THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 22, 1919.
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THERE in many players who seem
to think that the dummy, the dec
larant's partner, has no rights and
must be. literally what the term would
seem to designate: that is, having eyes,
he must not see, having ears, he must
not bear, and having organs of speech.
he must, nevertheless, be dumb.
This ta entirely erroneous. Pamray
In many respects is Just as much a live
wire and as essential to the proper de
velopment and outcome of the game as
though he In reality played his hand.
He cannot be sure, make any sugges
tions either by word, look or gesture
as to how auy card or cards in his
hand should be played, but he has many
obligations to properly fulfill which
call for unremlttinig care and vigilance.
There Is nothing in more questionable
taste or which shows more complete
Ignorance of the laws and ethics of the
frame than, as is s6 often done, for the
dummy deliberately to leave the table
as soon as he has laid down his cards
as if his responsibility at that moment
ceased, and he had no further interest
In the development of the game.
Many, as dummy, have the practice
of standing over some other player and
watching his play. This, too, is most
reprehensible and deprives him, the
dummy, of the rights and privileges to
which he is entitled and which he
hould be constantly on the alert to ex
ercise. The laws governing dummy are
specific and direct and should be as
diligently lived up to as all other laws
and rules pertaining to the game. For
the benefit of those to whom they axe
Dot familiar, I herewith give them:
' "as soon as the player on the left of
the declarer leads, the declarer's part
ner places his cards, face upward, on
the table, and the declarer plays the
cards from that hand.
"The partner of the declarer has all
the rights of a player (including the
right to call attention to a lead from
the wrong hand), until his cards are
placed face upward on the table. He
then becomes the dummy, and takes no
part whatever in the play, except that
he has the right:
"(a To call the declarer's attention
to the fact that too many or too few
cards have ben played to a trick.
b) To correct an improper claim of
either adversary.
"(c) To call attention to a trick er
roneously taken by either side.
"d To participate in the discussion
of any disputed question of fact after
- it baa arisen between the declarer and
either adversary.
"(e) To correct an erroneous score.
"f To cuuauit with, and adls the
declarer as to which penalty to exact
for a revoke.
"(g) To ask the declarer whether he
has any of a suit he has renounced.
"The dummy, if he has not inten
tionally looked at any card in the hand
of a player, has also the following ad
ditional rights:
"(h) To call the attention of the de
clarer to an established revoke.
"(i) To call the attention of the de
clarer to a card exposed by an adver
sary or to an adverse lead out of turn.
"(J) To call the attention of the de
clarer to any right which he may have
under any law.
"(k) To direct the declarer who
would concede a trick or tricks to the
adversaries to play out the band," This
law also includes the following:
"If the declarer concede one or more
tricks and the concession be accepted,
such trick or trucks belong to the ad
versaries even if it would have been
impossible for the declarer to lose such
trick or tricks had the hand been
playef out (unless before the accep
tance of the concession, the dummy,
who has not looked at any cards in the
hand of an adversary, demand that the
deal be played out)."
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That there Is a fine distinction be
tween what constitutes dummy's rights
and what would be to transcend his
authority, may be seen from the fol
lowing: So fine indeed Is this distinc
tion that the only way the player may
avoid errors in the matter is to know
exactly in what his rights consist.
Should the dummy call attention to
any other incident in the play in con
sequence of which any penalty might
have been, exacted, the declarer may not
exact such penalty. Should the dummy
avail himself of rights h, i. J or k. after
intentionally looking at a card In the
hand of a player, the declarer may not
benefit thereby.
"If the dummy, by touching a card or
otherwise, suggest the play of one of
his cards, either adversary may require
the declarer to play or not to play such
card.
"(a) If the dummy calls to the atten
tion of the declarer that he is about to
lead from the wrong hand, either ad
versary may require that the lead be
As Is seen, if the dummy transcends
his authority and attempts that w-hich
he has not the right to do, it works to
the detriment of the side and deprives
it of the benefit it might otherwise
receive. These many rules, or rather
laws, s-ill convince the most doubting,
surely, that the dummy has many ob
ligations and is in many cases responsi- j
lie in no small degree for the outcome
of the game. If. therefore, he be not
present at the table to fulfill his obli
gations, or, being present, is in ignor
ance of what they consist, much loss
can often be laid directly to his door.
Let no one, hereafter, run away with
the idea that dummy's position is that
of a sinecure, that he Is entitled to all
the rewards and emoluments which
fall to the side, but is divested entirely
of any responsibilities in connection
therewith.
Aside, however, from his obligations,
dummy, not having the responsibility
of playing his hand, has an exception
al opportunity to study the develop
ments, and, particularly if his partner
and opponents be good players, can
often pick up useful hints and sugges
tions which will add to his strength as
a player, and perhaps stand him in
gdod stead at some future time. An
other reason why he should stick close
ly to his job.
One of the most Important of
dummy's duties (as of the adversaries'),
is to ask his partner when first he
renounces to a suit. If he have a card
of the suit led. This often prevents a
revoke, as If it turn out the renounc
ing player have a card of the suit led,
he eubstitutes it for the one wrongly
played and so saves the revoke. If
such play be made by one Of the ad
versaries, the card wrongly played be
comes of course an exposed card (no
penalty attaches to the declarer be
cause of an exposed card, for the rea
son that he has no partner who may
benefit thereby) and subject to the call
of the declarer. This means that it
must be left face upward on the table
and led or played as the declarer may
dictate (provided that in so doing the
owner of the card does not make a
revoke) unless he, the holder of the
card, gets the opportunity first to play
it as he wishes.
While to be sure this often works to
the direct advantage of the declarer, it
is far less disastrous as a rule to the
other side than if the revoke had be
come established. The penalty attach
ing to a revoke is greatly in excess of
that attaching to any other Infringe
ment and is the thing above all which
a player should strive to avoid.
There are some players who go so
far as to say, so far as the dummy Is
concerned, that If the declarer make
a revoke, the fault Is quite as much,
if not more, the fault of the dummy for
neglecting to ask the conventional
question, than the fault of the declarer.
This is a somewhat, strong assertion, yet
it Is not without a grain of truth, and
it tends certainly to emphasize the
watchfulness and care which the
dummy should be ever on the alert
to exercise.
Revokes are made at times by the
best and most conservative of players:
the declarer, engrossed in the play of
the two hands, can easily make a re
voke by reason of his absorption. The
dummy, on the other hand, whose mind
is free in the respect of play, should
be able easily to note and prevent any
irregularity of the sort which the
declarer may be on the point of com
mitting. While, as stated, much of the
onus of a revoke may justly be laid to
the door of dummy, the partner of the
adversary who makes a revoke, who is
himself absorbed in play, cannot be
held so strictly accountable.
The following came within my ob
servation recently and goes to show
the extreme unreasonableness of some
players, and how, if they could, they
would invariably shift the blame of
their own irregularities upon their
often innocent and unoffending part
ners. The game was well along and
the declarer led an unopened suit to
which one of the adversaries renounced.
Declarer again led the suit and again
the player renounced. This player,
upon the suit being led & third time,
suddenly discovered that he had cards
of the suit and attempted to substitute
them for the cards wrongly played. It
was too late, however, as the tricks
were turned and quitted and the re
vokes established.
The declarer had the right to add 200
points to his honor score (100 for each
revoke) or to take three tricks from
the adversaries and add them to his
own for the first revoke, and 100
points to his honor score for the second
revoke. Be chose the latter and came
off with flying colors. The revoking
player instead of quietly accepting the
situation endeavored to throw the
blame on his partner and contended
that he was in reality the greater
offender of the two in that he 'failed
to ask him when first he renounced to
the suit, if he had a card of the suit.
So insistent did he become In his con
tention that it was only when the
two other players took sides with the
partner that he finally quieted down
and the game was allowed to proceed.
His partner undoubtedly should have
put the question, but there is no pen
alty attaching to its non-observance
this in Itself shows it is not an un
pardonable offense while" the penalty
attaching to a revoke Is definite and
succinct.
The laws governing auction are made
for the comfort and convenience of all
who want to play the game in its best
and most approved form. Their strict
observance often precludes disputes
and prevents one side getting an undue
advantage by unfair or unjust means.
The laws are in fact the life of the
game and without them there could be
no game. Why players should protest
to the payment of just penalties when
they would unhesitatingly comply with
similar requirements in tennis, golf or
billiards pases my comprehension.
Every infringement of the laws
which results in the payment of a
penalty has an undoubted salutary
effect and generally prevents a recur
rence of the offense. On the other
hand if errors are committed for which
no penalty is exacted, one is liable to
go on forever committing the eame
offense. Therefore, not only for our
own good, because we will thereby be
come better and stronger players, but
for the good of the game, we should
be punctilious in matters of detail and
consistent and strict in matters of
form. If a player lead out- of turn,
make a revoke, expose a card, or com
mit any of the numerous irregularities
to which players are liable, let us not
only exact, but in our own case, cheer
fully concede the penalty attached. We
will find In the end it will work im
measurably to our good.
INDIANS' RIGHTS TO. HUNT AND
FISH PUT UP TO GOVERNMENT
Michigan Law Requiring License Causes Blutterings Among Redmen.
MUSKEGON. Mich. Has the Amer
ican Indian the right to hunt
and fish where game abounds
In Michigan, without the formality of
obtaining a State hunting or fishing
license? On this question Chief George
W. Wheaton, of the Chippewa Indians,
has taken to the legal warpath and af
ter being twice arrested for illegal
hunting has announced that the rights
of his people and of the survivors of
three other Indian tribes who met in
souncil here must be decided in the
United States Supreme Court.
wThere has been considerable ' unrest
fcr.iong the Chippewas since game war
Sims twice placed their chief under ar
iest during the deer-hunting season.
which has just ended. Both in a jus
tice court and in a circuit court Chief
Wheaton flatly declined to pay 1 as
the fee for a hunting license, which
would give him freedom of the vast
wilderness left depleted of Its forests
by the lumberjacks but thick with
game.
Chief Wheaton Is almost seventy
two years old, but is as handy with a
rifle and skinning knife as any young
buck of his tribe might have been be
fore the coming of the Jesuit fathers
to the depths of the peninsula.
The chief bases hie refusal to abide
by state laws upon several treaties be
tween the United States and the Chip
pewas. Takins the stand in circuit
court. Chief Wheaton spurned the offer
of Prosecutor Eroek to buy him a
hunting license and dismiss the case.
"I shall deal with the United States
Government," said the Indian, "and
not with your State courts. I still
retain my tribal rights and the $1
fee pays only for the .license of a
citizen. I am not a citizen. I am
leader of my tribe and we Chippewas
have never given up our tribal organ
ization. As lona as we retain our
tribal organization we are not citizens.
Even the $1 license is not necessary
under our treaty."
In the court of the rural justice the
chief maintained the same stand and
was compelled to spend a night in
Jail before his lawyer, could file an
appeal. It was this fact which caused
serious mutterings among the mem
bers of the tribe, who were joined by
virtually every Ottawa and Wyan
dotte Indian in the State at the sol
emn conclave held at Saginaw, when
more than $1000 In small contributions
were tossed in a blanket around which
the tribal members squatted. This
fund was handed over to Chief Wheat
on that he might carry the fight to
Washington, where the Indians believe
they will receive a square deal.
Since then the chief has received a
deluge of mail from all parts of the
State with offers of aid in his fight. .
thank all of these people for thetr
offers," said the chief at his modest
little home on the edge of the great
Muskegon River swamps, "but it is my
fight and I feel certain that in ,the
highest court my people will receive
justice. The land aiong the Muskegon
river has never been surveyed and is
measured land and Government prop
erty. I know every nook and turn in
the Shiawassee and Saginaw rivers
and why shouldn't I, when my birth
place was a birch-bark canoe, in which
as a papoose, I was carried over these
rivers for years in my father's canoe,
and we knew nothing of these game
wardens who sleep days and work
nights?
"The treaties we hold were never
carried out by the Government. Pay
ments of money stopped years aero and
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our population is startling and many
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our villages. I ask only that we be
given the right to make our last stand
before the ravages the white man
brought upon us by being allowed to
go into the woods and shoot and trap
as our fathers did."
Muskrat skins in former years sold
for twenty-five cents, but this year the
skins have found ready sale for 91.50.
"How can they say I hunt Illegally,
when I have taken muskrats on land
formerly covered by water" asks the
chief, "and which has never been sur
veyed? Can it be that the courts hold
the treaties we made as mere 'scraps
of paper?" '
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