OQ ttrate stn ccatpposs Pe Woe stot pnt @ EASY LESSONS IN ! i AUCTION BRIDGE | : . Bp PAUL H. SEYMOUR l Author of Fiighlights on Auction Bridge™ QO Brittle sponte De on rts (Copyright, by Hoyle, Jr.) Article Thirty-Two. Second Hand Play HERE probably is more doubt and uncertainty in the mind of the av- erage player when he is playing see ond hand to a trick than in any other position. Two rules which have been handed down from antiquity, Instead of clari- fying the situation only make matters worse. These rules are “Second hand low” and “Always cover an honor with an honor second hand.” If one fol- lows either one of these rules blindly he is sure to make many mistakes be- cause so many conditions alter differ ent situations. When senior is playing second hand to declarer's lead he has the advan- tage of seeing dummy, which usually enables him to decide what to do. If declarer leads low to an honor in dum- my and senior holds a higher honor he always should play it if there is a declared trump; such general rule can be given, as fre- quently he should hold It up. One definite reason for doing long suit in dummy. of a suit and no apparent re-entry in any other suit. Declarer and senior holds A, 5, 4 3 probably will result In taking tricks in that suit from dummy; be led. If senior can know that de- clarer plays his last card of that suit on the trick he should take it; third round, which still two tricks. The same is true if sen- jor holds a King and declarer leads to Of course, if the Ace has not been guarded he must play it the first time. If the declarer leads Queen towards dummy's Ace in a no trump and senior holds King it makes a situation that requires some study. Senior is quite sure that declarer Is Intending to his Queen and also that he holds the Jack and expects to follow with that (not holding the Jack, the Queen lead would be improper). In this case senior can ensily count how many guards will be necessary to save his King if he holds it up. The Queen will take the first trick, the Jack the second and the Ace the third; there fore, with~three guards senior’'s King ies safe and should be held ap. With less than three guards the King should be played at once because here Queen, King and Ace will all go on the first trick, the Jack will take the second, leaving the ten good for the third and it Is altogether possible that Junior may hold the ten. Suppose that you lay some ecards out on the table and try playing this situation in various ways to see the difference that It makes, Let declarer lend Queen, senior hold K, 6, 5, 3, and dummy A, 8 4. With senior holding three guards for the King, and only two small cards with the ‘Ace in dumlm- my, declarer cannot possibly catch the King if it is held up, because after passing Queen and Jack through he must play the Ace on the third round. If declarer should hold t*~ ten also and dammy have a third small one with his Ace, declarer could lead through a fourth time, In which case senior Is helpless and must lose his King. Now suppose senlor holds but two guards for his King and dummy still exposes A, 8, 4, senlor knows that his King can be caught holds it up until the third round “just because he hates to see it killed” This is wrong and will for his side if junior happens to hold the ten and two small. Place cards thus: Declarer—Q, J, 8, jor—IK. 4, 2; Dummy-A, 6, 10, 8, 7. First, finesse lose ease the declarer will get all the heart tricks; while in the former junior will get the third, The situntion Is the same if dummy holds A, Q. J, and others and de- clarer leads low to it. Therefore, when the A, Q, J ficesse is attempted through the King held second hand, the King should be held up if three times guarded ; otherwise it should be played on the first round, When declarer is called upon to play second hand from dummy he must de- cide whether to play high or low by considering the cards in his own hand, and by trying to determine by Infer- ence what each adversary has in that suit, Jack and but 6ne small one and de- clarer has no honor in his own hand, the Queen or Jack should, as a rule, be played second hand because it would be of no use left alone In dummy and it Is quite apt te draw a higher card from junior than he otherwise would have played. True Deference “You must have been proud of the reception accorded you in your home town.” “1 was” answered Senator Sorg. hum. “The leading citizens lent me thelr brass band in spite of the fact that they were right in the midst of a real estate boom"—Washington Star. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 8S THE time for the Repub lican national convention In Kansas City on June 12 and the Democratic meeting In Houston on June 26, draws near to warn the people of this nation that they are again about to be embroiled in the heat of another Pres idential campaign, it 1s in teresting to compare the campaign of 1928 with that of a hundred years ago. ithough no one { prophecy what the don this year's contest will er the potential dynamite which can safely inant issne in be nor wheth now ' we of the will exnlode Into a bitter which has been issues century campaigns, there is little chance of gion of candidates and policies inz the depth of slinging, and characterized the of 1828, . To understand the bitterness of this can vHuperation. hatred of the general it campaign year for the it is ne briefly the previous one, that of 1824, when John Quincy Adams was elected President over Andrew Jackson, This 1824 was, in fact, the first contest. Heretofore the had been procession to the by Virginia aristocrats ington, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, and James Monroe, New England aristocrat, John Adams, slipping In for a single term. But by 1824 the West had begun to assert ftself and for the first time pot for. ward two candidateg, Henry Clay of Kentucky and Andrew Ja Hickory,” the military hero of Tennessee, New England offered John Adams as the candidate of the dying Federalists, The heir apparent of the Virginia dynasty was W H. Crawford, secretary of ury, a Georgian, born ir Dominion, At that time nominations made by the caucus method and this was destined to be the last of the kind In the country, Despite the eriti cisms of the caucus method one was was recommended to the people of the United States” However, he was eliminated from the race when strickén with paralysis made speechless, almost blind, and helpless. As the campaign pro- gressed it became apparent that Jack. son, with John C, Calhoun of South Carolina as the candidate for vice president, was leading When the returns were all in it was found that Calhoun had been elected vice presi dent with little opposition, but that Jackson would have 99 votes in the electoral college, Adams, 84, ford, 41 and Clay, 37. Presidential reason wpaign, essary to review + Lory 4 campaign of Presi. Presi real more or less of a executive mansion George Wash. James with one dency " ckson Quinney itliam reas. Od the the were Craw. none of candidates had ob. electoral. majority, under the terms of the Constitution, the elec was thrown Into the house of which would choose highest candidates. Since ford could also be counted out, so that the contest narrowed down to Jackson and Adams, It soon became gossip around Washington that Clay's strength would be thrown to Adams and that Adams in return would ap- point Clay as secretary of state, For weeks the capital was In a turmoil with charges and counter charges fly- thick and fast, The upshot of it all wag that in the final balloting Adams had received 13 votes, Jack gon 7. and Crawford 4. (The balloting New Record Hung Up for Continuous Swim At Hamburg, Germany, Otto Kem- merich finished the longest recorded continuous swim in human annals and also outlasted a Californian sea lion, Kemmerich swam several thousand aps of a small circular basin only 44 feet in diameter, He was in the wa ter 46 hours, which 1s 14 hours longer than the record set recently at Minmi Beach, Fln., by Mrs. Lottie Moore Schommed, of Néw York. Kem HALL, PA. Adams two being done by elected President he did appolir 5 he states.) WAS and later it Clay secretary of state days years were years of new President. With “Bargain and Corrup- did everything embarrass Adams bitterness of the campaign which was carried over dur those years, gave warning the campaign of 1828 would be even worse. The campaign of 1828 opened with Admins as a candidate to himself and Jackson, who with his friends were firmly convinced that he had been cheated out of the Presidency by the bargain Clay Adams and was determined to jus vy tha as Adams’ prin ponent, beiter descrip nous (or Infamons) dred years has been written than is the one contained in the “Presidential Years 1787 1860," by Meade Minnegerode, pub lished recently by G. PP. Putman's Song. In the chapter “Friends of Gen eral Jackson,” he dharacterizes It thus: next four distress for the the war cry of hay the in their power to ind the of 1X24, tion Democrats four ing that succeed hetween t belief, cipal of No tion of this fan campaign a hum ago book It was 2 merciless, filthy, scavenging campaign in which nothing personal concerning the candidates was denied to the accumulating spoils of pub. lished privacies—from the temporary legal complication In General Jack. son's matrimonial affaires to the hil. liard table, that piece of “gambling furniture,” at the White House The general's shouted through personality his private record the pamphlets; his ungodliness,. his pro- fanity, his game cocks and his horses his duels, his brawls, his feuds, and always the technical irregularity of his marriage coupled, on the one hand, with the most derisive opinions, and. on the other, with the most slander. ous untruths about his wife—the mat. ter must be referred to, since it fur. nished the principal staple of the do. meatic attacks on General Jackson, and was finally responsible to a certain de- gree, for Mra, Jackson's death in De. cember, 1828 His public career wan torn into shreds; his alleged dealings with Aaron Burr, hia military arrests and contempt of court at New Or. leans, his insubordination in the Flor. das, his executive autocracy at Pensa. cola, his “murder” of deserting militia. men at Mobile—~"8ome Accounts of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson,” by John Binns, posters adorned with tombstones and coffins, and known as the Binns Coffin Hand- bills—from every quarter, and in every variety of language General Jackson was ridiculed, assailed and exposed, And for Mr. Adama there was nuthe. ing but libels and falsehoods, He was an monarchist and a Federalist, he had fattened on the public treasury; he was a friend of duelliste—~an incongruous charge surely from the Jackson camp; he was corrupt and unprincipled in his distribution of patronage, he was an extravagant profligate; while mig was mwerich had set 50 hours as the limit for his swim, but stopped four hours short of his goul. “1 wae sorry I had to give up, but 1 was only barely conscious because of lack of sleep aad could not see where I was going.” he explained. “Several times 1 nearly fell asleep and for the last few hours there were long inter vals when 1 did not see where | was going and really made the swimming movements purely In a mechanical fashion” When Kemmerich started with his JOE QIINCY ADANS ister to Russia he had, so they did not hesitate to Insist, sold an servant girl to the czar; he Was a Mason-—it was the time of popular ani. mosity toward Masoury—and when be officially denied he was a Mason, it made no difference, he was Mason: be was plotting to General Jackson's just before prevent citigens American stidd fn announce death the election in order to from voting for him. and, of course, he had made a corrupt bargain with Hen- ry Clay it speaks conspicuously for the Integrity of his conduct in thirty years of distinguished publ that the Jacksonilans could find no thicker mud to filing at him dragged to neral Jackson was ele He had some hundred and thirty-nine thousand more popular votes than Mr Adams, one hundred and seventy-eight slectoral ballots from * ax against ! three from movement demi yet Mr ous ele The wreckage was polis apd Ge geventear € of th ple” a cracy aly aristocra Channing toral details wan elected by according to tt ratio each southern elector represents dq only 25.600 colleagues each ints out some cur General the solid 8 e federal 1R2% free porsons while his northern represented 35,000 And with the solid South General Jackson ecoul not have secured a maj y of the electoral votes without the rein. forcement of Pennsylvania and New York. “1t would seem” Mr. Channing con- cludes, “That Jackson was raised to the Presidency by the overrepresenta- tion of the South combined with the employment of the most unjustifiable methods by his partisans In Pennsyl- vania and in New York, On the whole possibly it was more honorable to have been defented in 1528 than to have been elected” And Mr. McDonald, In his Jackso- nian Democracy remarks that-—""To per. sonal vindication of Jackson was added emphatic popular Indorsement of social and political order with which ne was identified In the election of Jackson the people turned their backs on their early of statesmanship, and intrusted conduct of the federal an untrained, eelf-willed, frontier poldie old school was, In the eyes of his sup- porters, a commendation . A great democracy will never be gov. erned for long together by ta beat men but by its average. To the aver. age voter in 1828 Jackson was a great popular leader because they heid him to be also a typical Democrat™ It was the end of a cultivated, dis eriminating era; the close of the suc~ cession, whatever the idiosyncracies and limitations, of seemly persons, of capable intellects, of meritorious achievements, such as the founders of the Republic had envisaged as destined to dignify the chief magistracy of the nation, to mature ita councils and to grace its annala. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams The quality of that succession was not, except at rare intervals, to be attaiped again by the average personalities, the popular politicians, the convention compromises who were to follow, It wae indeed, with slight future ihter- ruptions, the final triumph of democ- racy. the passionate pet sea lion, Leo, as a companion, ft wae predicted that the amphibian would outlast the human. But after ten hours Leo dropped asleep in the wa: ter. He was roused by a meal of fresh herrings and started up again, All told, he disposed of 35 pounde of herring, but became Increasingly lan. guld and finally, at two o'clock In the afternoon, attendants took Leo out of the water. He had been in the pool 42 hours. Kemmerich plodded along four hours more, finishing his record feat at 6 p. m., WHY HE LEFT “What Is there about me that In. er, irritably, “] wae just looking at your ears” Flossie. “Well, what's the matter with demanded the caller. “Nothing that I can see,” replied the kid. “but mamma sald they must 's burning up the day you didn’t come to the club, but they don't even scorched, do they?” Then She Woke Up It was en—by “Do you know, a lecture about modern wom them, *" she cried to her au “that our present sty clothing one of dience, le of sen reduced accidents and busses by al sible has on trams, (rains least She pans d to let this sink In, a male the rear forth: “Hot not do dents altogether?” 50 per cent? whe boomed voice from why away with acel HEADING FOR COURT Hubby called it? 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