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Dogmeat continued Jacoby didn?╟╓t hit him. I came across To- bias Stone explaining a hand that had been played at another table, and he was saying, ?╟úAs Jack said, the minute Lou made* the slam bid, the match was over, mathematically over.?╟Ñ ?╟  ?╟ Jack who??╟Ñ I asked. ?╟úJack who??╟Ñ Stone said, and slapped mb on the shoulder. ?╟úWhy, Jack you, yod idiot!?╟Ñ Imagine! Tobias Stone had been quoting me to some of the bridge players. Back in my room, I said to my wife, ?╟úYou should have heard what Stony was just saying.?╟Ñ v ?╟úWho??╟Ñ ?╟úStony.?╟Ñ; ?╟úYou mean Tobias Stone??╟Ñ ?╟úYeh. Stony:?╟╓% ?╟úYou?╟╓ll get yours!?╟Ñ We got ours the next day, against the husband-and-wife team of Howard and Bee Schenken. Not long ago Bee (Gale) Schenken was reckoned one of the best female players alive, and her husband, a bridge columnist and author, had been in the world?╟╓s top 10 for almost three decades. We never had a chance against them. Or did we? On the third hand of the 12-hand knockout match, Howard Schenken bid and made a small slam itt clubs. He made the slam because the king of hearts was in ifiy hand. Had it turned up in Cave?╟╓s hand instead, Schenken would have been set and dogmeat would have won the match. Hooray for dog-: meat! They laughed when we sat down at the bridge table, but let me tell you who eventually wound up playing head-to- head in the grand final match: ?╟≤ The Schenkens, who had beaten us by an offside king. ?╟≤ Erdos and Stone, who had beaten us by 10 points. The two pairs played 32 hands for the money, and the Schenkens were in the game until the very last hand, when they had to make a little slam and couldn?╟╓t come up with the cards. Erdos and Stone collected $13,360 and the Schenkens $5,680. There were congratulations all around, and the Stones invited Cave and me to dinner and a show. At dinner I told Stony that frankly I thought he had been lucky to beat us and that we would be glad to play him and Erdos anytime, continued 121 Sears solves whether-or-not weather with the no-nonsense nature of ?╟úSCOTCHGARD?╟Ñ Brand Rain Repeller. Weather won?╟╓t trifle with ?╟úSCOTCHGARD?╟Ñ Repeller. Knows it will get nowhere. Water simply rolls or shakes away. And this robust repellency lasts. Through multi-washings and ^Jganings. This very serious is in polyester and cotton poplin that?╟╓s so it never Sizes 36-46. RegulIV^^K long. Tan, black%!^^mve-$37,95 with zipjw pile fB|r. wimoutUB,SeMKoebuck anoCoi 1 H