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Wii& %rgb% +~+5+~+ Dai y Bul etin M%&' V WORLD PAIR OLYMPIAD "'-""' "" No. PHOGHAM Open PaiIrs, second final I Rdies' Pairs second final Consolation Pairs, second session Open. Paix's third final Ladies' Pairs, third final Consolation Pairs, third final3 session 4 C 4 9 4 0 OPEN PA~ Standings after 1st final session P "".~ Hank Co~tear Names Points 1 Canada Eric Kokish Petex Nagy 327. 50 j F x'Rnce Jean-Maxc Houdinesco -Jean Louxs Stoppa 311. 60 Canada Ted Horning John Stevens 30V, 50 USA Hon Andersen. Hugh MacI ean 294. 50 5 Poland Lukasz I ebioda Andrezej Wilkosz 291. 50 6/v USA Steve Hobinson - Kit Woolsey 291. 00 South Africa Hyxnie Butkow - Neveille Eber 291. OO USA Hogex' Bates John Mohan 288. 00 USA Hobert Hamman Hobert Wolff 283. 00 10 USA thy CappeHetti - Mike CappeQetti 274. 60 11 Brazil Marcelo Bxanco - Gabino Cintra 272. 60 12/13 USA Alan Sontag Peter W'eichsel 272, 00 12/13 Netherlands Andre Mulder Carol Van Oppen 2V2. 00 Fxance Claude Delmouly Edmond Vial 271, 50 USA Steve Lapides Walt Walvick 270. 50 France J. Mourgugs H. Pacault 264. 00 lv/18 France DRmiahi I.eHoyex 261. 00 1V/18 Morocco JRquib Tazi Hamid Seb't 261. 00 19 South Africa Hymie Osie - Alan Simmonds 258. 00 2O France Christian Mari Michel Perx on 253. 50 fd' LAMES' PAIHS Standings after 1st final, session Hank t Naxnes Points 1 France Genevieve Moxenas Mariane Serf 329. 50 USA Hermine Baron - Beverly Hosenberg 312. 50 USA Judi Baden Katherine Wei 300. 60 25 Ireland36 EQeen O~Doherty - Ann 'Quinn 291. 50 Canada Francine Cimon - Barbara Henia 291. 00 USA Edith Kemp Barbara Ha.ppapoxt 290. 50 France Marguerite Gaiihard - Helene Zuccarelli 285, 50 7 8 USA Betty Ann Kennedy - Carol Seers 284. 06 9 France Claude Blouquit Elizabeth Delor 2V '.50 1O/ll Nethex lands Hia Gerards - Wil Van Heusden 276. 50 IO/11 France Od66 Lederman - Jacqueline Velut 276. 50 12 USA Mary Jane Farell - Marilyn Johnson 274. 50 13 France Eliane Derox e Odile Meuriot 274. 00. 14 Brazil A gota Mandelot Heloisa Nogueira 273. 00 15 Cana.da Diana Gordon Sharyn Kokish 272. 00 16 USA Emma Jean Hawes Dorothy Yruscott 2VO. 50 17 Israel Vera Sllaufel. - Dora Brechner 269. 00 18 Italy Marisa D'Andrea - Luciana Capodanno 267, OO 19 Great Brita in Hita Oldroyd Mly Sowter 266. 00 20 Australia Elizabeth Havas Barbara McDonald 263. 50 DEADLINE fox Entries in the MIXED PAIHS is 1800 hours pm! Friday, June 23. Make your entr:"es at HospitRIity today. The credentials committee wiD meet on F riday night to confirtn entries. sponsored by the Hyatt RegencyHotel World Bridge Federation, hosted by the New Orleans La., U.S.A. can Contract Bridge League June 12-30, 1978 lT'S A WHOLE NEW BAII. GAME j It'8 a whole new ball game ".'nthe final. There'8 no carryover from the previous'six sessions ' everyone starts from scratch. The only thing the. first aix sessions determined waa whether or not you qualified to play in the last four. Moving to the foxe in last night'8 opening session were Eric Kokish and Peter Nagy, two Canadian stars from Montreal. They put together a 63. 8' game to take the lead by 16 points over France'8 Jean-Mare RoudjLnescoand Jean. Louiia Stoppa. Top on a board was 19. The other Canadian paix in the finale Toronto'8 Ted Ho~g and John Stevens, were in third, with Americans Ron Andersen and Hugh MacLean next. But totaQy missing from the leaders were Gabriel Chagas and Pedro Paulo Assumpcao of Brazil, the top qualifiers. They had their fixat bad session when it really hurt. In the Women's Paixs, the leaders are from France Genevieve Morenas and Mariane Serf. Their percentage was even better than the Open leaders 64. 2%. And Petra Kaas and Bep Vriend of the Netherlands, the top qualifiers, were nowhere among the leaders, just like their Open Pair counterparts. Also missing from the leaders were ~ Markus and Nikki Gardener of Great Britain. Rixi is trying fox her third Women'8 Pairs title in five tries. In second place are Axnericans Hermine Baron and Beverly Rosenberg, 12 points ahead of Americana Judi Radin and Kathie Wei. LEAD THAT SINGLETON TRUMP WHEN YGU DOUBLE t That seemed to be the theme running through the two hands Open Pairs leaders Eric Kokish and Peter Nagy brought to the Daily Bulletin in the wee hours this morning. In each case the opening lead by Nagy waa his singleton trump, and in each case the result was a clear top 19 matchpoints. They talked about Board 18 first, so here it is. Dlr; East 4 J10 Kokieh H~oadlea Na~ LaNoue Vul: N-S '0 82 EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH 0996 PRss 1 0 Dbl. 2 4 4 K98752 PR88 2 0 DM. 3 0 4 K@7 0 9843 3'V 40 PR88 PA@96 J 7 53 Pass 5 0 Dbll.. All Pass 0 7 4 AQJ103 4 64 Out came the singleton diamond taken in 4 A652 dummy, and Fxank Hoadley of New Orleans passed 0 K104 the ~eJ to Nagy's queen. Now Nagy should have had 0 A KJ1052 a problem what couM he lead to avoid giving away a trick'P But he didn't have a pxoblemt Kokiah anticipated the situation and played the 9 on the jack, so Nagy knew he had the 8, So back came the 4 K and now declarer had no way to avoid losing three more major au1t tricks to go down 500. The play to Board 13 was a bit more intricate. Dlr." North 4 A 10 53 Schwartz Na~ Seiigman Kokish Vul: Both 0 A Q J 8 2 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 0 6 Dbl, 24 Dbl. Ci 832 3 U Pass Dbl. 0 9742 4 8 Pass Pass Pa 88 9 0 K J108 0 A@7 Kokish'8 first double showed some cards 4 A954 0 K Q 7 6 hi8 secondwas for penaltieaI Out came Nagy's O'KQJ6 singletontrump, takenby the jack and Hugo 'V 63 Schwartzof Israel tried the hea,xtfinesse, losing 0 95432 to the king, Nagytook, the 4 K, then led to Kokiah's 4 J10 4A so Eric could lead anothertrump. Hugotook this with the 6 and led another heart. Nagy pitched R diamond Rs the ace won, Back came a di'd,mondon which Kokish pia1yedthe queen, but Nagy overtook with the king to lead a third trump. Now declarer was helpless the 'VQ was ru6ed, and Schwaxtz could make only his two remaining trumps one in each hand. That was 800 to the Canadian pair. Those countries that missed their scheduled appointment to have their photograph taken may contact one of the photographers, either Chuck Anderson or Jane Taylor, at the Photo Display Desk to make an appointment for anothex tixne. Here ia the schedulefor MONDA7, June 26; 11:3,5 Finland 11 30 Belgium 11:45, Germany A I<'UNCTIONGF THE LEVEL'P... When Jacob MoeHer of Iceland opened 24 against Achtenberg of Switzerland, the bid was Alerted two five-card minora in a 'hand woxth an opening bid. Gn the next deal Moeller opened 3 @ a typical preempt but he was floored by Achtenbex'g'8 question: "Three-suited, I preauxjle 'P" 04 BGLS BRILLIANCY PRIZES Thel'e win be two BGI S BriDiancy Prizes awarded at,this Olylllpiad, Gne to be awarded at the final banquet! will be for the best story on.the G]I~iud preferably conta~g a bridge hand, that has appeaxedin the Daily BuDetin or that the writer intends publishing in hi.s own news- paper or magazine, The othex', for the best played hand of the Glympiad, wfiU be announced in the next International Bridge Press Association Bulletin, Entries may' be submitted to Nelson Rice or to Tannah Hix"sch arxMng J~ 23! in Buddy A/B fourth floox', The playex' who wbls the Brilliancy Prize will receive a beautiful award from BGLS and the writer will receive a cash RwRx'd. The following hand has been Submitted as an entxy in the BGLS contest. The author is the talented young editor of Australian Brld e Ron Klinger whose credits also include winning the Far East Championships and many national successes. TGTAI RECALL By RGN KLINGZR The common lot of a bridge magazine editor is heartache. One of the few illtangible benefits is that you get to see a lot of hands day in day out. England's Joe Amsbury, editox of Po ular Brid e Montbl, showed that he had total recaD when Board 2 of QualifyIng Round 3 came up. Dlr: East 4 K43 Joe sat West and like most of the field Vul: N-S . 'V 103 found himself in 4C, North led a low diamond 0 J843 Rnd the fix st problem is to decide which two 862 discards to take on the top diamonds. Gne 4 AQ J10852 0'97 could pitch two hearts and then rely on two out 'V JV42 V K9 of three finesses, but as can be seen, only the 0 0 A K 9 7 6 5 club finesse works. 4 K1O 4 J53 Joe howevex', discRrded both his clubs on 4 6 the diamonds,but it Still appears that he wiU 'V A 865 lose R spRde Rnd three neartsa If he ~s 0 @102 a club to hand to tRke t116losing 116Rrtfinesse, % A@974 South ~ not be slow in switchug to a trump.
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