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9'V 9 rr ar -a-sj ff r''t pfvrwWW -y a rrryryy Boston Sunday Globe January 10, 1971 83 ACES ON BRIDGE THE STAMP HOBBY D-day brings flood of issues Answering some questions raw 5sai What should be led? Decision Needed, Denver. ANSWER. You should lead a small diamond. The bidding sounds as though dummy has a good club suit for discards. Further, the five no-trump bid places all the aces with the opponents.

Your reasoning should be, "Partner has few high cards. If I lead diamonds, I may be successful if he has as little as the queen. If I lead hearts, partner must have (both the king and queen for success (or only the king if behind the ace). The chances are better for him to hold only one key card instead of two." Your aim is to establish a trick as quickly as possible which you can cash when in (hopefully) with the trump king. USA A i.

i '-fiiioir'iiriitiiiiiwMrriTi(iiiiiiBrniHifiif iiHiiTifitiiniiiiiK By Ira G. Corn Jr. Dear Mr. Com: In a recent rubber bridge game my right-hand opponent opened with three spades. I doubled, but my partner bid four hearts, which went down five.

How should the bidding have gone? My Hand Partner's AAQ10 4 A 2 VJ 864 2 0 10 6 0 A 9 7 4 3 AK5 4 Q7 Down and Disappointed, Birmingham, Ala. ANSWER. Preemptive bids often represent the most difficult bidding problems. With the hand you held, your possible contract ranged from a part score to a grand slam. It appears, however, that you and partner were playing a different system.

Your double was obviously intended for penalty, but your partner interpreted it otherwise. Many players do play the double for penalties, though most play it for takeout. Either method is workable, but only when both partners use it the same way. If using the most popular treatment, your hand is not the right kind for a take- out double because of the singleton heart. Three no-trump would, be a reasonable gamble and a pass the only alternative.

In no case would I expect to reach the six-diamond slam after that aggravating three-spade bid. Incidentally, how did declarer go down five? By Jay Hatch D-day, of course, is decimalisation day. It is principally the day on which Great Britain, namely Feb. 15, will shift completely to a decimal, system on its postage stamps. The chief dollar unit will still be the pound and still worth $2.40 and the pound denomination will continue.

The rest of the stamps will be based on this pound divided by 100 pence. Other nations have either jumped the gun on Great Britain or will follow suit. Here in the U.S. we already have the decimal system for our postage. There are people who feel we may have to go completely metric, in weights and measurements, although Great Britain was under 1 heavier pressure than us because of its proximity to the European market which is metric and decimal.

Ireland will change over Feb. 15, using the current beautiful stylized designs Of the current, and comparatively new, definitive set based on early Irish Christian art. The will be dropped in the design, leaving the numerals. The Channel Islands, Guernsey and Jersey, are following suit. There are many others.

Turks Caicos Islands had their decimalisation day as far back as Sept. 8, 1969 when they overprinted old sterling values with decimal equivalents. On Feb. 2 they Will incorporate decimal values into the designs. St.

Helena Feb. 15 will change oyer with new CHESS Dear Mr. Corn: The bidding went: South IS 2H 3H 4S North INT 2NT 3S SYMPHONY IN SNOW This remarkably fine zig-zag pattern photo was made at the Bugaboos in British Columbia. The photographer had to get up early to catch skiers before the snow became marked up. Note the darkened sky (orange filter) and backlighting effect.

THE CAMERA EYE As West, what should I have led? A 109 8 3 OKQ1042 Q52 Which Card? Pittsburgh. ANSWER. It sounds very much as though dummy has only two spades and one or two hearts. Your partner, therefore, has five or six hearts and will get some tricks there unless declarer can ruff them in dummy. You should lead a trump.

Winter scenery calls for special treatment In this particular environment where light is the brightest, the fast action of shutter speed should be brought into use. If your camera (and not too many inexpensive cameras are so equipped) has the 1000 (thousandth) second shutter, use it. Dear Mr. Corn: The bidding has been: South IS 3S 5H 6C North 3C 4NT 5 NT 6S You are West, on lead with: AK76 109854 OK6 5 2 The Aces will answer your bridge questions in this column. Send questions to the Aces, P.O.

Box 12363, Dallas, Tex. 75225. Designate The Boston Globe as your newspaper. For a personal reply, include a self-addressed, stamped It was a good value tablets on the current definitives. Tristan da Cunha will do the same on its present 12-stamp definitives.

Italy has brought out a two-stamp set, 20 and 251. bi-colors, to celebrate the European Year for helping to save natural resources. The stamps have stylized designs depicting forest and factory A gay horse-type design has been used by the Philippines for a 3-stamp set for the meeting of PATA (Pacific Area Travel Ass'n) at Manila Jan. 21-29. St.

Thomas and Prince Islands, located in the Gulf of Guinea 125 miles off the great bend on the west coast of Africa, have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of their first set of stamps. They had the common design of the Portuguese crown. That and later issues are reproduced on the three-stamp commemorative set just released for the ccnlennary France has come up with year stranglehold on International Chess play was broken. No longer did the Russians dominate every tourney they had to struggle for position against Fischer, Larsen, Uhlmann, Portisch, Gligoric and Hort. What will 1971 bring? All eyes are on the World's Championship.

Quarterfinals of the World's Championship will be played in March. In July, the winner of the Petrosian-Huebner match will play the Korch-noi-Geller winner and the winner of Fischer vs. Tai-monov will play the winner of Larsen vs. Uhlmann. In September the finals will be played.

In the spring of 1972, a 24-game match for the world title. Our quiet view is that Spassky, Larsen and Fischer are the three top players in the world, that Petrosian is the fourth and highly dangerous, that Fischer in the end will triumph, if his temperament does not eliminate him. If this be true, chess will jump in 1971 out of humble COIN COLLECTOR By Harold Dondis DRUM CORPS NOTES A crisis in Rochester, N.Y. Elik ZZIZZZZI a new Marianne design for its stamps, as ever, in a Phygian cap to proclaim freedom Austria, following its annual custom, has made available the designs of all the stamps it has planned for this year- Fascinating is the continuation of the Austrian Art Treasures series with three stamps (for March) picturing sculpture, three stamps (for April) picturing paintings and three (for October) picturing fountains. Fans interested in Holy Land philately are invited to attend a mini-auction of the Society of Israel Philatelists Jan.

13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cardinal Spell-man Philatelic Museum, Regis College, Weston." There will also be a talk on Israeli and Palestine issues by SIP member Hugh Forrest. Finland Jan. 28 will release an ultra-modern design 0,50 m. dedicated to its industry.

Motif of the design is based on many meshing cogs colums such as this and on to the front page. Popular demand brings, this victory by John Curdo against Jackie Peters in the 1970 Boston Open. the sixth move, Curdo effects a questionable maneuver in the Ruy Lopez. Peters gets a strong initiative which fades away. RUT LOPEZ Pfters White 1 P-K4 2 N-KB3 3B-N5 4B-R4 5 0-0 Curdol Petert Curd Black I White Blacf P--K4I16Q-B3(C) N-K: N-QB3U7 BxN Qxl P-QR3I18 N-B5 Q-N3 ct P-Q3I19R-B2 0-0-O(d B-N5l20NxBcU Nxl 121 K-n- na 8 P-KR3 P-KR4 fal22 KvR Qvi I "9 Q-B3 23B-R4 8PxP PxPI QxBch (m 9PxB PxPI24tC-TJ1 Pi5i 10B-KNS I25Q-K3 P-KB Q-K3 1 11 11N-R4 B-K 2 27 N-B4 ff) Kc PxJ 12B-N3 13 O-OS IxKP Nxf Px 14QxKP IS P-KB4 P-KB3J (a) Risky and premature here.

(b) If 10. Q-N3, 11. NxP I wing. White haa deferred the usual BxN ch and put the KB to good use. (c) Peters says that 16.

Q-QS N-R3. 17. N-B 5 should win considering the exposed black king. (d) All of a audden white is lost, the threat is mate in two. (e) Jeopardizing the win 23.

R-Rl, 24. P-KN3 RxB ch, 25, PxR P-N6 wins surely. (f) The win, is still easy, black preys on the white Q's inability to leave her lcin e.g. 27 QxP R-Q7 wins! Annotations by J.A.C. Answer to Problem: The more efficient win in note (e) to black's 23d move in the game.

sterling and $2.50 for bronze, ppd. Orders may be directed to Stevens High School Alumni, Box 710, Claremont, N.H. "This group of over 5000 members is believed to be one of the oldest, continuously active public school alumni groups in the country," Averill said. Stevens High School is named in honor of Paran Stevens, a native of Claremont. With little formal education, Mr.

Stevens became a nationally known hotel keeper in the' mid-1800's and amassed a considerable fortune. In 1866, he offered to match funds with the Town of Claremont for the establishment of a high school. This was done, and the school opened in September, 1868, with the first class graduating in 1871. An Alumni Parade is held each June in Claremont and this year it is anticipated there will be a three-hour parade with groups from all over New England participating in the centennial celebration. By Gilbert Friedberg Globe Staff We could give winter photography a lot of space and yet just scratch the surface.

Winter sports such as skiing, tobogganing, sledding, skating, or just hiking can keep your camera busy for months. We note of late the frequent number of pictures made of winterscapes. But, unfortunately, repetition makes most of these pictures commonplace. Composition should be the key word in winter scenes, but most amateurs are taking the easy way out. Perhaps it's because cameras are too difficult to maneuver or that hands, covered with gloves, make the art too difficult.

In the countryside where snow has fallen in quantity, snow-laden trees are the key for composition. An example of this can be used frequently in framing your pictures, whether they are black and white prints or colored slides. Framing can be a way for bringing attention to that part of the scene you wish to accentuate, whether it be skier, sledder or skater. For fast action sports, the word is "fast shutter." CAMERA NOTES Gateway C.C Monday at 8 p.r Competition on "Backlighting. Melroae C.C Tuesday at 8 p.m First United Methodist Church.

Main street. Latest 'Top" alides of PSA members. Photographs by Boston photographer Nick De Wolf and paintings by Janet Ali-Oglu are being shown at the Meeting House Gallery, 70 Charles Boston, from 6 to 10 p.m. The New England Camera Club Council presents "Photographer World," a wide multi image color slide spectacular, Monday, at 8 P.m.. at Ingalls Hall, Essex street.

Lynn. Les Campbell. FPSA. Hon. NEC.

is chairman. Greater Lynn C.C. Monday at 8 p.m. Bolton C.C. Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Color competition wilh Joseph Mahoney. APSA. MNEC. commentator. C.C Thursday Competition "Open," black and white.

at color m. and Tic 4 Under winter conditions such as we're having at present, light will not be a problem. As a matter of fact, with this in mind, filters (black and white) should be attached at all times to the more sophisticated cameras. Types such as the orange (G), deep yellow (K3) or for experimentation the red (A). Blue-violet rays emanating at high altitude atmosphere or snow and ice reflections must be neutralized and filterage is the only way to do tl-ls.

From past experiences, 400 film (B W), but at all times we have kept the filler in front of lens and removed it only when we wished to use the slower film (Plus-X or equivalent, ASA 160) and other filters. An added thought is the Infra-Red filter which cuts down light even more, but it does deepen many of the pastel shades, particularly the blue sky, and one should read film instruction sheet, before handling this super filter. The use of the filter is equally "important when using color films, but only such filter as the more transparent skylight (nearly clear) calls for and the polarizing filter which is somewhat denser, but which gives excellent results in not-so-bright sun or in open shade with no sun on subject. Since most (nearly all) movie film is of the color variety, filters equal to what we have been advocating for stills should at the top of your priority list. i i.

By Herb Cole A pending real estate transaction in upstate New York could have serious ramifications for senior corpsdom throughout the East. Stadium in Rochester faces possible destruction if city fathers approve- contingencies bearing on its conversion to a housing complex. name of Aquinas has been synonymous with major drum corps tourneys for -20 years and most recently has been the arena for DCA championship finals. i.Thoje who made the Labor Day trek to Rochester this year can recall the jam-packed stands and the enthusiasm of fans generated by the Hawthorne Ca-balleros' victory. s'An impressive postscript to the show was information that the stadium was used only for soccer matches and drum corps contests.

A ball park has been suggested as an alternative, but the environs reportedly are not as attractive as Aquinas and could be unavailable if the Rochester baseball team needs it. Aquinas has been an important cog in the DCA op-operation. Funds from capacity-filled title programs have sustained seasonal treasury reqirements. CUT-UPS White's King is exposed. Black to move, and he'll win.

What is best? Answer below. Looking back, 1970 was something of a good year in chess. It was the year in which Robert J. Fischer terminated his silence, caused by what he called "hang-ups," and came back to tournament play, to defeat Petrosian in a match, win tournaments in Yugoslavia and Argentina by fantastic, unheard-of pluralities, and come at the head of the Interzonals. His record was marred only by a loss to Spassky in the Olympiade and one to Larsen in the Interzonals.

Fischer says Spassky was lucky in their game and that it will be different next time. It was the year in which Russia defeated the world in the match of the century, and by the precious margin of one point, and won the Olympiade (though Korchnoi fell asleep and failed to show up at one game). But strangely it was the year in which the Russian School centennial medal Centrally situated, the stadium has been a source of income that has been hard to match elsewhere. Further, its razing will strip the Rochester Crusaders of a home field and conceivably could lead to their demise. With the Syracuse Brigadiers on the brink of extinction, the loss of the Crusaders could deal a severe blow to the northeast.

Minus a senior corps and its sponsorship, junior feeders would be seriously threatened. On the surface, the whole matter could be easily chalked off as a localized problem. But it goes farther than that. It is certain to be felt by fans and corps alike fromBaltimore to Boston. The emotional aspect of drum corps personnel was visible in the Sugar Bowl classic.

The crack Air Force corps, accompanyng the football team to New Orleans, reflected its dejection over the outcome of the game with a surprising lack of marching precision in half-time exhibition. Musical efforts were limited to an opening fanfare and a few bars with, the Air Force band joining in on the nine-minute, presentation. Intervals and dressing of Bennett Morrill "Three no trump." By lines were detracting factors as the boys in blue went through their paces. Everett merits special recognition for the color guard ardor of its residents. Last night, St.

Therese kicked off EMass circuit competitive proceedings with a show at the Everett Armory, coming right back this afternoon with another program. In today's meet, CYO junior, senior and prep-B guards square off, starting at 1:30. Immaculate Conception picks up the sponsoring rein with a CYO contest at the Everett Armory next Sunday (1:30 p.m.), followed by an EMass-hosted event at the same location under the auspices of St. Anthony 23. Holy Family of Rockland also is getting into the act with a CYO-scheduled contest at the Rockland High School Saturday, starting at 6 p.m.

The 1971 rosters are to be distributed at the EMass general body meeting Jan. 18, at which time a favorable vote is expected to be taken on granting honorary membership to Rev. Herbert K. A. Driscoll of Winchester.

One of the original" founders of the EMass circuit, Fr. Driscoll has maintained an active role in association matters, serving on, the board of trustees and as chaplain. Up until this year, the affable pastor had competing Immaculate Conception church units in one or more classes. He has been a staunch supporter and advocate of the hobby-sport The EMass executive board convenes Monday at 3 p.ra. in the I.C.

school hall, Winchester. By Joel Sable Issuance of a Centennial Art Medal has been announced by the Stevens High School Alumni of Claremont, N.H. The Rob-bins Company of Attle-boro has been selected to strike these medals in sterling silver and bronze, according to Robert B. Averill, alumni president. The obverse side shows the original Stevens High School constructed in 1868.

The school motto, "Palma Non Sine Pulvere" "No Reward Effort," appears above the building. The reverse features the alumni seal and centennial dates 1871-1971. The sterling silver will be limited to no more than 500 serially numbered medals. Bronze are unlimited. Both are lss" diameter, high relief, antique finish similar to others in the i Company New England Heritage Series.

A brief history of the school and its founder is enclosed with both medals. Prices are $10.50 for of the equipment at hand a zoom lens which he zoomed in unison with the speeding skier. DOWNHILL RACER What makes this picture outstanding is simply -the fact that the photographer took advantage "Pass." "Four spades.".