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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1976
Page
2
Jim and Oswald discuss a series of articles on single-suit play. Saul faces a standard three no trump contract and seeks extra tricks. The correct play involves a low ruff and keeping the long suit, with outcomes depending on East and West card holdings.
Oswald discusses bridge probabilities, noting five club tricks occur 42 percent and all four club tricks 98 percent. Leading to the king then back to the ace yields five tricks 36 percent and four tricks 16 percent. Oswald adds a caution about South holding the ten of clubs and suggests the correct play would be to lead top clubs.
A New Jersey reader asks about Milton Work age in 1925 when the contract was invented. Born in 1864, he was 61 years old, yet continued advancing the contract system and won several regional tournaments before his death in 1934.
President Ford sent to Congress the narcotics trafficking bill with mandatory prison terms of at least three years. The White House made the measure public on Saturday after it was transmitted Friday to lawmakers.
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