If one's opponents reach 1,000 km first, the opponent collects all trip completion scores and bonuses.

If you knock and an opponent has the same amount of deadwood points, that opponent collects the point difference from the other players.

But opponents then collected more than 900 signatures demanding a referendum on the issue, which will probably be held in March.

At one point, the two opponents collected 800 names on a petition.

The question, therefore, was whether South could take one red-suit trick before the opponents could collect a fifth in that area.

His opponent, the incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston, collected $10.8 million, and defeated Mr. Zschau, 51 percent to 49 percent.

Under state law, if opponents collect 16,728 signatures of registered voters in the next three months the law will be delayed and a vote held on the issue in November.

If the dealer passed and the third hand was weak, he tended to bid spades, so that the opponents would collect 2 points a trick.

Note that hitting or sinking on the serve do not count as faults; in this case, the opponent collects 1 or 2 points respectively and immediately gets to serve.

He has raised more than $1.75 million, while his Republican opponent, Annemarie McAvoy, a lawyer, has collected about $10,000, records show.