BRIDGE LAWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 10

BRIDGE LAWS.

MAJORITY CALLING. HONOUR SCORES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) UONDON, November 11. At a special meeting in London this week of delegates at the Portland Club, majority calling was turned down officially. Instead, the older style of auction bridge calling by value of suits is to bo the recognised practice. A sort of cabinet council of card experts authorised the announcement against majority culling after a private session lasting for more than two hours. Representatives from the following clubs attended :—Turf, National Liberal, Bath, Carlton, White’s, Almack’s, Baldwin’s Conservative, Devonshire, and St. Stephen’s, in addition to the card committee of the Portland Club —the parliament of card players. A report was given to the conference of the canvass taken of all the chief London and provincial clubs on the question of bridge laws revision. This report revealed the fact that there was a majority of eight clubs in favour of the new calling. For a time the cause seemed lost, but it was found that a repernsal of the voting at the different clubs showed that 243 more people had voted against majority calling than for it. The vote of the clubs as units was therefore ignored, and the conference passed the following unanimous resolution as an offset to the fact that practically every one is now playing majority calling anyway:—“We do not consider that there is any general desire for the adoption of majority calling in place of value calling. The conference further decided to return to value calling in the revised laws of auction bridge.” One concession, however, was given to the majority-calling advocates. It was agreed that an addendum should be added to the new laws of auction bridge permitting majority calling it there was a desire for that method ofjilay among four players sitting round a card table.

Honours are to be scored in the old way of ascending values. The decimal system of counting honours is to be forbidden altogether.