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(Top Record-Holder in Matters' Individual Championihip Play)
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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,
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a diamond for down one.
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The proper play of the hand that make up the twentieth
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is really quite simple. De- century, just like the whale
SOUTH
clarer should ruff the opening swallowing Jonah?
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lead, draw two rounds of
The flight to the suburbs,
trumps, and play a low club to- McLuhan's
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global village,
wards dummy.
hasn't enabled us to mentally
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This presents West with a blot out the smokestacks, the
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Hobson's choice. Whatever he skyscrapers and the sidewalks
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does, he cannot stop the con- —even temporarily.
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tract. If he goes up with the
Yonkers, for example, has
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ace, declarer later discards the
all
the street pavement and
Pass
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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
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ing she wasn't wanted.
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For openers, the IndlAn natives,
tore the bark off the
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trees to build wigwams. For a
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thousand years, In fact, the
Indians of Keskeskeck in the
Ratnrday's Cryptoqnote: MANY A TREASURE BESIDES
Yonkers territory roofed their
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West dealer.
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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
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The Odell Oak and Its sister, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the Fanshaw Tree on Fanshaw
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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.
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Fulton New York
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