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Richard Freeman • Peter Boyd, Winner of the Sidney Lazard Jr Friday, July 24, 2009 Volume 81, Number 1 Daily Bulletin Washington, DC 81st Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Paul Linxwiler Hall of Fame takes five Hall of Fame inductee Mark Lair, center, with Mike Passell, left, and Eddie Wold. Sportsman of the Year Peter Boyd with longtime (right) Aileen Osofsky and her son, Alan. partner Steve Robinson. If standing ovations could be converted to Defenders out in top GNT flight masterpoints, three of the five inductees at the Bridge Hall of Fame dinner on Thursday evening The District 14 team captained by Bob sixth, Bill Kent, is from Iowa. would be instant contenders for the Barry Crane Top Balderson, holding a 1-IMP lead against the They knocked out the District 9 squad 500. defending champions with 16 deals to play, won captained by Warren Spector (David Berkowitz, Time after time, members of the audience were the fourth quarter 50-9 to advance to the round of Larry Cohen, Mike Becker, Jeff Meckstroth and on their feet, applauding a sterling new class for the eight in the Grand National Teams Championship Eric Rodwell). The team was seeking a third ACBL Hall of Fame. Enjoying the accolades were: Flight. straight win in the event. • Mark Lair, many-time North American champion Five of the six team members are from All four flights of the GNT – including Flights and one of ACBL’s top players. Minnesota – Bob and Cynthia Balderson, Peggy A, B and C – will play the round of eight today. • Aileen Osofsky, ACBL Goodwill chair for nearly Kaplan, Carol Miner and Paul Meerschaert. The All four will conclude on Sunday. a quarter century and the 2009 Blackwood Award winner for contributions to the game. Richard Freeman • Peter Boyd, winner of the Sidney Lazard Jr. Sportsmanship Award. 1933 - 2009 • The families of two late stars of the game – Agnes Gordon, winner of the von Zedtwitz Hall of Famer Richard Freeman, energy and an infinite capacity to Award, and Jerry Machlin, winner of the 2008 a key member of one of the most think and analyze things, and he saw Blackwood Award. dominant teams in bridge history, stuff in the cards that mere mortals died June 29 in Atlanta of don't see. He went to the bridge table There were somber notes at the dinner as complications from pancreatitis. He with one objective - to win." moments of silence were observed for Dick was 75. The team's Bermuda Bowl Freeman and Gene Freed, two bridge luminaries Freeman, part of the Nick Nickell triumphs came in 1995, 2000 and who passed away recently, but emcee George Jacobs team, became ill during the United 2003. "Dick was very proud of the kept the audience loose with lots of jokes during the States Bridge Championship in White fact that he was the oldest person to extended ceremony as tributes were paid by friends Plains NY, where squads were win the Bermuda Bowl," said Nickell. and relatives of the new members. competing for berths in the 2009 Although he praised his longtime Mike Passell, who was presented for Bermuda Bowl. After Freeman partner for his bridge expertise, membership in the Hall of Fame last year by Lair, returned to Atlanta for treatment, the team went on Nickell said he mourns more for the loss of a friend. returned the favor for his longtime friend. to earn a spot in the world championships in Sao "We were soul mates," Nickell said. Passell said the two first met at a rubber bridge Paulo, Brazil, as USA2. Freeman's wife, Louise, said tried to talk her club in Oklahoma City in the early Seventies. “Mark Considered a genius by many who knew him, husband out of playing in the team trials in White was the best natural card player I had ever met,” Freeman was a radio "Quiz Kid" in the Forties and a Plains, but he could not be dissuaded. "That team Passell said. The two eventually formed a student at the University of Chicago at age 12. He was so important to him. It's comforting to know he Continued on page 7 had the first of three college degrees by the age of went out a winner." 15. He took up bridge in college and became Although well past the age when most people ACBL's youngest Life Master at age 18 in 1952. He retire, Freeman was still working as an executive at Goodwill Message was also a tournament director and became Oppenheimer & Co., an investment firm in Atlanta. legendary for his speed with a pencil in the days Frank Stewart, Bridge Bulletin contributor and Welcome to Washington when games were posted and scored by hand. syndicated columnist, knew Freeman as an DC and the Summer 2009 The partnership with Nickell, for which opponent. "I had the honor of playing against him North American Bridge Freeman is best known, dates back to their days at several times," said Stewart. "He was a virtuoso Championships. the University of North Carolina. During the early bridge player. I was always an admirer of his." Tournament Chair Margot Eighties, they played serious bridge "semi-regularly" Mike Becker, one of ACBL's top players, Hennings, Co-Chair Fred while Nickell, now a New York City resident, lived offered this take on Freeman: "Dick was a King and their group of in Atlanta. In 1991, they put together the team that magnificent person - a gentlemen, a great player and volunteers, staff and sponsors wish everyone has won three Bermuda Bowls and numerous North someone I looked up to my entire bridge life. In his good luck. They have worked hard to make American championships. The squad has been early bridge years, there was no one younger than your stay in Washington “A Capital Event.” especially dominant in the Spingold Knockout him who was better than him. In his later bridge I look forward to seeing and greeting you Teams, winning the event nine times. Freeman's years, there was no one older than him who was major titles total 30. better than him." at the table. Nickell said he was continually impressed with The following is an example of Freeman's skill Aileen Osofsky, Chairman Freeman's approach to bridge: "He had a lot of Continued on page 9 National Goodwill Committee.
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