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Auction of To-day, by Milton C. Work
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Title: Auction of To-day
Author: Milton C. Work
Release Date: October 18, 2007 [eBook #23086]
Language: English
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AUCTION OF TO-DAY
by
MILTON C. WORK
Author of "Whist of To-day"
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1913
Copyright, 1913, by Milton C. Work All Rights Reserved
Published January 1913
THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE AUCTION PLAYERS OF THE RACQUET CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA, WHO, WHILE OTHERS DOUBTED AND WAITED, WERE SUFFICIENTLY BROADMINDED AND DISCERNING TO ADOPT THE "NEW COUNT" AND WHO, THEREFORE, PLAYED AUCTION OF TO-DAY MONTHS BEFORE IT WAS IN VOGUE ELSEWHERE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION xi
I. THE DECLARATION 1
II. ORIGINAL DECLARATIONS BY THE DEALER 15
The Bid of One No-trump. Table of Hands in which the No-trump Declaration is Doubtful. When to bid Two No-trumps. Exception to the No-trump Rule. Table of Doubtful Hands illustratin