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.

128 CORRECT CONTRACT BRIDGE

of alternating the red and black suits, which is one
of the best safeguards against revoking and which
is the most courteous method of boarding dummy.
Goulash deals are made from left to right, as are
other deals, but the cards for a goulash deal are
stacked by the players in the reverse order. No
limit is prescribed for the number of successive
goulash deals, although some clubs regulate the
number by house rules. There is no authority for
the use of "Philadelphia Goulashes" or for the
"Push Four," where cards are exchanged by players
after the deal. Each goulash is dealt in the 55-3
fashion.
A petty crook sitting at the declarer's right can
readily arrange his best cards so that his carefully
calculated cut will insure them going to his partner.
To obviate such dishonesty some players have suggested that each of the three non-dealing players
cut the cards in rotation. Anyone with a little
practise can master the pitiful art of determining to
which player must have gone the remainder of his
original sequence of a suit, when a part of that
sequence appears in his hand on a redeal. Of course
the ideal way of preventing cheating is to decline to
play with those who may do something crooked.
GOULASH BIDDING
Ordinary deals cause the four cards of previous
tricks to be evenly distributed in rotation to the
four players, especially when the pack is insufficiently shuffled, making dull bidding. Because each