The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 25

THS GAZETTE, SATURDAY, I -l tVC QUARTERBACK I i AND NOS( THE PCCTPE 1 I AND TO IXC BRCADCRUMBSl I Chess News, Views Moves HASTME BAU. I FUR MOTHER MUHPHV5 ABO ONt CUP CHOPPED vANDHESOVESr Vvnw PRUNE V- PRUNES AND RAlSlNS- LI DAIN Feature Page it SHORT The Bridge By DOEOTHT M. ROSE Isaw young Bud Stratton holding onto the sub-way strap as the ear pulled out of the midtown station and started the uninterrupted trip the express makes downtown. The sudden sight of Bud waa like an answer to my woman's that night, the boy was gone. prayers, but instinctively I pulled the evening paper up to hide my face.

The were fact I'd found Bud by accident didn't mean I could influence him, or get him to return home and to his father. It would take more than a little talk from his father's secretary to accomplish that, especially after Tom Stratton had destroyed whatever bridge of understanding had Rlvml UFAMT lUrl 1 I MAYESt: EVWVBOPV MAPS HIS PROMISES EVE RVBOOy AN TSWIM scxx yg pkcmS PROMISE ID MET I PO WHAT ARE NEW MAKE ID OURSELVES, SO-Hi MOT TH1N SO MUCH OF THAT I EAR'S REVOLUnOKJt lOEAJ WHEN I PLAV fOOT-y STEE9 Yy 1 BAIL WITH AM THEM THE PAINTED THEM ON 513 il t- 10 run into me, cui iurexei it. i vc 'f'lZZl fAiWt I've a room I'm all to run into me. But foreget it. I've SIGN-BOARDS, THEM crowd, didn't glance my way n0(Jded lSure are Jl, toP.

01 mL tightened involuntarily on He WOULD BE KEPT BETTER WW DINNER' 25 WHOVMDN THE MOTHER MURPHY VOUNtJ MAN. THE TO NEXT TIME I SI6N A A PBNTEP CON TEA CT. CO IN6TO BYPASS MY LAVWER AND LET YOU CHECK THE FINE -PRINT LETS FOIL-6ET PHILOSOPHY NOrV ANP (JO TO Section Gasatt Want Ad JANUARY 1, 1855 T7 BEHIND TWB SHffaiFP'S HOfAEJOE UVES WITH THE SHERIFF, YOU KTOv m. 1 THAT'S GOOD-110. sosh, cn WHOLE i WHERE POO OVER THERE SOME, AND THIS 15 THE ANDY ON THE PRETEXT FiRST CLUB MAD 7 IS, OP SEEING jL A Now the subway tram was stopping and Bud was threading his way to the door.

Hurriedly, not knowing what was right to do, I followed. Outside, I caught up. "Margaret!" His first expression was one of affection, but then a guarded look replaced it "Look, I don't know how you happened his arm. Bud, come home and have supper with He pulled his arm away. "So you can call Dad?" "I won't tell him.

Bud," I said solemnly "I promise. We've always been friends, haven't I'd never lied to him He hesitated, then made me repeat my promise. Luckily I had steak in the icebox in my apartment. I pleaded i that I was dieting, so while Bud stowed away most of the meat and French fries, we talked. He told me about his job and the sketchy plans he had.

I sensed he wanted to tell me something more and that he'd be awkward about it. "I can't take it from Dad any more, Margaret," he said finally. "He's so bitter about everything, and in his mind he's got me mixed up in it." He hadn't put it so badly after all. "I know Bud," I said. "And I won't tell your father I saw you.

But there's a condition 1 want you to come have supper with me every night." I'd be content, just feeding him and making sure he was well, and if there was a way he could find the bridge back to his father, I didn't know what it was yet. "It's a deal," he grinned. It was the first time I'd ever been disloyal to Tom Stratton. I couldn't sleep that night. In the morning I did the only thing I could.

I called the office at 9. "I won't be in, Tom," I said "I have a headache." The rest was hard to say but I had no choice. "When I come back. I want you to find some one to replace me. I want to give my notice." There was a silence.

"Just like that?" he asked. I could picture the look of hurt and withdrawal on his face after a few stiff sentences we hung up. I had one forlorn hope that I of one the Dr. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 18 A A I WHERE DOES JOE HARDY KEEP HIS DOG PACK? Th Most Interitting Job ty D. M.

A HAPPY IfEW TEAR TO ALL! Cheat Quit No. 239 Black 10 Piece White 10 Piece folly v. Gligorio (Yugoslavia, 1948) White to play and win. Rouge et Or Win Team Championship at Quebec The Rouge et Or team won the Quebec City Chess League team championship, 9-, ahead of Employes Civils, Caissa, 5-44; Cavaliers, 4-5H: Phili-dor, 24-7'f2 and Pharmacie Therien, 2V4-7M; each. Members the winning team are all students at Laval University; F.

Jobin, M. Giroux, L. Hazel, A. Belleau, O. Hozanoff, G.

Mager, J. Girard, J. C. Bigonesse and A. Lebel.

Matches were on six boards, with each match counting point. In the World Team Championship at Amsterdam, it was noted, says P. Vaitonis, that the Italian players, E. Paoli and F. Noma, defended every Ruy Lopez with 'classical defence'.

This enabled D. A. Yanofsky to profit from a suggestion by team-mate F. Bohatirchuk for a surprising and powerful continuation. RUY LOPEZ White: 0.

A. Yanofsky Black: E. Paoli (Canada) (Italy) Whit P-K4 Kt-KBJ B-Kt5 P-QB3 P-Q3 PxP P-K6 Q-Kt3 P-QR3 QP 0-K4 Black P-K4 Kt-QB3 B-B4 KI-B3 PI13 PxP B-Kt5fh P-Q4! Kt-Q2 R-QKtl B-K2 Cast Ik Kt-Kt3 PKt3 R-Kl B-KB4 KlQP BxBeh QB4 PxKt QxQ White 22 RxQ 23 Kt-K4 24 P-KKtJ 25 K-K12 26 Kt-Q6 27 PxB 28 B-K3 29 R.QBX 30 R-B7 31 P-QR4 32 B-B4 33 P-R5 34 P-Q7 35 Q6! 36 B-K7 37 BxR 38 B-B7! 39 P-QStO) 40 BxQ 41 R-Q7 Black 0R-B1 R-B7 RxKtP RKt4 BxKt R-KR4 KtQ2 R-QKt4 R-Ql R-K13 Kt-Bl R-Kt4 K-Kt2 Kt-K3 KtxR(2) Kt-K3 R-QB4 KtxQ R-B3 Resigns B-Q3 KnKt QB 21 QxP (a) Having induced Blaclt's pj-ev'ws move White is rady to advance, the point of which disclosed two moves later. (t Or. Bohatirchiik-'s suggestion which leaves Slack's Bislwp vulnerato'e to the Rt- wl, wiBS "awn- Items In the recent Indian exhibition here at McGill University an ivory chess set was shown that once belonged to the builder of the Taj Mahal (17 century).

It was valued at $4,000. Cobras instead of bishops were an unusual and striking detail. "Sacha Pasaule" (Chess World) a new Latvian language magazine recently launched by A. Liepnicks, 135 No. 14th Lin coln, U.S.A.

It wiE carry news of Latvian chess activity throughout the world. Between mm be mm Wiy, emm ymrt In Town Appear Daily in MonMtal'i Faittst Crowing Want Ad might be able to persuade The city of St Petersburg, Tla has re-engaged Newell Banks, Detroit, to conduct the vacation season program in chess and checker at thi winter resort Arthur Bisguier, US A. champ-Ion, is the winner of the trong Eastern States Open at West Orange, N.J., followed by J. Sherwin, E. Hearst, H.

Avram and R. SobeL 5H-1V4 each. There were ten masters and eight ex-Derts amone the fifty entries from a ll nan. Tourney, held in Yugoslavia, has been won by Mme. O.

wedelj- kovich 8 pts. Anne iun-nucks (England), who also quali fied, was next with 7 pts. Mme. Chaude de Silans (France) annd Mme. "Lazarevich tied for 34 with 6 pts.

each. Miss E. Tranmer, KVi, and Mrs. Bruce, 3 Vs. finished 6th ana tn.

miss Sunnucks, a new-comer, is a WJt.A.C. lieutenant CAR0-KANN DEFENCE WWte: Anne Sunnuckl Black: M. Najy (Or. BrH.) (Hungary) White Black Whit Black 1 P-K4 P-QB3 Id 0-K2 02 2 Kt-QBJ P-Q4 17 P-R4 3 KI-B3 PxP 18 8 02 4 KlP B-B4 19 P-BJ 5 Kt-Kt3 B-K13 20 P-Kt4 6 P-KR4 P-KR3 21 P-R5 7 P-R5 B-R2 22 BP 8 B-B4 23 8-02 9 P-Q4 P-K3 24 BxKt 10 Q-K2 KKI.B3 25 P-R6 11 Caitlw B-Q3 2b PxPch 12 Kt-K5 Q-B2 27 KtxQBPl 13 P-B4 Kt-KO 28 KtxB 14 03 BS 29 KR-Blch 15 0.x Caitlei(Q) 30 Q-Kt5ch P-R4 B-K15 B-Q3 PxP PxP QKt-Kt5 BxB B-B6 K-B2 BxPch RxKt K-Q2 Resigns PROBLEM No. S9S L.

Knotek (1st Prize, Alain Whlta Memorial Ty 1954) Black 3 Pieces Tits mb in wan i fcfel $Mi tM vfM fW i ii a mm a fWi WWt WW, mi Pi Pi White 6 Piece White mates in three (3) move. Fall Solving Competition Final No. 394 (a) (V. Cisar) Key, 1. Q-B3.

No. 395 (b) (G. Heathcote) Key, I. R-K7. In these two prbolems set to break the ties in the Fall Solving Competition, H.

Matthai, M. A. Michaels, M. Lesser, of Montreal, and O. Rozanoff, Quebec, are the nrize winners who submitted the earliest correct solutions.

A con solation prize also goes to A. L. Kostiner who was another finalist with correct solutions to both. The 'close try' in No. 394 (a) 1.

K-B3 is refuted by 1..., R-K6ch; 2. PxR, B-Bl. Correct solutions for No. 893 (b) were also received from: G. Caron, A.

Sozanskl, H. Fletcher, N. van Egmond. No. 393: P.

Legare, T. Gowans, H. C. Johnson, G. Caron.

the Hands ranks of the millions of people who play bridge for pleasure Never before in the history of the world has any game been so universally popular. Each year thousands of enthusiasts travel thousands of miles just to attend tournaments. Besides the enjoyment they derive from the competition they continue to acquire many cherished friends and ac quaintances. These are not all experts. Hundreds of fine folk who rarely if ever win anything attend events and delight in merely participating.

May you keep playing with the idea always present of improving your game. As long as bridge re mains a challenge to you and you refuse to become satisfied with the way you play, you are "expert material" for ambition begets glorj. May you play without fear, for apprehension has no place in winning bridge. Remember what Shakespeare wrote on confidence and courage; "Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt." (From Measure for Measure (1604), Last but jioLleast may you hold good cards and be lucky. ELLEN COMPLIN.

BRIDGE RESULTS Cercle de Bridge Lanrier: Duplicate: Miss Hortense Pauze, Andre Pauze; Paul Charette, Georges Lesperance. Miss Hortense Pauze, Jean Paul Cartier; Paul Godin, J. M. Raynault. Individual Movement: Andre Pauze, Pi fm Wk r.M mM mM WM wmf- mum mmy, wm to I II 15 THE HOUtW f0Ju I FaH, WEO, AtfOmMANPE TKE I if WLBEimoansTw tymKffS meat wu wpousrmy be 1 I TO KEP TOO 8U5V TO WOfcR I TO WENO AN OCCASIONAL I THEY'RE JUST AS EASY TO BREAK Aft Af- WJXUJ ABOUT MY5ELF, FOR KEEPINft QUIET HOUR IN AN ART TD MAKE BUT-WE NEVER UARN I WELIJ MY FIRST RESOLUTION pvE MADE.

A 6U5Y THE ONE WAY TO 6t ArUBEUM.COtLECTtNG ONt- 10 5HO0T. WITHOUT SETTING FOR 1935 IS TO LOSE SIX HAPPY AND USEFUL DENDS ON MAN'5 GREAT UPATAR6ET! TO REA6 OLO BOOKS AND WRTTC KCRITAOE OF BEALtTy. -V rC i EVERy yR! OLD FRIENDS AND TO 5TUOY TO UNK MY5ELF TO A GREAT 71LX St mU THE BEST OF ALL BOCXV CALKEANO F16HT HARD Wf rt3 C-vll Wf ASOTHERS. TO TREAT EVERY HUMAM 4 L-t UPtil I Jv i r-t kWMl BEING AS IF fTWERE HIS ic TXT tt 1 1 I I I llll studied his 16-year-old-face. looked a little thinner to me although he'd only been missing a week.

He wore a uniform and cap the kind in which some business firma outfit their errand and delivery boys. Bud would have had to lie about his age even to get that sort of job. But maybe Bud looked younger to me than he did to others. He was tall, like his father, and the same stubbor-ness had shaped his boy's face in early maturity. For a minute I let the blessed relief of Bud's safety flow through me.

In the eight years I'd been private secretary to his father, I'd come to love Bud as much as if he were my son. They were the eight years Margaret Trent should hava been getting married and having a son of her own, I suppose. But something had kept me from it. Maybe no other man measured up in my eyes to Tom Stratton. When I came to work for Tom, Bud was only eight.

Tom didn't gee much of him then because Lila custody of the child. Office gossip was that Lila had demanded luxury and a good time of a husband. Tom had been too busy taking care of the luxury side for her, and when she'd found a man who could give her both, she'd divorced Tom. On the occasional visits the boy had with his father, I was the one who ordered the circus seats or the rodeo tickets. I held Bud's hand the day he saw his first department store Santa Claus, and usually I went alone on their jaunts to dinner and ball games.

I used to play a little game and make believe we were a family, the three of us. But I knew Tom only wanted me along to help out because the two scarcely knew each other, Tom and his son. And Tom wasn't likely to give another woman the chance to hurt him as Lila had. Then, two years ago, Lila and her second husband died in an accident and Bud had been sent east from school to live with Tom. There'd been troubla from the start The two were strangers.

really. Only I could guess that it was fear of being a poor parent thai made Tom so strict. And Tom had buried his emotions too deer) all ihese years, as though they wer sornetning shameful, to be able to show them now. "Lila spoiled the boy half the time, Tom told me. "And ignored him the rest.

And there's no telling what attitude she built up in him about me. But I can feel it's there Margaret." It was true Bud seemed bent on defiance, in bad marks at high school, in staying out past the curfew hour Tom had laid down. "Take It easy, Tom," I advised as gently as I could whenever he brought up the subject during dictation. "Discipline is one thing, and maybe Bud needs it. But don't ever make it so he can't find his way back to you.

Don't destroy the bridge between you." But if Tom ever listened, he forgot it all the night Bud took the car without permission and bashed in the fender. Tom's anger was still spilling over next morning. He had to tell someone. I was afraid from the way he described the- scene that he'd said things to Bud that never should have been said. And when Tom went home Experts and others who use the o-called ace-showing method over two-bids like to cite hands that are particularly adapted to this device, i.e., hands that are absolutely solid except for a certain ace.

Then, when partner is so accommodating as to show the specific ace, everything is lovely. These same players do not, how-ver, find the same pleasure in discussing hands like the following: South, dealer Both sides vulnerable NORTH 8. A76532 H. 4 D. 62 C.

K743 WEST EAST S. J104, S. 9 H.3 H. 8 7 5 2 D. KJ4 C.

9 C. 10 8 6 SOUTH S. KQ8 H. AKJ1096 A 2 North-South were "ace-showers," and thi was the consequential bidding: South West North East 2 Heart SDias. 3 Spades 4Dias.

Pass 5 Dias. Pass Pas 6 Heart Pass Pass Pas HAPPY BRIDGE YEAR gf 'xjy over supper, and then I could retract my resignation. But I tried not to think about it. Bud arrived at 5:30 and was in the bathroom washing uo when my hell sounded. When I answered it, Tom stood there.

He strode in to the room and took me by the shoulders. Now, what's this nonsense?" Then, suddenly, his face changed. The surface sterness was gone and his eyes were pleading. "Margaret, don't do this to me. I've been a stubborn fool with Bud.

You were right. I'd give my right arm to get the kid back, but I'm not going to lose you, He had me close, my head against' his chest. "Margaret, I want you to marry me." There was a sound behind us and I turned and saw Bud. His young face was bewildered. I worried fleetingly that he'd think I'd sent for bis father.

But Tom was speaking again. "Bud came to you, There was wonder in his Dut acceptance, too. He got more sense than I have. But I'll make it up to both of you." I could hear the break in his voice and he whispered something. "You're our Bridge, Margaret." I understood what he meant and I was glad he 'thought it.

But I knew that love was our bridge, and that it was strong enough to hold the three of us. THE END North or South might have done better than they did under the self-imposed circumstances. The nub of the matter is that natural, distributional bidding would take any fair partnership to at least six spades very possibly to the grand slam at that suit. If you would like a free copy of Mr. Culbertson's leaflet, "A Handy Digest of the Culbertson Point- Count Method," send a stamped.

self-addressed envelope with your request to Ely Culbertson, 1010 Arch Philadelphia 7, Fa. (Copyright. 1954 by Ely Culbertson) Th Gaetl reiret it not respondent with Dr. Brady. Pleat Hamuli a is a la i' c.i n.

t. u. t' aj a a a j. i vu Tni nnu nonrreai rincsT eivciisn rrvpinin in mvnrriai i rvirtir wowing nam a iion vwsvttw nni jr 1 1 krc vr ta stir rrt rt-c By nimur iFrnniMiini mi mi mnrririimitirnnrrifT-ffrTffir received addreited to Him are mwi TOO MUCH HEART TROUBLE IS THE HEAD In reference to pain or distresstgraduated exercise, that is. grad "Good-will wishing," as we figure it.

is something like paint' ing and music; it reflects one's own thoughts and designs. So we desire for you, our friends, what we might project for ourselves. May your duplicate bridge be solid and successful, your part' ners pacific and your opponents co-operative. May you rememoer to nassnot too late. May you win with a grin and lose likewise.

Long may your finesses work. May your rubber bridge games be gay and fast, in the company of colorful colleagues who play the swashbuckling type of bridge, without too much of that oft deadly menace the point count. May your slams be numerous and your penalties few. May you enjoy countless hours of happy bridge which can act as an anaesthetic for grief or core dom as well as provide you with relaxing pastime. If you have not yet started to play may you this year join the pouibla to handU reader' tor- do not write to him, at all letter ually increasing daily stints of exercise, play or work over period of three or four months.

I believe this treatment should be compulsory for every indivi dual purporting to have a weak heart, unless he or she be granted exemption by a medical board. I recommend a real heart tonic for any weak heart, that is to say a remedy which restores enfeeb led function and promotes vigor and a sense of well being. If this seems inconsistent, so lone, it has been pleasant talking with you. On the other hsnd you will understand that I am as consist ent as you could really expect 7w ilT, miriKs ne or sne must have a daily dose of digitalis to keeD the ior year, ana ru guarantee no, no, an honest doctor caa never guarantee anything I earnestly assure you that by the time you take the list dose of digitalis (within two or three weeks) your near: wm be working so well and you'll be in such fine fettle that you'll wonder why that old fogy doctor ever planted in your wrongly attributed to the heart and disturbances of heart func tionDr. J.

A. Oille, Canadian internist, said: "Almost 60 per cent of. patients who consult cardiac ($10 word for heart) specialist are suuenng iuier irom an exaggerated or wholly unnecess ary anxiety about their hearts, meat difficulties attributed to have no hegrt disease a heart contract, all right, but from suggestion and not neither he nor his partner could based on Most of the gloat very much over this resultisuggestions arise from careless or when it became clear that theyiiil-considered remarks by doc-could have made a grand slam at tors." spades. True, at that contract! out cf 531 persons referred lo North would have to exercise jthe nror)c classification Unit in some care and skill, but be Yorlc beCause o( loy. By I Ht 1 FVfy-r-JV lNATCHERE5) MOTHIN' ON, AM NOWADAyS VD' A A 1 t9 Z- ZT AM StCTWffv N- CAJhfT DftAW NOBOCrV LIKE MB YmmSm II 2eafe- not have too tough task.

The North-South bidding xict '17s w- found to Lucien M.A.A.A. Bridge Club: Mr. and Mrs. D. B.

Martin; Mr. and Mrs. J. Standfast British King With a Name Like O'Neill Ottawa, Dec. 31.

CB Mayor Charlotte Whitton met the "Kin; of England" yesterday. The mayor found her ear" windshield covered with ice after yesterday's big storm. She started scratching at it with a nail file. A male passerby, brought out a comb, and helped her. The mayor thanked him and asked i him bis name.

"Wlfat'a yours. he "Whitton," she said. "I'm the mayor." ,1 "I'm the King of England," he replied. Another passerby hailed the 1 mayor by rame. The man with 1 the comb came back.

"I'm not the King of England." ht wid. 'My name i O'KeilL ine xracs. ODViousiy enousn. Because itorui mree-spaae ota had no reference to spade uit neari wonting use my heart tonic Weak heart is popular a vehicle for the medicine and heart working use my heart tonic under the partnership ju aner weeit or two, Degin ing it simply announced theiwor'c evaders, chiselers. draft decreasing the daily dose of digi- Because 01 this, feoum triea to; oui jteep on lasing xne ionic be cagy over four diamonds: heje doctor acquiesces in such a passed, hoping thai aonn couia Bnt West was having none of that; her deception but because he lacksj i i he is willuig to entnbute to fraud ssuu kj aevtartmije measure efficiency of the heart Every is weaker or stronger than another heart, but an unqualified diagnosis of "weak heart" is as revealing as It would be to say did some more interfering in dia-i'ne monds, and that put North out of the running.

He could scarcely afford to bid five spades; he had no way of knowing teat South held fine surtrort. and he misht heart force South to a six-heart eon I know is what the patientjaiieged mind th morbid tugges- iui umjuv ui uitj hic. nion mat youd oave to take dig the light t-t North's ainIeton. If trouble i Just weak heartitali as long you live It i fruitless to argue whether' the curt if imp! and certain i Protected by John r. ouie Co..