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PHf EXTRA Friday Mitch Getting to know duplicate bridge It is often to end up in a poor contract after employing he machinery every player at on should know The Staymen Convention employed by the partnership who opens I no trump It so that the pair may discover an or card major ft at the two level and decide on game or atom The convention is Initiated after the I no trump opener by partner by bidding clubs This d is and asks the no trump ddertobldhis card major In the trump b has none diamonds art eta I say no card major Now the hand could play at no trump However in today hand the two club bidder has spades When he hears that has no card major spades to alert his partner to the fact that spades are present and that they hate enough point values lor game try partner has The difficulty here Is that not many players would bid spades with north hold ng and consequently when south bids diamonds no 4 card major no trump may be bid by North South or This as Ih hand played by the Georgetown Duplicate Bridge players last Tuesday the annual Pa ra Club Champ p MASK Board So IS K6 J 1 II On the above sequence C was nan ore Stay man so North must jump to S on the second round his hand much too good for can be passed conduct a more auction they arc play forcing Stayman S nee Soulh must another after his Slay man response North need only S over When rases North con 4S asks South about his hold in the other South look at I tile hearts should beat a hasty to spades Bylaw tackles Town staff arc preparing a bylaw to deal with the of flammable materials near storking and denl ureas as ned in the new Tire code Although code has already been passed as part of the re Marshall Act a staff report endorsed by I Monday ght says its I or Itrlut arm enough They been set at but town staff have suggested Ihat the town passes a of Its own concerning using and tor flammable materials it should up v of u to GEORGETOWN WATERBEDS