ruffing

This was covered by the nine and ten, with dummy ruffing.

After the ruffing, the player to the dealer's left may lead any card to the first trick.

He led a diamond, and West did the best he could by ruffing with the ten.

This subjected East to temptation, and he fell from grace by ruffing with the heart nine.

After ruffing the opening lead in dummy, it was tempting to cash the heart king.

The tenth trick can be established by ruffing out the heart king to establish the queen.

He led the heart king, ruffing out the ace, and ruffed a spade.

Instead of ruffing she discarded a spade, and repeated this move when East led her remaining club winner.

South made his seven-heart contract slam by ruffing a club in his hand.

May 31 - Red Ruffing gives up five hits and three earned runs in his major league debut.

Ruffing's home run total as a pitcher is second only to that of Wes Farrell, who hit 37.

As in Game 1, Ruffing went the distance, allowing two earned runs and eight hits with six strikeouts.

This did not faze Ruffing, who whiffed the next three batters to end the inning.

Yet four of Cavarretta's hits (in eight at-bats) came against Ruffing.

Yankee starting pitcher Red Ruffing won two games, although he allowed 17 hits in 18 innings pitched.

This player will start by playing diamonds and ruffing the third round, accepting the slight risk that West will overruff.

He later struck out again and lofted an infield pop-up as Ruffing pitched a 2-0 shutout.

Javed Ahmed of Pakistan crossed this first hurdle by ruffing with the ace.

When I leave, my name will be up there with Whitey, Ruffing, Reynolds, all the great ones they had.

Against Pender, West erred by ruffing low.

It would indeed have prevented South from ruffing all the heart losers, but a loser-on-loser play would have succeeded.

After striking out twice, Williams collects a double off pitcher Red Ruffing, who wins 2-0.

The architects were George, Lloyd and Ruffing.

Crossruffing is therefore just one possible strategy for taking extra tricks, others are establishing the trump suit, traditional ruffing and finessing.

After ruffing two clubs, South could have returned to dummy with a spade lead and ruffed another club with the heart ace.