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'Hi J oil ty . j Mill gssr fijipA Fall Quart fall JPlnts Fall Half JPintc Park & Tilford, s. S. Pierce co. NEW YORK. BOSTON. The National State Bank Richmond, Virginia Capital. $500,000, Surplus, $350,000 President, John S.ElIett Cashier Wm M Hill Assistant Cashier, Julien H. Hill I ' Wm M Without Qutl on the Hew Game will Entirely Supplant the Old. own caras duc mac it is so necessary for his partner to be able to distinguish hp. INEIIURST has seldom twf n bids 'hafc are malting bids taken, hold of any card - in me 111 u viaoa mo ueaiei wants 10 COlllP in again and show his true colors after game with more zest than the new auction bridge. Mr. ?X j ' -i rrnma tXV r - story vu mo feaujv y t , . . . , , . , , i a.. rrv mrrrnnK in PartDfr to ,mke the real declaration, hniTsred the edition of 1 HE OUTLOOK in r - , . 1 ttutuun I T-i.-a he has heard what others have to sav: in tne second ciass ne wants to induce his which it was printed Inside of two weeks and since that time several aundred re quests for copies have been received. The latest indication of its permanent popularity is its gradual development as shown by the fact that the value of the rubber is steadily being reduced. When II. II. Ward of Boston, captain of the champion American Club team and famous as the best bridge player in the United States, first took up auction he kept careful records of the results. He found that the average value of all the rubbers played during one month early last year was a gain of G50 points for the winners as against an average gain of 170 in bridge. Since that time he has found that with the growing ex perience of the players, the better under standing between partners and a more systematic study of the tactics of the game the value of the rubber has been steadily and surely reduced, until now it is very little more than double that of the average in bridge, ranging between 400 and 450 points. The greatest element of loss at auction is easily traceable to the misuderstand ings of partners in the bidding. Instead of supporting each ether in the scheme which is best suited to their hands be ginners are continually working at cross purposes. One of the chief attractions of auction bridge is that you can get all there is to it out of your cards if you manage them well and if your partner does not step in and spoil it all. When you have very good hands you can play them for all they are worth, and if they are pretty bad you can frequently, by judicious bidding, coax the adversaries to undertake with their good cards iust one trick more than they are able to get, and so defeat a declaration. In bridge you win nothing unless you get the odd trick yourself. In auction you may get only three or four tricks out of the thir teen and still score all there is to score on that deal. But nothing is so annoying, after you have cautiously jollied your adversaries along until they have undertaken to make three tricks in hearts when two in hearts is all their hands are really worth, as to have your partner step in and over bid their three hearts, under the mistak- the initial bid by the dealer. So forci- the rule compelling him to make a bid of especially no trumps. The first theory of the game was for the dealer to declare one spade when he was not strong enough to call a red suit or no trumps: A bid of one trick in any other suit meant winning cards in that suit, not length, and one in clubs usually meant at least three sure tricks in it, but not enough outside to go no trumps. The penalty being then un limited, the second hand always passed a spade bid and if the dealer's partner did not say something the fourth hand would pass also unless he had a sure game hand, and they would let the deal er struggle with his spade make. No matter how good the hands held by the adversaries their strength was infinitely better employed in defeating spades at 50 points a trick than in winning upon any declaration of their own, because the spade maker was always giving them odds of 25 to I and could not possibly go game himself. To remedy this the committee on laws decided to limit the losses on an original bid of one spade, whether doubled or not, to 100 points. This completely knocked the bottom out of the tactics of the "rnaurers," who sat tight and said nothing when one spade was bid. The opportunities for picking up penalties of 400 or 500 points at a time suddenly and permanently disappeared. When the dealer bid one spade and his partner had nothing the p irtner said nothing, and be tween them they were very glad to get off so cheaply as to loose only 100 points in honors, their adversaries scoring nothing towards game. The adversaries soon found that it was not worth while to waste their strength on such small gains. The only remedy they had was to get into the bid ding themselves, and so sure was the dealer that they would bid something if they had the strength and third hand passed, that the dealer took advantage of the new conditions of things thus brought about, and gradually got into the habit of bidding one spade as a start er, no matter what he had, confident that he would have an opportunity to bid on the full value of his hand when it came around to him again. Instead of bidding one spade on nothing at all, the en idea that you wanted to play the hand dealer would bid one spade on anything yourself. The fundamental difficulty in snort or. seven or eignt sure tricKs m ma auction bridge was soon discovered to be own nana, wunoui any assistance uv.u his partner. It was only when he feared t,ir was this brought home to manv eood that no one else had anything that he players that it was suggested to abolish oia ireeiy nunseir. This evolved another complication, onin a hnA ' Vint, that, would snoil onp of because when the adversaries knew the fine points of the game and make that one spade did not mean weakness vomr ripnla vnid. The trouble ia not. they passed, and left the dealer to play that the dealer cannot declare on his hi3 big hands with nothing but spades 7
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