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Declarer now ran the trumps to squeeze East in the minors.
"Unusual symmetry", remarked Jim, "the end-play elminates the loser in whichever red suit West exits, and declarer transfers the menace in the other. "However." continued Jim, glowering at his partner, "the North menace cannot be transferred".

Williams, who peversely regarded card-play as a boring interlude to be suffered after the delights of the bidding, now woke up to preen himself.
"You're very fortunate that one of us can bid accurately.".
"Yeah", added Jim, "and you're very fortunate that he can play a bit too".

In round 19, one of Jim's main rivals, Peter Lang, sat East. Lang's partner, Alf Flavell, had read all the bridge books ever printed, but he was the unlucky expert of the Upper Vi^th and nothing ever seemed to go as the book ever said it should.
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