The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • 28

8 La Crosse Tribune, Saturday, July 18, 1981 Textbook case; classic slam Glad You Asked Hy and Marilyn Gardner Neither vulnerable. Sout deals. NORTH J4 78653 0 A93 A832 WEST EAST K852 9763 7AK1097 7QJ 42 0365 07 1054 9 SOUTH AQ10 7 Void OKQ10842 KQ76 Yes sir, yes sir, 3 tables full A small turnout for La Crosse Duplicate Bridge Club action this week produced a three-table game. Play was led by Dick Sartz and Irv Locketz, who turned in a score of 30. Following the leaders were the duos of Pat Tumer-Mary Schrabeck, with 28 points, and Kay Maloney-Francis Walter, 27.

East's jack: declarer ruffed again. The careless play is to draw the outstanding trump in the hope that clubs would break 3-2, but Rubin is not the type of player who relies on the whims of fortune. If clubs were 4-1 and West had length in the suit, the contract was doomed. But if East held four clubs, the evil distribution could be neutralized. First, declarer cashed his high spades, discarding a club.

Next came the king and ace of clubs, and had both defenders followed, declarer would have drawn the last trump and claimed. But when West showed out on the second club, declarers technique was rewarded. He cashed the queen of clubs and ruffed a club while East followed helplessly. Now declarer could return to his hand with a heart ruff to draw the last trump, and his slam was home. 'The Rage' provides a good time The bidding: Seatk Wert North East 10 1 7 2 0 Pom 3 7 Pom 4 Pom 4 NT Pom 5 7 Pom 5 NT Pom 6 Pom 6 0 Pom Pom Pom Opening lead: King of hearts.

This hand could have come right out of a textbook on the play of hand. But, in fact, it was played by Ira Rubin of Paramus, N.J., during the Vanderbilt Team Championship at the Spring North American Championships, held in Detroit. The Rubin team was defeated in the final of this knockout competition by a team captained by B. Jay and "Stop in the Name of Love." And. shades of the O'Jays.

they even managed a few dance kicks. Mixed in with the band's smooth, driving rock roll is a sense of fun. Keyboardist Eric Ericson jumped down onto the dance floor every-time it was his turn to sing lead. With his bouncing blond curls and cherubic face, he was a welcome addition among the dancers. When he was back behind his keyboards.

Encson was hopping and bouncing and beaming a wide smile. And every once in a while he would grab one of the stuffed animals arranged around his instrument and make it dance. The band also played "Louie, Louie," bringing out more people to an already crowded dance floor. Also among the old songs were on Bridge Charles Goren Becker, who at 77 is the oldest player ever to win this event. Rubins jump to three hearts at his second turn was an advance cue-bid showing specifically a void in the enemy suit After North cue-bid the ace of clubs, Rubin used Blackwood to discover that the king of spades was missing, so he settled in the small slam.

West led the king of hearts. Declarer ruffed as East followed with the queen. The king and ace of trumps revealed the 3-1 break. Since the spade finesse would have to be taken, declarer ran the jack of spades to Wests king. Back came another heart to "Mony.

Mony," a Tommy James classic, and the Raspberries' "I Wanna Be With You." The band is at its most cohesive and electric on the golden oldies and its a signal to the dancers that they'll have some good dancing music. But" the band also does much original material. One of its songs, which is released as a single and will be on an album, is Be My Love (Tonight)." The song was written by Joe Lucchesi, vocalist and lead guitarist. It has the flavor of rock 'n' roll from the '60s and early '70s and is much better than some of the music heard on Top 40 stations. The name "The Rage" is slightly misleading.

It leads one to think of punk bands, razor blades and hair dyed purple. But this band con- Soliloquy for a Sheltie Our family loved that little girl, and she loved us, too. Were only sorry we didnt many her off. By now, perhaps we'd have several grandpups to carry on the strain and nuzzle their way into our hearts like Little Lassie did. Not that she was the quietest coyote on the range.

A miniature collie, she was not kin to the original Lassie of which there must be hundreds (maybe thousands) of look-alikes with the name of Lassie inscribed on their dog tags. She was a loud, excitable, you might say hysterical youngster who barked to beat the ban when folks left the house seldom when they entered it. She chased planes like we did ice wagons when we were growing up in New Yorks Washington Heights. She never caught one but she never stopped trying. When Little Lassie first came to live with us, she acted like she knew she was the new top dog.

Her first morsel of food was a midnight snack of Camembert cheese. Then she cuddled up in our bed and snored lady-like until we woke up proving she was instinctly aware of the hours nightlife columnists kept. Her barking in the dark of night when she heard strangers using our bay (the one called Biscayne) was unnerving, but no neighbor ever complained. What bothered several of these nice people was her hysterical howling when a thunderstorm, announced by streaks of lightning, attacked her ears. Wed calm her down by explaining that the noise she heard was just God clearing His throat.

When she was seven months older, she retained her gentleness, dignity and hospitality when we rescued a lost white poodle cavorting courageously along busy Biscayne Boulevard. Lass merely sniffed at the interloper but didnt show any other signs of belligerency. They did have their dogfights at first, but became the closest of girlfriends after a few weeks. As time went on, we made more noise trying to quell Little Lassies eerie-sounding whines at the planes or to match the sirens of police cars on the prowl in the nearby park. Almost whenever we had such confrontations, Id cuss and remand her to isolation in our bathroom until our son Jeff came home to lecture dad on meting out cruel and unusual punishment to lady dogs.

The other Saturday night, she gamely tried nibbling on a sliver of Camembert, retired to a neutral comer of the bathroom, closed those beautiful big brown eyes and only hours later, slipped into a coma. The doctors at the Emergency Animal Clinic tried valiantly to bring the stricken pup to but she never opened her eyes again. Remembering occasional newspaper accounts dealing with people in a coma where the voice of a loved one brought them out of it we phoned the vet and asked if we could come back and give it a try. He said he didnt think it would help in this case, but if we wanted to come over, we could. We jumped in the car and rushed back to the clinic, only to walk in as the doctor was picking up the phone to tell us it was all over.

We decided to have her autopsied to make certain that whatever did her in wouldnt put her pal Tinkerbelle in any danger. The findings of our towns animal Quincy (Dr. Altman), were that our 11-year-old Sheltie had been stricken by a virulent, fast-acting bacterial or viral infection in her abdomen. Though we all wiped away the tears that cascaded down our cheeks when we gently stroked her furry body for the last time, the one who misses Lassie the most is her closest friend, Tinkerbelle. They used to eat together, many times from each others plates because it was more fun that way.

They played together, walked together, reveled together in the bay breezes blowing their ears back. In recent months, with Tinkerbelle having lost her hearing with age, she had followed Lassie around like a puppy. And when she'd see Lass scamper inside after we had called them, she went right along too knowing that if Lassie suddenly came to the door, it must be because we had called. Tinky doesnt seem to enjoy her food much these days. And when she gets up to go out, she still looks behind her to see if her best friend is at her heels.

And, though she cant hear a sound, every once in a while, shell jump up and softly hark like Lassie used to do loudly. Except when Lass did it, it meant someone was at the door. And when Tinkerbelle remembers to bark, its because she feels someone has to. But when we check, nobodys ever at the door. Dammit, its quiet around the house these days.

Field Newspaper Syndicate By GERI PARUN Of the Tribune Staff If you had a spare dollar and you didn't spend it at the Mississippi Queen this week, then you missed the best dollar's worth of rock 'n' roll to come to La Crosse in a long time. The Rage played at the Mississippi Queen and for a $1 cover charge, the audience got an earful of some of the band's good original material and its version of some great golden oldies. Tuesday was not the first appearance in La Crosse for The Rage. It shared the stage at the La Crosse Center with Cheap Trick in March. As the band did then, it sprinkled some golden oldies Tuesday night among its original material.

It did a medley of the Supremes "Hanging On sists of five good-looking, good-sounding guys whose music never even comes close to punk. The tunes are of a romantic flavor and the harmonies are about as far from punk as disco is from polkas. The band's act is tight and cohesive. The audience rarely gets an opportunity to applaud because one song leads into another. Besides Lucchesi and Ericson.

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