Nevada Appeal | Saturday, August 4, 2018 | C3

FRANK & ERNEST

NON SEQUITUR
GARFIELD

BRIDGE
By Phillip Adler

Adlai Stevenson, in a speech

at the University of Wisconsin
in 1952, said, “If we value the
pursuit of knowledge, we must
be free to follow wherever that
search may lead us.”
PICKLES

A bridge player is free to

select his or her own opening
lead. To test yourself today, look
only at the West hand and the
auction. What would you select?
In the bidding, since
RHYMES WITH ORANGE

two clubs was natural and

game-forcing, North’s jump to
four hearts indicated three-card
support and a minimum (the
principle of fast arrival — the
quicker you get to game, the
weaker your hand). South’s
jump to slam without using
Blackwood suggested a void
somewhere.
This deal was reported by
Sueleyman Kolata from a tour-
nament in Turkey. Sitting West
was Tuana Altun, playing with
her brother, Toygar Tuncay Al-
tun. She immediately led a low
club. Back in at trick two with
her heart ace, she led a second
club, which her brother ruffed
to defeat the slam.
When asked about her de-
fense, Tuana said, “I knew from
ZITS
had a lot of clubs. I thought my
partner was likely to ruff the
first trick. He did not, but I was
sure he was going to ruff on the
second round, so I played an-
other club without hesitation.”
Not bad for an 8-year-old!
At the other table in a teams
match, North-South stopped in
game, so the Altun team gained
11 international match points.
But if Tuana had defended
differently, her team would have
lost 11.
In the event as a whole, six
hearts was bid at 31 tables and

the bidding that the opponents made 23 times.

DATEBOOK
MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2018
— Today is the 218th day of 2018
and the 47th day of summer.
DOONESBURY
information about the World
Wide Web project.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1963,

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1787, Philadelphia’s NBA team

the “Great Debate” over the
future of the U.S. Constitution
began at the Constitutional
Convention.
In 1945, the U.S. B-29 bomb-
er Enola Gay dropped the
“Little Boy” atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan.
In 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover
landed on Mars.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Alfred,
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet;
Alexander Fleming (1881-1955),
biologist/pharmacologist; Lucille
Ball (1911-1989), actress/come-
dian; Andy Warhol (1928-1987),
artist/filmmaker.
TODAY’S FACT: In 1991, CERN
computer scientist Tim Berners-
Lee published the first website
and webpage, which offered
changed its name from the
Nationals to the 76ers.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Self-
reverence, self-knowledge,
self-control, / These three alone
lead life to sovereign power.” —
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Oenone”
TODAY’S NUMBER: 4,862
— ring count of Prometheus,
a bristlecone pine tree cut
down for research purposes on
this day in 1964 by U.S. Forest
Service personnel in eastern
Nevada. Scientists believe the
tree may have been more than
5,000 years old, making it the
oldest non-clonal organism ever
discovered.
TODAY’S MOON: Between
last quarter moon (Aug. 4) and
new moon (Aug. 11).