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Albuquerque Daily Bulletin 4 69th Summer North American Bridge Championships • July 25-August 4, 1997 • Albuquerque, New Mexico Daily Bulletin Vol. 69, No. 4 Monday, July 28, 1997 Editors: Henry Francis and Brent Manley Garner, Weinstein capture LM Pairs Steve Garner and Howard Weinstein, dusting off a partnership that dates back more than a decade, put to- gether two solid sessions in the final of the Life Master Pairs to win the event by nearly a full board. In yet another close call in a major pair event, Geir 7 Helgemo of Norway and Tony Forrester of Great Brit- ain were second. They have been second or third in four straight North American pairs championships, dating back to the LM Pairs last year in Miami Beach. 8 Last year’s winners, David Berkowitz and Larry Cohen, were third. Garner, of Northbrook IL, and Weinstein, of Chi- cago, are options traders for the Chicago Board of Op- tions. Dave Treadwell The two have known each other since the Seven- ties. Both are originally from Minneapolis. Except for playing in this year’s Cavendish Invitational tournament Jokester Treadwell in Las Vegas, Garner and Weinstein haven’t played for 10 or 15 years. Steve Garner, left, and Howard Weinstein It was the first win for each in the LM Pairs. combines laughs Weinstein was second two years running, in 1988 and 1989. He has also won the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, Lightning bolt with expert bridge the Grand National Teams and the Open Pairs I in Phila- delphia last year. When Dave Treadwell took up bridge, the game that Garner has two wins in the Grand National Teams blackens area, ACBL members play today -- contract -- was virtually and one in the North American Swiss Teams. He was unknown. In fact, it had been invented only about two also a member of the winning team in the International shortens 2 games years earlier. Treadwell, a 15-year-old at the time, learned Team Trials in San Francisco last year. The squad rep- Some folks were trapped in elevators. Some found to play auction bridge, which long ago became obsolete. resented the U.S. in the World Team Olympiad in themselves in pitch blackness in the walkway between Seventy years later, the 84-year-old Grand Life Rhodes, Greece. the Doubletree and the Convention Center. Some were Master is known and loved by just about every regular Garner and Weinstein took the lead after the first in the middle of the sixth board in the second session of at NABCs, as much for his bad jokes and the twinkle in final session and posted a 59.97% game in the evening the Fast Pairs. Some were getting ready to play their his eye as for his expert card play. session to finish with 1268.14 to 1231.75 for the run- eighth match in the second session of the Senior Swiss The Wilmington DE resident is a two-time North Continued on page 11 American champion and No. 20 on the all-time list of Teams. Most had finished the afternoon session and masterpoint holders with more than 20,000. He is pe- were headed for dinner. rennially on the Barry Crane Top 500 list, and he hasn’t And then once again Mother Nature struck. A light- missed an NABC since 1966. Count the big tournaments Nickell team goes ning bolt hit a major transformer and a two-square-mile he attended before that and he’s hit well over 100. area of downtown Albuquerque was suddenly without Not only that, he can go all night with the jokes. for fifth Spingold electricity. The bolt hit at about 5 o’clock, and there “For 30 years,” Treadwell says, “my daughter has called was no power in most of the area for the next two hours. me Corn for my corny jokes.” The only six-man team ever to win the Spingold Power was restored at the Convention Center at 6:55. He doesn’t mind. It’s part and parcel of his charac- Knockout Teams four years running will try to make it It’s not the first time something like this has hap- ter, and it’s great fun to hear him tell one of his stories five in a row here at the pened. We suffered a couple of reasonably strong earth- because he enjoys them so much. He laughs as hard as Summer NABC. quakes during the Anaheim NABC. There was a power anyone. Trying for the record- failure that stranded many elevator passengers during breaking achievement will one of the St. Louis NABCs. A bomb threat curtailed Continued on page 12 be Nick Nickell, Raleigh an evening session during a Pasadena NABC. Things NC; Richard Freeman, At- happen. lanta; Jeff Meckstroth, One way or another, we always cope. Bridge Bucks rebates 5 Tampa; Eric Rodwell, Several elevators at the Doubletree were stuck Naperville IL, and Bob between floors. Beverly Aranda, Andrew Robinson Hamman and Bobby Wolff, and an engineer named Doug -- don’t know his last for Fast Pairs players Dallas. name -- members of the Doubletree staff, immedi- he Fast Pairs finished faster than usual, They won the Spingold ately went to work. They opened the door to the el- thanks to that errant lightning bolt. The in Washington DC in 1993, evator shafts, looked to see where the elevators were, T second session was curtailed after only six San Diego in 1994, New then climbed the stairs. They pried open the doors boards had been played. As a result the overall Nate Spingold Orleans in 1995 and Miami and helped the passengers climb out -- it took less standings were computed by combining the first Beach last summer. than 20 minutes. session with the six boards played in the second. 1995 was a banner year for the team as they scored Tournament Director Roger Putnam was lucky -- This of course means that effectively the Fast their third straight victories in the Spingold and the his elevator had just stopped at the 10th floor to pick up Pairs players got only a little more than one ses- Reisinger and also won the Bermuda Bowl in Beijing, Continued on page 11 sion for their two-session entry fee. Therefore all China. players in that event now will be given 10 Bridge NICKELL is the only six-man squad to win back- Bucks to use as they wish -- for a later event at to-back Spingolds, according to the Official Encyclo- this tournament or whatever. pedia of Bridge. The players should go to the Check Cashing The only four-man team to accomplish this feat -- Booth on the lower level of the Convention Cen- Canada’s all-time greats Eric Murray, Sami Kehela, Today, like ter where they will be given their Bridge Bucks. Bruce Elliott and Percy Sheardown -- won in Toronto About those six boards. Within each section in 1964 and Chicago in 1965. this would have amounted to a top of two on a C.C. Wei’s original Precision Team came close in every day, is board. What was done to make up for this is that 1970-71. Tom Smith, Steve Altman, Joel Stuart and the boards were scored across the field to make Peter Weichsel won with David Strasberg in Boston in the results more meaningful. 1970. With Gene Neiger replacing Strasberg, they took Continued on page 4 Goodwill Day 2 Daily Bulletin Toys: Use, don’t abuse SPECIAL EVENTS Like all competitive games, bridge is a game where expert players will take full advantage of opponents’ Monday, July 28 errors. Here’s an interesting example from Board 16 of the Saturday evening pairs. 9:00 a.m. Bridge America Game Director Course, Enchantment C-D, Hyatt. Dlr: West ♠ K Q 6 9:00 a.m. Bridge Teachers and Bridge Cruises, Enchantment E-F, Hyatt. Vul: E-W ♥ A K 9 6 4 9:00 a.m. New Laws Seminar (Club Director Refresher Course), Enchantment A-B, Hyatt ♦ J 10 9 10:30 a.m. NABC Appeals Meeting, Pavillion 1, Hyatt. ♣ K 3 12:15 p.m. Intermediate/Novice Speakers Program -- Joey Silver: Character of a Champion, ♠ 9 ♠ J 10 3 Ballroom B. ♥ 10 3 ♥ 8 5 5:00 p.m. Goodwill Reception, Pavillion Ballroom I - III, Hyatt. ♦ K 5 3 2 ♦ A Q 7 6 4 7:00 p.m. Senior Reception, Doubletree Ballroom, lobby level. ♣ J 10 9 8 5 4 ♣ A Q 7 7:15 p.m. Intermediate/Novice Speakers Program -- Kathie Wei-Sender: Championship Bridge, ♠ A 8 7 5 4 2 Ballroom B. ♥ Q J 7 2 Midnight Ice cream bars, NW Exhibit Hall. ♦ 8 ♣ 6 2 Tuesday, July 29 West North East South 9:00 a.m. Bridge America Game Director Course, Enchantment C-D Bachelder Rose 9:00 a.m. Club Director’s Course, Enchantment A-B Pass 1♥ 2♦ 4♦ (1) 12:15 p.m. Intermediate/Novice Speakers Program -- Jim Kirkham: Negative Doubles, Ballroom B. Dbl 4NT (2) Dbl 5♣ 7:15 p.m. Intermediate/Novice Speakers Program -- Michael Huston: Playing with Finesse, Pass 5♥ All Pass Ballroom B. (1) Splinter showing a singleton with heart support. Midnight Baked potatoes with toppings -- plus late night entertainment, NW Exhibit Hall (2) Roman Key Card Blackwood (1430). South’s splinter of 4♦ was obviously an overbid, and it suffered dire consequences. It not only propelled Wednesday, July 30 North-South to the five level needlessly, but it gave West 9:00 a.m. Bridge America Game Director Course, Enchantment C-D (Jim Bachelder of Columbus OH) the opportunity to 9:00 a.m.
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