Taiwanese grand slam
PA Auckland A grand slam (all 13 tricks) bid made by the top Taiwanese pair, Patrick" Huang and C. H. Kuo, was the talk of the Far East contract bridge tournament in Auckland yesterday.
What made the slam remarkable was first that the Taiwan players chose to bid it. for two honour cards in the suit were missing, and secondly that it was triumphantly brought home on a play that will only work if the missing cards are in the right place. The luckless ream that suffered this arrow of outrageous fortune was New Zealand, who had Jed Taiwan 23-21 at half-way yesterday, after a commendable display of steady bridge.
But in the second half the Taiwanese players ran away with the match to win, 104-35.
Nothing really unexpected occurred yesterday afternoon. Taiwan, India and Australia ail maintained their relative ladder
positions by scoring maximum | points. Tlie women’s championship again produced an eccentric set' of results. Both the Philippines,; the leaders and New Zealand, ini second place, suffered the indig-l nity of sharp defeats. The only! consolation for the Kiwis was I that the Philippines lost fraction-i ally by the greater margin and) thus gave New Zealand a slightly I smaller gap to overcome on the ladder. In the following results vic-1 tory points are in parentheses:— Open teams Round 15.—Indonesia 55. Taiwan 54 ( 4.11-3.89,; India 54,1 Malaysia 32 (8-0); Australia 118,| Singapore 23 (8-0); Pakistan 90,1 Philippines 68 (5.10-2.90): Thai-1 land 70. Japan 48 (6.75-1.25); New Zealand 66, Hong Kong 53 (5.452.53). Round 16.—Taiwan 164, New Zealand 35 ,8-0); Japan 69 (Hong Kong 38 (8-0); India 100. Thailand 54 (8-0); Pakistan 67, Singapore 15 <B-0:; Indone-ia 64, Philippines l ;
1143 (6.93-1.07); Australia 124 (Malaysia 28 <B(3 > Rankings after 16 roundsi Taiwan 104.35. 1; India. 90 36, .12; Australia. 87.31. 3; Pakistan, 1181.06. 4; Indonesia, 72.87, 5, Japan. [72-77, 6; New Zealand. 64.11. 7j ’Hong Kong. 57.91 8; Philippines, 53.34, 9; Thailand. 49 41. 10, Singa(Pore, 17.75. 11; Malaysia, 13 06, Women's teams ! Round 13.—Philippines 82, I Taiwan 41 (8-0); New Zealand 64, I India 52 (5.32 2.62); Thailand 48, “Straits Times” 38 ( 5.57-2.43); ’ Japan 79, Indonesia 60 (5.90 2.10 i. Bye: Australia (5). : Round 14.—Indonesia 70. Philippines 47 (6.94-1.06); “Straits I Times” 50, Nev Zealand 35 (6.57. j1.43i; Japan 125. India 31 (7 95. 10 05i. Bye: Thailand (si. ; Rankings after 14 roundsi 'Philippines, 75.90. 1. Neu ZeaI land. 69.97. 2; Japan, 66.68, 3; Thailand G 4.80. 4: Australia. 56.07, 5; “Straits Times.” 54.19. 6; Indonesia. 52.63. 7; Taiwan, 46 50, '8: India. 29.26. 9.
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