Correct contract bridge / by E.V. Shepard ; including the official Laws of contract bridge adopted by the Whist Club, New York, and by all the leading clubs in America.

60 CORRECT CONTRACT BRIDGE

opportunity to double clubs. B should suspect that
game may lurk in one or the other major suit. If
played to the best advantage Z is barely able to
make one-odd at no-trumps.
* Q o 8 7
2 9852
* 853
0 K6
4 62 Y 4 A 54
v843 A KQ6
4 Q9764 B K Io 2
0 975 Z I0 4 3 2
4 KJ93
v3 A J IO
* AJ
0 AQJ8
Unless i-No Trump means game on the hand
shown above, Z must open the bidding with 2-No
Trumps, which can just be made, as A-B will win
four club and one spade trick before Z can establish
his spade. Four-odd can be made at spades but
that declaration cannot come about unless some declaration by his opponents affords Z an opportunity
to oblige Y to declare his best suit. B's values are
insufficient for a double of I-No Trump at his left
but in case that contract will yield game he may at
least consider the probable result of obliging his
partner to make a sacrifice bid; as the cards lie it
would be bad.