Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 44

November Js 12 Magazine Section low to Miclk' Fridge A Brief Explanation of the Lardner Super-System, Together With an Expose of Rival System, and a Warnings to Imitators TJibWild Deuce Is Recommended; if You Never Heard of It, Remember They Laughed When Fulton Invented the Steamboat. TBS CHATTANOOGA SUNDAX J'lllSS by John Lardner player. Is absolutely opposed to maktn the deuces wild. I tried to explain to him the advantage a wild deuce gives you in bidding, but he could not see it Cully, I finally said, losing patience are a bom reactionary. You are thud to to.

novations, and your system shows it Be-member, people laughed at Pulton when ht Invented the steamboat The old ways are good enough for me, -said the Russian, shaking his bead rtuh boraly. For beginners with open min bowers? recommend the wild deuce. It Is someth helpful also to play spades wild have a diamond. Playing on Trains- 1ET us say you are holding the foUowtaf hand: Spades Ace, queen, ten, seven, six. Hearts Ten, seven, five, four, three, de.

Diamonds Ace. Clubs Ten. You finally win the contract with a bid six no trump (psychic), and a stranger coma over to your table and asks you to join ton and his friends in a little game of poker. Do one of two things. Refuse bluntly, or eaS the conductor and have him throw the stria-ger off the train at the next station.

stranger may be a sharper. He may not em be a stranger. You cant be too careful on trains. Other Systems of Bridge. I SOMETIMES encounter a bridge pkyertf experience who prefers the Culbertrs or Sims system to mine usually because be has not tried the latter.

Mr. Culbertm maintains that Sims system is almost identical with his own, but that is not very flattering. A word or two here will suffice to demonstrate the weak points of both the Culbertson and Sims methods. I once saw Sims on the golf course addras-ing a putt with the face of his club open. Culbertson, playing golf in the same part, was scoring fifteen or twenty on each bob whetf a alight adjustment of balance Iron right to left would have given him a nine or ten.

RoysT I you play golf Just the vq you day bridge, and your mistakes are just as obvious. Understand me? Neither of them answered, and It ws not until some time later that I learned that neither of them bad heard what I said. Bat the episode speaks for itself. Warning Imitators. XT'EARS of thought and experience turn gone into the development of my m-tem of bridge.

was using It one evenizg against Tobtnov, the Georgian expert, wbenl caught him in the act of stealing certain rations of it bodily. There was an exposure, and an ugly scene, and I later found seven! of my spoons missing as well as a Van Ik spittoon treasured In my family for genere tlons. Art treasures mean much to me, but so? bridge system means more. Any sue using will do so at his own peril. YOU could hire knocked me down with the jack of diamonds and two little ones when a committee of publishers about 100 of them.

1 guess, selected for their charm and tact -broke down the door of my humble duplex apartment the other day and asked me to give my bridge system to the world. Givi? I asked slyly. Just a figure of speech. Maestro, replied the chairman of the committee. Naturally, you wUl be recompensed.

To benefit humanity Is recompense enough for me, "I said, signaling my Eskimo valet to distribute blank cheques and fountain pens to all guests. But do you think am worthy of this honor? tbu are the greatest bridge player In the world. said the chairman quietly. That's good enough for us. He had me there.

A Word About the Author. TJEFORE carry out my mandate knd ex-plain to my public the only genuinely in fallible system of playing contract bridge for money, as perfected by myself, will quote a paragraph or two from a 'Character study, written by my faithful Boswell, Prof. Reginald Hunch. would rather have Prof. Hunch describe me than risk the embarrassment of a self-appraisal.

Here Is what he says: There can be no doubt of Lardners fosl-tion in the bridge world. He Is the player of players, the teacher of teachers, the master of masters. have seen him play twelve hands simultaneously, while blindfolded, and he actually seemed to play better that way than otherwise. The man himself Is charming and friendly in manner, treating each partner and opponent as an equal. He Is known at the bridge table for his light, witty, downright kittenish style of conversation and frequently convulses the company with a gay quip or gesture.

once heard him refer to an opponent who ruffed a good deal as a ruffneck. He said it with so roguish a smile and so Irresistible a wink that the other players had to be carried out of the room. Yet frivolity never Interferes with Ijia keen card sense, his command of the situation. Here, unless am much mistaken, is the greatest bridge player the wdtld has ever known. The Theory of Bridge.

ABIDE from that phrase, unless I am much mistaken, Prof. Hunchs estimate strikes me as accurate and fair Now for a O'qulck summary of my theory of the game of contract bridge. have always thought that bridge was more a partnership game than anything else. Look at It logically. The two persons' who sit opposite each other at the table have absolutely no advantage to lose by co-operation.

A hint now and then as to what sort of cards each Is holding, a working agreement in the matter of what can bidding can.be of Invaluable aid toward winning the game or "rubber. Thus, when a player bids two spades, it Is a piece of obstinate folly on the part of his partnerto say, One spade or Insist on bid- many bridge clubr the revoke draws a penalty of one sort or another. In the South Sea islands it is usually followed by gunplay and six months of hard, almost steady rain. An opponent of mine once rebuked me for this. One doesnt finesse In cricket, he said.

One doesnt bowl In bridge, I replied. The other players laughed heartily, and you can Imagine the discomfiture of my adversary. False-carding Is another matter. To play the ace of a suit when you have the deuce, or lower half of the tenace, In your hand Is to pull wool over the eyes of both your opponents. I often find a stroke of this sort valuable for its psychological effect, if nothing else.

do not advise revoking except In fun. In many bridge clubs the revoke draws a penalty of one sort or another. In the Sou3i Sea Islands It Is usually followed by gun play and six months of hard, almost steady rain. Deeces WikL CULBERTSON, who occasionally infringes on my title of world's greatest bridge ding two spades himself. There is plenty of room at the top for further spade bids.

The partner has an option of bidding anywhere from three to seven spades, and the higher you bid, the higher your score will be If you happen to hold the cards. The same thing may be said of diamond, hearts, no trumps, and. in a way, of dubs. In fact, have always found It a sound device to treat dubs In much the same manner as any other suit. A final word on this subject of bidding do nog overbid.

man who bids eight spades Is simply confusing recklessness with courage. As often as not, be Is walking into a trap. Deception. TBCE Importance of ethics In bridge cannot be overemphasized. To peek Into an opponents hand Is unpardonable, unless you are sure he doesnt see you.

On the other hand. I consider the finesse a harmless practice and have never hesitated to employ It. Marker to the Cherokee's Continued From Page Two. fall to notice it. It is a credit to the committee which designed It.

Oldest Read from Brainerd to Red (kf- SOME Of the Chattanoogans who attended the unveiling of the monument went fn Chattanooga to Brainerd and thence skat the old route to Red Clay, the oldest government road In Hamilton county. to direct route and was established by the F' eminent before any other official higbwif was attempted in the county. It Is an interesting journey and is recommended to motorists who are not speed maniacs. Half of 1 is oiled and in excellent condition; half Is not so good, and after hard ri would not be good at alL like many high ways, it follows an old Indian trail and a foot but la replete with history. One of the historic sites Is the Red CW mission and the home of Elizur Butler.

will be recalled that Mr. and Mrs. Butler were missionaries for a time at erd, which was In a sense a training for missionaries. They were sent to Redw and the site of their home is "beside road. proposed Chlckamauga and Cherokee Invasion.

A Chattanooga chapter, D. A. It, bears the name Nancy Ward. Tradition tells that Sequoyah, who Invented the Cherokee alphabet, lived for a time at Flint Spring prior to his removal, but the Tennessee historians make no claim on traditions tales. They cite only hard facta, written during the time of the councils, when such men as Gen.

Wool, Gov. Lumpltln. of Georgia; John Howard Payne and Chief John Ross wrote that the council was held In Red Clay, Term. Georgia Claims Baaed on Map. Georgians base their claims on maps published after 1838, which show Red Clay, and on the tradition of old people living in the neighborhood of Red Clay, Ga.

the maps are old, anything nearly 100 years okl is old; but one wonders just what the bewildered Cherokees would think if their spirits could return to see Georgia championing them so valiantly and claiming their council as a part of Georgias history. The monument, a beautiful stone, stands where all who pass may see it and none can place was identified as near Red Earth Place, or Red Clay. Red Clay, Ga and Red Clay, have no touch of red. The soli Is chalky white. The Ross cabin is not 'Standing now, but W.

B. Sloan, who lives on the property, recalls it vividly and shows the exact site, which Is slightly in front of the handsome brick-home of Mr. and Mrs. Sloan and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and' Mrs.

J. A. Trewhitt. Mr. Sloan has lived on the place since 1872.

Some Chattanoogans are planning to mark the site, which boasts a boulder of proper size and shape as though nature desired to mark the place! Other Chiefs Lived Near By. VTHER Influential chiefs lived in Tennes-see near the John Ross cabin after' Georgia had taken their homes from them. They doubtless chose the location in order to be near the principal chief, John Ross. Chief Big Rattling Gourd, son of Chief John Watts, and Chief Otter lifter, a famous Cherokee chief, occupied adjoining farms. Chief Sleeping Rabbit lived at the Council spring and is burled close by.

When John Martin, treasurer of the Cherokee nation, was forced by the. Georgia authorities to leave his commodious home at Carters quarters in Georgia he also located a few miles from the John Ross house. Certainly he was influenced In his choice by the location of the principal chief, as he would find It necessary In troublous times to be near the head of the nation. John Martin was a son of Gen. Joseph Martin by his Cherokee wife, a daughter of Nancy Ward, the Beloved Woman of the nation.

Nancy Wards memory is enshrined In Tennessee and especially in the hearts of Tennessee D. A. R.s who recall the occasions' during th revolution when she saved the white settle- menta by sending the white leaders word of.