AUCTION OF
TO-DAY
By
MILTON C. WORK
Author of "Whist of
To-day"
BOSTON AND
NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
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The
inherent theory of the game of Auction provides for a
bidding in which each one of the four suits competes
with each other, and also with the No-trump. Using the
Bridge count, this does not take place. The two black
suits, by reason of their inconsequential valuation, are
practically eliminated from the sea of competitive
bidding. The Diamond creates only a slight ripple, and
even the Heart has to be unusually strong to resist the
strenuous wave of the No-trump.
Players in
different parts of the country realized that as long as
the Bridge count was used, five bids could not compete
in the race, as, due to unequal handicapping, the two
blacks could barely pass the starter, while the two reds
could not last long in a keen contest.................. |
