• T!,r: 71 r--4 * •, ", ".V., )'.' r, r ? CONTRACT BRIDGE By B. J a y B e c k e r (Top Record-Holder in Matters' Individual Championihip Play) FAMOUS HAND :::::::::::::::v»:v •..,.;.-.. . / . ^ v ^ i v X i mam. sss ir :~ DAILY CROSSWORD \-?*:z& Westchester Today! made with perfectly normal play, but the extraordinary result was that only one declarer out of the 14 who played the slam made*it In most cases declarer won Where has nature gone? the heart lead in dummy with Is she hiding? Has she died? the ace, discarding a diamond, but could now find no way of. Has she been swallowed by all avoiding the loss of a club and the concrete, metal, glass, V 9652 electricity and gaseous fumes •JKQJ1083 a diamond for down one. • 987 4K103 The proper play of the hand that make up the twentieth 49873 A A 10 5 is really quite simple. De- century, just like the whale SOUTH clarer should ruff the opening swallowing Jonah? 4) A K J 9 8 5 2 lead, draw two rounds of The flight to the suburbs, trumps, and play a low club to- McLuhan's • global village, wards dummy. hasn't enabled us to mentally • AQ42 This presents West with a blot out the smokestacks, the + J2 Hobson's choice. Whatever he skyscrapers and the sidewalks The bidding: does, he cannot stop the con- —even temporarily. West North East South tract. If he goes up with the Yonkers, for example, has 1 * Pass Pass 2 A ace, declarer later discards the all the street pavement and Pass 4A Pass 6 A Q-4-2 of diamonds on the ace Opening lead—king of hearts. of hearts and K-Q of clubs to lighting, telegraph poles and traffic necessary to remind us It is difficult to explain why •bring home the slam. certain seemingly easy hands i If West ducks the club in- of nature's departure, despite are mlsplayed even in. the most! stead, declarer wins in dummy large residential sections. But Yonkers, like many othexpert circles, but the fact is with the queen and discards the er American industrial comthat this occurs in an astonish- jack of clubs on the ace of hearts. He then loses a diamond plexes, was a great white oak ing number of cases. forest just a few hundred Consider this deal which a- trick, but no more. years ago. To make the slam, declarer rose in the French open pair Those solid trees of seemingchampionship of 1964. At most must appreciate the high impor- ly endless endurance dotted tables South became declarer a t tance of preserving the heart the hills and valleys of the old four spades after West had ace a t trick one. He cannot Yonkers Indian land In the opened the bidding with a afford to take the ace a t this pie-Colonial days, when man heart, but at 14 tables out point, because he is not yet was scarce and wild life abunof the S3 where the hand was ready to choose between a dant. They presented an applayed South arrived at six diamond or a club discard. If pearance of solidarity, timehe goes up with the ace, he is spades. lessness and an ageless vigor The slam could have been doomed. comparable only to the sea and the stars. DAILY CRYPTOQtOTE — Here's how to work It: Mother nature, unspoiled, A X Y D L B A A X R reigned supreme In all her is L O N G F E L L O W pristine grandeur. And the big One letter simply stands for another. In this sample A is white oaks were her serused for Oie three L's, X for the two 0"s, e t c Single letters, geantsatarms. apoatrophea, the length and formation of the words are all Eventually, though, that dehints. Each day the code letters are different structive creature—man—began appearing in Increasing A Cryptogram Quotation numbers, and as he did, mother nature began to get the feelTE X P N ZPW'A U W P S SLCA C ing she wasn't wanted. QJVCA MPNWAJX ALTD TD.T UWPS For openers, the IndlAn natives, tore the bark off the DPBVPWV 8 L P ZPVD— J N D D T C — trees to build wigwams. For a X J P D A thousand years, In fact, the Indians of Keskeskeck in the Ratnrday's Cryptoqnote: MANY A TREASURE BESIDES Yonkers territory roofed their ALX BABA-8 18 UNLOCKED WITH A VERBAL KEY.— HENRY VAN DYKE West dealer. North-South vulnerable. NORTH 4k Q10 6 f A74 4 J65 + KQ64 EAST WEST ~ Odell Oak: From Nature's Past Grant Park along Park Avenue just north of Ashburton Avenue features several beautiful white oak trees. Perhaps the most famous landmark of Its kind in the city, however, Is the Odell Oak on Odell Avenue just off N. Broadway. Generally regarded as the oldest living thing in Yonkers, it is the lonely survivor of the great wilderness that outlasted the Indian, Dutch and English civilizations which once flourished here. huts with oak tree bark. With- larger scale, of course, with out outer protection, the oaks the arrival of the white man, were like a leukemia victim, and today conservationists are and the fireplace ultimately alarmed over the wanton ruin. became their cemetery. Here and there, however, Mother nature packed her we're still able to glimpse the bags. past in all Its breathtaking This destruction continued splendor. down through the ages, on a In Yonkers, for Instance, The Odell Oak tree Is estimated to be about 800 years old. It has a circumference of 22 feet at its base and a spread of about 150 feet. Its roots probably extend for miles, possibly even a hundred. In Its elegant silence, It knows volumes of history. It wears a plaque on Its side, a gift of the Yonkers Historical Society as a symbol of honor for Yonkers' greatest arboreal treasure. ACROSS 1. Enthusiasm 6. Lover 11. American Indians 12. Plating metal 13. Soon 14. City of Switzerland 15. Learned 17. Stammering sound 18.U.S.S.R. river 19. Greeting 20. Scamper 23. Paper container 25. Lights 26. Girl's name 27. Wine receptacles 28. Eviscerated 29. Element (sym.) 30. Price 31. Hebrew month 32. Soaped 36. Hot dog 38. Wander 39. Solitary 40. of Troy 41. Stains 42. Paradises 4. Hazards 5. Plural suffix 6. Building material 7. Travel 8. Land measure 9. Lure 10. Close to 14. matter 16. Blunders 19. Sentry command 20. Mineral spring 21. Scottish poet 22. Twotoed sloth 23. Improved 24. Mournful 26. country 28. Alaric, for one 30. Packing boxes 31. Nomad 32. Fluff 33. Play part Satardar's Aaivar 34. Level 35. Lairs 37. Card game 40. Pronoun n r m - „ _ tt % .* 2b 21 & __* 27 24 VO -_ M A3 M 1, DOWN parmigiana 2. Sea eagle 8. Tumult ?< Mi . : <2 The Odell Oak and Its sister, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the Fanshaw Tree on Fanshaw TSfWTJT Avenue In South Yonkers, re" ' * main as relics of the a bounding great white oaks that were once nature's chief lieutenants. ODELL OAK on Odell Avenue in Yonkers is generally considered the oldest living thing In the city. Estimated to They are living bulwarks of Yonkers history, meaning much to residents, nature lovers and history student*. The hoof beats of the British cavalry, the resounding echoes of the Dutch settlers' tenpins, the fleeting deer, the wild turkey and the ruffled grouse are all gone. Without these two oaks, we mAy never know where nature has gone. be 800 years old, the tree has a circumference of 22 feet at Its base and a spread of about 150 feet.-Photo by Ed Ledea. KS^^.»^;wtrtjBteB,_fc., ;j»a <W«. W . \H* f^4 ,(«*.•. _ _ _ , _ t2-\S "Do ycm have to keep reminding us that von you wen» once . coikgo high huxdk* championr : Untitled Document Thomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 i_n__ifrirtiriH>iiirai •ft _ _ i . i t - i ril- -Bhi-flf—• iJMta _fc • - - - • •-- - * - - • - - - - • - - - - ^ • - - - - w - - - * - - - - ^ ft fr, fr.-a-.-n- www.fultonhistory.com --•.-*-.-- - - .. _ . - , . - . - _ . . • • « . * • - . - _ - - . _
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