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THE HERALD Wednesday Septembers 1M9 Page 25 EEh MEEK by Howie Schneider In the year ahead you could be rather successful In areas where you may have experienced allures In the past These successes II teach you I always pays to keep on trying by Bill Schorr U by Dick Cavalli I WANT FOB SUPPERTDNISHT FRANK ERNEST by Bob Thnvcs BORN LOSER by Art Sansom me- aw xmM amp A departure from fourthbest By James Jacoby In standard bridge one leads fourth best from suits that are not trump even in the middle of a deal though of course it s common sense to lead high from a bad suit just to prevent partner from thinking you hold a significant honor But there can be other reasons for departing from the norm When South reached three no rump West selected the jack of spades for opening lead South ducked in dummy and East won the king Many defenders would now switch to a low club but notice the poor result Declarer would duck and West would win the jack If West continued with another club it would be into the A and declarer would have time to play to the spade ace and take a diamond finesse He would then make three dia mond tricks three spades two clubs and a heart If West won the club jack and switched to a heart declarer would take dummy ace and finesse in diamonds Now West might lead an other heart but that would set up the ninth trick for declarer in that suit Unfortunately for declarer East was Mike Lawrence Having recently written a book on card combinations including problems for the defender Mike made the killing play of the 10 of clubs If declarer put in the queen West would win the king and continue with the jack If declarer played low East would hold the lead and continue with a second club through the A Going up with the ace would not help either since South would have to try for an extra heart trick eventually and East would win the king and lead through the queen of clubs Yes I know there are many club holdings in which this play won help the defense But in most of those cases three notrump is going to pjay well in any event James books Jacob on Bridge and on Card Games his father the late Oswald Jacob are now available at bookstores Both are publ shed VIRGO Aug Sept Make the most of your opportunit es today even though they may be relatively small ones Remember It was from the little acorn that the mighty oak tree grew Try to patch up a broken romance The Astro Graph Matchmaker can help to understand what to do to make relationship work Ma I 2 to Match maker P O Box 91428 Cleveland OH 3428 LIBRA Sept 23 Oct 23 Be logical and real stic where your self Interests are concerned today If you let your heart rule your head a crafty nd vidua might take advantage you SCORPIO Oct 24 Nov 22 Be caretul today that your cash outlays don t ex ceed your intake You be better off now It you would think of salting away your surpluses instead of blowing them SAGITTARIUS Nov 23 Dec 21 though friends will treat you In an atten manner today It s best you do not request favors them for things you can do tor yourself CAPRICORN Dae 22 Jan 19 A failure to keep your goals locus at all times today could cause you to lose your In centlve and slack off when you should be going full steam ahead AQUARIUS Jan 19 There is a possibility todey you might read more Into a situation than was intended if a member of the opposite gender is a bit more friendly toward you than usual PISCES Feb Take care of your duties and responsibilities first today before shitting your attention to more frivolous actvllles it will be hard to catch up you fall behind ARIES March 21 April Your deci slons today are Ikely to be brilliantly evaluated and they could be very con structlve However they won count for much If you don do anything about them Get moving TAURUS April 20 May 20 Usually when you undertake a project you have the tenacity to see It through to Its con elusion but today you ght be tempt to settle for the uncompleted GEMINI May 21 June 20 When deal with youngsters today you re not apt to get your message across if you pamper them too much Be gentle and kind but also be firm when necessary CANCER June 22 You might have a tendency today to add more fr lis to your hand work than may be needed Don t let your artistic zeal exceed your good taste LEO July 23Aug 22 Enterprises or ventures could be very ap pealing to you today Don t lower your discipline to the degree to where you might take an unsound risk WIS NEWSPAPER CELEBRITY CIPHER cryplog ami are I quotations by famous and Each latter In standi or ano Today S M YK IAA XIRK ZH KCUEFK ZXK SPMLHFZECK JEW UK A I FHWXKLHEW1EAU lie NOIiniOS JO A98 J WEST J 10 3 K8 K FAST 2 SOLTH AQ9 AQ6 Vulnerable North South Dealer South South INT North East Pass Pas Pass NT All pus Opening lead