The Archive · 1938

An Extreme Freak

Until about eight years ago, blase bridge players used to provide ready-made freak by the "gon cards; It soon wont out of fashion, because skill was minimized in the play of the cards, it being impossible to estimate how a suit would be distributed. In the Coven: dish Club's first duplicate game of this season, an unintentional freak deal produced a goulash type of distribution, including a situation in which two singleton aces were trumped. The hand was dealt as follows:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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