(m the "Sunday Observer")
Judging by my correspondence, interest in slam bidding is unabated. Every week I receive more letters about it than upon any other subject.
ds perhaps a tribute to the British character that his feature, which is really a side line, should have assumed such prominence. I like to take the view that it is due mot to avarice but to the sporting instincts of people who love to take risks, even, sometimes, hair-raising risks.
The amusing side is that well-bid and justifiably bid slams often fail to materialize, while daringly called hands sometimes meet with undeserved success.
Here are examples, the first from the Transvaal, South Africa:—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.