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rse BUFFALO SUNDAY COURIBI MAGAZINE ABE DISCUSS' "RISIM'G OF GROSS WORD) PUZZLE FANS By MONTAGUE GLASS i Hi. Hoy, not one of them worCs ever appeared in a cross word putzle or waa even considered as words which, would come under the head of crocs word puzzle supplies among people who are' in Use eroa wen pucle business from the' manufacturing end." ina Da Dsrrrx WelL thct cross word puxzl manufacturers must have their troubles whoever they are," II orris commented. Getting together a factory force couldn't be exactly a matter of simply putting in an advertisement, reading Overiapper8, Pressors and REE Where cross word puzzles has cut into the Mah Jong sup ply- boftinem to such, an that the export of twwf bone to China has stopped entirety and there's practically no demand for them at all except among: people who own German police dogs and airdale terrierv' Abe Potash remarked the other day. "Well, it a strong wind that don't blow Homebody a little good," Morris Perlmutter replied, "which 1 my wife's cousin by the name of Jacob MIotkfn was practically going broke in the stationery jobbing business until a couple of months ago, since which time he's made a cleanup in cheap wooden lead pencils with, rubber erasers attached, and he says that- the peak been1 reached eren yet." 'It's been a god-send to employ-xnent" agencies too, on aecount of so many stenographers being fired, for doing cross word puzzles during business hours," Abe "and it a few divorce lawyers don't alsosget a slice, of the profits, Mawruss, I miss my guess, because if a married couple has got only one cross word puzzle fan in the combination, 'understand, there 's liable to be a cross word-widow or. widower the same like there is golf widows, except that a golf widow don't get waked up out of a sound slt-cp by her husband at half past one the rr.ornic"; and asked on the spur of the, moment what is a word of four, letters beginning with and end- ing -with meaning Biblical character, with' famous wife." Cross Word Poker.

"At that, Abe, traveling men'tell me that on through Western trains, it practically taken the of pinochle bridge, lying about orders and trying to get acquainted with ladies traveling alone," Morris Polishers wanted on plain cross word puzzles, three on fancy, only experienced wanted, steady work Apply Everready Cross Word Puzzle Company, 710, 712, .714, 71 and 718 West 94th-Street, before noon. Iecause how are you going to find workpeople who know that No. 96 vertical, Metallic Element of ths Crominum Group, is something called uranium? By advertising for theraf Oser "In fact, Abe, the whole cross word puzzle manufacturing buslnesj is a mystery to me. With every newspaper printing at the lowest estimate, two cross word pnzzles a day, the cross word puzzle business must have worked up into quito an industry, and I bet yer that right now there must be Cross- Word Puzzle salesmen making big towns like Chicago, Saint Louis, Cincinnati with a line of cross word puzzles, and yet, Abe, what kind of selling points could them salesmen f'Probably a cross word puzzle sells according to the number of vertical and horizontal wonls in it," Abe suggested, "or perhaps a cross word puzzle salesman has worked out a line of selling points where he stresses the number of black squares in his firm's leader Style 4022" Which you can depend on it, Haw- ti certainty teen quite at education to a whole lot oi people Abe observed. "Take me for instance I'asinsiry came back: from.

Chicago on tlie eighteen hour Limited the other day, andJie said that the only people on the train-not trrinsr to work out a rtros' word that- the Jade of Diamonds and Queen of Spades when laid on the table at one time in a game of pinochle, counts fortyv it's anyhow going to prove less ex-' pensive in" the long run." people have. shown a-whole lot of enterprise about making such innocent games like golf pretty near, as expensive a gambling way as- table stakes Morris said, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if someone would invent a game. of six handed cross word puzzles, where you couldn't open on less than a. four letter word meaning; "Sacred Chamber of the Hopi Indians, and the man next "to the dealer would promptly, raise him five dollars on a pair of six letter words meaning Norse BTnger of- Heroic Poems and i Loose Outer Garment (Koraan)." Sig the Eaphead. sv "Well, vit 'ain't impossible that cross word puzzles- could take the place of fifteen ball pool, and if one of the players was a shark, y'under- stand, he could always spot his op-: ponent eight vortical words and two horizontal words, and allow him to use an' extra dictionary," Abe said.

"Take gabby feller like Marks' 4 Piainsky, 'understand, and he could probably run out a 1 120 horizontal and 113 vertical swords in a two- handed' game of cross-word puzzles you 'and me would have guessed what No. 70 Small Device for. Throwing a Stream of Liquid whereas I doubt if a grouchy feller like Sig Joel has enough words in stock to tell what a pronoun of letters is beginning with I and ending with T. probably wouldn't be a. contender in a cross word puzzle and also would probably shoot the man that tried to enter him in it, because I happenedito be in his office last -week when he wanted to find out from the Daily Cloak and Suit Gazette what the assets and liabilities' of Uie Tronville Ladies', Specialty Shop olav hasholom was, and somebody, had been using "a hard lead peneil on the Gazette's daily cross word puzzle whieh was printed ron the other side the Business Trouble and while he used ar lot of four letter words meaning Dookkeeper; Stenographer or Office i ll u.

iuk; vivaa tivlul yJL.gm uoi- rischkeit keept on for six months longer, there would even be jobbers of cross word puzzles as well as manufacturers and retail and the cross word puzzle manufacturers would have strikes on their hands and other troubles with their employes -the same like erery business man." "Well, there's one trouble they have," Morris said7v "What's thatr' Abe asked. "No cross word puzzle manufacturer," Morris concluded, "would have to fire an Employe for work- puzzle were the engineer '4. '-Ir "Well, it's certainly been quite an. eddcation to a. whole lot of people," Abe "Take me for -in-, stance, and tip to a couple of months ago, all that the word Ea meant to me-was that it was part of the noise-college students make at a football, if you can call such a thing a meaning at all, 'understand, but nowadays if anybody has worked out even so much as one cross word' puzzle, understand me, he knows that Ea means Name of Egyptian and while Information like that ain't no more valuable than knowing (Copyright, 19:5.) E3CPERT BRIDGE FOR ALL BRIDGE PLAYERS Sir.

A TLIE TEST Ty CIDN3Y C. LTIZ, Chaaplca Cridje Player. CCiyriht. MM block the suit preventing the. dummy from getting ia with the Queen, to make the long set-up Clubs.

If South allowed the first trick to held In tbe dummy and endeavored t0 establish his Diamond suit, the opposition wuld set up the HsarU and not only save the game, but would probably defat the contract for a trtefc. That Kar afeiflfui aefns ahotsia be nullified by South' masterly ptmy. ives tas student a glimpse of the heights that mar be attained fey claee application to our most fascinating card game. It is, hard to beJive that sometimes, played, a situation may arise that would, cause any- self-reapectlns; cross-word, puzzle to bow Its head In -I have seen many such ending played for an unnecessary loss, but recently I saw a hand laid down by the opponents, ana the Declarant conceded them two the three tricks hft. thereby taking a perr-luty of fifty points, when he could have made the game a rubber.

I IT'eema very hard for some card-player to understand how tournament or CKamplonahip tixaX really means anything can be won at Auction Bridge. "No matter how well person plays." they protest, "the fall of the carda may be so OverwhelminRly favorable to some playera that the. factor of aklll may be of only econdary importance." In tournament play, the luck of the cards is quite eliminated by the duplicate; features of the games. The cards re shuffled but once and all the contestants play exactly, the same hands. The players seated In the north and trouth position play -the same cards, and as the east and west players rotate around the room, they play' against the same players; "Whenihe Bridge.

Player or the Bridgs CuiTder endeavors to accomplish' too much without having the proper material, he is sure. to meet with disaster! Occasionally a skillful player is forced to play a difficult hand arainst a foe-man worthy of his steeL Whm th ob- jective is won against brilliant defense, the the thrill of victory achieved is Indeed Such a hand the one following: The East flayer had deal and bid one No Trump. South and West passed, and North called two Clubs. East psss. ed and South bid two Sit Trumps, which, secured the contract.

The two of Spades was opened and Kaat played cleverly in refusing to cover the dummy's ten with the With tiie high Diamond Bight. Houth's bid marks him with the Ace of Spades. Even if this Import card is with West, noth-Insr can be gained bv going up with the because! the Declarant must, under any circumstances, win at least one -trick in Spades. Permitting him to win the trtck at onc, effectually removes re-entry card for the Club auit and un-. South holds three Clubs, that suit apparently will be shut Sorith quickly -i(ees that ho requires a sure re-entry to bring tn tbe Clubs and.

overtakes dummy's ten with his Ace. He now leads the King Of Clubs and overtakes in th dummy the Ace, so that he can continue the suit and force out the Queen, before the Spade trick in dummy driven, out. The rclarant'(l apparent sacrifice of two tricks enables him to win nine tricks and the game, a result that would be impossible by any other method of play. Irrespective of the location of the King Of Spades, "the; Dummy on not bring in the club suit uhU-as the. Ace of Spades is played to the first trick.

If the ten were permitted to hold and the Ace of Clubs was played at once, followed by the Jack, Kast would win with the Que and play the Queen of Hearts. When south is in the lead, he could play a Io- pa debut the King would go op. whetfe held by West of Kast, and the Ace would A 'v. As the cards are the same and the strength of the opposition Is equal, the Inclc factor Is -now re.tuced to a minimum point. hena 1 A KT A 10 4Q Only about twenty per cent of the hands are crucial ones, and if the player, can handle these properly he is certain to have a good score.

I would say. at straight bridge, the same results would obtain. About one hand in five is out. standingly responsive to expert treatment and the players who get the "swings" on these hands usually get the emoluments. QJIO K7 AJl98t AA2 Spades being trumps and South havtms the lead, can taKe two tricks if he plays properly.

How would you ge about doing it if all the cards were exposed Some of the "hands are necewwrily difficult ones, while others ire quite simple, so tha-oriljr luck remainiug is to play the Intricate hands against the less skillful players. In a session of "Duplicate. about ten hands are played an hour, and the game usually consists of about thirty deal. While the ranking? playere are generally quite -close together at the end, there is often a difference between the leading and trailing- teams of over three thousand points. Contrary to the opinion of some plav- ers.

there should be practically no difference in the bidding or play of the came, whether straight bridge or duplicate' bridge is played. In the long run ordinary sound tactics will prevail. Kan I I 4 9 7 4 1 7632 82 4k 764 AEgl QJ98 AQJ Q63 uiji mire i-arus me nana, the position can hardly be dignified with the title of a problem, but as a matter of curiosity, try and do It in three minutes one card per minute. Timer ready? Starter Ready? Go. (Copyright, 1I25.) AA53 VAK4 1091542.