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AUCTION
IO '
CONTRACT
6y Wynne Ferguson
Author of 'PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDGE"
ARTICLE No. 31
Why is it that some players invari- his bad cards that is making him lose.
ably Jose the big rubbers and win the
little ones? How and why do the big
losses occur? Generally speaking, it's
impossible tb suffer big losses at Auc-
tion or Contract unless you are hold-
ing good cards. When you are hold-
ing worthless cards, there is no temp-
tation' to overbid and hence no big
penalties. It's when you are holding
good cards that are not quite good
enough, or when you are suffering
from bad "breaks" that you are apt to
lose heavily. The good cards, instead
et winning for you, are a source of
loss. Why is this?
There must be some reason for it
and the answer is really, very simple.
A player just cannot remain quiet
with good cards. He must bid and
keep on bidding. The good cards in-
toxicate one and you become blind to
the many signs that the odds are
against you. You fail to notice that
your partner is passing and that both
of your opponents are bidding. What
can one good bad do against two? If
players would only ask themselves
that question, many a big penalty
would be avoided.
Moral: Don't overbid good bands.
Remember, a good hand has a better
defensive value against two good
bands than it has when used for of-
fensive purposes. It's au axiom of the
game that one good hand against two
bas one hundred per cent. better
chance to save a game than to make
game.. In nearly half of such hands,
it would bave been possible to have
saved game and in the other half to
have defeated the opponent's bid.
Recently the wirter kept a record of
the over -bidding of one player during
one evening's play. Out of fifteen of
Lie bids that failed to make good,
twelve were doubled. On ten of the
bands, the player could have defeated
his opponent's bid and on the other
Ave he could have saved game. He
was on.; of those players who consider
it a personal affront to be overbid and
Itis opponents knew he would continue
to bid. Such a player is under a great
handicap and yet cannot seem to
realize what is the trouble with his
game. He complains of bis hard luck
and of the big rubbers he loses, but
hasn't the good judgment to realize
tbat it is his temperament, rather than
Bearts-9, 8
Clubs -4
Diamond s-10, 0, 8, . 7
-no00
Tired AII;Oay Long
Take these remarks to heart and, if in
the class specified, look for the result
of hands in which you fail to Dake
your bid. If you could nave saved
game, or defeated your opponent's bid,
your Loss is not justifiable.
Is it more difficult to play the dum-
my hand against two opponents or for
the two opponents to play against the
declarer? That question hasbeen the
cause of Much discussio 1, but to the
writer there seems only one answer.
It is much more difficult for the op-
ponents of the declarer. The latter
can see his twenty-six cards and
should know the best way of combin-
ing them to the best advantage. He
is sot in tits d:..'s like his opponents,
for they must guess as to the other's
holding and they are just as apt to
guess wrong as right. Also in the
opening lead, the opponents of the
declarer are at a disadvantage. if
partner has not bid, what should be.
the opening lead? This is a question
that .puzzles the experts at times, but
the average player can greatly over-
come this difficulty by the careful
study of a good table of leads. In
playing against the declarer, try to
convey as much information as pos-
sible to your partner by use of con-
ventional leads and discards. - Watch
your partner's play and that of the
declarer very closely. Not only try
to make every play of your own con-
vey information to your partner, but
also try to learn something from every
play of your partner and of the de-
clarer.
The following hand looks easy but,
unless the proper lead is made, the
game is lost:
Hearts—Q, J, 8 `
Clubs -7, 4, 2
Diamonds—Ii, 10, 7, 4, 2
Spades—J, 4
The dealer bid one spade and all
passed. What is the correct opening
lead with the above hand? The cor-
rect lead is the queen of hearts. Any
other lead with this hand would have
lost game. The player who beld it
opened the four of diamonds, a very
bad lead. Never open a suit contain-
ing the king against a suit bid, if
there is any other possible lead. It is
nearly always a trick loser.
Solution to Last Week's Problem
Hearts -4
Clubs -8, 7, 6
Diamonds—none
Spades -A, J, 7
Y
Hearts—K, 6, 5
Clubs—none
Diamonds—K, Q,
Spades -10
If spades are thumps a0 Z'is in the
lead, how can Y Z win all of the
tricks against any defense?
Solution: Z should lead the king
of diamonds and Y should discard
the six of clubs. At trick number
two, Z should lead the six of dia-
Monds and Y should trump with the
jack of spades. B should play the
jack of clubs but, if he wants to
Blake a fancy play, he can discard
0e eight of spades. Y should then
llead the eight of clubs for Z to
trump, and the last four tricks are
frlien taken by the queen of diam-
onds king of hearts, seven of spades
and ace of spades.
Suppose, however, B, at trick two,
makes the proper discard of the jack
of clubs. At trick three, Y should
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lead the seven of clubs, which Z
should trump with the ten of spades
and follow with the king of hearts
and five of hearts. Y should trump
the latter with the seveu of spades
and lead the ace of spades. Y's club
is now good for the'last trick.
At trick two, suppose B had dis-
carded the ten of hearts. In that
case, at trick three, Y should lead the
four of hearts, which Z should win
with the king and lead back the five
of hearts. This trick Y should trump
with the ace of spades and lead back
the seven of spades. Z must win
this trick with the ten of spades, and
now has the good six of hearts and
queen Of diamonds for the last two
tricks.
It is a clever little problem and
worthy of the closest study.
Hearts—Q, 3, 10
Clubs—Q, J
Diamonds -3
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What Is Thought?
3y Ernest Dimmet, a French abbe, the
author of "The Art of Thinking."
If we are bored by any topic above
those which give food to ,our small dis-
likes
is
likes or even smaller likes, we do not
think. If, the moment a book or a
newspaper raises a question demand-
ing some supplementary information
or reflection, we yawn, fidget, or ]Dir-
'riedly do something else, we abhor
Ithinking. If, when trying to reflect,
'hve at once feel a weariness, a drowsi-
tness or a tendency to repeat mere
words, we do not know what thought
is.
People Do Not Think
Mental cowardice or sluggishness
makes sheep of most people. Indeed
the world lives on phrases which it
oes on repeating till some thinker
'makes a breach in the solid and stolid
wall of conformity. Such passivity
cannot be too early counteracted.
Children ought to be put through rev
-
lar .thinking exercises at school. The
Montessori system arranges for inter-
prets during which the children veil
their little faces and think.
I have been tempted many times to
annex Schopenhauer's maxim: ""Do
°8estfarYou andBaby
l..
Baby!s
&S)ern
oap
1 tents
9-3a
It was market hour of a sunny Aug-
ust horning as we approached the
Bourse la Brussels, The steps of this
stately ea~cbange were brilliant with
tier upon tier ,1 vegetables, looking
from a distance like a carpet spread
for tbe-royal progress of all the kings
of finance. There were Amasses of reds
and purples, of greens and golds,
glowing warin against the chill gray
E of classic columns. On the steps and
in'the streets that flanked the Bourse
shoppers argued volubly with full-
skirted, wooden -shod gardei wives
and blue -smocked- men who displayed
cartloads of colorful wares—pyramids
of red cabbages beside silver -green
ones, the Yorks and Lancashirians of
the cabbage kingdom, bunches of sil-
very anions and of crisp red radishes,
borders of lacy parsley and of water-
cress. At the rear of the Bourse; cart-
impart
art
impart health and vitality. Get a sup- full of color—pansy-purple eggplants,
druggist's.; in the new
yellow summer squashes, blanched
ply at yourgg , celery stalks with feathery tops of
green, rose -red tomatoes, Color again
in -the flower stalls whither we were
'being lured by eager women who
beckoned with nosegays. Then some-
thing happened which put color quite
out of our minds, and replaced it with
sound.
The steeple clock chimed eight, and
into the market strode a policeman,
ringing a clamorous handbell. In the
interim between the first ding and the
answering dong came a mighty burst
of sound, as if an orchestra concealed
in a pit had begun fortissimo a bold
presto movement. And so it had—an
orchestra of dogs. For beneath each
glass container -50c.
der pretence of noting it. But to keep
no track of what one learns or thinks
is as foolish as to till and seed one's
land with great pains, and when the
harvest is ripe turn one's back upon it
and think of it no more.
The principle which bas never fail-
ed to confer superiority on a man's
thinking acitvity is the well worn pre-
cept: Do not read good books—life is
too short for that—only read the best.
And of those only read what gives
you the greatest pleasure. Great
books, great men, great problems and
great doctrines, great facts and their
lessons cannot but result in high
thought. The busier we are, the more
severe our selection should be. lylany
men absorbed in business show such
a rare quality of culture that we are
surprised at it. The reason invariably
is partly because hard work and even
the weariness it leaves carry a nobil-
ity with then, but also because there
is no room in such lives for inferior
mental occupation.
You have no time, you say. Are
you sincere, or are you just repeating
what everybody else is saying? No
time? Examine your conscience and
answer. Is there no time you can re-
claim, not from your -work, not from.
your exercise, not from your family or
friends, but from pleasure that really
does not give you much pleasure, from
empty talk at the Club, from inferior
plays, from doubtfully enjoyable week
ends or not very profitable trips? Do
you know how to gather up fragments
of; time lest they perish? Do you real-,
ize'the valueof minutes? One of tbe
Lamoignons hada wife who always
kept him waitng a few minutes before
dinner. After a time it occurred to
him that eight or ten lines could be
written during this interval, and he
had paper and ink laid in P convenient
place for that purpose. In time—for
years are short but minutes are long
—several volumes of spiritual medi-
tations were the result.
What do you do in trains, ears or
taxis? If you do nothing in perfect
contentment, well and good, but if you
feel restless you are to blame. Man-
kind might be divided between the
multitude who hate to be kept wait-
ing because they get bored and the
her like it because
not read, think!" or to transform it
into: Never read, always study. A
harsh saying? Not if we realize that
we should study nothing that does not
interest us, and that studying only ap-
plies to the most enjoyable way of ex-
tracting from that, what will interest
us the most. Whatever we read from
intense curiosity gives us the model
of how we should always read.
Obviously we must make a distinc-
tion between What we read for our in-
formation and what we read for our
formation, between what we want for
our use and what we need for our de-
velopment, But whatever we read we
must first comprehend and, when we
have comprehended, criticise. We
must develop the capacity to have our
own opinion about an idea, a poem, a
doctrine ora worn of art, and to see
it clearly enough to give it forcible
expression. Comprehension is criti-
cism, and criticism or judgment is a
mere synonym for thought.
Educated men look for relations be-
tween Ideas or between facts and
never see a thing without visualizing
another beside it, or behind it. W. hat
is that, if it is not thought, and yet, it
is within the possibility of innumer-
able people. Let them keep away
from trivialities, and, instead, stock
their minds with knowledge worth
while; let them range freely through
this mass of data, and thought will be
actively produced, On the whole the
Object of reflection is invariably the
discovery of something satisfying to
the mind which wag not there at the
beginning of the search.
Facts are only the material for
thought. Thoughts themselves, that
is to flay, the illumination produced to th
our mind by the p re. etice ot riciii
5
facts, should be preserved even more
carefully. Certainly it is difficult and
sometimes it may be dangerous ---for
it della the working of the Inlpil—to
happy few who rat
it gives them time for thought.
Learn to attack things frontally but
according to the most scientific meth-
ods. Be the Lindbergh of whatever lit-
tle ocean you have to cross. Our life
should consist of a thousand brief
dramas, complete in themselves, swift
as a game of poker. Some busienss
men have given me a truly artistic
pleasure by the infallibility of their
dictation. Each letter meant a rapid
weighing of pros and cons, a decision, Here's something charming and chic
and the thing done at once. for you—and kindly too if you're in -
Nothing can be truer and. more en- elined to overweight.
couragiug to men equally gifted with You see the .evers disagree as to
a human desire forlaction and a human size and length, which has a tendency
indulgence of laziness than the Greek to diminish bulk.
sentence: The beginning is half the and Invere centre -back itsaidat eslimness, centre-front
teout
thing. sting height 'to the figure.
Axiom: Very busy people always g' g g
find time for everything, Conversely,.
people with immense leisure find time
for nothing.
one of those hundreds of market carts
game a lusty bark—bass viol barks
issuing from the mouths of great Ma/S-
tiff-looking curs, squeak./ piccolo yaps
from puny puppies that seemed scarce
stout enough to draw a doll cart, saxo-
phone wails from canines of boundish
extraction, and tubo tones, bassoon
notes, and drum snarls from beneath
we knew not which of the ranks of
dogcarts. It was a marl modern sym-
phony.in an Old World setting, In
orchestration it was like a dog show
at feeding time, but in motif how dif-
ferent! These were no hunger cries,
but the overtones and undertones of
Heimweh. That bell was the signal
for clearing away the .market, and in
half an hour all good and faithful dogs
would be trotting off home, drawing
their carts behind them. What visions
of approving pats from the masters,
of glad hugs of welcome from their
own little jeans and Mertes, may have
danced in their doggish anticipations?
We lingered as the market broke
up, fascinated by the individualism of
dogkind. What might not Browning
have done in the listing of those dogs,
he who could be eloquent over the
Pied Piper's rats! There were big
dogs and little ones, long-haired and
short, blacks, browns, tans and white
and all combinations thereof; there
were dapper ones and seedy, gay ones
and disconsolate. They were an ap-
pealing lot, and we Ionged to be
friendly; but the day's work was too
serious a business for them to be
wasting wags and barks on trifling
tourists. So the symphony went on—
lente movements of anticipation. Then
came a gradual diminuendo — dogs
were trotting off home. And we were
left standing in a prosaic street,
where alert, hurrying business men
jostled past us on their way to the
Bourse.
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Mind which can entertain an unlim-
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STANDING ALONE
1 honour any man, anywhere, who,
in the conscientious disobarge of
what he believes
to be his duty,
dares to ' stand alone. The world,
With, ignorant and intolerant judg-
stent, iiiay condemn, the counten-
ances of 'companions may be averted,
the hearts of friends may grow cold,
,
but the consciousness of duty done
shall be sweeter than the applause
of the world, than the countenance
of tomanion or the heart of friend.
--Chiarles Summer.
Owl Laffs
Just a Mite of Difference
This new generation
Is famed for its hustle,
While the one that bas passed
Was known for its bustle.
A party at the Zoological Gardens
stood puzzled before a bird.
The First—"It's a heagie."
The Second—"It's not. It's a howl."
Bystander—"You are both wrong.
It's an awk."
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In explaining bow you learn to play
golf, a friend put it this way: "0f
course the first six months you play
pretty rotten golf. Then you keep on
playing worse and worse."
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Adelaide St.. Toronto.
Cub (to his fellow reporters, sigh-
ing)—"Oh, why was I ever brougbt up
to be a writer?"
City Eclitor—"You weren't."
A young married couple started out
with the baby to buy a baby carriage.
They purchased one, put the baby in
it and started home. Everybody
smiled. They wondered why. Finally
they noticed that the clerk had omit-
ted to remove the sign from the car-
riage. It read: "Our own make."
Jennings — "I'm ' a man of few
words."
Hennifer—"Well, you keep those
mighty busy."
The ideal marriage is when a man
finds a beautiful girl and a good
housewife, says a philosopher. We
thought that was bigamy.
Small Boy—"Pa, what did prehis-
toric monsters look like?"
Father—"I don't remember, son.
Ask your mother."
Wife—"Women can get upstairs
easily in the kind of dresses they
.wear now."
Husband — "Get up
agree."
Patient—Yes, I'm a model and the
artist I pose for does painting, etch-
ing and sculpturing."
"Doctor—"But of course he does
some one particular thing better than
anything else?"
Patient—"Olt, yes, but nevertheless
he's pretty good at painting, etching
and sculpturing."
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If People Would:
Whistle more and Whine less,
Hustle more and holler Asa,
Work more and worry less,
Boost more and beef less,
Give more and grab less,
Dare more and not depress—
Business would be a sight better.
GENIUS
Genius, like the lark, is apt to de-
spise its nest upon the earth, and
waste its time in fluttering and
quavering among the clouds; but
common-sense is the humbler fowl.
which picks up the barley -corn and
crows and fattens at leisure.—Anon.
At that Job got off pretty easily. If
it had happened to -day they would
have yanked his teeth, appendix and
tonsils and left him only his ashes.
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