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OJow to js!ay Bridge AUCTION CONTRACT fy Wynne Ferguson Author of 'PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDGE" ARi'ICLL No. 30 In the following hand, the Professor of Greek at one of our well-known universities bid one no trump at Auc- tion, all passed and A opened the three of clubs. The Professor's hand and the dummy's hand are as follows: Hearts 10, 6, 5 Clubs 9, 4. 2 Diamonds Q, 10, 4, 2 Spades Q, 10, 9 Stratford Gleanings Y A B Z . Hearts A. Q, 4 Clubs A, Q, 7 Diamonds A, K, 3 Spades J, 8, 7, 2 > The Professor should have sized up ., the hand as follows: "A can have only four clubs, for he has led the three * and the deuce is in dummy. There- " fore, A B should only make two club * tricks and two spade tricks. If the diamonds are evenly divided, I can go game without finessing the queen of * hearts. If they don't break, then I will have to finesse the queen of hearts." Unfortunately, he failed to figure out the hand as- outlined, ana as ! soon as he sot dummy in the lead, led the heart, finessed the queen and A won the trick with the king of hearts. | It was now impossible for the Pro- . fessor to go game as he had to lose [ two club tricks, two spade tricks and j one heart trick. He should have- set ) up his spades and then have played j for the drop in diamonds. They were evenly divided so that in this way he could have made game. If the Professor had been playing Contract, he shorfld have made an original bid of two no trump and part- ner should have bid three no trump. The writer has occasionally men- tioned the Law of Symmetry in these articles. This law is, in effect, a i theory that there is a symmetrical re- lation existing between the distribu-! tion of the four suits in any one of the hands and the distribution of any one of the four suits amoi.g the four hands. This symmetrical relation is well exemplified by the distribution of the following hand, which came up re- cently in actual play: Hearts Q Clubs K, J, 7, 4 Diamonds A, 8, 7, 6, 2 Spades 5. 4, 3 Hearts J, 9, 6 Clubs Q, 10, 8, 6, 5 Diamonds Q, J, 9, 5 Spades 7 : A Y Z Hearts A, 8, 4, 2 Clubs A, 9, 3 Diamonds 4 Spades A, K, Q, 10, 6 Hearts K. 10, 7, 5, 3 Clubs 2 Diamonds K, 10, S Spades J, 9, S, 2 In all England there is not a clean- er, more decorous, or more restful town than Stratford-upon-Avon, and even to look upon it is to receive a suggestion of peace and comfort. The red brick dwellings shine amoug the trees, the flower-spangled meadows stretch away, In every direction, and the green hillo, sprinkled with copse and villa, glimmer through mist, all around the lovely Vale the Red Horse: . '^ome in the north, with its conspicuous monuments; Meon in the south, rugged and hold, Red Hill in the west, and far away eastward, beyond a wide, smiling area of farms and villages, the crests of Edgehill, at Radley and Ri ing Sun, where once the armies of King Charles the First confronted their Roundhead foe. The face of England can wear many ex- pressions, but wlien propitious, it is a face which to see is to love and no- where Is it more propitious than in stately Warwickshire, and around the home of Shakespeare. After repeated visits to Shake- speare's town, the traveller begins to observe more closely than perhaps at first he did, its everyday life and its environmnt. I have ra. ' d through fragrant fields to Clifford Church, and strolled th rough green lanes to roman- tic Preston, and climbed Borden Hill, and stood by the May-pole on Welford Common and .imineyed ' >m the bot- tle-haunted crest of Edgehill, and rest- ed at venera" Com,.ton-Wyn.' tes and climbed thx hills of Welcombe tj r.^er into the ' iening alleys ot the Avon and hear the cuckoo-i te echoed and re-actoe '. from rhododendron groves and from the "i- ', Jiysterious elms that em jower the countryside for Owl Laff s miles and miles around. This is the everyday life of Stratford, fertile j farms, garnished meadows, avenues of white and ".< : bawl' LTII, masses of milky snowball, hoeysuckle, and syrin- ga loading the soft air with fragrance, chestnuts dropping blooms of pink and white, and laburnums swinging their golden censers In the breeze. The building that forms the south- east corner of High Street and Bridge! Street in Stratford was once occupied by Thomas Quincy . . . who mar- ried the poet's daughter, Judith, and an inscription appears upon it, stating that Judith lived in It for thirty-six years. Richard Savage, that com- petent, patient, diligent student of the church registers and other document- ary treasures of Warwickshire, fur- nished proof of this fact, from investi- gation of th. town records, that being only one of the many services that he has rendered to the old home of Shakespeare. Standing in the cellar of this house 1 saw that its walls are four feet thick. Also I saw many pieces of old oak which I was inform- ed had been taken from the bell-tower of the Shakespeare Church in 1887, when a new frame was installed to sustain a chime of heavy bells, "Bnd which would, eventually, be converted into various carvings, to tempt the taste of enthusiasts of S'.ai-espeare. In the poet's time the bell-tower was surmounted, not as now by a graceful stone spire, but by a spire of timber, covered with lead. That ,-.-. removed, and was replaced by the stone spire, in 1746. The c '.k frame to support the bells, however, had been in the tower more| than' three hundred years. From "Gray Days and Gold," by Wil- liam Winter. Auction Bidding No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid one spade. AH passed and A opened the six of clubs. Z won the trick with the nine of clubs and pro- ceeded to look the hand over. What would you figure as to probable dis- tribution and correct play of the hand? Z should note that his own band and Y's were divided 5-4-3-1. He also noted that A opened the six of clubs and that B played the deuce. If B bad held two clubs, he would have started an echo to show his partner tbat he could trump the third round of clubs, so his play of the deuce indi- cated a singleton. Z, therefore, fig- ured that the clubs were divided 6-4-3-1. He held five spades and his dummy three, so that, if A also held a singleton, it must be in spades. Therefore, the spades must be divided 6-4-3-1. His heart and diamond hold- ing and that ot the dummy also indi- cated a possibility that these suits were divided 5-4-3-1. Z, therefore, who was a very fine player, decided to play accordingly. At the second trick he led the ace of hearts and then a low heart, trumping In dummy. He then led a low club, which B trumped. On this trick, Z played his ace of clubs, so that he could finesse the king jack later. No matter what B now plays, Z must make a small slam. Figure it out. The hand is remark- able in that, after the first lead, the distribution of all four suits can be so accurately determined. It is also a remarkable illustration of the Law of Symmetry. All of the four suits and all of the four hands have the same distribution, 5-4-3-1. It la the first time that the writer haa ever noted such a unique hand. Contract Bidding Z should bid two spades and Y. three spades. A and B always pass. Z should now bid five spades and, If Y is a sporty bidder, he will bid six spades. It is a toss-up; but, as al- ready pointed out, Z can make six spades against any defense. Problem Hearts 4 Clubs 8, 7, 6 Diamonds uone Spades A, J, 7 Hearts 9, S Clubs 4 Diamonds 10. 0. Spades none Hearts Q, J, 10 clubs Q, J Diamonds 3 Spades 8 Hearts K, 6, 5 Clubs none Diamonds K, Q, 6 Spades 10 If spades are trumps and Z is in the lead, how can \" ' win all of the tricks against any defense? Solution in the next article. Newspaper Ads Increased Sales U. S. Publishers' Association Announces Results of Bureau's Survey New York. Many companies have maintained and even increased their earnings by constant newspaper ad- vertising, the American Newspaper Publishers Association said in an- nouncing the results of a survey by its bureau of adertlsing. One automobile concern which in- creased its newspaper budget 33 per cent., the bureau announced, showed a 40 per cent, increase in earnings during 1931. A manufacturer of elec- tric refrigerators spent $200,000 last year in newspaper space, and dollar sales for the year were 460 per cent. ot sales in 1930. Of four leading tobacco manufac- turers who increased newspaper space in 1931, three showed an increase in earnings, and one a slight decline from the high net of a year preced- ing. Aggregate expenditures of these four companies in newspaper advertis- ing were increased from $20,000,000 in 1930 to $26,000,000 in 1931, and ag- gregate earnings increased from $105,- 200,000 to $10,300,000. On the other hand, the bureau said that four tobacco companies which de- creased their aggregate investment in newspaper space in 1931 shower! a 45 per cent, decline in combined net earnings. English in Ireland The Anglo-Irish idiom is naturally formed and logically constructed; every deviation from the standard English tongue has its reasons and its explanation. "Are you selling the korse today?" The speaker of cor- Jrct English has to move the emphasis I nun one word to another of the last four according to the information be eeks. Four ucces?ive positions of fte chief stress give four different meanings to the question. The Anglo- Irish idiom, which in this matter fol- lows the locution of the Gaelic, has 1:0 need of accentuating. Its user woulJ say (a) "Is it you who are selling the horse?" or (b) "Is it seling the horse you are?" or (c) "Is it the hor : e you are selling?" or (d) "Is it today you are selling the horse?" "In other words," says a well-informed writer, "where" the English purist depends upon stress to bring out his meaning, the Irish idiom employs construction for the same purpose, and much more effectively." In reply to the query: "Does it rain here?" the native says, "It bees rain- ing," or "It does be -aining." He is nuking an attempt to reach an exact- titude that is possible in Gaelic; in that language there is a distinct form of the very "to be" to indicate the habitual, the frequentative tense. The Irishman who has the tradition ^f Gaelic, even though he may never have heard it spoken, feels the want of the frequentative tense in English, ind he attempts to supply it. And so "bees" ard "vloes be" are used as a distinct tense in the Anglo- S:.xon idiom. Pa- draic Column, in "The Road Round Ireland." Nature (From Poetry World) Nature has no mathematics Such as banks and merchants use. She cannot make her unshod feet Walk a straight line in shoes. She seldom is quite accurate Nor often punctual. Sh e keeps on hand no pecks and pints To measure large and small. Xor recipes for turning Plum blossoms into plums, The spring is never quite on time, And yet H always comes. 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The butter, during Its immersion for centuries, had ohangeU into a j hard, oolid mass, with a somewhat rancid smell and greasy to the touch, like a piece of french chalk. It tast- ed. Professor Ritchie assured the audience, like slightly sweetened tal- low candles. The keg and its contents, which weighed about 100 pounds, recalled the days when the (arming peoples of the Highlands left their villages in spring to migrate to the upland sheilings. Here they and their do- mestic stock remained during the summer, and during that time accu- mulated stores of butter and cheese which were to las' throughout the winter. The custom of burying the butter in peatbogs was widespread, for it has been found in several parts of the Western Highland;, and many in Ireland. 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