleming, Mrs. F. Gord~~ · or even 96 board match Mrs. R. Markus, Mrs. P. £Y•· ~o~ld t~e selectors' have felt JUSttfied m putting them in the Williams. team as the result of this trial- Good luck to both teams. 6 London and the· South' · hy TERENCE REESE . The international trials h~ve are not worse than 2- 1. The held the centre of the stage dur~ng details of the actual play ar~ the past month. Although title obscure, but Mrs. Gordon did not holders, the ladies have. not been manage it quite right and was one . allowed to rest on tbe1r l~urels . down. Nevertheless, her team They have played a senes of gained, for the opponents played matches and have been hard put in six no-trumps doubled and lost to it to hold their own against to the two aces. riyals from Birmingham, Wales, The final ladies' trial contained and London. This is a hand from this dramatic deal :- one of the earlier trials, when the • J8x holders were opposed for most of \} KJxx · the match by Mrs. Crisford and 0 XX Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Davies and Mrs. .. QJxx ' Preedy, all of Warwickshire :- • A lOxxx • - + x \}- \} Qxxx \) KQJxxx 0 AQJxxx 0 Kxxx 0 AK .. Ax .. 109xxx 1 4 A K 10 8 • KQ9xx • A Ox - • J9xx 0 Al09xx \) Al09xx \) XX 0 X O J!O xx 0 xxxx .. Kx 4 x tit x x x The bidding in Room 1 is best + K lO 8 x x studied from Mrs. Gordon's point \) - of view as South. Non-vulnerable ~ g;; x x against vulnerable opponents, she opened one spade. West bid three West was the dealer at love all. diamonds, North three spades, In Room I West opened one heart qnd East four diamonds. Sup­ and M.rs. Fleming and Mrs. Gor- pressing her heart suit, Mrs. d~n b1d the North-South bands Gordon bid four spades. West ~lth plenty of dash. North now launched into four no- oubled, South bid two spades, trumps, and in no time the bid­ ~orth two no-trumps, and South ding reached six diamonds. What ~ree clubs. North raised to five should South do now? Mrs. ~hubs and South bid six. Westmade Gordon played for safety and bid . e good lead of a . The hand six hearts, which cost 500. This l~ ~rhaps a little confusing; for may well have been a good view.- 0 t e play Mrs. Gordon made for only a trump lead prevents li~~ 0.f her rare mistakes. The best West from making twelve tricks thro~~ to play on the dummy, by cross-ruffing. It. is worth two 10S a spade on Q, ruffing noting that a trump ts the best 1 0 trick ~w hearts, ~nd conceding a lead after this sort of bid~in.g. It th 0 \)A. Th1s makes sure of was a good performance, tnc!dent- e contract so long as the hearts ally, by Mrs. Crisford and Mrs. 7 CONTRAcr DRIDGB JOURNAL Carr to reach the diamond slam against the opening bid. + AQ93 .. \} J 109 5 . At the other table the opening 0 107 3 bid of one spade was doubled by 6 K8 Mrs. Markus, sitting West. North 64 bid two and East three clubs. + · • KJ72 \} :-- \J AQ842 'Yit~ a . view to concealing her 0 KJ98642 0 AQ dtstribuhon, and probably think­ 6 AJ43 .,_ 72 ing that the hearts •would meet + to s 5 with little support. South bid three \} K763 spades. Mrs. Markus doubled 0 5 and collected 700. ... Q 10965 South dealt at love all. At my EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES table Meredith opened four dia­ and reports monds as West; ,I raised to five · on the Champions/zips and we made eleven tricks. At the will appear in the , other- table Konstam was West and Dodds East. Their bidding C. B. J. was:- West East No 1M THE MEN'S TRIALS . 20 2.v When the dust settled after th~ 3.. 3N.T. first set of trials for the Open 50 60 Series, the short list for Dublin The final bid, with a ·partner appea~ed to consist of tht;se pairs : who has passed . originally, Schaptro and Reese . (already scarcely seems justified to me. nominated as Probables), Kon- Fearing that declarer might stam and Dodds, J. Tarlo and _ throw losing spades on dummy's Squire, Rose and Rockfelt, L. hearts, and expecting to make a Tarlo and Franklin. The pos~i- trick with his club king, Rockfclt bility was also in the air that two led the ace of spades. He followed threesomes would be sent, in with a heart at trick two, and which case Meredith came in for · Konstam took advantage of this obvious consideration. The line- to m{\ke his contract. He used up for the next trial was : Kon- dummy's trump entries to set up stam and ' Dodds, J. Tarlo and the long heart, finessed ~.and Squire, against Rose and Rock- disposed of his three clubs 0~ felt, Meredith and • Reese. The + K. \}A, and the ~fth heart. first four won by 44 points after At first sight tt see!Ded . as . a match of high standard in which though a trump contt~uatton !. the winners have been generous would have been suffictent to enough to say that a good share defeat the contract, inasmuch as of the luck went their way. Some declarer would have beef0 tb: hands from this match were re- entry short to make ~ • ported by the editor in last long heart. On inspectton. boW month's Journal. An interesting ever it will be seen that a trUIDgbP ! . · t good enou · deal that he did not include was contmuatton ts no non·· the following :- Declarer can deve1 op a . ' CONTRACf• BRIDGE JOURNAL . ltaneous in stopped. North led his singleton ~hl~h North will have to throw a club. Konstam won and took club in order to guard the spa d ~s what must have seemed a very nd South will be squeezed m slight risk by finessing the heart hearts and clubs. A spade lead queen. A club and a diamond at the secon~ trick wi ll spoil the ruff followed, giving declarer a entries for thts squeeze. very anxious moment, for if Another slam hand fr~m the North had 'held three trumps a same match that proved a rather second club ruff would have de­ cruel Joss to our team was the f~ated the con~ract . following :­ THE ¥JN'AL MATCH . • J 7 3 2 \) 10 9 F or the final trial a team of five, 0 Q J 107q2 Konstam, Dodds, J. Tnrlo, Scha­ • 10 piro, Reese, played against Rock­ +84 • A felt, Rose, L. Tarlo, Franklin. 1J 18532 \} AQ 6 Had Mer~dith .been available at 0 K53 0 A984 the time he would have joined the ' .. QJ 8 tit AK974 first team, which would have • KQ 1096 5 played in two ' threes.' The object \) K 7 4 . of the match was to try that type 0- of formation against the estab­ • 6 53 2 lished pairs. Entrusted with the South dealt at game to North­ captaincy of the team, I conceived South. This was the bidding at it my duty to play in various my table:- formations so that the selectors South West Nortlz East would have a pointer as to Squire Meredith J. Tarlo Reese whether the mixed team would beat the regular team. To this No No No ltlt 1 1. 2\) 2. 3. innocent plan a variety of No 4"- No 40 nefarious motives, many of them No 4\) No 6\} self-contradictory, were ascribed. Double No No . No However, to the play ..•• A diamond was led and ruffed, On the first · day there was li~1 a hclub was returned. With nothing in it, Tarlo finishing one e ·ope Meredith took the point in the lead. On hand 15 ~ump and was 500 down. there wns an example of bow cl ebwould have been better in six · slight lack of partnership under­ tbu s, as the cards lay. As a rule standing can'lead to an easy slam ~~: ha~ds play better in the being missed :- and P sut~ of the weaker band, West , East \Vro my stx heart bid, right or • Q • AS ng, Was deliberate. \} 876 \} AQJ43 on~~ th~ other table South opened 0 AK983 0 Q52 and ba Jd North bid two spades," tit AQ95 .. K63 three s, on t_he East hand, Dodds opened one heart ns 5° four h pades. Hts partner bid East, Tarlo responded two dia­ earts, and there the bidding monds, and Dodds bid three 9 coNTRAcr ·nRrooa JOURNAL • diamonds. Tarlo now made a hearts. Looking at the dia a slam try of four clubs and Dodds one would say that that co~ra~t bid four hearts. This bid, accord­ was equally a lay-down. This is ing to his methods, was a shim '!_Vhat happened, however:- acceptance, since had he wished to play in hearts he would have Sitting North, I led 02. rebid the suit at once. Tarlo partner won with the ace, cashed placed him with a weaker, more ·~· . and .returned a diamond. distributional hand, ~o passed four Wmn!ng w.tth the jack, 1 played hearts. At the other table Frank­ the kmg wtlh the idea of making lin rebid two no-trumps over two ~ummy ruff a~d possibly promot· diamonds, Louis Tarlo bid three . mg a trump tnck .for the dt!f~oce. hearts, and Franklin four hearts, Rockfelt ruffed With the jack and which was· raised to six. There played \}K, on which the queen were no snags in the distribution fell from North. Remarking that ,.r and seven were made. be would rather look unlucky than foolish, declarer then played One hand on which we gained for the drop and so lost a trick to points in rather peculiar fashion the ten. From his point of view, was the following :- of course, I might have held the ·• 652 doubleton Q 10. The ruff with \}Q the jack in dummy was possibly o1 0 KJ42 mistake, but the lead might con­ .. · · 98732 - ceivably have been from a six­ •os •AKJ1043 card suit. \} A98653 \} KJ2 0 6 5 3 0 10 9 The second day began with d . 1 .. ,_ K Q .. 6 5 landslide to Tarlo s team. The . + 9 7 combination of J. Tarlo and Kon· \} 10 7 4 stam, Dodds and Schapiro, show- . 0 A Q 8 7 ing moderate understanding of & A J 10 4 one another's methods, lost 24 points in 8 boards. Thereafter East dealt at game alL East's little happened, and Tarlo finally rebid when his .partner responds won by 34 points. This was one two hearts to one spade in some- hand that occurred while the .. thing of a problem. Two spades · ay · is an underbid on playing values, points were fast runmng aw .- three spades an overbid in respect • K 5 ~ ~ of honour strength. · Three hearts \} K 0 8 6 4 : is more accurate in a way but does 0 A K 53 ~ not express the character of the - .. A 7 , band. Dodds ·chose the three • A 10 8 6 4 3 • 0 J 9 -~ spade rebid' and played in four \}... J 9 5 \} 32o94. ' spades after his partner had flirted 0 7 6 ..._0 J1 8 53 with a slam, bidding four clubs. tit K 0 • 9 There was no problem in this . -:-...... 7 ,_ contract when \}Q fell single. At \} A 10 7 the other table Rose rebid three 0 0 J 8 2 ·' - hearts and Rockfelt played in four_ 6 10 6 4 2

·~10 CONTRACf DRIDGB 'JOURNAL East dealt at game to Nof!h­ llad, individually, a bad match South. Dodds and Schap1 ~o the conClusion must be drawn that played the North-South cards m it is dangerous to move away four hearts. making five. At the from reliable partnerships. Had other table Rose and Rockfelt Meredith been able to play, of rather wound themselves up and course, my team would have been reached six diamonds. Rockfelt better placed to employ variation doubled West's opening one spade without lack of effectiveness. Both and East ventured two spades. pairs in the other team had very Rose bid three diamonds and good matches, and the selectors (I Rockfelt three spades. Rose bid write before the team has been four hearts. whereupon Rockfelt announced) have quite a problem used Blackwood and made his to separate the pairs who have way to six diamonds. played in these last two trials. An of +Aw ould have left declarer with a club to MELVILLE SMITH TROPHY lose, but Konstam naturally pre­ ferred the club king. Rose won London's team championship ·' in dummy, drew trumps, and · the Melville Smith Trophy, ui played five rounds of hearts dis­ which players have to exchange carding his two spades. Thi~ was partnerships every ten boards, the position when the last heart was won by Dr. Leist, L. Tarlo, was led:- Schapiro, Reese. .This team' con­ verted a deficit of 11 points at half + KS \} 8 time to a narrow win by 3 points 0 5 over Preston, Swimer, Rose, 4 7 Rock.'ielt. . AI084 + QJ \} - \}- 0 - 0- tf- Q .. 1 9 8 Our London Editor, Ter­ + 7 ence Reese and our North­ \J- ern Editor, Harold Franklin 0 J 4 1064 have both been selected · t~ 6\~ast discarded +J and South represent Great Britain in • d Konstam made the fine dis Dublin. of he saw that if ~~ 4 0. ~or h~ . . Congratulations to both wo~tdh~own m wi th a club he .A ave to lead away from and a memo for our readers. this ·d_lf partner had held tit J 10 saved 1:~ard of 4 0 would h av~ clarer w~ day, but as it was, de­ from th s able to lead a club YOU WANT THE BEST trick fo \·table and establish a WRITERS AND PLAY­ forman~ 15 ten ; a sparkling per- s. e a11 round ERS-WE HAVE THEM. tnce no mem ber · of my team II , . . Night·-. Londoln, >

I ' -· by our Travelli_ng Correspondent . . ' Just over three years ago there Cooper and Mrs. Amy Hurner .' was no London Club-Today it is act ns .hostesses. It would b~ one of the best known in the difficult to find a more popular .·~ : country, pre-eminent for duplicate couple. As every one is aware .. bridge, and the headquarters of they are first class players .. the E.B.U. The ~ver popul~r Wednesday ..; . The club was formed in June and Fnday duphcate. evenings 1949, by Sir Noel Mobbs, are invariably run by Major '· K.C.V.O., O.B.E., who is the , George .Gray, known to all as . . ·Chairman of . the Portland and .. George" or .. I promise you." . . who was until he resigned 18 ·The latter is the result of his con­ , · . months ago also Chairman of the tinual ' promise' to flne players . , an.d the for infringement of rules or for . '· ,· .. With such appearing late on parade. In a man taking an active interest, it . connection with the duplicate ·:; is not surprising that the London pairs events each week, there is a Club has become so important in · yearly competition at Christmas a • but even Sir time amongst the 20 players who Noel cannot'have envisaged such have accumulated the highest rapid progress. ' number of points throughout the International · Matches Gold year. In addition· Silver Spoons Cup , Finals, many m;portant a~e given ~ach month for the pair ... National ·Championship , Finals wtth the hrghest pe~entage. ·: and the European trials have all These weeJ4y pai.rs contests are been staged at the ~lub, which really the most enjoyable events has, in addition to the big room at the club-everybody seems to taking 20 tables, a number. of know everybody and the standard · smaller rooms ideal for matches of play is top hole and. as keen ~ and private-games. ·mustard but with the ngbt atmos- .,' Comfort is much in evidence phere.. All the experts ~lay here ' · and it would be very difficult to .with those nice " don't want to find any player with a name, ~bo move " chairs . . The rubber-bridge has not participated at so_me time room, the restaurant and the or other. It is a recogn ised .fact Co cktail Bar are on a higher floor. that if a couple or team reqwrc a · A special word must be said for · b rpen the cuisine in the restaurant." Just bit of spe.ci,al practrce or s~eSda; excellent." describes it best and on ing up, they go to the We . : : the tables there are always bowls night duplicate. .. of fresh flowers. These .do· help Many ove rs~as players turn up to sooth one when having dinner for a game and provincial ~tb: after a couple of hours of rubber in town now make the clu bridge where everything has gone bridge headquarters. .· is wrong. . Just to show that the bnd~ Two charming ladies, Mrs. Vida not always perfect here is a . 12 ' . CONTRACT DI~IDG E JOURNAL ' ~ d · a pairs event recently. Now look at the travelling score 0 .. · playeh t~e dealer and North-South sheet and note the contracts • Nort ble which were reached :- Vu1 oera · · · ~ i 8 7 4 2 Table 1. 2N.T. by S. mnde 10 tricks J 9 7 3 2. 2N.T. by W. - · 8 0 3. 20 by N. 8 tit K 6 2 4. 1N .T. by S. 7 • Q 7 53 • A J 9 4 5. 1N.T. by N. 8 \) Q \} J 9 53 6. 20 by N. 7 o· A Q I0 () 8 5 4. 7. .26 by W. 8 9 8 . · .. Q J 7 5 3 4t A different result nt all tables " . 6 . ' • K 10 . and no East-West played in . 0 ~ " g~ ~ spades, whilst at tables ' 1/2, 18 f . • A 102 4 tricks ·were made in ' no-trump -.:;' .;, 'd h contracts with the opposite cards. ' fJ Well, what do you canst er t e As the London Club is likely to be· par contract ? Probably two very much in the Bridge World for ·... ~ . spades by East-West or three a long time to come, is it possible . . hearts by North-South. The final .. contract will depend to a great to get a littJe more air into the .·.: extent on South's opening after· tournament room ·a eo r g e ? two passes. Presumably it will be "You'll open a window, thank one no-trump if playing the weak you George." "There is an awful · variety or one club or one spade if closed George." playing a strong N. .T. · " Good night." English Bridge . Union - The Annual General Meeting gap between expenditure and in­ of the E.B.U. was held at the come and drastic steps were taken London Club on June 25th. Mr. · to put the 'Union on ~a paying · Louis Tarlo, Chairman presiding. basis. The acr.ounts before you Ther~ was a large attendance ·and to-.day show how much we owe to We g~ve a few points from Mr. the sound Judgment of my im­ .}. Tarlo s report and also from the mediate predecessors, Mesrs. J. ~ · report of the Honorary Secretary W. Pearson and G. L. Butler. .• ., and Treasurer, Mr. Hugh Collins. It must, however, be borne in. • · From Mr. Tarlo's Report mind that, we still depend upon : ·, It will be seen from the ac- the voluntary work done by our '·;) counts that the steady improve- Honorary Secretary. Mr. H. Col: . ment during the preceding three lins, and our Honorary Tourna­ ' • ' I Year~ has been continued and this ment Secretary, ' Major G. Fell. years surplus of £637.18.5d. is a Each of them (Major Fell for the ~~cord . Our accumulated funds first time) receives 100 guineas as . th i~ stand at £2,140.0.7d. and of a contribution towards his ex- l over £1 ,750_is held in cash. penses ~ut this pa~ ment cannot fou would remmd you that just , even re1mburse them for the conr Years ago we were all gravely wages of their staff who help with cerned at the ever increasing our work. 1 • 13 , ' CONTRACf DRIDGB JOURNAL ,- I am sure that it is your wish to membership. The increase ·. record here our thanks to these Club J\.ffiliations from 72 to lm two gentlemen for the work that was gratifyitlg and he wished to they have done for this Union. think the County Secretaries wh Your Finance Committee is of in advance of the confirmation bo, the opinion that the ~ccumulated t~e Council of the recommenJ. funds are now sufficrent for our tlon from the Secretaries' Meeting, ·needs and will b~ putting before had made this improvement possi­ you proposals to mcrease our ex- ble. penditure and bring it closer to Balance· Sheet : Last year 1 ex- our anticipated income. pressed a hope that we should Membership : This has again achieve a reserve in excess of increased and although the pro- £2,000 and it is gratifying to find portionate increase is not as great that this has been achieved with .": as last year, for the first time, the a substantial margin. I feel that Union bas a membership exceed- ~our Union is now firmly estab­ ing 5,000 individuals. ltshed ·and has adequate reserves · · Most Associations have .shown to enable you to plan for a satisfactory increases but special ,developing future without always mention must be made of York- having to ensure an immediate shire, which continues to be our financial return to cover the initial largest Association and is steadily expenditure. approaching ·a membership of On the proposal of Mr. G. F. ' . 1,000: of Sussex, Nottingham- Spashett seconded by Mrs. Cole shire and Devon, who have added the Accounts and the report there­ nearly 50%, 75% and 100% re- on were accepted. spectively to their memberships The Officers for the year and North-Eastern, with the larg- 1952/53 were elected as fol· est numerical increase of 142. lows:- . · Competition~. . Chairman: Mr. J. W. Pearson. Entries generally, were fewer Deputy Chairman: Mr. G. Ro- than last year. The National land Dawes. ·. Pairs proved a notable exception- Secretary and Treasurer: Mr. wit~ more than 1,000 players H. Collins. taking part . TottrnameiZt Secretary: Major From Mr. Hugh Collins:- G. Fell. 1 Generally :-Total-Income had Auditor: Mr. G. D. Johnstone. increased by £117- and Ex- Mr. L. Tarlo proposed a vo~ . pendit~re decre~sed by £16- giv- of thanks to the Auditor for his . ·, mg an mcrease m surplus of £133. services in. the past year, this was Subscription Income : £734.4.3d. agreed. Although this constituted a new Mr. G. L. Butler pro~ 1 . record, the rate of growth which vote of thanks to the retinll8 ,., during the past year or two had Chainnan, Mr. L; Tarlo, this was been steady at 10%, had, this passed by acclamation. . year, s!owed ~own to about 6%, Following the gene~l ~:C~~ the mam contnbutory.factor being the Council met and dasc~ a drop of 200 in the L.C.C.B.A. number of items on the ag~ 14 i, ' • • t ' 'tV " I • ! • • •: ':'"" •.. I •: / 0•;. • ' ') \ p I • ....• e, ... ~ ,... I ~ t , • ,, 1 ' • ' , ,,1 • - ' · ' :. ' I .. CONTRACT DRIIJGB JOURNAL Chairman welcomed the mittees for the · ensuing The. 0 ew delegates to the year :- follow· mgMessrs .-. R· F · Corwen) (a) Finance and ExecutiveF , U0 1 0~ A) A. E. Wilson (Lines • Committee : Messrs,: . ~fA." 1.' Smith (Herts). . 0. Bingham, G. L. But- The Minutes of the Counc1l ler, S. C. Kastell, J. G.' t · Meeting held on 4th March, Hartley, R. Preston, T. were read and approved. Reese and L. Tarlo Arising therefrom IT WAS (b) Rules and Ethics Com- AGREED that :- ' mittee: Messrs : G. L. ) Cl b5 Should affiliate . Butler, G. Ramsey, T. (a throughu County Assoc!a-• - Reese, L. Tarlo and Mrs. tions, where such assoc1a- Cole. ' tions exist, and that the (c) Selection Committee: amount to be remitted to Messrs : G. L. Butler, the English Bridge Union H. Franklin, N. R. C. for each club should be Frith, J. G. Hartley, P. de I 0/6d. R. Pearse, T. Reese and (b) After discussion it was R. Vincent. · agreed that the delegates (d) Tournament Committee: to the B.B.L. should be Messrs : F. 0. Bingham, instructed that in the G. L. Butler, G. Fell, H. opinion of the E.B.U. no Franklin, J. G. Hartley, change in the present F. Mase, R. Phillips. T. method of staging the Reese and L. Tarlo. Camrose Matches was 4. Delegates to the British desirable. Bridge League were ap- 2. Delegates drew attention to pointed as follows : · the inadequate manner in · Messrs : G. R. Dawes, G. which the final of the Gold FeU, J. W. Pearson and L. Cup was staged in 1952 and Tarlo. it was felt that the prestige 1 5. Mr. Butler gave notice that of this event would be im- the London Contract Bridge paired unless future arrange- Association had appointed a ments could be made on sub-committee with a view some basis that would make to approaching the B.B.L. the. final of the premiere with the object of allaying national competition, an some apprehension which event to attract the notice of was felt amongst members of th ~ majority of duplicate London as to the treatment bndge players in the coun- of Mr. Harrison-Gray. After try ; and IT WAS RE- discussion it was agreed that ~0!--VED that the B.B.L. be the E.B.U. delegates to the InVIted to stage the final at B.B.L. be 'instructed that the '• ~he E.B.U. Spring Congress E.B:U. did not object to the 3 '" Harrogate. · B.B.L. receiving this Com- . The following were elected mitte if the B.B.L. Council to serve on the various Com- so desired. IS ·, . by ~PAUL MASTERS Cross-Channel Contcst-:~Uiamey. Many of the bridge-minded are co~r~ging ~hange of suit with the turning their eyes towards Ireland, wathng. btd of two diamonds. for the . C.B.A.I. are to be the Mrs. Sptro. even when making the hosts in this year's European bid, felt that three clubs was a Championships. timid ~ffort but feared to bid four Last month there was . a pre­ clubs since it meant going past liminary invasion', that hardy and three no-trumps. South could not popular ~nnual, the Kill~mey be criticised for taking no further Bridge .Week. We made thts the ·action. : occasion for our bidding match The O'Connell's of Cork are a and appropriately, the contesting by-word in Irish bridge, J.W.L. sides were drawn the one from is a past president of'the C.B.A.I. home players and the other from an'd many times an international cross-channel visitors. A convincing win in this year's Dawn Cup showed that his game • 983 still retains its keen edge. Younger \} 84 2 son F.W. was one of the successes 0 3 in last year's Irish team in Dublin. . .. AKQJ82 In partnership with his brother I Barry he only narrowly missed • AKJ 105 selection for this year's event. The \} Q 9 3 bidding followed the course of the 0 A 72 previous pair. The father selected ... 104 two diamonds as his rebid. the son continued with three clubs in the South was the dealer at Love hope that his partner . might be All and the first to bid the hand able to take further actton-none were Mrs. F. McMenamin and was forthcoming. The three club Mrs. H. Spiro, two members of bid was a tortured effort. North th~ Irish Ladies team which is quite clearly realising the attend­ sure to be a force to be reckoned ant risks. He pointed out that be with in September. had been contemplating the more Soutlr Nortlz encouraging effort of three spades (Mrs. McMenamin) (Mrs. Spiro) and was only dissuaded from ~ 1. 24 course by the absence of a spa 20 3.. honour. . No yet another past , I~b Bridge They were not entirely happy President. Joseph 0 Ne,tll• of thC with their cont,ract but pointed dulcet tones and honey d ton~ out that there is no certain game is known far and wtde .for conract on the hands. Mrs. ability to make most "'mgsCC: McMenamin felt that the hand excuse for a party. Th~ su wife was rather too strong for two of he and his cha~ng ph · spades and made the more en- Mauread in the Loch Le~n Tro 1 16 CONTRACf DRIDGB JOURNAL d 'ust provided an excellent one Cup and went one better in the ba J were hopeful that these Egan Bowl, the mixed Pairs -we . f bands might be the occaston or ·Championship, when they were runners-up. In a field which con­ another. d' d f Here is how they tspose o tained international players from this hand:- three countries this was quite an South North achievement. - (J. O'Neill) (Mrs. O'Neill) t+ 24 . . South 1. • \ I• 2+ 3. 20 3N.T. No 3. South had no doubt as to his No Bid rebid-he felt that there was unlikely to be a game unless his A team who were visiting Kill­ partner could make a further arney for the first time were the effort. Three spades was the Norfolk four, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. proper and obvious effort and the Allwood and Mr. and Mrs. P. A. three no-trump bid that followed Broke. We gave the menfolk the was a judicious bid- South's was South hand and this was the the type of band that might well Allwood effort :- produce nine tricks only -and his .band was already closely defined :·: So Lith by his initial rebid of two spades 1. , \ • - his partner could always retreat 2N.T. t~ four spades if necessary. With 3. SIX ready-made tricks in the club No sui! North contemplated no such action. We found Mr. Broke nursing a Although the names of many damaged leg, attributable we were famou~ players grace the Killar­ assured, not to a partnership mis­ ney Bnd&e Trophies, the common understanding but to the flying cbaractenstic of the players who hoof of a pony at the Gap of keep on returning, is their ability Dunloe. There was certainly little misunderstanding about their bid­ ~ridtake their pleasures lightly. · ge never becomes more than ding of this one. ~!b~ ga!lle .here-enjoyable both . South North an WJ~ntng and in the losing, 24 wh· admirable frame-work on 1. .· . 2N.T. 3N.T. ·As ~ ~~;o hang lasting frienaships. No tioo in tl~ross-channe l representa- tbre .1s contest we have chosen They found nothing to com­ Woril~~ of typical visitors, not plain about in their final effon siderable ters ~ut players of con- and having appointed ourselves capacit fexpen~~ce with a great your referee for this month we of the ~a~~ denvmg pleasure out take this early opportunity of Mr and M . agreeing with them. The band is Eastb~urn r~ . E. G. Seldon of taken from the final round of the Pairs Ch e ~ntsh7d third in the . To refresh the memory amptonsbtp for the Dawn we set it out again :- 17 • CONTRACt' JDRIDGE . JOURNAL + 98 3 difficulty ~n raising to three. The \} 8 4 2 sequence IS the one we most com. r • 0 3' . mend to our readers and points tit AKQJ8~ are awarded as follows :- 3 No-Trumps· 10 points • AKJ105 4 + 8 points \} Q 9 3 3 + or 3 .. 4 points 0 A.72 5 .. 2 points .. 104 Ireland therefore scored eight­ Three no-trumps is clearly the een points against 26 by the most desirable game contract. It visitors. · _ can be defeated only if a heart is Hand number two is the follow. led, if the hearts . break 5-2 ing:- specifically and ~f the _nyo top + AQJ109 honours in the smt are diVIded. \] KQJ84 On a 5-2 heart break a five 0 A82 club contract would be defeated .. - on top by two rounds of hearts I • followed by a heart ruff. II the ' + K5 defence take three heart tricks . \J A 3 . against a spade contract the game' 0 010753 would depend on the position of .. J942 the spade queen. with North the dealer at Game When the hand was originally All. played both South players decided Mrs. McMenamin and Mrs. that the hand was too good for a Spiro bid the hand with machine- rebid of two spades. Meredith and gun rapidity · Leist, Baron players, settled for North South the waiting bid of two diamonds, ' 2+ 30 r •• favoured by several of our com· petitors. North felt be could bid 4\J - 6· ": ~- I No •• ''>l no less than four clubs and South (who might have tried four The slam they felt bad a reason· _spades) raised to five clubs. de- able chance. It was agreed ~ttlt feated by two tricks. · the four heart bid was a li c At the other table Tarlo and precipitate and sugges~ed a ~tb Franklin, bid as follows :- rather than a 5-5. But even WI a gentler approach it was felt that South North the slam would not have heeD ., . I+ 2tlt 2N.T. 3N.T. : avoided. , No Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill were even Many players consider a more dramatic :- count of fifteen points sufficient North Soutlr for a rebid of two no-trumps 2+ 3N.T. . when partner has already made a 6\} - 6• r~sponse at the two level. · The No . . . gly an- VIew taken here was that the near Mrs. O'Neill" d1sarmlll bdP solid spade suit made the hand an nounced that she could not resiSt equivalent fifteen-North had no it, but she simply could not r... •• •

CONTRACt' BRIDGE JOURNAL We could find no' forcing and three . diamonds was bidding slams. wer to that one.. · treated as another strong bid. At 3"Th O'Connells 1mproved on this stage South decided that since this r~r dramatic effect his partner had either one or no North South clubs his key cards filled the hand. He was right up to a point 2. 3. - what he just failed to appreciate 4\} 5\} 7• No was that his partner's shortage of In spite of only holding two ~ lubs might turn out to be a two­ tromps the three spade bid was edged sword. quite a reasonable one and when Although the Brakes were em­ South was subsequently ·able to ploying the same system there was 1 make what must have been read o slight variation in the assessment as a cue-bid of the ace of hearts of the hand. North opened one North might well have known a spade and after a response of two good deal about the ~and . South, diamonds jumped to three hearts. , marked with the king of spades This is calculated to show a sub­ and the ace of hearts, could have stantial fit in the diamond suit. very few cards that mattered South bid three spades and North ~eyond that. tried four no-trumps, settling in North, in an over-optimistic six diamonds after partner had moment. imagined that South shown the ace of hearts. could discard all his losing dia­ On an opening club lead six monds on the long hearts and still diamonds would make only if have ~ufficient trumps to look East held the king and jack of after h1s own two losing diamonds diamonds alone. North could then -and th~ t was asking for too ·take the first ruff and lead a small much. Fave spades only might diamond. East would win with well have been quite sufficient the king and.South'would still be and South, sensing the shortage of able to trump a club with the ace trumps, could have decided to of dia!llonds and clear trumps. A pass. The slam proved just as most 1m pro b a b I e·alternative ~nescapable to the visitors. The would be to play for a 3- 3 ;st sequence, from the Seldons as as follows :- · • division in both major suits. ,. 20 The. prospects are not particu­ larly pleasing in either major at 3Q. 4. the six ..level. A four two-trump 4N.T.(Norman) 50 6. break kalls the hand a~ainst a club The Allw d . lead- and even with a better forcers got 0th s, strtct approach tru~p break a favourable dia- route :~ ere by a different. mond position has still to be :-, · found. ;.r,., I2.\.) 20 A suggested sequence WQuld be 30 . 2N.T. 5\) . 4N.T. South No 6. 20 The t 4. Wo heart b_id is quite 5\/ No 19 CONTRAct DRIDGD JOURNAL One could not blame .~orth if li~tle to choose between D and E he had decided to bid stx rnt~er for the next best, and B and A than five for it is difficult for htm bring up the rear in that order to realise that partner might have The aggregates follow this or~ two spades only. If he did bid closely, viz, C-E-D-B-A. five South should certainly be able Normal match pointing changes to pass for he is well a.ble to the placing considerably and pro­ appreciate tba~ the band mtght be duces this order · of "nierit "- short of trumps. D-B-A·C·E. . Points are awarded as follows :- If Mr. Marx's method is used. 5 \} or 5 + 10 points the distortion becomes even more 6 \) or 6 + 7 points exaggerated :- • 4 \} or +. 5 0 3 .points A·B·C-E-b 6 0 1 point All other contracts Nil The worst performances now . and our match ends with the come into first place, and the cross-channel visitors defeating . match-point. winner goes to the their Irish hosts by fort -one bottom! points to thirty-two. Mr. and Mrs. The cause of this paradox is the Joseph O'Neill head the field with use of the unsuitable I.M.P. scale, seventeen out of a possible twenty. which is, of course, a sliding one. How would that compare with On Hand No. 1 " A " is 12 you and your partner ? !.M.P.'s better off than "D," whereas on Hand No. 2, D's suc­ • • • • cessful slam bnly gains 8 I.M.P.'s MR. AND HIS just because there is no inter· " MIDDLE SCORE " mediate score. I must apologise to Mr. Marx There appears to be no solution for failing to realise that his to· this prot?lem, for if a new un· " middle score " co\lld be either graduated scale is applied, the an equal "top " or an equal result would be almost indistin· bottom." The reason, of course, guishable from ordinary aggre­ that I did not consider this ex­ gate scoring. planation: was its, obvious tend~ ency to distort the scoring if, as 1 think that Mr. Marx would do he suggested, the present scale of well to drop this proposal, ~ I.M.P.'s was used. concentrate on his first suggesti~DS Consider these five comparative for amendments to ~atcb-potnt scores by pairs in a 5-table scoring. , Mitchell:- GORDON H. HAMMOND. Pair A D C D E Hand l +980 +980 +480 -so - 100 .. l - 100 -.50 + 980 +980 +980 As 'Mr. Marx 'and Mr. Hf!l"" .. 3 +600 +600 - 100 -100 + ISO .. 4 • -200 -too + 620 +620 +62Q mond have lrad a very good tlfll­ .. .5 + 140 + 120 + SO + ISO +SO ings on this importarrt qu~tio&_ Forgetting about methods of we must close dowu· tire '!iSCIIS scoring for the moment, it is sion with the hope that their b: apparent that Pair C have the best entertaining efforts have not practical record. There seems wasted. Editor.

. I 20 • - i I~ j t I • f'" I t I. ~~ II

':" • 'f f ' \ I • , ' J ' • ' 'Some Avoidance Plays ·.·.·

by GEORGE ~· CO,FFIN \ . Avoidance means that you got back to dummy via the seven avoid a dangerous opponent by of hearts to cash two club tricks keeping him off lead. The tw,o for two diamond discards. South characteristic elemen~ of th1s lost two diamond tricks and a great family of plays 1s a. shaky spade, but brought home the stopper such as K-x oppos1t~ x-x game. threatened by sudden death 1f the If South tries the queen of clubs wrong adversary gets in to lead finesse through West, 'East scores through it, and a suit which you his king and leads a diamond to can establish by ducking or finess- . let West get two diamond tricks ing up to the harmless opponent. to break the contract. Observe these elements in the . deals below. . The Case of the Tenuous Ten The Case of the Widowed Queen • _ + J53 \/7 4 3 \} A743 0 AK874 2 ~ 10110 8 . .. J 10 6 4 + KOJQg • • KQ10 9 2 • AJ654 8764 M 862 M 10 \) 2 ' Q- J986 v v 0 10 9 5 0 6 0 AQ8 0 1632 .. A Q 8 5 .. 973 6 764 .. K532 · · · 8 7 3 ~ ~ ~ J S \) A K Q 10 5 9 013 0 K754 •O K 2 "- Q 9 • Soutlz West North East · South bid one heart. North 1\/ •• 20 2• ~ade it three hearts, so South bid 30 3. 4\} 4. e heart game as be had extra · 5 M Pass Pass Pass values. v th W North and South hold e est leads the king of spades. balance of power. althoug.h East How do you play it? and West can win ten tncks at · South won with his ace, drew spades. They thought they cou!d t~ree trumps taking care to keep beat five hearts. which they ~1d · · ~IS own bottom trump, and led a because declarer missed the pomt Ww spade toward dummy's jack. of play. · ·· est had to make his widowed West led the king of spades. ~een now (or eat crow) and · 1 ebst switched to the sev~n of How do you play It f cI u s wh. h d ' DummY ·ruffed, . the ace o 0 • tc ummy s ace won. hearts won, dummy ruffed another roumSomy scored the jack of spades f ' dia!IJDOI~ thr . uth's club discard, then led spade. the queen ° down coe Jack of clubs which East won, and South. laid fbid d vered (South discards if East king of.hearts orilY ucks) and South ruffed. South jack too well cJdlpeiUIIIIU

~,._.,,,.....,.. 21 . , . . . CONTRACT DRJDGB JOURNAL caughl So declarer cash the queen Declarer m~t set up his SCCond. of hearts also and lost a low heart a~y heart tnck before touching to the jack. East cashed a spade dmmon~s. If th~ heart finesse ­ and shifted to the nine of clubs to loses tnck two, West is harmless · ' set declarer two tricks'. on lead. He cannot return a spade makes the withou_t an~ any other hand with ease. Ruff the spade lead g&ves South time to set up opening in dummy-then lead a and cash his diamonds. Declarer trump and finesse the tenuous chucked the game because be ten I It wins, so ruff another preferred the wrong lady at trick spade in dummy, re-enter via the two I queen of diamonds, draw trumps. · We hope to publish regular and run diamonds for all thirteen articles from Mr. Coffin. tricks! This play is NOT double • •, • • dummy, but is based on a sound. At a south coast hotel a weD- principle. 1f the ten of hearts . known player was asked to make finesse loses to the jack (even if a . up a four at bridge. Diplomati­ singleton), declarer later draws cally he pleaded pressure of wort trumps and runs diamonds for and so avoided purgatory for the eleven tricks. The key play is to moment. The following evening keep East off lead while solidfying a particularly charming lady trumps. • asked him to make up as they · The Case of the Preferred Lady were one short. This time he fell + K and after being introduced to the \} J 7 6 C.L.'s aunt and uncle, they cut 0 Q J 9 6 2 for partners. He drew the aunt . ... J 10 8 2 who was a nice little elderly lady. + Q 8 7 3 2 + 10 6 5 4 . On almost the first hand, oppo- Q K 54 \} lO 9 8 2 nents reached a contract of four 0 7 5 0 A 3 spades . ... 7 6 4 ... K 0 9 The well-known player holding + A J 9 0 A K 8 7 6 led the king followed \} A Q 3 by the 'nee and auntie played the 0 K 10 8 4 +4. Hardly bad the card been ... A 5 3 played before she exclaimed "Oh At rubber game South bid o~e · dear, I've trumped your trick." no-trump, North two, South three. " I'm afraid you have" was the ··. West led the trey of spades. reply in quite a resigned voice. (, Dummy won and pushed out the "Never mind " said auntie. "It .. queen of diamonds which East wa& only a small one." grabbed with his ace and returned a spade. South finessed to West's • • • • • queen and West returned a spade All are welcomed to the Lon- I' to. clear the suit. With only eight don Club Pairs Contest on SatjO· ·; tncks on top now; South tried the day, September J3t/r, a~.::. ,' queen of hearts finessed, which · Receipts go to tire Chilw,.nl .. lost the game . Outing Fun~. ·~ 22 ' I • fl'a .- ' J , ..,"':' , ".1~--·.,.....-:~...... -.--.. 'M i dl i:ul ~s. and ·the N~~th .. - by HAROLD FRANKLiN

TlJe Blackpool Silver Gilt Tro· North East South West ' phy is annually competed for by lO No 2... No · th~ champion town t>r cities of 2N.T. No 3\7 No Yorkshire, the North-West and 3. Double No No . the North-East. Leeds, who have No JJeld the trophy since the war re· . ~inquished it to the North-Western After 2N.T., South bid three :representatives, Manchester, whose hearts because a slam was not ·name will be inscribed for the first impossible if North held the right • ·time. Middlesborough , was the ;ar~s. North's three spade bid :third contestant : each town was msprred by a fear for his "diamond ·represented by two teams of four,. holding. · When East doubled · each of which played four South, who thought three spades matches of twelve boards. In.the had been a constructive effort end everything depended upon the showfng further interest, passed to match btween the' number one .hear what came next North read strings of Manchester and · the pass as 'a desire to play in Leed_s :- B. H. Franks and H. three spades doubled, passed, and Reece and J. Nunes and J. Laza­ was one down. This too, cost rus on the one hand and J. H. Leeds seven points. · Although Taylor: .J. Hochwald, G. Fell, H. they had the edge on the remain­ Franklm on the other ing boards the burden of these . ' two large swings was too heavy On the first board Franks and and they were beaten by three Re~ce bid a good vulnerable slam points. . W~tch Taylor and Hochwald . fat led to reach- seven points· to Manchester. The last board Southern Counties v. Yorkshire. · · Jo~ed very innocuous :-

(S:ell (North). and Franklin . Uth) arrived at an unfortunate misunderstanding as follows :- + K lOxx + Qxx \) XX · \} AJIOx 0 Axx 0 Jxxx .ta Jxxx • AQJxxx + xx • XXX ... 'X • XX \} Qxx \} xx \J -xxx •· \7Kxx 0 J x · 0 Qxx O xxx OAKx .ta Qx .ta AK1098x ••Q 9 xx , tltxxxXX +x + AKJxx , \} AKJxxx .· \} Qx 0 K109xx 0 Qx .... X l. .. AKxx Nine .tricks were made at hearts . ' .' in both rooms- West having bid . · · · spades and East clubs; and South- _ ~t this st~ge East huddled, asked ern Counties, who stayed out of 1 ~ t~e bids had any particular the game gained points. .On the. Slgmficance and passed. South bid face of it a loser in each suit is five spad.es and all passed. West ~ nevitable , but there is an interest~ who felt 1t would b.e hardly proper mg albeit slightly double-dummy to )ead a heart m the crrcum­ play to land the contract. West stances, ~pened a trump. There did open queen and 'another club. are no ij1e~ on Mrs. Evans-she South trumps the second club and t~o apprecmted that East held the plays the ace of hearts followed king of ~earts and that_ she was by a spade. West wins with the faced With three apparent top ace and can do no better than to losers. She won the first lead with continue with the queen. South t~e queen of spades and led a low ~rumps and plays the king and d!amond. East went up with the ~ nother heart, discarding a dia- king and played a second spade. m~nd f.rom the table. Of West Declarer wpn and played 00. ex1ts wtth a diamond no trick is East won and returned a club. lost on that suit. If he plays a Strump squeeze discarded' the queen of hearts on m the two minor suits. - the high diamond. The jack of In the second match the visitors hearts was now led, covered with met H. R. Evans, Mrs. Davey. the l,dng and trumped. A losing . Mrs. Evans and C. Laurie and · club was trumped and .the last f.' after. an even first half, drew away club. was discarded on the ten of ... to wm by forty-four points. And hearts. . ' I the hand of this match :- • · The matches were staged at the c . Wessex Club in Boumemciuth. It I (See top of next column) .· was our first visit there-we have The bidding yet to meet a more comfortable' and more attractively situated South North one. We hope to revisit it shortly t+ 20 36 and particularly if we can be . , 4+ promtsed another nibble at those .. 5.ta 5\} . , delectable cucumber sandwiches. •. - . 24 Killar'ney · · hy HAROLD FRANiaJN Preparations are proceeding devoted to the Congress Pairs apace in Ireland for the European Championship for the Dawn Cup. Championships. An army of _up The first session ended with Mr. 10 two-hundred recorders ts bemg and Mrs. E. G. Seldon of East­ organised and we confidently . bourne in the lead with 223, anticipate one of the best sta1!ed followed by Mr. and Mrs. R. H. events in recent years. The Insh Chope of Sheffield with 221, Mrs. teams have already been an­ Stuart and Mrs. O'Brien of Glas­ nouncd and have embarked on a gow, 204 and W. J. L. O'Connell strenuous training programme. and H. Franklifl 199!. We were The ladies, who are the main helped to our respectable score Irish hope, play a weekly training with this thoroughly undeserved match using one of the men's t<;>p :- pairs to complete the two teams. • 74 This, together with the discussions \}• 9 2 wbi_ch follow, must surely put a 0 0963 sharp edge on the team's perform­ . '- AKQ75 ance. • A652 • K 108 \} K J 6 5 \7 10 7 3 This idea might well be copied 0 A74 0 KJ52 by the British teams. . · 4J4 .. 983 In the middle weeks of June • QJ93 Irish attention was diverted to the \} AQ84 an~ual Killarney Congress. This 0 108 umque affair is rapidly acquiring . .. 1062 the air of an Old Boys Reunion. _ After two passes and for , no Cross-Channel visitors are now accountable reason I opened one appearing for the seventh and heart with the South band. West eighth succesive year and the bid one no-trump and when ~h_ole proce~dings have an air of . North, quite properly, doubled, hnhmacy whtcb no other Congr~ss the fat was in the fire. It was lh's succeeded in capturing. All inconceivable that we could de- IS ye~r's " new boys " were feat one no-trump when partner caught m the spirit of the thing had already passed and the he~rt and have already made their plans suit at least was favourably diS­ to be on hand next year. For at:ty tributed for opponents. I bi~ two ~four readers who like a holiday · clubs and waited for some mtracle 1 ~voured with the benefits of a to save me. It did-everybOdy rndty sun, wonderful scenery,' a passed. W~st led a club. A ceavenl y golf course, well-chosen spade was led from the. ta~le, Bast i~mpan~ and bridge in the even- played small and the Jack lost to th gs ~h t ch never becomes more the ace (it would have beeli K ·~l Just a gnme- take note- good defence for East to. 1 arney 1953, June 6-14. with the.king and·retum a The first three evenings were · A second club was won 2.5 CONTRACT DRIDGB JOURNAL table and a further spade lead 3rd. Mr. and Mrs. E. made ·eight tricks certain. We Seldon 517 balanced it with a " bottom " on 4th. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. this one. Corwen 572 • Kx \} KIOxxx The next two evenings were 0 Qx d~voted ~o the Egan Bowl for 4 QJxx mtxed Patrs. Mrs. R. F. Corwen and H. Franklin g~t off to a Oying • A ox start and headed the field 'with a \} Axxx score ?f. J77. Vf· J. L. O'Connell 0 Axxx and hts mternahonal partner .MI) tit Kx J. M. O'Sullivan were next with We bid the hand briskly as J65!, c~osely followed by Mn. follows:- . . . O'Connell and Mr. F. O'Connell. IN.T. 3N.T. . The leaders had little cause to and while it was clearly not as th~nk the Scottish-Irish partner­ good as a heart contract, we shtp of R. S. Carswell and Miss K. would have confidently expected McCaffrey who shone on this several other pairs in a match­ board:- pointed contract to be in · no:. • Q 1042' I \} AK105 t~u~ps _ with us. We were sadly dtstllus10ned. Every other pair ...... 0 AQ93 but one pla'yed in four hearts and 4A' made twelve tricks on the heart break. The other pair the • 83 O'Connell brothers, completed \} ·7 4 father's humiliation by btdding 0 J 10842 the small slam in hearts. 4 KJ 106 The second session ended with While several pairs languished W. J. L. O'ConneU and H. Frank­ in contracts of one heart and one lin enjoying a comfortable lead spade, they played in five dia­ from the Seldons with Irish inter­ monds, North having selected one national F. Barry and M. Cohen . diamond as the opening bid. The of Cork third and Scottish inter­ opening club lead was taken with nationals Peter Duff and Clement the ace, two top hearts were Ellis fourth, after a splendid followed with a third one. session which had shot them up trumped, as a precaution, with the from twenty-third. . eight. When West discarded a In , the third session Franklin trump was Jed to the ace and East 1 and O'Connell increased their dropped the lone king. The fourth lead. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Corwen heart was· trumped high and a of Leeds won the last session to spade led to the teo. East WOO move into fourth place the final with the king and the contract~ placings being :- ' now assured. , The leaders ~P~ 1st. W. J. L. O'Connell their place and the final result was and H. Franklin 619 Mrs. R. F. Corwen and 2nd. E. 0. Barry ilnd M. H. Franklin · 319 · Cohen 582 Mr. and Mrs. E. Seldon .191 26

'I ,., ...... ; "\ ·'~"" . I "' \I ~ ·.. ' . . .' .. I .... -r ... ' • I .. CONTRAct' ; DRIDG.B ;JOURNAL Mrs. o. M. Hope~ell the Cork-Nottingham combine and N. R. C. Fnth 289J won by ten points to two. ·The Mrs. M. Fitzharris and last round began with O'Neill .,.J c. Ellis . 280! leading Frith by one point with ) •' The last three evenmgs were Maj_or Broke another three Points devoted to the Loch Lein ~rophy behmd: The !eaders successfully 1.: which quickly developed mto. a held off the challenge to finish running battle between those Insh with 85 points against 83 with favou rites Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Major P. A. Broke third\vith 77. O'Neill and Mr. and Mrs. T. H. The bridge finished at 11.00 Ward of Staffs. and another cross­ p1m. By 11.30 the entire Congress - .::· channel alliance of N. R. C. Frith were seated at the supper table - . i.: and Mrs. Hopewell with W. J. L. for a function which soon lost -all. .. and M. F. O'Connell. trace of formality but was so .' .... ·; The Norfolk four, the Brakes diverting that one can count on and Allwoods, were always in the fingers of one hand the heads third position, within striking dis­ that departed before 4.00 a.m. In tance. At the three-quarter stage spite of the ang~ish o~ the morn­ the O't.Jeill team held a lead of ing after. we shall be back for nine points- at this stage they more next year. Perhaps we shall " ' met their closest challengers ,,and see you there. AN"Y Q U~STIONS

THIS MONTHLY FEATURE is designed to answer any . question o£ general interest. Opinions will b~ given Indepen­ dently by the panel, Harold Fmnklln, Jack Marx, Terence Reese, wilh the Editor as Cholnnnn. Send your questions t6 Editor; C.B.J., 3, London Lane, Bromley, Kent...... : '!•. t ~. ; t. : ·, CONTRACI' BRIDGE JOURNAL North two hearts (so partner Answer by Jack Marx:- · says) 1 say he must produc~ a The practice of treating every . Do the panel constder change of suit as forcing is a two or three hearts the correct characteristic of the Baron system, bid 'l . . . . not of Acol. In fact, up to 1939, Answer by Terence Reese:­ the exact was true' of Acol Let me say, first, ~a~ although - in the absence from the auction I should be in the mmonty amo.ng of any " limit" bid, a non-jump Acol players, I should open Wlth change of suit was never uncon­ a two bid on North's hand. Two ditionally forcing (excluding of diamonds is slightly sounder than course the first response, which is two clubs. ' forcing on opener at all approach As to the question raised by the systems). To-day the general correspondent, a rebid of two principle remains unchanged. hearts would not, of course, be though the word " never" must forcing. If partner had responded be accepted in the qualified sense at the range of two, the reverse by usual with bridge precepts. Two the opener wo~ld be infere!ltially principal exceptions are generally, I. forcing but 1t would shU be though not perhaps universally, recognised :- ' -. '· correct' to make a jun;1p bid on so ...,, . strong a hand. (1) By opener;-a rebid of a .. , . Answer by Harold Franklin :- third suit at the level of three (e.g. I+. 2\}, 3tlt). . : ' It is of' course completely (2) By responder-a rebtd of erroneous to suggest that at Acol the fourth suit at" any level (e.g. every change of suit is forcing. A 14-. 10. 1\}, 1+ or 10. 1\), change of suit which shows revers­ 1+. 2tlt or 1\}, 1+. 20. 3.). ing values is however normaJiy forcing. For example supposmg The last named bid in ·these the opening bid is one diamond, 'sequences is considered ,;t one· .if the rebid is a new suit below round force. Another, though two damonds that is strictly non­ · rarer case is a a rebid by re· forcing- if the rebid is a new suit spondee of a third suit at the level · above two diamonds (opponents of three where this is a reverse · not having intervened) that is (e.g. I+. 2,_, 2+. 3\7 but not nonnally forcing. There is no 1+. 2\}. 2+ . 3tlt). As such a guarantee. that partner will rebid rebid may compel opener to show if· he . has a hand on which he preference at so high a level as might have passed one diamond. four, ·. responder could not con· e.g. :- ccivably wish it to be pass~d. . + J10xxx On the hand in question. if \} Qxx opened with one diamond only. a 0 X second round force of three hearts tit Jxxx ic; imperative. And since any hand with long spades is almost sure to produce Comment by the Editor :­ game my rebid on the hand sub­ Two points are made very:cJ=· mitted would be three hearts­ by all three answers. (1) A 1'Ai:ol completely forcing. change of suit by opener at . .. 2R CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL . not forcing. (2) On the hand· in JVest East :uestion opener's second b!d must 1\) 2+ . be three hearts. The qu~st1o~ and 3\) 40 answers should be very 1~l~mmat- 4N.T. 6\) ing to many, as such pos1t1ons are 7\) continually cropping up and the~e The four no-trump bid in this must be thousands who have, m sequence is not conventional for the past, been~ doubtful on the no suit has been agreed: Tb~t, at subject. · least, is how I like to play the convention nowadays. West's final Question B. From C. R. B. bid of seven hearts· is reasonable Murray, Hythe. on his values : it looks as though ' Would your panel of experts lhe contract should depend on a please say how bidding should go queen finesse at worst, while it on these two hands ? may well. be a Jay-down. East-West Non-Vulnerable. Answer by Harold Franldin :- . Dealer West. I West East Naturaily can produce a post mortem sequence to arrive at the • J 7 6 + AQ1083 Orand Slam- In practice, while r;'J AKQI04 \) J 9 5 one cannot avoid the small slam, 0 07 0 AKJ95 I do not feel that the grand slam .ft A64 can be bid with. any measure of Played at the certainty. A response of three bidding, playing Acol· -and Club­ diamonds on the first round makes ertson 4-5N.T., went it possible but I personally con­ West · 'East sider two spades the routine re­ 1\) 30 sponse. I consider the first four · 3\) . 3+· bids should be :- 4N.T. 6\) West· East 1\) 2+ As you will see there is a cold 3\) 40 Grand Slam in hearts (diamonds At this stage I believe West's . break 4-2) and small slams in choice to· be between five clubs N~ · Trumps, spades or diamonds and five spades. Over ~ve clubs (kmg of spades was " wrong ") East bids five hearts which West · bu~ can a heart Grant Slam be raised to six. Over five spades · arrived at by accurate bidding? East bids six, hearts which ,West . . ' . Answer by Terence Reese :­ I wouldn't say the grand slam could be bid with precise accu­ racy, but it can be reached with as much certainty as can be ~hF.ted. for most contracts. On Wesbtddmg quoted, for example, The t can. seasonably bid seven. is :- auct10n that I recommend - (.. •. :t, ...... ':. ., ~ ......

• I CONTRACf BRIDGE JOURNAL I

• • partly because of the trump un­ 1 · North certainty and partly because seven •AQlOxx •' hearts is a good contract only by \) AKxxx reason of the presence of the 0- .... .,. .. diamond jack. On the day whe!l ... AQx I can infallibly locate a stde-smt West one diamond, North jack l shall give up the game. double, East one spade, South There are obvious flaws in the passes, West two diamonds, actual bidding. West's leap to North? four no-trumps, with no clear ide.a · This hand worries me. Should in which suit to play the hand, ts North double again or call two one ; East's suppression of .his two. hearts? Being Vulnerable and Aces is another. knowing spade distribution un­ It is also not clear · why favourable I decided to settle for ·. East should have fprced in two hearts which is all that can be diamonds rather than in the made. But Partner bad six dia· more normal spades, though his monds to the Q J and an absolute actual choice should have facili­ bust. and bad I doubled again we tated the auction, West being able should have had a big penalty as to attach greater weight to his my Partner would of course have dia·mond queen. Starting from the left the two diamond~ double in. first four bids in the auction as given, the bidding might continue - Answer by Terence Reese :- - West four clubs East four no- North had an obvious two dia- trumps five no-tru~ps six hearts mond bid on the first round, and seven hearts. ' ' having failed to make that bid ~e Four clubs leaves the situation must do 'more now than btd ftuid for East to resume command. simply two hearts. To double imd affirms West's interest in a again is probably best. As to the .· slam. · Seven hearts is' justified by 'remark that t~e spades are kno~ the two red suit queens now that to be unfavourably placed, tl it is knowri that East proposes to depends on the comp~ny, of play at a heart slam with no top- course, but on most occastons one honour in the suit. would rather suppose that. the Comment by the Editor ':- spade bid by East was psychic. Here again· all are agreed. The Answer by Harold Franklin:-:- grand sl~m is not easy !o bid with One could not have critic~ · anycertamty and there ts no doubt North if at the first time of asking that generally speaking, the final he had made a game !arcing. bid contract would only be a small of two diamonds. Havmg dcctdcd ~lam. Read~rs will note ~ith to double one· diamond, clearly t~terest Reese s remarks regardmg his best course is to double two hts f~ur no-trumps being non con- diamonds. The bid of two b~ ventH?nal. is unlikely to produce any actiOD . Thts would make a good ques- from partner even when the com· t10n for debate by the Panel. .bined hands will make game. U . Question C. From Mrs. M. over the double of two di~onds Fmburgh, Lytham, Lanes. partner bids two hearts it IS uue North-South Vulnerable. that he may have a vcq poor 30 '.- .::; CONTRACf BRIDGE JOURNAL • ··' h d and only three hearts- but Comment by the Editor :- /North now raises to three hear_ts This question, ns it is put rtner should be able to b1d obviously demands the answe; ~me on the slenderest values · that North should again double. g Answer by Jack Marx:- . The first bid of ' double • is doubt- ! think our correspondent m1ght ful and the hand just lacks that well congratulate herself on hav- little bit justifying a two diamond iog avoided serious loss for her bid. · Many players to show shape own side; many North's would will bid two spades over the one , have forced to game with a two diamond, with the prospect of ' diamond bid. With the auction coming in with hearts on the next as it took place, I 'will risk the round. We are inclined to sub- . charge of being a result merchant scribe to this view as it gives such by expressing a preference for a a good idea to partner of the dis­ second round double by North. trib.ution. It is not so easy to do ' On the assumption that East's this if a double is used first. · spade bid is not psychic, a two West's spade bid as quoted. can heart bid puts all North-South's be assumed genuine when East eggs in one basket- if the suit is takes it out to two diamonds and adversely stacked they may be South does not double the call - quite severely damaged- whereas Agreed the latter may hold just a the double, if any eggs are going few spades and notl!ing else and to be cracked, )eaves an equal not feel justified in doubling and a chance that they will be the- probable spade game would now enemy's. be missed. Over 'the · ·Border · hy C E DICKEL Handicap Final. ity boys a start of 3,000 _points. ' ~ The Glasgow Jewish Institute Discussion about the posstble re-. ·. r~pre sented by Shenkin and Shen- suit was rife. Some thought the · · km, C?hen and Rose, Benjamin Institute would manage it i~ their . and M1tchell and Stein and Wine- stride and others thought 1t, was trobel all of whom have pl~yed rather much to expect them. to : for ScoUand, and eight young men pull back more than 3,000 pomts · . o(Ff the Glasgow University Union on 32 boards unless t_he hands: ras.er and Butler, Oberski and could provide large sWings. · No • Howtel Davidson and Kissen, one even as a joke, forecast the Fraser and Stevenson) duly pre- act~al~esult. a win for the Union Hnttedl themselves at the St. Enoch by07n,9BOoapordinltsLo! UIS.- Rose 0 ~ took e 1 G!asgow, to play off the fin~l .of thts Western District Com- gamble no doubt hoping to...-"""' .. r h!ton for teams of eight. The gineer ~ bad result the nstttute, off scratch had done· nents at the exceedingly well to re~ch the final de~oralise I t"'-i· 'mill~•iif and Were now to give th'e Univers- · th~ match. 31 CONTRACI' DRIDOB JOURNAL Love All. , I also think the remainder of the • AK8654 bidding is worthy of the 'Any I:. . : . \} J 54 3 2 Questions ' feature but I suggest a 0 8 double from West, . three hearts t~-J ' from East and four hearts from • 93 • QJ 1072 West. It looks as if East has only \) A 9 8 \} KQ one loser, but play it on a club 0 KQJ6 . 0 A 7 5·2 lead. You ruff and if you are ... 109 8 5 .. Q7 tempted by all these beautiful diamonds you go d9wn, but if you

\} 10 7 6 .I play a small spade from the ·0 ­109 4 3 dummy at once you will make ten .• .S. A.K6432 tricks . Board 16 was amusing in that After two passes Rose as North it was played at one table in one opened four spades. This was heart by West and at the other doubled by East and cost Rose three tables in two, three and four 700 points plus increased confi­ hearts respectively by North­ dence to his opponents. It was South, the game contract being small consolation that East-West duly made. have 3N.T. because nobody reached it. A one spade opening East-West Game.- East deals by North actually silences the _ • AKtO' opposition. South responds two .,. · . \} A985 clul}s, North two hearts, South 0 943 passes, and probably seven tricks .. 972 will be made. • . J42 ' 1 . 987 \} XQ73 \]- Only one couple bi'd game on 0 J 7 6 0 K 108 52 Board 2 ; North-South game and .. AKJ 6 106543- · West the dealer • Q653 .AQ · , \) J10642 -.. \) J 10 2 0 AQ 0 Q76 .. Q8 .S. K 0 10 54 At one table West opened one • K 1 6 4 • 3 heart. Everybody passed and be \J A 8 6 \J K 0 7 5 3 made three tricks losing 400 0 A K J 9 8 2 0 10 3 , points. Although this was a fairly 4 - .... ~- J 9 6 3 2 good result for North-South I am ""I- 10 9 8 7 5 dubious about South's pass. 1 \J 9 4 think he · should bid one spade or i~\ 7 ,. · tN.T. ' ( Board 28 demonstrated that the West opened one diamond. All University boys can play the . North players felt compelled to cards. two of their couples defeat­ risk bidding two clubs and now ing four spades and the other two East was in a difficulty. I think he ~es making four spades. · should pass and so should South. (continued on pa~ 38} 32 Variations .. .

I by GORDON H . HAMJ.t[OND

It seem~ strange to me th!lt going two light with this players like T ere nee Reese and dummy :- Jain McLeod ·write books about Acol when, judging by my. e.x­ ... •x\} QJxxx periences, they know so httle 0 QIOx .· about the system. I, poor sucker, .. Qxxx have read their treatises and what " Really, partner, your bidding happens ? I'll tell you. definitely shows a club suit," First, pl_aying with Mrs. Flash­ hissed my charming partner, inthepan, I bid one club on every· word dripping with vitriol, this:- " Are we playing Acol or aren't • A Q x we ? " I started to stammer some­ \) K xx thing that Joe Pearlstone had told 0 XX me in 1899 or, maybe more 4 A lOxxx recently. All right, AU right, I Getting a diamond response 1 · would rebid one no-trump next• murmured lN.T. and partner ' time! r~ised ~ romptly to three, holding The next " Acol " session found mne pomts and a . me with Major Rhode and this I felt rather pleased with myself collection, not vulnerable :- at ~etting out with only one down • KQx until I heard the heavy breathing \} A lOx and tooth-grinding coming from 0 Kxx the opposite chair. " Where are 6 Axxx your sixteen points ? " she de­ Dutifully, I opened one club · manded. I confessed I · couldn't and rebid IN.T. over a diamond find them and didn't know that I response. Partner passed and · was supposed to have them. In stuck down a nine-poi~t hand · wo:ds of one syllable, she ex­ complete with five .card _diamond plamed that" everybody" knows suit. ·In deathly silence, I made that such a sequence shows six- ten tricks. The Major sighed teenfif pomts,· or may· be a very good heavily I "In the Acol System. . te~n . I said that I'd be a good partner," he said,." your no-ln!rnP boy tn future. rebid shows -about 12-14 pomts. Later that evening, I again I presumed that you were unable obplened one club, this time vulner­ to open tN.T. because y~u bel~ a a eon :- worthless doubleton 10 · dia­ monds." A~logetically~ I men· ' • KQx x \) A x tioned Mrs. Flashinthe~n ·and her instructions. "Stuff and 0 .J X X X p 4 Axx nonsense.'' replied ~e ¥aJor. spa3rtf er responded a heart, one " The Woma~'s crazy. now e ~om me and the' dear soul Our next opponents de' sa1d two clubs. I passed were . Acol Jectedly and had no difficulty in 33 .., .. , .- ·. CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL'' ••. I • • • . tested , that " weak throughout " in making a couple of three­ was a little hard. I was prepared qunr_ter no-truf!IPS ~ I felt that the to admit that my defence was not tournament d1rector would be too strong, but that I considered nonplussed by a score of 102! on myself pretty nifty as declarer. I the t~avelling slip. With sneers at was informed coldly that the my Ignorance, South explained point under discussion was the that he and his partner's no-trump strength or otherwise of my was based on 12-14 points in opening no-trump bid . .Qui~tly, , I every case, except when vulner­ pointed out that (a) I hadn t b1d able against non vulnerable oppo. a ·no-trump and (b) it wasn't my ~e~ts, in which instance the re­ call anyhow. At this juncture, the qUirements were stepped up to .Major remarked that he was play- 16--18 points . ing " Acol," that up to this Feeling somewhat humbled, I moment he had been unable to attempted to assert myself at the identify my system, and he was next table by saying that we were saying" No bid." The next player· playing " Acol and the half no­ passed and I, being vulnerable, trump." The look of bewilder­ opened one club on :- ment on the faces of the enemy • Q lOxx ·· restored my, confidence and, in \) 10 X X kindly tones, I added that half the 0 KJx time our no-trump was weak and tit AKx the other half it was strong. Partner replied with a heart, The procession- of Acol oppo­ and I said lN.T. All "passed., nents continued with " Strong and this dummy appeared after · throughout," "Herbert over the opening lead of a low dia­ Threes," " Ail the clubs," "Two, mond:- three and four - Clubs, but three • KJxx diamonds over three clubs," \} Axxx " Acol and Blackwood," "Acol 0 XX and Norman," " Acol with weak tit XXX • two's," and combinations of two " One down in comfort, with or more of such variations unb1 two spades on ice," observed the my confusion was completed by a Major acidly at the conclusion of, final pair who played" Baroniled the hand, " Why not rebid one Acol." . ' spade ? " Humbly, I pointed out One of these days, I must write that the BOOK laid down that a really comprehensive work ~n ~fter a prepared open­ Acol. I reckon it can be done 1n · mg. the rebid should be in no­ 10 volumes of 1,000 pages each. L trumps. Partner summed this up It may have been" an a~tu~e of as " Old-fashioned Poppycock." mind " when the late Skid Sunon At the next table, our enemies 'wrote about it, but it is now a. .. ~ announced " Acol and the three­ super " Polyfoto," 1,000 different quarter no-trump." Not unreason­ attitudes for the price of one. , ably, I suggested that this would • • • • • lead .to lo~ of .vulgar and untidy That's enou~h Mr. Hammorul· frach~ns ltttenng up the table. you are making ·fun oJ.,/It! Even 1f a declarer could succeed " Glorious Acol." r.rM'IDI· 34 • .. • • ... • ,. J Children's .. O ~ting F.und Arrangements . are n9w com­ All will be welcome. Wheri the .1 te for the vanous outings dur­ first contest was held on Saturday, Pe August. It is possible that July 12th, there was a sweepstake ~~e r parties will be sent if further of 3/- a head. The four prize donations, o t h e r than t.hose winners J. Abrahams, Lewis already promised or rece1ved, Ellison, F. Lewis and Mrs. V. come to hand ..The N.S.P.C.C. Cooper immediately passed over have, with the.Edlt?r, fixed up the their winnings to the Fund. Jolly following seas1de tnps :- good. London to Littlehampton, llONATIO~S RECEIVED Gloucester to We~ton Super Brought Forward 125 3 11 Mare, Hove Bridge Club . . . 3 0 D Wolverhampton to Prestatyn, Kent C.B.A...... 10 0 0 Manchester to Southport, Middle.sex C.B.A. .. : 3 12 6 Doncaster to Skegness, Friar Gate B.C. It will be seen that the trips are , Derby ...... 2 2 0 fairly well distributed throughout Sheffield Bridge the country. About 250 children Board ...... 2 2 0 will be travelling with 25 adults in SurreyC.B.A .... 0 18 0 charge. Most of the trips will Hayes-Harlington start about eight o'clock in the Community Asst. .1 1 0 morning and return to the towns Scarborough & round about nine o'clock in the District C.B.C. 3 3 0 evening. Lunch- a meat tea­ Dr. A. Densham 2 0 0 boat trips- and visits to local Blackpool B.C. 5 0 0 a ttra~tio.ns will be provided for G. F. Spashett 2 2 0 the k1dd1es and given fine weather Sussex C. B.A .... 5 5 0 we can look forward to as suc­ Beckenham B.C. 4 4 0 cessful ~ time as last years. Herne Bay B.C. 2 2 0 PromiSes of donations and help Devonshire B..C. have been received from the (Eastbourne) 2 2 0 London Club (Two Pairs Con­ The Twenty Club ~~ts )! F. 0. Bingham for the (Flint) ...... ·:· 2 2 0 BCungh am a r e a, Gloucester Welwyn Garden City L. d • Derby B.C., Wigan B.C., B.C...... 5 0 0 e erer's Club, Gloucestershire Staffordshire C.B.A. 3 3 0 C:B.A., Notts County C.B A General Electric f;colMh!re C.B.A., Social & Athletic Llandudn~ 10 ·o Hill B CaJor . Tatlow~ Muswell Club ...... and H ii Le1cestersh1re C.BA.• Malvern Link B.C. · 10 0 plent u B:C. There is still H. St. John Ingram . - 2 2 club Y of hme to add your Tb Lr association to the Iisl £206 he!~ ond~n Club have already Will bnh parrs contest nod another ber 1j eld on Saturday, Septem­ note ~h ,hat 2.30. Please make a 0 t e date and come along. 3S Down Your ·Way Our old friend Gordon Wiggins Mr. Phillips also reports as from Abadan has broken out in a follows " Kent" beat Surrey by g fresh place. He bas taken up .a V.P. at the 'Yellesl.ey Club, Croy. position in Northern Rhodesm don. Surrey s mam achievement and without wasting any time at was to make Bruce Parker strip all, has been instrumental in almost to the waist sweating forming the Launshya Bridge ?Ver doubtful contracts and land­ Club, with himself elected Chair­ mg them. A grand game enjoyed man and P. G. Tutty, another ex­ by all." Abadanite, as Secretary. • •• • • Wiggins writes· and says they have been talking about forming Mrs. I. Freeman has resigned a club there for ten years 'and as Secretary of the Middlesex already duplicate, rubber and C.B.A. but remains as E.B.U. partnership nights are going delegate The new secretary is strongly. Mrs. J. Johnston, 54 Berkeley The club has been affiliated to Court. Baker Street, London, the E.B.U. and Gordon )\Iiggins N.W.l. · sends a welcome to all E.B.U. • ... • • members who may be visiting . I I Rhodesia Make a note of October 3-6. These are the dates for the Scot· • • • I • tish Bridge Unions Congress at Another outpost which has Gleneagles. All who wish to taken up duplicate·, is the Kuwait attend this wonderful centre Bridge Club in the Persian Club. should write to the Hon. Secre· Also affiliating to the E.B.U., Mr. tary, C. E. Dickel, 145 St. Vincent A. C. Thorn reports that bridge is Street, Glasgow, C.2 played on five nights a week with Duplicate nights and Partnership • • • • • Rubber Bridge. Twenty pairs are We have received a copy of the taking part in the Summer League Notts. County Contract Bridge Pairs with Cups to the winners. Association's Annual Report. Mr. Thorn continues that the) This makes excellent reading and are now in the hot season which shows the great strides made b.Y is anything from 110 degr~es up­ the Association. Both in num~n· wards, but the game goes on. cal strength and in playUJg Phew! I strength the season bas been f • • • • success. Winning the North o R. F. R. Phillips the popular England Championship, and the and hard working Secretary of the Frank Cup-(the Midlands Team Surrey C.B.A. reports that the of Four Championsbips}-arc two annual match agamst the South­ notable achievements. The. ~n· ern Counties resulted in a win for tinued success of this .AssOCJ~tiOD Surrey by 51 M.P.'s. Sixteen is due to the hard work pu~ players on each side had an enjoy­ all members and by ~be.... rtiCU: able time at the Heath Hotel . man, R. D. F. Bland, tn 1:'"""- Weybridge. ' lar. . ' 36 • 1,9' { ... ~ I''..; • • .f·

CONTRACf DRIDGfl \JOURNAL Notts produce a ranking lis~ of ESSEX INDIVIDUAL layers each year, based on the CHAMPIONSHIP ~rcen t age of points scored in 16 1st Dr. E. J. Baldwin. pairs events. R: D. F. Biand 2nd Mr. G. B. Burrows. comes ou t first wtth 65.73 0Yo and 3rd Mr. D. D. Libman. brother D. G. F. on his tail with • . • • • 65.38% is secon d . ' • The Association lost a notable The Staffordshire C.B.A. an- · ···. and valuable member with the nounce the usual interesting pro­ passing of their Vice-President, gramme of events for next season. H. F. Holloway, who was known We read that a monthly pairs to many readers in the country. Contract will be' held at Walsall • • • • · Newcastle, Wolverhampton, Staf~ Essex C.B.A .. has developed by ford, West Bromwich and Stoke. leaps and bounds in the last few Also a special competition to years. This year membership decide the County's team-of-four passed the 300 mark, with record championship is being considered. entries for County and National The Secretary will be pleased to Competitions. Here are the win- hearfrom intending new members. ners of the Major Events. - P. Hartie,' Westholm, Wood · Road, Codsall, nr. Wolverhamp- ESSEX TEAMS OF FOUR ton. CHAMPIONSHIP * * . • • Winners- Mr. and Mrs H Going to Droitwich Congress Walker and Mr. and Mr~ . D: next year ? Well make a note of Ashby (Woodford). the date and book early- January Runners-up- Messrs. G: Bur- 9th, lOth and 11th. rows, 1. Cordwell, T. L. Rodger, • • • Dr. V. 1. O'To~ l e (Wanstead). London C.C• ·. B.A. final result ESSEX COUNTY PAIRS for season. CHAMPIONSHIP Sydney Woodward Cup win.: Winners- Dr. E. J. Baldwin ners :- and Dr. F~aser Allen (Colchester) Mr. and Mrs. F. Emmet andRunners-up--Messrs. J. Twine C . .Betts W. Shaw (Frinton-on-Sea). J.D. Del Rivo ~ . . . . ESSEX COUNTY LEAGUE Mr. Martin Beale sends us this w· (WARBOYS CUP) rather amusing incident Gra~;"'Ms-M r . and Mrs. W. F. East opened four hearts. After O'T • (rs. P. Curtis, Dr. V. J. two passes, North doubled and R~ 1 e Woodford). · South bid six diamonds. West · win unners-up- Pr. E. J. Bald- said she did not Di b Dr. ~raser Allan, Mr. J. 'Acol' and asked · " " lu~{ M( aJor and Mrs. Carlton blazes docs that mean. Coow ~lch es ter) . told that So'uth bo~ to 1 T~!solatwn Winners- Messrs. six diamonds• . she . doublid~~;ciil W. B ~~· W. S~aw , A. Balden, c. • K 9 7 s. \) 1, e1 t (Frmton-on-Sea). . . • J 9 8 S, ' I CONTRACf BRIDGE JOURNAL Probably one of the best per- (continued from page 32) formances of the season was the • A 9 3 2 winning of the Lady Milne Cup \} A 9 8 7 2 and the Whitelaw Cup by the . , 0 5 same team of ladies. This was no 4 A Q 8 mean performance and we . take • J 7 6 4 · this opportunity of offering our ' \} Q 10 54 •s congratulations to Mrs. P. Wil· 0 K 1 8 0 KJ Iiams, Mrs. R. Evans, Mrs. · M. 4 10 4 0 07432 .. KJ743 I Lester, Mrs. P. Gardener and • KQ 105 Miss D. Shanahan. \} 65 • • • • 0 A 109 6 Following last month's notes on ... 952 S o u t h African developments.· comes news of the formation of The favourite lead from West the Transvaal Contract Bridge was the 4 10 covered in dummy League with Mr. K. Sloot as and won by East with the king. Chairman, and Mr. L. S~pire as · I have not the space to discuss Se~re.tary. The latter wntes that . all the variations in the play but as 1t 1s only 17 hours from Johan- I believe that declarer should first nesburg matches between London a round of hearts when he and the Transvaal may not b~ so gets the lead at trick two (East ' far away. being unlikely to play hearts at .. • • • • trick two). Even a singleton club Sweden's Annual Bridge Con- with West would not ·cost him gress is being held at Tyloesand anything ; a most intriguing hand August 11- 16. A warm welcome both in attack and defence. is assured to all British visitors to , this delightful country and to this This has become a tremendous- very popular congress. Those who ly popular competition giving the have visited Sweden in the past teams in the lower leagues a know what to expect. There is chance to meet and beat the yet time to write for full particu- experts and providing the a~ded Iars to Didrik Nissen, Bagersgatan interest of playing to a hand1cap. 2, Malmo, Sweden. It seemed to me that the ex· • . • , • • planation of such a large victory If you thmk you are beaten- you was the mere existence of the are. . handicap. · The Institute players If you thmk you dare not- you · sometimes tried to force swtngs don't. · but the swing seemed to have the If you'd, li~e to win but t~ink you unhappy knack of going in the can t, 1ts almost a cmch you wrong direction: won't. If you think you'll lose, you've All credit to the University bo~ lost. for such a scintillating victory ~n .· ' For in the worl~ you find, all credit to the Institute for tak~ng Success begins with a fellows ·will. their defeat in' a most sportt~g Its all in the state of mind. manner. · ' 38 'I' I •.' ,,

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Problem No. 1. (12 points) Problem No. 4. (24 pointS) North deals and opens one These three hands, having tea- spade. East bids three hearts. tures in common but also signifi­ which on enquiry West states be cant differences. were held by the understands to be a pre-emptive same player within a short space bid. South, holding-+ K 5. \} 6, of time. 0 K 54, .. A 8 7 6 54 2. bids (a) . AK864 \}42 01084. four clubs. West bids four hearts. ..AK ' • North five clubs, East five hearts. - · What should South say next (a) at (b) .AK1074. <;:n, OKI02, equal vulnerability (b) at North- ..AK64 . . South Game (c) at East-West (c) . AK642, \} Void, OK1084. Game ? ..AQ108. Problem No. 2. (7 points) North deals at Love All and opens one diamond. East bids one heart. South holding- • Q 5, \} K 6 4, 0 K Q 6 3, • K J 3 2- makes a temporising ~d of two clubs. West passes; orth bids two hearts, East passes. What should South say next?

Problem No. 3. (18 points) - b' North deals at Game All and b!~s one club. East-West do not O·K 5outh, holding-+ K Q 6 4 2, s 6 3, 0 Q 6 3 2, .. 4---re­ hP<>nds one spade. What should (e) say next where North's rebid is t two clubs (b) three clubs (c) our clubs? 39 • · CONTRACI' BRIDGfi JOURNAL Problem No. s. (10 points). ing distribution not yet disclosed, South deals and bids one spade. and (b). the correct. play would His h an d is :_. K 8 7 4 3, · reduce 1t to a certamty without \} A J 10 4 2, 0 7, ... K J. West nny element of guesswork. Are bids one no-trump, North doubles either or botq these statements and East passes. What shoul.d . true ? .South say now where the score 1s (a) Love All (b) North-South JUNE RESULTS Game? First Prize : Miss W. JEWSON, Problem No. 6. (7 points) Brown Cottage, After two passes North bids one Hankham, heart. East-West do not bid. Nr. Pevensey, South, h o 1 d i n g-+ 10 6 5 4, Sussex.· 80% \} K J 9 7, 0 A K 2, .0. 1~ 3- Second Prize : bids three hearts. North contmues J.D. L. HARMER, with four clubs, South four dia­ 15, Talbot House, monds, North four hearts. What 98, St. Martin's Lane, should South say next? London, W.C.2. 79% Special Prize : · Problem No.7. (12 points) J. W. GERBER, · # South, holding- + A 8 5 4 2. 20, Sutherland Drive, \} K6, 0 K 10, ... A 1087- I Giffnock, opens the bidding with one spade. · Renfrewshire 76% East-West do not bid. North re­ Other L eading Scorers: sponds two· hearts. What should E. H. POTTER South rebid where he has opened (Hounslow) 75% (a) ns dealer (b) after two passes? C. E. PHILLIPS, Problem No.8. (10 points) (Nortliwich) 74% West was declarer at a contract C. R. B. MURRAY of seven no-trumps on these (Hythe) 71% hands : A. P. DRIVER West . East (Northwich) 68% + A3 + 'K64 J. K. PATES \} AQ5 · \} K7643 (Ilford) 68% 0 AKJ5 0 Q42 ' v. J. G. EA\YERS . tfa KQ42 ... A5 (Hunter's Quay, i ·: West won North's lead of dia- Argyll) 67% mond ten, East and South playing R. D. DuPUIS (Dollar) 66% small. Ace and queen of hearts N. F. CHOULARTON • 'r were then played, South discard­ (Manchester) 65% ing a small spade on the latter. Mrs. N. H . CoATES West, who was a beginner, played (Huddersfield) 65% out his winners in haphazard C. E. DICKEL fashion, but the opponents de­ (Glasgow) 65% fended correctly hand held him to J . E.GoRDON twelve tricks. An onlooker then (Broniborough) observed (n) that the contract C. W. HEWITT could be made against any oppos- (Heswall) .. 40 CONTRACT DRIDGB JOURNAL ., July Competition and Answers

problent No. 1 (14 points) Problem No. 2 ( 18 points) North deals at Game All and opens At the score Game All South one club. East-West do .not bid. ~outh holds :- + A65, O Void, 098652 responds one spade. Hts hand ts :­ .t.AK876. East-West do not bid. What AAQJ64, CJ K6, OQ853, .t.Q4. Wh~t "should South bid (a) as dealer (b) as should he say next where North s responder to North's first-in-hand rebid is (a) three clubs (b) two no­ opening bid of one spade {c) as re­ trumps? sponder to a similar opening of one heart?

ANSWERS (a) ANSWER : One diamond-6. (a) Three spades-7. . Four One club-3. No bid-2. clubs-3. Three diamonds-2. If this. hand is to be opened, minimum and minor-suited as it (b) Four no-trumps-7. Th~ee is, safety demands that a fit should diamonds- 3. Three no-trumps, be sought wherever it may be four spades- 2. found. If South opens one club There is some hope for a small because of the top honours, he will slam in both these cases after a never be able to bid the diamonds, strong rebid by partner. In (a) since he lacks the values for re­ there is no reason to assume that verse bidding ; if partner's hand is North's hand is balanced or parti- poor and worth only one response, cularly suitable for no-trumps ; South may be left to flounder at a the emphasis should be placed contract that is far from the best where it . rightly belongs, on the available; worse still. if partner is g~ ma}or suit ; the encouraging a bit better and rebids in no­ rebtd mtght well have been in- trumps, for which South's hand is duced b~ the hope of rebiddable not very suitable, no escape is spades Wtth South. Three spades is possible unless the clubs are to be . not a sign-off that begs· to be bid a third time. passed : three clubs was not a (b) ANSWER ': Two clubs--6. fo!ce, b~t i~ a response to it is ob- Two diamonds- 3. · tatn~d tt Implies an ability to At a later stage in the auction contmue. There is not very much South will probably need to show ~· ) be said for bidding diamonds his secondary support for spades, ~r South should have no desire t~ but he is not really strong ~nou~ Pay at such a suit contract when to bid two suits before dmng 50 : ~artner, even if he has a four-card be should therefore bid his one . eng~b. has been disinclined to bid respectable suit in the ~t pJac.:eo tt ht!1Jself ; it miglit, however, As he can alwa>:s find some rrmtt North to give jump pre- in spades, he JS no~ · as g:~ce for spades. (b) provides a committed to one swt oaly ti example of a non-conven- suppresses the~~~~~~~~ foonal, purely quantitative raise to (c) ANSWER byu~hno-tr~mps, which is justified -6. . Two clubl--.~. lt-~ril~~~!firlll th e. pomt-count coupled with As e eastly establishable spades. suit. 41 CONTRACT DRJDGB JOURNAL fit in one or other of his own can In spite of North's announced again be foreseen. He has the weakn.ess, there is still a hope of honour strength for two responses, game m hearts provided he is n t but if the first is made in clubs utterly abje.ct. With a balanc!t the second may become almost hand oppostte and the consequent impossible. assurance o~ tolerance at least f he~rts. the jump rebid in the 0~~ Problem No. 3 (21 points) SUit that . offers a prospect of a worth-whde score has a much South deals at Game All and bids greater appeal. one heart His hand is :- +4, 0 AQ7643, 0 AI054, .e.AQ. East-West do not bid. What should be South's Problem No. 4 (8 points) rebid where North responds with (a) one spade (b) two clubs (c) one· no· North deals at !he score North· . trump? South Game and b1ds one diamond East passes and South bids two clubs. . (a). ANSWER : Two diamonds South's hand is:- +12, \)AI098, .. - 6. Three hearts-3. OKlO, ...AI0642 . West bids two hearts, North passes and East raises South clearly has the values for to three .heart~ . What should South a non-forcing but encouraging say at th1s pomt? jump rebid, but before making it he should look ahead and antici- ANSWER : Three no-trumps-8. pate the more likely responses and Double-4. the problems they are likely to set If the opponents are to be be­ him. A three spade rebid will not lieved, North must be very ~ort greatly please· him and be will in hearts, and his second round then have to fall back on three pass cannot therefore be ex­ no-trumps, for which the joint plained by a weak balanced hand ho~dings may be quite unsuitable. that was only just worth opening. It ts far better for him to make Since, in spite of a presumably the neutral rebid of two diamonds unbalanced hand, he bas not sup­ and later, if given the opportunity ported South's clubs, it seems to rebid the hearts. Such ~ highly probable that he has seq~ence ~ill suggest a strong opened on values that are to some semt-two-sutter, for a weaker one extent distributional and based w_ould not have justified the bid- largely on a long diamond suiL dmg of the four-card suit at all On this diagnosis, a no-trump If the hand turns out to be a mis~ contract, with the diamond swt fit, the auction can be stopped easily run with the aid of South's short of game. king, is likely to be worth a good (b) ANSWER : Two diamonds deal more than the penalty to be - 6. Three hearts-4. obtained f r o m non-vulnerable · Fear of a misfit is n t · opponents who seem to have here but rushing the ~a~J g~ldt fo~nd. a fit. . There is another ding may' still raise pr bl Y th • objectto"; to the 0 ~ouble. ~orth would be avoided b ems at may dectde that bts band IS too tious probing Y more cau- unsuitable for a heart contract to ( ) · allow it to stand and may run out Tw~ ;NSW E~ Three hearts-6. into four diamonds. As the · tam on - 2. partners are unlikely to . baVO 42 I ' . I

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ugh between them to take (c) ANSWER: Three diamonds ~re~en tricks, they will have lost - 7. Four diamonds-3. Four both the game bonus and the clubs- 2. penalty with only a part-score as South has the advantage here a consolation. of. knowing that the hand fits fairly well but has been deprived p,.oblem No. S (21 points) by ~orth's club bid of the oppor­ tumty of further temporising North deals at Game All and opens is one diamond. East-West do not bid. measures. Three diamonds South responds one heart. His hand perhaps a slight underbid, but is :- ~ 2 . 17 K975, 0 10763, 4tAK86. insufficient is yet known of the What should he say next where strength of North's hand to'com­ Norlh's rebid is (a) two no-trumps (b) one spade (c) two clubs? mit the side to. a high contract at a minor suit from which retreat to (a) ANSWER: Three clubs- 7. no-trumps js impossible. Four diamonds-5. Three no­ trumps- 3. Problem No. 6 (10 points) This is not an easy decision for The hands of East and West are:...... : ~ AKQ • 8765 it would be wrong to rule ' out \J A2 063 three no-trumps entirely as the . 0 A Q 10 53 0 K 7 best game contract. Yet the un­ ell AQ4 .. 87653 West is declarer- at three no-trumps, balanced nature of his hand North-South not having entered the sh?~ ld ~rsuade South against auction. North leads OK. West has ra~smg dtrectly in no-trumps, in eight tricks on top and a number of s~t te of the fair honour strength, hopes for a ninth. How should he plan the play so that every chance is wtthout .first exploring elsewhere. fully exploited in due order of Three dtamonds is altogether too priority? . :n-eak. a bid for the values held ; 10 Obviously the one chance for a thts sequence it indicates ex­ ninth trick that cannot be left ti11 treme doubt of game though not later is dummy's fourth spade. If ~~~tterly hopeless hand. Three 5 the suit fails to split three-three, enables North to do one of the diamonds should be tackled. a.number of things- to rebid his dtamonds t h The chance of a three-three break hea • ? s ow preference for is no better than 36%. against rts, to ratse clubs or with good Spa des t · · ' 48% for one of four-two, and is ShouJ o mstst on no-trumps. therefore inferior to the straight woulddd he chose this last, South 50% chance of the club finesse. 0 Well to pass (b • 'However, the diamond jack Thr;e AN~WER: Two clubs-7. may come down on the sa;uo,,... , trum P-~~monds-4. One no- round, and the play should fore be ace of diamonds folloW~NICI ;i~"i by small to · kirig. un~a~n ~ contract is still more jack has this North's ~ ere, for the strength of appeared, the factor Sand r~mains a variable then be taken. ' . outh ts best advised to Problem No. r_s ~~;j~ · for a ~tse and allow North scope At IIi1 bolding~re exact description of his CONTRACf BRIDGE JOURNAL bas bid two spades. · North:South try and think up some strataD­ havc taken no further part m the before committin hi ' - • auction. East has raised to four g 5 •Ortuncs to spades which has become the final con· th!s rather slender hope. One tract. North leads . fJ 10 and West thmg that should occur to him is wins with the ace. What lead at the this-North is. unlikely to hold second trick should afford West the both ace and king of clubs, for if. best chance of success? · h~ doe~ he would surely have led The bands of West and East are:- thts sutt rather than one in which + K Q I 9 8 + 10 7 6 2 he holds nothing at all. He will 6 "J A 2 • fJ K Q 1 8 therefore welcome any opportun. 0 AQ8 0 4 tit 10 9 8 tit 7 54 ity presented to him of giving South the lead. so that he may It is clear that North, if given obtain either a heart ruff or a lead the lead immediately with the through his probable ten ace in trump ace, will have no option but clubs. If West has the inspiration to attack clubs, whatever his to play the ~iamond queen, North holding in the suit, now that the could scarcely b~ blamed for con­ menace of dummy's hearts is in cluding that his partner holds the full view. The normal shot for ace and that the problem of find­ West would therefore be to obtain ing an entry card in his hand has a discard of a club at once on the been kindly solved for him by the third round of hearts. But it is declarer. Unless North has a not very likely that three rounds, singleton heart, one club discard possibly not even two. of the suit in dummy ·will be enough to will stand up, and West should secure the contract. Calendar of Events July 9 B.B.L PAIRS COMPETITION '· All Towns Sept. 10-17 NORTIIERN IRELAND B.U. CoNGRESS Portrush Sept. 20-28 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Dublin

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NOTTINGIIAM JIA&&OW H uow B1ttOOE CLuB-16 Nonhwlck CIUNTOCIC BIIIOOt; Cl.Ua--480 Mansfield k Ro•d H•rrow, Middll. Tel. Harrow Road, Nottingham. Tel. Nottln&ham 6'921. Par G~ SIAI)dard f!ridlle . in enjoyable Proprietreu: Mrs. D. M. HOPEWELL, Hoo. !:sphere. ~uaons tw•cc dally. Partner­ Secretary: N. R. C. FRITH., Visitors wei- dups and Duplicate. ~ corned. Ellccllent venue for matc:ha io Midlands.

WSDON DOVBNEMOVTU GLOUCESTER CLUB - President: .M. TilE WESSEX R EStDOITIAL 811100r: CLu­ f11rruon.Gra y, 37 Gloucester Walk, W.8. Tel. Undsay t.f:lnor, Undsay Road. Daily Ses­ Western 5821. Stakes 6<1. Partnerships: sions, 2.U and 8 o'clock. Three Partner· E•'ttlin&s . Tuesday. Thursday. Saturday; After­ ships weekly. Fonniahdy Duplicate. Tel.: noons , Thursday, Sunday. Duplicate every Westboume 640341 . Fnday at 8 p.m. sharp. Coac:hin11 and Pncta Classes by Eapert Teachers. WORTIIING MtiiADELLE REsiDENTI AL D111oor: CLu.­ TUSBRIDGE WELLS, KENT Sea Front, Heene Terrace, Worth!na. Daily seSJions, 2.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Moderate WEST KENT Cwa-12 Boyne Park, Tun­ Stakes. Fortniahtly Duplicate. CANASTA. bridac Wells. Comforuble, well-appointed Fridays at 8 o/c. Practice c:lusa Mon .t Wed Brid~c Club. Fully licensed. Stakes 3d. and 8 o /c. Licensed rcstauranL Visitors welcomed. 6d. Rcaular Partnership and Duplicate. Tel. ti431(2. Particulars from Secretary. Pri111c p3rties specially catered for. For further details apply to R. H. Corbett, Serntary. Tel. Tunbridge Wells 21133. SERVICES TIJITION IN CONTRACT DRIDGE All klnds of Brldae equipment.. ASD CANASTA. Head Instructor World Price Lilt on application lo Bridte Olympic winner. Private lessons and Mn. B. M. Kina. counes. Practice classes. Duplicate c:oac:hina. (Authorised Aaent,E.B.U.), l..tctures. Postal courses. Moderate terms. 21 Hale Grove Gdns .. London. N.W.7 Mayfa ir Bridae Studio, Dept. 21, 114 Wla· ' Phone MILL HILL 2007 IIIOrt Street, London, W.l.

LONDON CLUB 16,_ BERKELEY STREET, LONDON, W.l. Conference and Board Rooms available for Company Meeting$, Bridge Contests, Matches, etc. Duplicate Pairs every Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7.45 p.m. Rubber Bridge every afternoon and evening (1/- per hundred). Secretary : Major George E. Gray

. CHAS. BRADBURY, LTD. 26 SACKVILLE STREET, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.t. Pboae UG. I 31JS.3111 WANS ARRANGED With or Without S~ty E. B. U. .. ' .: : (' ...

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Membership of the E.B.U. entitles you to: (a) All Literature------(b) Entry to- all- National Competitions (c) A voice in -the management of the

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