Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1929 — Page 6

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MLIANT PLAY MARKS RADIO BRIDGEJAME 58 Points Are Saved by Clever Headwork of Contestant. FOUR stars of the bridge firmament, Mrs. Clyde A. Bissett, Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Warren L. Geffcken, Jacksonville, Fla.; Charles H. Yernall Jr. of Philadelphia, and R. R. Richards of Detroit, composed the foursome In the third of Milton C. Work’s Radio Bridge games of this season, broadcast Tuesday afternoon from station WFBM. Positions of players and cards were: Mrs. Bissett, Dealer, South: Spades, A. K. 5; Hearts, A, K, Q, J: Diamonds, 8,8, 3; Clubs, 7. 4, 2. Mrs. Gefiecken, West: Spades, Q. J, 10, 9,8, 4; Hearts, 5; Diamonds, 5,2; Clubs, 8,6, 5,3. Mr. Yamall, North: Spades, 6,3; Hearts, 10, 8,7, 4; Diamonds, A, K, Q, 9; Clubs, A, K, J, Mr. Richards, East; Spades, 7,2; Hearts. 9,6, 3,2; Diamonds, J, 10, 7,4; Clubs, Q. 10, 9. The only bid of the auction was the opening declaration of “One Heart’’ by Mrs. Bissett, the dealers. All the other passed: and the play opened with the lead of the Queen of Spades by Mrs. Geffcken, West. The only other lead that Mis. Geffcken considered was the top of her doubleton Diamond. But since opening a worthless doubleton is dangerous, inasmuch as it is liable to kill an honor in partner’s hand, Mrs. Geffcken preferred to make the sound protective lead from a Queen-Jack-10 suit, even though she knew she could not establish it. From Yarn all’s hand, which became Dummy, Declarer played the Trey of Spades; Richards, East, played the Deuce: and Declarer himself the Ace. It was interesting to note that Richards, even though he held but two Spades, did not signal with the higher of his two Spades for a continuance of the suit. Mr. Richards read from his partner’s Queen lead that Declarer had the Ace and King of Spades, and he knew that West could noi possibly get two more leads before Declarer exhausted trumps. Furthermore, as Dummy had only two Spades, Mr. Richards did nor. wish to let Declarer know that he held no more than Dummy. Declarer’s false-carding with the Ace, instead of winning with the King, was done in an effort to keep West in the dark, if possible, as to the location of the King.

DECLARER, South, then led the Ace of Hearts, to which West followed with r.he 5. Dummy with the 4, and East with the 2. Continuing with the King of trumps, Mrs. Bissett was disconcerted to see West plav the 4 of Spades, as she had expected to draw the adverse trumps in three rounds. Dummy played the 7 and East the Tiey of Hearts. The disclosure that the adverse trumps were divided 4-1 instead of the normal 3-2, caused Declarer to change her plan of campaign. Instead of continuing trumps she led the King of Spades, with the purpose of using one of Dummy s trumps to ruff her losing spade. West played the 8, Dummy the b. ai Deda S ilr then led the 5 of Spades, and West false-carded the I°, in an effort to make Declarer think that East held the 9. However, Declarer was too canny to take the unner sary risk either of failing to trump or of trumping too. low. She played Dummy s 10- since, in anv case it was destined to fail immediately on one of her own higher trumps. East, noting the Diamonds and Clubs in Dummy, realized >nat he could not afford to part with a card in either suit. He did not like to throw away one of his two remaining trumps, but a trump could be spared more safely than a card of either Minor. Therefore East made an unusual play, under -ruffing Dummy’s 10 with the 6 of Hearts. Richard’s under-ruff showed Mrs. Bi'sett, the Declarer, that he was protecting stoppers in both Minors; she also saw that she could not •make him surrender either stopper. The best she could do was ip lead Dummy’s last trump, the 8, winning with the Queen in her own hand. East dropped the 9. and West discarded the 9 of Spades. AT this point, Declarer had nothing to gain by leading her last trump. A forced discard would no' squeeze East, because Dummy wornd have to discard first, and East could protect his hand by discarding according to Dummy’s choice. Therefore she determined to do the best, she could with Dummy’s Diamonds. She led low to Dunum s then followed with Dummy s King and Ace. on which she played her 6 and 8. West played the 2 and 5 of Diamonds and the Jack of Spades. East followed suit, retaining his Jack of Diamonds o\er Dummy’s 9. . „ , , To trick 10. Dummy led the Ace of Clubs, all following with their lowest Club: and to trick 11. Dummy led the 9 of Diamond. East covered with the Jack, and Declarer trumped with the Jack of Hearts. West discarded the 5 of Clubs. Declarer then led the 4 of Clubs, and finessed Dummy's Jack, after West played the 6. Declarer knew that nothing would be lost by trying the finesse, as East had two Clubs and was bound to make the Queen if he held it. East, of course, won with the Queen, but was obliged to lead a Club back to Dummy's King, giving

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Declarer a Small Slam, with 48 points for tricks, 50 for a Small Slam, and 90 for four honors in one hand, fifth in partner’s. Had the game been Progressive she would have scored an extra 125 for making game in one hand. a a a WORK, who, during the broadcast had followed the play of the hand, in commenting upon the game, acclaimed Richards for the brilliance of his under-ruff at trick 5. ... a play which undoubtedly saved his side 58 points. (50 saved for the Little Slam instead of a Grand Slam, and 8 for the one less trick.) For If Richards had discarded either the 4 of Diamonds or the 9 of Clubs instead of playing the 6 of Hearts, Declarer would have had an easy Grand Slam. The under-ruff is a rare play; as Work said, “It requires the rare ability of a Richards to recognize the opportunity for that sort of coup.’’ Had the hand been played at Contract, the bidding of North and South, who had practically all the strength, would have been far more interesting. South would have announced her six-trick hand . . . four in Hearts anc! two in Spades ... by opening with two Hearts. West would pass and North, appreciating that he had enormous assistance for a partner holding six tricks, would reckon his assisting tricks thus: The doubleton in Spades would be counted as 1; four cards of partner’s suit as 2; the Ace-King-Queen of Diamonds as 13 (an Ace counts 5, a King with its Ace. 5, a Queen with a higher honor, 3); the Clubs as 11 (the Jack, being coupled with a higher honor counting 1). Thus North’s assisting points would total 27. According to Work’s system of Contract bidding, 12 points justify raising a partner’s two-bicl to four; 7 points more is enough for s Slam invitation by bidding five; 7 more calls for a sixbid.

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