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You are South in a dubious contran of I> :\T, doubled by E:tst. The lead "a' (luckil,·) the + 4 . ll THIS MONTH'S PROBLEM CHAS. BRADBURY LIMITED ~ 26 SACKVILLE ST., PICCADILLY ACHILLE LON DON, WI . · SERRE Phone Reg. 3/23-3995 LOANS ARRANG ED {Jtu/lly (f(kt,u?zp W ith ·or · wfth out Sec~rity. LADY, ·prominent in Bridge worlc;l, ~eriw desires . to form . Private Company to take over . well-known and established London . Bridge Club. Will anybody - /ll!tof4_tea: interested communicate, in confidence, to Box No. 555; Contract Bridge Journal, c/o Priestley.Studios Ltd., Commercial . Road, Gloucester. The . copyright of this magazine is vested iri Priestley Studios Ltd. It is published under the authorit): of the English Bridge Union. The Editorial Board is composed of, ., and the Editor is appointed by, the English Bridge Union. IN PRINCIPAL CENTRES RIVIERA HOTEL . · CANFORD CLIFFS BOURNEMOUTH FACES CHINE AND SEA AMID GLORIOUS SURROUNDINGS Quality fare prepared by first class c h efs Pe rfectly appointed bedrooms a nd suites Cockta il Lounge-Tenn is-Golf Telephone : Canfor d Cliffs :z8s Brochure on Requ est e ·You can always rely on a good game of Bridge at II· The Ralph Evans's Hotel . ·~ ,. · -. CONTRACT ··· BRIDGE JOURNAL ·- OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE · ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION VoLUME 3 MAY, 1949 Nm.mER 7 ERRATUM • CONTENTS • The Contract Bridge Joumal Page desires to withdraw unreservedly EDITORIAL . • 2 the stricture it administered in last' CHALLENGE RoUND month's issue to a well-known, but Dr. Hans Leist . . . 4 un-named, player in a multiple PROBLEM CHILD AGAIN 10 team fi nal. We offer our regrets for IRELAND v. NoRTHERN any pain. caused to the player in IRELAND . • 13 question and to her team-mates. ENGLAND v. WALFS 15 It appears, from information EASTBOURNE. TOURNAMENT 18 deriving from an unimpeachable A N GLO-FRENCH ENCOUNTER 20 source, that the premises upon which our rebuke was . based were, HANDS FROM PLAY 22 in fact, inaccurate ; although, irl CASE LAW (Portland Club Decisions) 24 our .own defence, we are compelled to state that they were widely SToP OR Go ON ? A Reply to L eslie Dodds accepted. by Alfred Preston , 25 Without labquring the point. THE CLUB No-TRUMPS too much, two ladies in the team Norman Squire . . 26 ~vere indisposed ; it had been MAY CoMPETITION 29 agreed between the members of the ANswERS TO APmL team that one should be absent from CoMPETITION 30 the eve.rung session ; and that the o'ther, left to carry on, fotind herself •••• too ill to continue playing. In the · circumstances, the Tournament All Bridge Corresponderrce to the Director very properly admitted the Editor : introduction of a substitute rather' GUY RAMSEY, than disorganise the whole Final. IJ, Cannon Place, . • • • London, N.W.J. We also plead guilty to in advertently mis-reading the score All Corresporrdence orr sheets of the Pachabo Final ; and S ubscriptiorrs or Advertising to beg to state that the team S. Booker Publishers : (Capt.), Lady ~odes, . Mrs. PRIESTLEY STUDIOS LTD;, Markus, Mrs. Lttante and K; Commercial Road, · Konstam, came fourth and not Gloucester. eighth as was erroneously recorded last month. A I: ) EDITORIAL OUR sympathy is requested expert scrutineers appointed at the for the British Bridge urgent request of the B.B.L. Y League, whose well-meant unanimously recommended the design to choose the best possibl'e cancellation of all future Tests, International team for Paris has Trials, Challenges or: Nominations collapsed about their cars. and the Selection of the winne~ Originally, in four-,veekly stages, forthwith. it was planned to hold : a pairs The B.B.L., however, which has contest ; a team-of-four contest ; in the event been compelled to a Final ; and a Nominated team disregard its own conditions, has to play the winner of the Final. decided (a) to flout the advice This was to end in April, to give proffered by its own expert Cabinet the ultimate Selectees plenty of and (b) to adhere to the last para practice before actually proceeding graph of its conditions and to to the Elysian Field (or Champs present as its Nominated Team- · · Elysees !) of Honour in July. in late May instead of in April Shortage, combined with alleged one pair from the Challengers, one unsuitablity, of entries sandwiched pair not considered worthy to the two proposed events efforts into Challenge, and a pair " discovered " one ; . and the triangular Trials in a recent Tournament, each were held, from which the team member of which played with a Booker-Lee, Frank.lin-Mercado different partner in the Trials. (and, for a few boards, Kremer) These pairs are : emerged as winners. A. Meredith and N. Gardener Late in April a match, not who are thus given a fourth envisaged by the original B.B.L. bite ~t the cherry of repre plan-which gave exemption to 110 sentatlon ; potential player-was held : the S. Bendix and Dr. Rockfelt ; match commented upon in a and masterly critique in this current L. Tarlo and H. Fmnklin Number of the Journal (for which whose original partners, L: it has been deliberately held back Baron and R. Mercado have from its normal publication date). apparently, been finally ban In this match, the Internationals ished to the outer darkness. of last year ovenvhclmingly de The Team is put under the feated the Challengers, re-inforced rel~ctant (non-playing) Captaincy at the discretion of the B.B.L by a of J. Tarlo. pair (Meredith and Gardener) from one of the teams which did NOT Precisely what a victory over this win the Trials. team ~y th~ Gray team would prove, lS dub10us. ; precisely what This, in effect; made the so-called Final in reality the Nomination : ~efeat of the Gmy ~cam by this Mate? ; and so convincing. was dext~tte would prove 1s even more the v1ctory of the 1948 Champions ubmus. To select members of this - Gmy-Konstam, Reese-Shapiro tt:am-~ood players as they are Dodds-Rayne - that the sev~~ f~r Pans, on the strength of such a VICtory (if gained !) would be 2 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL :analogous to sending Leicester City who run Congresses the request overseas rather 'than Portsmouth suitably voiced in a letter to the merely because Leicester beat Contract Bridge Journal by Pompey in the F.A. Cup. "Admiral" A. F. Truscott, Presi As it is, the Gray team, with an dent of the Oxford University unrivalled tournament record this Bridge Club, viz., that at least .season jointly and severally ; with some Congresses should be run out a swingeing victory over the best of of University term-time. the Pro babies, now finds itself in the This is difficult, for suitable embarrassing position of being resorts, at _which Congresses can unable to play the Nominateds for conveniently be held, are reluctant reasons partly private and partly to give the necessary facilities due to the exigencies of the many during the, main holiday seasons bridge events in which they are which, obviously, coincide with engaged. University vacations. Bridge- as It would be a gross perversion of yet-is regarded as only an " off all justice if this successful_ sex season " attraction, alas ! tette were to be split up, disrupted, Financial concessions have HE Chall~nge Match for This Challenge Match con-: International honours was vincingly demonstrated the fact T decisively won by the team that there is available no team in that triumphed· at Copenhagen last Britain to touch the old Grande year: M. Harrison-Gray (capt.), Anmfe: there are just not the card Kenneth Konstam, Terence Reese, players available. Boris Shapiro, Leslie Dodds and It demonstrated, too, equally " Eddie " Rayne. - infallibly, the fact that a team will Gruelling Trials elicited a always beat a group assembled at! Challenge Team-Dr. Sidney Lee, hoc. A team has confidence~ Standish Booker (Vienna) ; Harold cohesion, fights (or.plays) as a unit; Franklin and " Bobby " Mercado the group is, inevitably, ragged. from Leeds (Acol) ; "Nico" For although in their (vain) Gardener and " Plum " Meredith efforts to pull something out of the (Baron), who played the Inter wreck, the Challengers switched nationals over 200 Boards at partnerships-at one point Franklin Crockfords. The Internationals played with Goldinger : an Acolite won by 117 (new) International with a Baronite (playing Acol) Match Points-equivalent to some the Challenged, almost contemp 170 old I.M.P. and an aggregate of tuously did the same thing. Gray 11,000. played with Reese, Konstam and Again, at the invitation of the Shapiro ; Konstam played with Editor of the Contract Bridge all five of his team-mates ! Journal, I venture to write, as an Even unfamiliar partnerships official scrutineer, of my impres within the winning team did not sions of play and players alike. ' disrupt their run of success. And it The entire dozen are expert : is well to peer below the surface let no " chuck," recorded here or into the reason for this. Primarily, retailed elsewhere, be construed to it is a question of captaincy ; imply the contrary. But- as the secondly, of mutual confidence. score shows-the contest was The Challengers, nominally after the first boards when the under the command of Dr. Lee, Challengers held their own- a run were, in reality, just three pairs away. switched at the discretion of an able It was the boards between 41 and charming player with no and 70 that were decisiv!! : during experience of the strategy and tacticS that session of 30 Boards, the required of a captain ; whereas· Challengers dropped to 55 IMP Gray, with years of successful behind ; and, whatever they could captaincy behind him, knows not do, however they switched partner only every trick in the bridge ships,· whatever tactics they tried, players armoury but every trick of the steamroller of the old team went captaincy too. Gray is a stronger, remorselessly on, turning, at the a more forceful personality than end, a defeat into a rout- but a Le~ ; and he imposed upon his rout in which the retreating army qumtette a homogeneity that stood never quite ga\'e up the struggle. them in fine stead. 4 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL Further, the Copenhageners the moment proved unfortunate. tested last year-proved they Booker and Lee-the finest Vienna possessed the stamina and the players in the country ; each with staying-power which all such events an enviable record-slogged away demand : the team proved it· in laboriously ; they sought to run last year's trials-at least three of along the rails of Vienna-but for them did-when, 50 match points humans, such . super-human re down, they yet won on the last ten straint to make natural bids is over "Boards. This stamina they retain difficult .... and, moreover, against to-day. The Challengers, inex the elasticity of their present perienced ·in Marathons, lacked it. opponents mere " book " play is Take the two teams as individ bound to be-as it was-disastrous. ualc:;, and you have : Gray, smpoth, As for Franklin, rising bridge star solid, supremely competent, winner of the North, and Mercado, the this year (with. Shapiro) of the fiery player from Yorkshire, the pairs and (alone) of the Masters' uncertainty which-despite their Individual, the doyen of tourn success in the Trials-was percep tible in the early matches came, in ment bridge ; Dodds, a pre-war as well as a post-war International, the Challenge, to bear bitter fruit. possibly the most puzzling of I am not going to say, for ·a opponents ; Shapiro, multiple moment, that the play of the victors winner of trophies ; Reese, was flawless : it was not. · Bad analyst and theorist who can bids, bad plays, bad defences were usually-translate all his theory perpetrated ; but the other team into practice i. Rayne, young, played quite shockingly below its Yigorous, equable ; and Konstam, best. versatile, equally good at tourn It is ·no ·pleasure to me to point aments and rubber bridge, with a out errors· ; but take, for example dazzling and bewildering speed of this bidding by Meredith (Sf and, play that masks its. inherent sound Gardener (E) on this hand :- ness. + xx + Axxx For these players, the safety Grays' play of the Q at Trick 1 a'> a subtle,. but involved, defence ; well as by Booker's ill-judged he had envisaged a single Diamond McKenney), thought to give South with West and planned to let a ruff early. He led the Heart, partner cash a Club, cash the Ace and Gray shed a Club. Now of Diamonds; give West a ruff and, Declarer cashed the Ace of Spades if another high Club is played, and played three rounds of Declarer is now precluded from Diamonds with hope: hope ful- taking a ·finesse against the Knave filled when Booker, with the third of Trumps- there are too few . Spade, was compelled to follow to entries to coup the hand. Franklin the third Diamond. On the fourth therefore petered with the + 9. Diamond, Gray pitched his last Mercado failed to read this and Club and the Contract was made. took it for a command to continue Lucky ? Yes. But the luck was Clubs. Reese now made no deserved. mistake : he ruffed the Club, won This very delicate hand turned a Heart, ruffed the second Club, won the second Heart and drew up early in the match :- trumps, conceding the Knave, and • KS the Ace of Diamonds. Franklin ATHEMATICIANS from the question, we print a letter from John o' Groats to Land's Hubert Phillips, unquestionably M End have weighed in with the finest mathematician among letters to the Journal, dealing with expert bridge players ; and, also, Judge Bigelow's niece, Sharon's Mr. Brewer's handsome retraction. analysis of the Bellanger Theory, For all other contributions, we published in December. In March, are very grateful- but Agoraphobia Mr. A. R.Reid was Con, Mr. S. R. (or fear of space) compels us to B: Brewer, Pro. Finally to settle refrain from publishing them. The Editor, Mr. Brewer has made exactly the " Contrqct Bridge Joumal." same mistake as appears to have Sir, been made by " Sharon" in Judge Bigelow's story. This is corrected " It is wrong from beginning to (p. 16) by Mr. A. R. Reid. If you end " said the Caterpillar, after listening to Alice's version of ar~ distributing (say) 7 cards of a "Father William." The same is smt to two players, it is quite true, unfortunately true of Mr. Brewer's as ~r: Brewer says, that they will be diVIded four-three 35 times out table, published on p .. ]8 of your of64. March issue. I have seen no better illustration of the saying that " A ~his is the ·same problem as little learning is a dangerous thing," tossmg seven pennies ; 35 times IO CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL out of 6+ there will be either four can be distributed 10-9 in no heads and three tails, or four tails fewer than 92,378 ways. Mr. and three heads. Similarly, they Culbertson's percentages are per will be divided five-two 21 times fectly correct, because they take out of 64 ; and so on. this factor into account. But the probabilities we are · In the hope of removing all concerned with are not merely the doubts on this question, may I probabilities affecting those seven give the full analysis of the case of cards. We are concemed with 26 our seven Clubs ? Readers who cards. are interested can easily work out If the suit we are concerned with for themselves the cases of 6, 5, 4, 3 is (say) Clubs, the possible distri and 2 Clubs. All that is needed is butions of our seven Clubs need a knowledge of what mathemati to be related to the corresponding cians call " combinations " (and possible distributions of nineteen football pool fans, erroneously, non-Clubs ; and this is not a " permutations.") constant factor. For example, our · The 26 cards which partners hold 19 non-Clubs can be . distributed at Bridge can be distributed 13- 6 in 27,132 · ways; but they between them m. 10,400,600 Clubs Distributions Non-Clubs IDistributions Product of East West (1) East west I (2) (1) and (2) (1) 7 0 1 6 13 27,132 25,132 (2) 5 1 7 I 7 12 . 50,388 382,716 (3) 5 2 21 8 11 75,582 1,587,222 (4) 4 3 35 9 10 92,378 3,233,230 (5) 3 4 35 10 9 92,378 3,233,230 (6) 2 5 21 11 8 75,582 1,587,222 (7) 1 6 7 12 7 50,388 352,716 (8) 0 7 1 13 6 27,132 27,132 TOTAL 10,400,600 PERCENTAGES Club · No. of Distribution Distributions I Percentages (1) and (8) 7·0 or 0·7 54,26+ ·52 (2) and (7) 6·0 or 1·6 705,432 6·78 (3) and (6) 5·2 or 2·5 3,174,444 30·52 (3) and (6) 5·2 or 2·5 3,174,444 30·52 (4) and (5) 4·3 or 3·4 6,466,460 62·18 10,400,600 . 100 ·00 IT CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL different ways. Now suppose that The issue 1s primarily an Declarer's adversaries hold between academic one ; I don't suppose them seven Clubs. The table (p. 11) Mr. Brewer's erroneous calcu shows (1) the possible distributions lations seriously disadvantage him of the Clubs between East · and to play. But I do not like to see the West ; (2) the distributions, theory of chances misrepresented, relevant to each of these, of the particularly in the " Contract nineteen non-Clubs ; (3) the Bridge Journal." resulting distributions in respect of HUBERT PHILLIPS. each type of holding ; (4) the Sutton Courtenay, percentages. Berks. Thus, ignoring decimals; Mr. Culbertson's figures are accurate. The Editor, "Co11tract Bridge Journal." I read my letter in y~ur March " Then I shall have to content issu~ with pride and Mr. Reid's myself with a simple demon letter with indignation and con stration," she said ·in a patronizing tempt. I filled · my pen with the and pitying tone.· " Consider two strongest . vitro!, · and with the hands each of four cards, which w& Journal on my desk, commenced a will designate by the ·letters A to letter designed to reduce Mr. H ". Swiftly scribbling on mv Reid to protoplasm. It was at best writing pad she put down a that moment that my eleven year total of 70 hands (ABCD, old daughter Diana, who would ABCE, etc.) which she assured me surely make a fit playmate for were all that could be dealt with Sharon, appeared. With the usual eight cards. good manners of- the modern " Now," she continued, "accor generation, she annexed the ding to you and Sharon, cards A Joumalp read my letter and and B should be together 35 times exclaimed in shocked tones and separate 35 timeS. Actually "Daddy I What have you done ? " they are together 30 times and I explained how I was about to separate 40 times. According to tear Mr. Reid to shreds. With a cry your cards A, B and C would be of anguish, (we Brewers have' a distributed 3 and 0 seventeen and strong sense of family pride) she a half times and 2 and 1 fifty-two pushed me from my chair and and a half times. Actually the seized my pen. figures are ten and sixty times." "Your table," she explained I gave in. Diana went back to " . f ' 1s o course correct if the hands ~e~ essay on the Theory of Rela contain an infinite number of cards tiVIty and I refilled my pen with but is obviously incorrect if th~ gall and wormwood. (78o/c to number of cards is limited. How 22%) and tried to write a lett~r of long is it since you did permu apology. Having failed in this, I tations and combinations ?" feel that all -I can do is to present " Twenty-five years," I re the facts as they occurred. sponded weakly. (Conti11ued 011 page 1 ~) u IRELAND v. NORTHERN IRELAND OODOOS and Bogeys are recognised and have re-united having a thin time this Donovan and Rivlin for our match H year and another one was against Scotland. buried at Newcastle, when our team defeated N.I.B.U. by 1140 points. N.I.B.U. were represented by four of the old brigade, M. Gab bey, 1937 was the last occasion we finished in front of our Northern G. Hanna, E. Goldblatt and W. MacCallum and two newcomers, neighbours ; and when one re E. ]. O'Boyle and A. P. Gallery members that we have beaten each of our other rivals in the interim, (the latter pair were included as winners of the Pairs Champion this " Bogey " business doesn't ship). sound so goofy after all. However, now the ghost is laid and from now When the North ran up a lead of on it's thirteen . wins .in a row, to 2600 at Board 32 it looked as if balance the lean period I game was going to follow the usual N .I.B.U. can and will claim they pattern, but dinner revived our team had an experimental side out, but somewhat and the evening session then our own had certainly . a was much better contested, the .. New Look" and had been the lead being, in .fact, halved by the subject of .much whispering in time we retired: The shape of corners and many raised eyebrows. things to come was reflected.in the Not for many years did a team go first Boards -on the following after forth with less confidence behind it, noon; first Kelly and Harold bid but the five men and a girl con Seven' Spades on a hand Gabbey founded the critics. and Hanna stopped at Six. Then the O'Sullivans made two games on I · placed the lady last in that hands, in which their opponents lost sentence but I rank her first in the points ; and though O'Boyle and honours list. Eileen O'Sullivan is Gallery struck back by collecting her name and she's from Tralee . . 600 for a game which was defeated Needless to say she soon became in Room 1, the lead was·slashed to " Rose of Tralee," but that Rose 340. was studded with thorns, which she used to equal effect in defence and The writing was on the wall now attack. Partner was husband Jack, and though we had to wart till and this pair was the only .regular Board 84 to gain the lead, once we partnership chosen. The team was g~t in frpnt our team never looked completed by J. Harold and J. A. like losing. The final score was Kelly, P. Donovan and P. Carson. 1140. The quartette had been summarily Needless to say there was great divorced from their regular partner jubilation amongst the team and ships (with whom they had qualified " invasion " of supporters from for selection) and paired as above. South of the Boyne and it is The exP,eriment met with 50% delightful to record the generous success, Harold and Kelly had a congratulations from our oppo good match but Donovan and nents, who seemed almost as happy Carson were never really happy, a about another broken Hoodoo as fact which the powers-that-be have we were. NOEL BYRNE. 13 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL There were many interesting and 52 respectively largely dis hands and I have selected Board 65, counted this. On· Board 65 the principally because I believe that visitors bid a lay-down " grand," the psychological effect of the Seven only the small slam being reached Spadli call was to put our team in the other room; and indeed it is literally on their toes and start them difficult to arrive at with any on the winning way. The census certainty of success. On Board 87 of· opinion amongst players and both sides reached Four Spades. kibitzers was that it was because On the initial lead by the Northern East opened the bidding that the Ireland 'defender the contract Grana Slam was reached. I feel should have been defeated, whereas that it might just as easily have been on the lead in the other room bid where West been the opener, if declarer ought to have got home. he had s'elected to bid Four Spades In fact the reverse occurred, thus over Partner's Three- instead of _a rpotential gain of 720 became an Three NT. . adverse swing of that amount. This North dealt, and the East-West put the visitors into the lead for hands were :- the first time and playing with ever + AKJ • Q 98743 increasing confidence they finished ~ AJ96 ~ K 108 victors by 1,140 points. 0 A4 0 10 9 One player I would like to + AJ_72 + KQ ' single out for special mention, not Northern Ireland bid No bid indeed because she was the only ZNT-3 + -3 NT-4NT-5 NT lady player on either side. Mrs. -6 NT while Eire preferred r + - O'Sullivan had an excellent match 3 + -3 + -4 NT-.5 + -S NT and was the essence of reliability - 6~-7 • . throughout. Probably she an~ her NoEL BYRNE. husband emerged with a better * * record than any other pair in the * Match. This Match was played m Newcastle, County Down, in A. J. FLETCHER. beautiful sunny weather. Un fortunately, the Bridge was not in (Continued from page 12) keeping. Mr. Reid is obviously right. Mr. For the first time since 1936 the Culbertson is probably right Northerners lost, and deservedly (Diana has promised to work it so. Both sides were experimental out for me when she has five - but whereas the Southerners minutes to spare) and I sit in improved as the new partnerships sackcloth and ashes. gained experience, the home team Stop Press. I dug into my deteriorated progressively. memories of the past and worked Northern Ireland went into the out the actual distributions. lead at Board 2 and remained in Before the sun rose I had front until Board 87. At Board 34 calculated that Culbertson's they had their highest plus score figures were correct, within one of 2,630, but contrary swings of per cent. 730, 900 and 750 on Boards 35,39 s. R. BREWER. 14 Contract Bridge .J onrnal Qfficial It ibitzers Report on ENGLAND v. WALES. A LTHOUGH the familiar East-West can sacrifice cheaply in ..L"1.. Camrose pattern was un- Spade~ . rolled at Manchester, in The Vienna system bidding by one respect the .early play differed the English pair was 1 NT-2 + ; from the traditional. The · Welsh 2 0 - 3 0 ; 50. It would seem players showed a quite unusual that on the system South should disinclination to bid throughout a have bid 2 r::} on the second round long series of sticky hands ; the instead of 3 0, as North's con English were impatient, and after ventional 2 0 seeks a major suit half-a-dozen small but useful response. 5 0, however, was swings Wales led deservedly by made ; East led r::} K, leant 900 points. forward when he saw his partner's The London pairs, however, r::} 10 fall, and continued with r::} A stuck to their tactics, and the and r::} 6. West searched in vain pendulum swung in their favour. for a trump. A combination of aggressive Again neither side found the bidding, spectacular dummy play best contract on Board 17 :- and shaky defence by their NoRTH SoUTH opponents brought ·in the points. + AKJ2 + 09 England gained a somewhat · un r::} K 9 6 4 r::} 0 10 53 merited windfall on the following 0 010 9 4 0 K J 8 hand:- + O + 7632 + A Dealer, North. Love All. , r::} }532 0 AK87 Bidding-Room 1. + AK32 NoRTH EAST SOUTH WE:>! • J 8 7 4 3 2 • 0 10 6 5 1 • Dble Redble 2 + r::} 0 10 r::} A K 6 2 0 No bid 3 0 No bid 0- OJ432 3r::} No bid 3 + 10942 East dealt at Game All. South 0 KQ7 opened 1 CV1 ( !) ; North bid 2 0, + K and South 3 + : North returned + 7 • 10 3 2 to 3 .cv> (he could not ha\·e been CV1 AKQJ7 cv> 8653 blamed for bidding + CV1), South 0 10 6 54 0 3 . passed, Gray led a trump and + 1043 + Q8652 Wale~ lost 200 points. Lee and Booker played the hand quietly + AQ54 in 2 0 and scored llO. cv>- 0 AJ982 At this stag!! the Manchester + AJ97 pair, Franks and Blaser were Dealer, \-Vest. North-South playing extremely well, but the Game. Londoners in the other room were Bidding- Room I. not having too happy a time. Another vulnerable slam bid . in WEST' NoRTH EAsT .SouTH th_eir stride by the W elsh~en, was ICV1 1 + 1 NT(!) 2 CV1 badly missed ; and then came the Dble 2 + 3 0 Dble following much-debated hand :- No bid No bid 3 CV1 + 0 No bid 4 + . No bid 6 + + KQ2 No bid No bid No bid CV1 QJ7 0 Q1096 Bidding- Room 2. + KQ6 1 cv> 1 + 2CV1 3CV1 • J 5 +3 + A 10 No bid 3 • 4 cv> +-+ (!) CV1 A9+ CV1 K652 No bid No bid No bid 0 Kj + 0 A 7 3 2 The Welsh were North-South in + A93 + J S + Room 1. South's 3 CV1 in the other + 9S76 room was an Asking Bid, and cv> 1083 ~I though the. reasons that prompted 0 85 Jt may seem obscure, South at + 10 7 52 t6 · CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL East dealt at Game All. Both England had finished the first sides reached 3 NT, the English day's play with a lead of 1110 after "\Vest being declarer in Room 1 ; 60 boards ; on the resumption although he got the kindly lead of a this was reduced to 260 at Board Diamond, he rather tamely went 82. one down. In the other room the The English captain then brought bidding was 1 0-1 + ; 1 NT- his big guns to bear ; the two 3 NT, and South led \? 8. London pairs played faultlessly for North's \? J held the trick, and the rest of the .match, and their \? Q was returned to dummy's opponents suddenly cracked. \? A. Declarer (Moses) now led Although the hands were dead and + 3 from the table, North split offered scant opportunity for a his equal!1, + A won and + 10 was legitimate swing, in the last 16 led back to North's + K. North boards the score was pushed up to got off play with his l~st Heart. a final margin of 2500. Although the position of \? 10 . This was a good and exciting was obscure, Moses realised that match. Although in this account North would have played this card, the spotlight has ·been focussed on had he held it, to smother dummy's errors by both sides, most of the \? 9, so he went in with \? K. He boards \yere contested with now finessed 0 J, losing to North's accuracy and· bull-dog tenacity. 0 Q. North foresaw the squeeze, The Welshmen certainly stole their and rightly decided to attack Clubs. share of the honours. The card he selected was + Q ; The match was . well staged after mature consideration it was by the North-\Vestern Association allowed to hold the ·trick, South officials. This was England's playing + 7 : and now North third win in this year's series, and followed with + K, optimistically their 11th consecutive Camrose playing his partner for + J. East victory. could now spread his hand for Teams : nine tricks. WALES : J. Fogarty (non- North was criti'cised for this play, · playing captain), E. J. Carter, S. but in point of fact the, defence is Hoffman, Trevor Williams, H. J. helpless once North has led + Q. Gould, S. Moses, P. Davies. He can safely exit with his last ENGLAND : M. Harrison- Spade or the deceptive 0 9, but Gray (captain), B. Shapiro, Dr. S. both players will have to discard Lee, S. Booker, B. H. Franks, S. a Club on the thirteenth Heart ; Blaser. North must keep his fourth Diamond and South his fourth We can bind your own Spade, and South has a further copies of Volume II in blue and fatal discard to make on 0 A. Rexine with gold lettering Where North erred was in his at an inclusive cost of 21 /-. selection of + Q ; the only play to Please send orders, with break the squeeze is to try a low Journals, to PRIESTLEY Club at Trick 7, for East is unlikely STUDIOS LTD., Commercial to put up + J, and his communi Road, Gloucester. cations are then ruined. EASTBOURNE TOURNAMENT UR women players seem to Youth was well to the fore make a habit of running throughout the tournament. O away with the honours at the "Admiral" A. F. Truscott (ex Tournament Bridge Association's Sub-Lieut., R.N.), President of the tournaments. Following Nona Oxford University Bridge Club, Renshaw's remarkable double at playing with Mauritius-born R. d' Bournemouth, Phyllis Williams and Unienville, came third in the Men's Bertha Kremer virtually swept the Pairs, a performance that should board last month at Eastbourne. commend them sooner or later to the notice of the E.B. U. selectors. As a novelty, two important · Equally notable was the victory pairs events were run concurrently: of G. D: Sharpe and G. N. Randall, the T.B.A. Men's Pairs and the of Cheam, in the Devonsh,ire T.RA. Women's Pairs Champion Bridge Club Cup contest between ships. Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Kremer won the latter ; they were· the winners and runners-up in the various Open Pairs events. members of the winning team in the Punchbowl event for Mixed The Richard Lederer contest. Teams of Four, and were runners the chief Teams of Four event, up in the Richard Lederer attracted a less-distinguished entry Memorial Cup for Open Teams of than usual, and Louis Tarlo, H. Four. The T.B.A. awards Master Franklin, Dr. M. Rockfelt and Points for its chief events, and A. Rose, were hot favourities from Phyllis, already one of the select the start. They returned fine band of T .B.A. Master Players scores in both sessions of the final, (100 points or more), must now be winning from Phyllis \Villiams, J. right at the top of the list. Pearlstone, Mr. and Mrs. A. Another notable 'performance by Kremer. a woman player was that of Mrs. The final of the Men's Pairs Margery Burns, popular Notting Championship resulted in a run ham player, who was third' with away win for M. Harrison-Gray Mrs. White in the Ladies' Pairs and and Boris Shapiro. Tarlo and · a runner-up both in the Punchbowl Franklin,. a new and formidable and the Devonshire Bridge Club combination, added to their laurels Cup contest. She becomes the by finishing second in this event. first provincial woman Ace Player (50 Master Points or more). The Punchbowl went to Phyllis Williams el a/., the runners up Nona Renshaw and Fritzi being Mrs. Dobson and Mrs. Gordon (the last named was an out Burns (Nottingham), Rockfclt and standing success in the recent Rose. The Tunbridge Wells Cup, B.B.L. Ladies' Trials) showed for teams that failed to qualify for their consistency by finishing in the Richard Lederer final, was won second place, only three match by the four captained by Eric points behind the winners, in the Jannersten, a fine player from Ladies' Pairs. It will be remem Stockholm, which included Lewis bered that this pair won the Two Ellison and the Sharples brothers. Stars at Bournemouth last autumn. The latter were also winners of the x8 CONTRACT BRIDGE J.OURNAL Handicap Teams of Four with fancy overtaking + 10 with one Baroness Knoop and Mrs. Kahn, . of his honours. A low Heart was well-known players from Kent. now led from dummy ; Shapiro A last-minute addition to the went up with UCH interest was taken in With more imagination than the recent visit of a band discretion, he had no hestiation in M of French internationals bidding 4 + ; West doubled, <:aptained by Baron Robert de although South displayed some Nexon. His players included Baron skill in making seven tricks, the Jean de Hatvany, Dr. Jacques resultant 800 penalty put the Blaizot, Boris Koytchou, Mme. French in front. · Christiane Martin, Mme. . "' Moussia " Behr, Mme. " Annie" The main event of the tour was Pouldjian and Mlle. Yvonne de a 96-board match in which the Boismartin, all of whom played French men opposed the Hamilton Club team, consistina of Leslie last year in the European Cham 0 pionships at Copenhagen . . Dodds, Eddie Rayne, J. Pavlides . The French first played an Graham Mathieson and R. Nicole: Impromptu match of 32 boards in while their ladies played a parrallel mixed formation against four mixed match against the Hamilton ladies pairs from Crockford's : Kenneth Dimmie Fleming, Lena Litante· Konstam and Lena Litante, Jack Rixi Markus, Nona Renshaw and Marx. and Carmel Simon, Stanley Fritzi Gordon. As the same hands ·Merkm and Pauline Inskipp, while were used in both matches an Boris Schapiro, more catholic of i~ter~sting comparison of 'rival taste, was observed at various b1ddmg methods was possible. stages playing with Dorothy Pearson, Madeline Lester and Doris The_French are always the most Turner. · charmmg and exciting ofopponents. The visitors won literally on the ~?st ?f them play with character last board. Play had ceased at IStic elall combined with a fierce three tables and only Board 32 yet light-he.arted intensity, partic remained to be played at Table 4. ularly noticeable among their Crockford's appeared to be in a women players. By way of good position, for the best that contrast, the youthful Boris the French pair could do .was to Koytchou, yet another Russian make a part-score in Hearts, bar? ace, and the leviathan Jacques insufficient to win the match. ~laizot were unmatched for However, they bid 1+ -+\?, with Imperturable calm. four inevitable losers ; , but un _Both matches ended in a French fortunately the Crockford's South, tnum~h. Their. men won by the v:ulnerable against non-vulnerable r~markable margm of 70 interna opponents, found himself viewing tiOnal match points, increasing their the following hand : lead steadily as the contest wore + OJ83 HANDS FROM PLAY ROJltl time to time, the Editor ·with North-South vulnerable, finds himself enthralled by Dealer South opened a Diamond ; F letters which readers are good North forced with Two Hearts enough to send him contai1zing hands (unusual not to bid the Spade first); over. which he spends very much too East intervened with Two Spades much time. and South showed his second suit. From time to time, these will be North gave 0 preference and published, with or without comments. South jumped to 4- NT (Blackwood) The first selection appears below :- Over the conventional 5 ~ response South shot the works with 7 0. From Mr. P. A. Bainbridge, of Mr. Bainbridge writes that Coltishall, near Norwich comes several players, given the hand, this teaser :- failed to bring home the bacon. On + K8652 West's lead of the singleton Spade, ~ AK862 careful timing should infallibly 0 A 7 3 register 13 tricks. The Spade is + Void . won and a small Club ruffed ; a small trump brings forth · the + 3 • Q J 10 9 7 4- Knave from East, and it is now safe ~ J 974 ~ Ql03 to ruff another low Club with the 0 8 52 0 J Ace. A small Spade ruffed high + KJ1072 + 86+ (South can afford it), and two + A high trumps are cashed. Now Ace ~ 5 . of Clubs and Dummy's second 0 KQ109.64- high Heart and King of Spades + AQ953 take care of the two losing Clubs. 22 BRIDGE ARTICLE APPEARS EVERY FRIDAY together with a WEEKLY PROBLEM \ H ANDS FROM PLAY Trumps was remorselessly cracked continued by West. ·with considerable subtletly, Lundberg now re-bid the From Mr. Sten Lundberg, of Clubs, doubled again by West ; Vasteras, Sweden, comes this tale and when he produced Three of a successful swindle. In a pairs Diamonds, the doubling rhythm tournament, West passed a big was too strong to be ignored. As hand as a trap, and Mr. Lundberg South held + A Q x ; ORRESPONDENCE between the declarer not to profit by information Chairman of the English gained as a result of an irregularity. C Bridge Union and an entrant He must, therefore, lead the 10, as for English Bridge Union Com he would have done if the petitions, was considered in so far situation had been as he thought it as Propriety number 11 of the to be. International Laws of Contract * * * Bridge is concerned. The Committee were asked for The Committee resolved :- the meaning of the statement in (a) that the International Laws Law 41, "There is no redress for of Contract Bridge did not a call based on a misunderstanding prohibit any Association, or on misinformation." Tournament or Club from The case was quoted of a player refusing the entry of any asking an opponent if he had dealt, would-be competitor. for being told" Yes," and then making any of their competitions a call. Can the opponent then tell with or without giving any ' the player that he did not deal and / reason. claim a penalty ? (b) that if the reason given is The Committee came to the that the player or players conclusion that the wording of Law use an unrecognised, in 41 is not too explicit. What is tricate system', the idecision intended by the Law is that there as to whether the system can be no " rectification without comes . within this descrip.:. penalty " for a call based on a tion is a matter for the misunderstanding or on misinform Committee of the Associa ation. In other words the opponent tion, Tournament or Club ca11 claim a penalty in such ,to decide. circumstances but the Committee * * * cannot visualise any normal bridge A case was put fonvard in which player playing with people who a declarer having nothing but three would be likely to enforce it. trumps left in his hand, the 10, 6 * * * and 2, tables his cards believing It was asked whether a player that there were only the 9 and 7 of may request· information under trumps left in an opponent's hand. Propriety 11, as to the meaning of a He claimed two of the tricks and call at a11y time, the particular case conceded the third. In fact, an being as to the meaning of North's oppon.ent had three trumps. first call after East, South and West The · Committee, after a very had bid and North, East and South full discussion, came to the con had again bid in the second round .. clusion that while Section 88 of the The Committee decided that the Laws would permit the declarer to request cannot be made by an lead any of his three cards, opponent who has. already himself Propriety No. 1 obliged the made a subsequent call. SToP OR Go ON? A by Reply. to Les.fi~ _Dodds. . ALFRED. PRESTON TVe print t~ze following "new" convention without comment. A MERICAN players regard a As with the artificial Two Club ~ imple take-out of 1 NT as a response, the convention can . be one-rou'nd force; so do the adapted' to big hands as well ; but CAB-ites of the Hamilton Club. it is with moderate hands that it Others regard it ·as. a complete reaches its. peak_:_the sort of hand .sign-off, which Opener raises at his where, if partner holds certain cards, . discretion~r his peril. ·you want to be in game, whereas if , he holds other cards of equal value, ·There is, of ' · the Acol ~ou .rse, you W:.!nt to stop short of it. For ·J3aron bid of . Two Cll;lbs, asking ex~mple :- · for a 4-<,:ard major ; but it is my view that a somewhat different scheme can· get over all difficulties. + Qxxxxx ; \? Qxxxx; 0 x ; + x, you bid Two Spades, This, in essence, is : Bid Two to which partner replies on the Diamonds if you want Opening No following scale : with a doubleton Trumper to reply once. If you . Spade, 2 NT ; with 3 Spades, with have a·long string of Diamonds, you . one Honour, 3 + ; with 3 Spades .simply re-bid the suit' ; if you have and two Honours, ·3 0 ; with -.a weak hand with a Minor two four cards, in Spades, 3 +· Such suiter, you re-bid 3 + and partner a hand is a nightmare without some _-either passes or reverts toDiamonds. such system as this : you are a toss-up, opposite a Strong No So far, the convention seems Trump, between Two Spades and ·merely a substitution of Two missing a game, or Four Spades Diamonds for Two Clubs as an and going a couple down. ·artificial . call. It is 'vith the reponses that the difference arises. If· Responder bids 2 \?, the Opener responds Two Hearts steps are the same as with 2 + .but irrespective of his hand. Now, if the bids to show the doubleton, your Two Diamond take-out was three with one Honour, three with predicted upon a weak hand with two Honours and four cards are a Heart suit, you pass. If upon a one bid lower, viz. 2 + ; 2 NT ; _·spade suit, you bid Two Spades. 3 + ; 3 <:?· . .Holding, say, A B. Thus, a response of Two in a .+ Q x· x x x + -Q x x major is always a force, to which . (:} x x x \? Q x x x x Opener responds to show his .' O · q x· x 0 x ·x x ·holding in the bid suit. The -Two + x x + x x Diamonds· bid caters for the weak ' h · . hand with a long Diamond suit, or t e sequenc.es go · ·a long major ; and the Two ·club .A. 1 NT-20-2 \?- 2 + - No ; · take-out merely means a long Club and on B, 1 NT- 2 0 - 2(:}- No. suit which should be passed blind. SCIENCE ' FOR THE ,4VERAGE PLAYER THE CLUB No-TRUMP by Norman Squire EARS ago, when English opening bid of 1+ *· This bid bidding was in an earlier shows a hand slightly better than Y stage of evolution, it became the one shown by a negative NT gcrerally conceded that the cheapest response to the opening bid of any bid \vas usually the best. This other suit. meant that with the following hand : I will not rashly state the .+ 654 The CONTRACT BRIDGE PROBLEM No. 4 (12 points) JOURNAL offers a prize of TWO GUINEAS for the best set of solutions Ga~e All. You, South, hqld : to the following problems. In the • 6 4 \7 10 7 2 0 Q J 9 8 + A Q J 5 event of two or more.sets of solutions The bidding proceeds : being of equal merit, the monthly prize will be divided. NORTH SOUTH 1 \7 2 <> Answers to EDMUND PHILLIPS, 2 NT ? Esq., · Competition Editor, Contract What do you bid ? Bridge :Journal, 172 Chester Road, Northwich, Cheshire, not later than PROBLEM No. 5 (12 points) May 31st, . 1949. Solutions and East-West Game. You, South. names of prize winners in the April hold : Competition will appear next month. • K Q 7 \7 5 3 2 0 A K 9 8 3 + J 10. PROBLEM No. 1 (16 points) The bidding proceeds : NoRTH - SoUTH North-South Game. You, South, hold : 1 + 1 <> 2 + ? • 9 6 5 S \7 A Q 8 7 4 2 0-- + Q 9 S What do you bid ? The bidding proceeds : PROBLEM No. 6 (12 points) EAsT SouTH WEST NoRTH 1 • · No bid 2 • No bid Love All. You, South, hold : No bid ? • A Q \7 9 7 0 K 10 6 54 + Q 10 8 2 What do you bid, and why ? The bidding proceeds : NoRTH EAST SoUTH \VEST PROBLEM No. 2 (12 points) 1 + No bid 1 <> 1 \7 Love Alt. You, So,uth, hold : 1 • No bid 3 + 3 \7 3 • No bid ? . A \7AQ65 OAQJ1042 + KJ What do you bid ? The bidding proceeds : PROBLEM No. 7 (12 points)j SoUTH NoRTH North-South Game. You, South, 1 <> 1 • hold : 2 \7 3 + 3 NT 4 . . J74 \7182 OAJ742 + J9· ? West, the dealer, opens One Heart, and What do you bid ? North and East pass. \Vhat do you bid? PROBLEM No. 3 (12 points) PROBLEM No. 8 (12 points} East-\Vest Game. You, South, Love All. You, South, hold: hold: • J 8 6 5 \7 8 6 0 J 10 7 3 + A 6 3 . AJ642\783 OKJ6 + AJ7 The bidding proceeds : The bidding proceeds : West EAST NoRTH SoUTH 1 • 2 ·<:? 1 <> 1 • 4\7 so 2 <> ? 6\7 What do you bid ? What do ya"u lead ? Answers to April Competition "PROBLEM No. 1 (30 points) PROBLE!It No. 2 (12 points) Love All. You, South, bold : In each of the following hands, the score is Game All, North-South 60 : + 92 ~AJ65 OA10.87 + 764 vour partner, North, makes the opening The bidding proceeds : ·bid stated, East passes, and the question is what response you should make on EAST SoUTH WEST NORTH -the South hand given. 1 + No bid No bid 2 • No bid ? ·(i) + 8 ~Ql064 0109853 + 042 What do you bid ? Not1h bids One Club. ANSWER ·(ii) + Kt02 ~KQ1075 0}1087 + 3 2. Three Diamonds - 12 points. North bids One Spade. The jump overcall shows . a strong hand, though perhaps not quite so ·(iii) + Kt075 ~}98 OAK4 + QJ9 powerful as if the jump had been North bids One Heart. made by second bidder. Your Three Diamond take-out will therefore hardly .ANSWER be passed, and will give partner an 1. (i) Two Clubs-10 points. opportunity to show whether he had a With the part score, partner could one-suited hand or whether he has a have had no reason to open a prepared Spade-Heart or Spade-Diamond two .club on a three card suit. Your hand suiter. ·is worth one bid and one bid only and the raise in what should be partner's PROBLEM No. 3 (12 points) best suit is the most helpful. North-South Game. You, South, (ii) Two Spades-tO points. Again hold : the part score makes the direct raise -the best bid, though the reasoning is + AJQ6 ~10 OQ10864 + K72 different · from that on the previous The bidding proceeds : band. Here you are strong enqugh SouTH WEST NoRTH EAST to make a second bid if pushed, . and No bid 1 + 2 + 2 + ·this can conveniently be in Hearts, ? thereby giving the opener a choice of ·suits without raising the level. What do you bid ? (iii) Two No Trumps-10 points. ANSWER ·One Spade-5 points. Some folk 3. Two No Trumps-12 points. ·would make a cunning underbid of Three Diamonds-6 points. Four One No Trump in the hope of luring Clubs-+ points. Partner, who has -opponents to enter the bidding and come in despite unfavourable ndner ·_gaining a big penalty. Such reasoning ability and your initio! pass, is marked is unsound. Suppose you do defeat with n strong hand : vou should -opponents 800 (to expect more would therefore ha\·e definite gam~ aspirations. ·be worse than greedy) : you hnve Four Clubs is the correct quantum gained 200 . by comparison with the raise, but shuts out Three !'\o Trumps game nnd rubber you would otherwise and ulso leaves pnrtner in the dark as hnve won. This must be set ngninst the to where you ore looking for strength : possible loss of 750 points by missing a 0 K J will be invaluable but ~ K J slam, and it is obvious thut the penalty useless in u Five Club contract. Three would have to be four times us frequent Diumonds is better, but is liable to as the slnm to show n profit. The odds muke things difficult on the next round. ·are unattractive. The best (but by no menns perfect) Granted then that you wish to make bid is Two No Trumps : this a mild slam try, the correct bid is guurantees the double Spade stop, 'Two No Trumps. With H points, and, ns the cheapt!St bid, leaves the even opposite a minimum opener, you maximum spuce for further expl_oration. would (without the port score) expect PROBLEM No. -1- (12 points\ to make game : the accepted principle ·with a part score is to pull in one ruise Game All. You, South, hold : :ns n safety margin. . + A9 ~A103 O KQJ + KQJ103 30 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL The bidding proceeds : (b) No bid-9 points. B\· contrast, SoUTH WEST NoRTH EAST partner's bidding here shO\;.s a ven· 1 + 1~ 1 + 3~ weak hand-something like five Hearu ? to the King, four Diamonds to the . Queen and a singleton. Had he been Whnt do you bid ? interested in n Diamond game he should have bid Four Diamonds. ANSWER 4. Four Spndes-12 points. Five Clubs--4 points. Vulnerable opponents PROBLEM No. 6 (16 points) are bidding aggressively, your partner has made a free response, and yet you + AK 10 7 2 • QJ 53 have 20 points ! The enemy must ~ KQ85 ~4 have the two minor suit aces in <> 9 4 3 0 AJ addition to their Hearts; nnd the most + 3 + A K 109 6 2 likely justification for partners' bid is Contract, Six Spades by West. a very good suit, something like six to North leads the 5 of Diamonds. the K Q. This should be good enough for game in Spades even if (as is likely) How do you play the hand? the trumps split 4-1. Some credit is given for Five Clubs because this will ANSWER be the better contract in the (Jess 6. Win with the Ace, cnsh the Ace, probable) event that partner's bid was King of Clubs and ruff a Club high. based on very strong distributional It is essential that after drawing trumps support for your suit. and running the Club suit there should be n trump left to deal with dummv's PROBLE!It No. 5 (18 points} losing Diamond. Hence one of the black suits must split e\·enly, and to Love All. You, South, hr.:ld : uvoid a subsequent guess it is necessan· to discover the Club break at one~ . + A 10 4 ~ J 10 ()A K J 10 + A 7 53 The bidding proceeds : SouTH NoRTH 1 0 1 ~ COVER SOLUTION 2 NT ? ? This hand occurred in a friendlv 'Vhat do you say if North's rebid is : match between the Co11tract Bridge (a) Three Clubs, Journal and London Universin·. North opened a Spade ; East butted in with (b) Three Diamonds? Two Diamonds and South found the freak bid of Three Clubs. North ANSWER showed the Hearts, nnd South cue-bid 5. (a) Four Spades- 9 points• the Diamonds. North supported the Three Spades-5 points. Four No Clubs and South took the plunge into Trumps or Five Clubs- 3 points. 6 NT. Partner is showing a goodish distribu tional hand, and asking for a game East doubled und, possibly m -contract in one of his suits. Viewed Auenced by this, \Vest led Dummv's in this light you are very strong indeed. first-bid suit. The Ace drops the You have four Clubs for trumps, a Queen. The Knave of Spades is led useful doubleton in the side suit and and then the Nine of Hearts to the King. ·controls in the other two. Credit is Dummy's Two of Diamonds is returned given for any reasonable slum try, but und the Ten finessed ; the King of the best is an unusual jump to Four Diamonds is taken by the Ace, and a Spades. This must be n cue bid nnd Club returned, won by South. Now must also strongly suggest the other the low Spade is led und the suit run, two aces. It is the only cnll likely to South shedding a Diamond and a Club. produce n slum bid from partner A low Heart puts South in to cnsh the lucking nn uce but holding something Queen of Diamonds. On East's piny of like five Hearts' to the K Q and five Clubs to the K Q. (Co11timttd 011 ptige 3) 31 CONTRACT BRIDGE JOURNAL ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION LIST OF SECRETARIES ENGLISJI n'niDGE UNION- Secretarv : Mrs. MlDDLEBBX CONTRACT BRIDGE ASSOCIATION Stern, 7 Abbey Road, London, N.W. B. Mrs. H. Freeman, The Nook, Lyndhnrs~ Tournament Secretarv: ~lajor G. Fell, Termce, London, N.W .S. Craven Lead Works, Skipton Yorkshire. Ilegiltrar: H. Collins, Esq., 30 .budge ltow, NOTTINGIIAl[ CONTRACT DRIDGB ASSOCIATION London, E.C. 4. · -Mrs. Dull, 28 Addl.!on Street, Nottlnaham. NOBTU BASTKBN CONTRACT BRIDGB AssOCIA· E 88EX CONTRACT BRIDGE ASSOCIATION TION-G. I. Rhodes, 5 Woodbine Avenue, F. M. Fletcher, Esq., 22 Fontayne Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastlc-ou-Tyne, 3. Chlgwell, Essex. 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