., ... ,,...,.,,..,," HrtM•,utrllltQwttl'l s.. ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,., ,.,•• ... \ ~ ....:...----- -· As Disme/i might l:Jave said, 1No Gent/emau cau do, JY!ithout .a pack of playing cards I vote for De La Rue' @ THO~Al DE LA · ~· a. CO. LTO, 1>< a.. ·~ Il-K, 14·14 ••1••• """• ......._ • ·•· .. .... .,_ •·.' I 'I" r· •. .••. \" .. \ ... - ' • •• I .• ,: EVERY ~ SATURDAY · . : IN ' . .•. ·THE -: e ... -· • .. ·. .•.... .. •I ,I . '' • • Bail!! t!tltgraph '·- . ' 1 . .·.:~ .'. ~--···.( !~ '.~~: ~; ;:·'' ..\;. :~[:· :·,r \~ ,·-:.; ~-:/ ·.. :·: : . · · ~wliere 1s North?- ~ .-~--~·:·-.. ··.·.·:: · .. \ .. '. I' . • ~ " . asked South· . .... ,/" ' .. - • Stoking ·that 'wretched boiler of his again, • exclaimed East. 'Why can't he get a fullY: aut.omatic boiler like 'I everyone else?" whispered.West. 'A boiler that do'esn't need stoking and humouring,' said South. ' " • A 'Potterton' Boiler!' ejaculated East._ 'The v7ry thing!' agre~d . South, .l!J~st. and ·west ' together-which was not surprising considering they'~ all got 'Pott~rt~Ji· Boilers themselves. · They. know liow much comfort !1 'Potterton' ' . Boiler brings and how very reasonable ar~ its running costs. Others-whether North, South, East or West­ who'd like t~ know th~ same facts should get in touch · ~th the • Potterton' people post haste. ' . ,. • • I • • . .POTIERTON' 80 ltERS Gas-Fired or Oil-Fired I ' • the Key to comfort THC?MAB POTTER:roN .LIMITED, 20/30 ~uckh<?ld Road, London s,W.lB. @A IUb!ldlaTll of The De La Rue ComDanll Limited. 11 - ~ 9 .. 2 ·- . - ~ T~e British Bridge., World SUCCESSOR TO · THE CONTRACT · BRIDGE JOURNAL: \ MEDlUI'-f FOR ENGLISH BRIDo'E UNION NEWS Edited by TERENCE REESE - . \ • \ .· \ VOLU.ME 7 Marchi 1959_. NUMBER 3 ' I ·. Editorial· Board. ., B~RNARD WESTAI.:L .(C~AIRMAN) GEOFFREY L •. BUTLER HUBERT PHILLIPS TERENCE REESE KENNETH KONSTAM ADVERTISEMENT" MANAGEMENT L. TEMPLE \ ROSSWICK LTD. BAY 5812 ·. · 3 QUEENS COURT, ·. QUEENSWAY, ~ONDON, W.2 J All other correspondence,· ·including Subscriptions, to the Publishers: Hugh Quekeh Ltd., 35 Dover Street, London, W.l Amlual Subscription 30/- The British Bridge World is published 011 the 15th of each month ' I ' Published on belra/f of ilre proprietors, Tlromas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., by Huglr Quckett Ltd. JS Dorer Street, London, IV./. Printed by lofoore Batley Ltd,, Retreat Place, London, E.s' 3 •I ,· I . ,: ·' - , . .. ·. ·.' :. 1 • . ·' · P_age .· Editorial ••• 0 •• ••• 5 ' . World Championship Diary-Part ,J. ·, bY Eric ~a~nersten · ... · 7~ 5 . Sidelight on the Championship, by Geoffrey L. Butler ·... · 15- 16 . The Masters Pairs, by Claude Ro.driglie , 17- 21 Vichy Pairs Tournam~nt-I~vita'tion fo Readers 21 • . I . - The Second Stage of Stayman (2), by, Alan Tr:uscott 22 -24 The First Ladies' Trial, by Harold Franklin 25-28 I ' ' • Simuhaneous Pairs Contest ,. ' ·. .- 29 Letter from Paris: by Jean Besse . ,. , ... 30-31 ' England v. Northern Ireiand, by Paul Mi'ster~ · 31 -35 - Book Review ~ . .. .. 36 -One Hundred Up: Repeat of ,February. Problems ' 37 You Say ... · ... , 39-40 One Hundred Up: M'arch Competition ..' . .. 40-41 '. One Hundr~d Up: Answers to February Competition .: : ... 42-49 Result of February Competition ' 49 E.B.U. Master Poin.ts ·Register 50-52 ' E.B.U. List of Secretaries 53 Subscription Form ··' · . 54 E.B.U. Results 55-56 Diary of Eve~ts ... , 56 . ' 4 . .. • f CHAMPIONS AGAIN ·· , n,~niousity" is as good -as "be- : " Well done, Itaiy I ~; was ·· the . ginn<?rs' ·nerves ~ · any day, _ 'and heading to this first paragraph' a . who would want. the dull " neck · · - I year ago, and so it could well be ,and-neck'? in preference to " The ·~:, · ~o~day. As .is remarked . in the · b~th team~ were ' stroili.ng along · report that begins on page 7; side by side with U.S.A. half a ·_ rumours of staleness and decline ,step ahead ••? - pr'!ved to be exaggerated. On - the whole, the _match we_nt very·· "CAUGHT SUB." much to form: for three-quarters 1 of the distance .there was nothing The Ladies Trials have had a in it, but in the end the ~teadiness piquant ending · jn that Mrs. and unity of th~ champions Edwards, brought in as a reserve prevailed. ' · . and starting from a bad position, fi~ished .second - i~ . partnership TH:E THIRD MAN . ~ith Mrs. J-lig8inson. · ·, · In· his report,- Harold Franklin ' The Arg~ntine, r~ther lost in ~ was -disposed_ to . criticise the the · shadows while the limelight policy of allowing -.reserves 'to was ' on the ' main contest, did . play with standing. In view of ·re'isonably well, . losing 'to. Italy the result, it seems to me that , . ~Y less than did Ame-rica. With' .the selectors would . have been the_ ~<;>rid Olympic planped for still worse· off had they .taken the next year, it is probably tqe_last other course·. time that this tluee-corner~d col').- Unless one of the other coon- test ~ill be ~eld. tries wins the Lady Milne, the , 'tl~re~ pairs ·who finished at' the .:: ., ' • A-. STRONG APPLAUD top will represent Britain in the · '· ' · Championship. · ~ ~orne pf the. phrases in Eric .Ja~nersten's account of · the ' wo_rl _d .· ~ham._ pionship match ar~ HEARD AT THE MASTERS PAIRS , . ?o( 'dead-centre . _English; but. ·to . • · c~ailge . them could . only take · ·''Mr. Sharples· ought to win 1 away from' the lively 'ind dramatic this event on his head: he holds 1 quality of his. repo_rt'. ·"Debut his cards upside down." 5 . I ,. ,.. • • at th.e /itt lEt, birdie!" . , - ·~I - "')- • ( r~; l ,, , Photos from the Ladies' Trials by Claude p.od~•fll ...~...:.-­ r7'··- 1 6 ' f, .. ,_--4' ;~.~.:~~., •' -~""-''-"--- -- ·' by ERIC JANNERSTEN As readers will kn01v by now, Italj' retained 'the world championship, · . · be_ating U.S. by 233-183, and 1-.rg~nti?zeby _218-178. ' U.S. beat A~gentine -. by 252-209. - Eric Jtmnersten's account was written from day to day is the -match progressed. · Italy-Argentina were first in - The Italians -began by earning · · ' the field , with their 16 hands. 1 I.M.P. on the very first board.·' · Mostly _the han<;Is were un­ Were they going to ta~e the lead interesting and· the -difference from ·the beginning and keep -it 29-11 , for Italy came' ~ mainly all the time?. No, the :second through part-scores . For Italy board-was this one: played the· f~ur · Neapolitans and ... ·.. the rum our· that' they ·had · lost· East dealer '· • I their form se.emed· to be ex- · North-South vulnerable agger~ted. They played their NORTH usual game. In the Argentin~ team -the' veterans from Como, _ · · <yJ Q932 alstro and Calvente, played well, .. · ··0 -Q tO 9 2 but their · partners · seemed to. · .. ·. +Q 'J 9 6 2 suffer from debut nervousity. They . have to show up better: WEST EAST if not, the bottom place shall + AJ 8 4 + K Q 10 9 2· 1 be theirs. · <yJ 10 7 <yJ K 5 Next _on the programme stood 0 AJ643 0 -- the big match, Italy- U.S.A. + K3 + A 108' 7 54 It had been said thai· the Italians SOUTH were ·going tto drop the principle • 7 6 53 of always . the same partnerships, _<yJAJ864 and that was seeri to be true when 0 K8 7 5 Chiaradia seated himself oppo­ site Forquet .in the Fishbowl + - - where the opponents were Hazen­ This was the bidding m the Fishbein. open room: 7 f ' .' .. I .. ;.:.-=.. : - ... ,/.,.: :: ...... .. - .. ' ·'· . Soum WFSr NOR1H EAST West dealer •· Hazen Forquet Fishbein Chlaradla East-West vulnerable 2+ NOR1H J~ No + 532 .. No 2+ .. No No 4+ ~ K6 No No 6+ 0 AQ76? No Dble. No + 10 5 ~ . Fishbein certainly did not have Wr:sr EAST many high ca_rds in his hand, but + A J 10 9 8 + KQ4 he was well aware what bad \? Q 7 \? 943.2 breaks the opponents would have o­ 0 J 8 4 to deal with, and so he doubled. + AJ9843 + K_Q7 SOUTH A diamond ... was Jed, and 7 6 Chiaradia won with the Ace, + \? A J 10 8 5 crossed to + K, and Jed a low 0 K10932 club. South ruffed and the de­ clarer finished up two down. At + 6 the other table Stakgold and HarmoJ1-Stakgold ·went in the Harmon stopped in Five Spades, closed room to Six Clubs : with West the declarer. West SoUTH WF.ST NoRTH EAST was one down after' the ]~ad of Avarellr Stakgo/d Bella- Harn1~11 \?Q by North. Thus it was a donna swing of 4 match points to the U.S.A. I+. 10 40 4+ No On the third board the Italians No No No had revenge. This time the Belladonna did not find the Americans went to a quite normal heart lead but,that did not matter. slam, which, liowever, went down Slakgold could not avoid the two <>n a bud break. On almost every losing · heart tricks and -so was -one ot the dangerous boards that one down. · · followed the Americans picked In the operi room the Italians -up points. After the first . ten were satisfied with Four Spades. boards U.S. were on lead with They made Five and thiis gai~cd 21-8, but the Italians came back, 7 match points, ~he biggest swmg and on the rest of the boards of the session, giving Italy the they did not give' away any point lend 24-21. at nil. On the lust board of the The last match of the day, session they went up to the lend: 'u.S.A.-Argentina, was not very 8 ....................... _,_.....,,.,....,,.,......,~..,.....~~'?"""l"7.:...-,-"':""'~'"'1':~"'7"0~~--:777'=- i~C'' •' \ ' : -T~t\·';:.·~ :· ; .-,:. ~xciting: :. If ·. ended _ ~7-21 · .in··' F..=================== favour ~f U.S.A:· ,., · .. '.t ·LONDON CONGRESS ~econd Day 24, 25'& 26 . U:S.A ..,..Itilly was ihe· first APRU .. ' _match or'.the' second . day, and .\ .at. like the first ·round this one tl:lm-ed · out to - be very close.