OR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 153, 19 September 1927, Page 14

OR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

LEARNING BRIDGE (Copyright, 1927) AM an assiduous reader of the newspapers and fall for almost any feature that is popular. I am a good sample of the average man. I work crossword puzzles until auks, emus and ras haunt me ® dreams, to say nothing of gnu and ai, the justly celebrated three-toed although I have my doubts whether any such animals ever existed of a whisky glass. Still, as getting drunk is not one of my indoor perhaps my zoological acquaintance is limited. I have taken IntelhS*® tests until I know where Kamchatka is and how to bound Beluch’StaD* the last thing I tackled was somebody or other’s bridge lessons. My wife is very fond of bridge and every week or so the house by a number Df chattering females and filled with their bridge t* l ** seems I ought to know the game. Of course, with a giant brain like mine that should be easy. Women can play even with their brains. Think of my thundering lect going down to the grave bridgeless, as it were. . So, in the language of the dentist, I decided to do some bridge right here I wish to state that these dentist advertisements ? roC T v*** painless dentistry may or may not be true, but about painless bridge i my own noti9ns. , I got some cards from a man in a store and bought a of my hard-earned salary and laic; out the cards and took up Mr. TniDß bob’s lessons in Whist. /Jlt j 1 read one lesson three times and should you inquire what it could only answer in the language of the great Jewish classic, “Don t I have come to the conclusion that my high-brow critics are ng»* if I am no other kind of a moron at least I am a bridge moronWhat I need is not somebody to tell me whether to play the ace king first, but to tell me what to do with a hand full of seven-spots. And then I think that to be an expert bridge player, at le® 3 * . Al bridge conversationalist, one should graduate from a medical setw be thoroughly up on post-mortems. g&jalMost of the talk comes from ladies and is all about v^a^° roa have done and didn’t. You should have led out trumps whether them or not, and a heart beat is much better than three club let ® or circumference. It makes no difference whether you are out not. Lead a heart anyway and don't deceive your partner. Unless hearts he may think you have four or five aces or diamonds. g gjjd I have handed the deck to a little child that plays about the n from the way he handles it I think he mav grow up to be a g player. * to My private opinion is that to grow up in bridge is about the o become a first-class performer. thoai le®® o®* 0 ®* At least I do not believe you can learn how from reading •** in the newspa^rs.