ACBL UNIT 359 Thank You Bridge Players; I Recently Became a Life Master at the Denver Rocky Treasurer's Report Mountain Regional Last May

be introduced, and a ballot will be included in the November newsletter. FROM THE PRESIDENT Linda Sundbye, Newsletter Editor Dear Unit Members, Our newsletters and bridge tournaments have a natural rhythm, which follows the CLUB CORNER changing of the seasons and the months as they The FIRST HALF MASTERPOINT pass. I hope you have all had an enjoyable RACE (for winning the most points in the summer and had fun at the club games and/or Wednesday and Friday afternoon clubs combined tournaments. was won (again!) by Gary Greene. He received We are excited this fall about the the dinner for two at the Olive Garden. Runner- upcoming Unit games on September 17 and up (again!) was Kay McKenna, who received November 19 at the Depot, the Fall Boulder yet another bridge book: Roth's Focus on Bonanza at the end of October, and our annual Defense. Holiday party on December 10 at the Regal The SECOND HALF MASTERPOINT Harvest House. I hope many of you will plan to RACE got underway July 1. The winner of this come to these events. contest (which ends December 31) also gets the As always, I am appreciative of the dinner for two at the Olive Garden; however, the people we meet and know through bridge, and winners of Flights B and C will get bridge books, for the activities and challenging bridge games which we trust will aid them in their drive to the involved. We are indeed fortunate to be able to top, or at least to the restaurant. participate in the many games and tournaments Suzanne Jones in Boulder and other areas of the state. See you at our upcoming events! Marilyn Bost started a new club game Warmly, September 8. This weekly Thursday afternoon Anne Vincent, President Unit 359 game begins at noon and is presently located the Longmont Senior Center located at 910 Longs Peak (This is 3-4 blocks west of Main St., near UNIT UPDATE 9th Avenue). Call Marilyn at 303-627-8711 for Food and donation sign-up slips for the more information. Fall Bonanza will soon be appearing at the local club games. Your donations are greatly KUDOS appreciated! Congratulations to new Bronze Life Unit elections are coming up. If you are Masters: Pat Lucas and John Bortins, and new interested in running for the board, please Silver Life Masters: Bettie Marosey and Ellen contact any board member. The candidates will Freedman.

1 Congratulations to Rick and Jeanne B Swiss, and earned 26.97 and 23.94 total Clelland for the birth of their son Kevin Richard masterpoints, respectively. These points placed on June 25. Bill and Sandy 2nd and 3rd for total masterpoints won among Unit 359 players. Congratulations Bill and Sandy, and our apologies to all other Convalescent’s CORNER Flight B Swiss players whose point totals were Best wishes to Bill Brackett who recently incorrect in the last newsletter. had open-heart surgery. And congratulations to Nettie Ashbee, Betty Coulon, Judy Hardie and Bernie Bubla and In Memoriam to Vince Bates, Anne Vincent, Bill Burlage and Sandy Straus for winning their respective Our condolences to Jo Schmaling on the brackets of the Newton KO’s. passing of her husband, and to Lois Moran on

the passing of her husband. THANKS!! ACBL UNIT 359 Thank you bridge players; I recently became a Life Master at the Denver Rocky Treasurer's Report Mountain Regional last May. Maud Greer, Joan 09-12-00 Stern and Nancy Bartlett put me over the top Balance Forward: $5681.68 with my last few needed gold points. However, I Expenses: want to thank all my partners and opponents for Remembrances 162.84 their contributions by playing with me and by Spring 2000 Bonanza 72.00 sharing their knowledge of bridge. Thanks! Newsletter 95.75 Pete DePerro Copies 6.86

Postage 6.60 Fall 2000 Bonanza 1419.06 AN ESTEEMED BOULDER Misc 25.29 Bulk Mailing 150.00 TRADITION Total Expenses: 1938.40 An esteemed Boulder tradition, the McKenna bridge trophy, began in 1962 when Balance Forward: $3743.28 Kay McKenna, Boulder’s first Life Master, and CD World Savings $3302.29 her husband Jim donated a bridge trophy to the Ellen Tallman, Treasurer Unit. This trophy was awarded each year to the Colorado bridge player who earned the most masterpoints at the two Boulder sectionals. The UNIT GAMES plaque on this trophy reads: Mark your calendars! We have two more McKenna Cup Unit games scheduled for September 17 and Top Performance November 19 at 1 pm at the Depot. Annual Boulder Valley Sectional Past winners of this McKenna trophy Regional highlights included: 1962 Bob Baptist In our regional highlights in the last 1963 Shirley Lund newsletter, the Flight B Swiss awards were 1964 Dan Mordecai inadvertently not included in the printout for 1965 Jim McKenna total masterpoints won during the regional for 1968 Suzanne Jones Boulder Unit 359 players. Bill Burlage and 1969 Dick Reed Sandy Straus placed in the overalls in the Flight 2 1970 Suzanne Jones Broma Lou is the top masterpoint holder 1971 Mike Kaplan in our unit and the second highest masterpoint 1972 Neil Haflich holder in the state with over 8900 masterpoints. 1973 Allen Kane Broma Lou, a native Coloradoan, began 1974 Craig Janitschke playing bridge in high school in Las Animas with 1976 Neil and M’Lou Haflich (now Voss) her mother. She started playing duplicate bridge 1977 Dick Reed in 1959 and became Life Master #4202 in 1962. 1984 Dolores Hopkins Landwehr In 1961, Broma Lou and Marcia This trophy was retired in 1984 and in Stedman started the High-Low Bridge Club in 1994, Kay McKenna donated a new trophy in Boulder. Broma Lou ran the club for three years. memory of her husband Jim. This trophy is In 1963, Broma Lou and Ross Robbins awarded annually at our annual Holiday Party to (now of Corpus Christi, Texas) ran the first the Boulder Unit player who earns the most Boulder sectional at the Harvest House Hotel. masterpoints at the two Boulder sectionals each At this time in the early 60’s, Colorado had one year. We are indeed privileged to have this regional and ten sectional tournaments each trophy in Boulder. year. Past winners of the new trophy are: From 1963-1965, Joanie White (now Spring 1994 – Suzanne Jones , Broma Lou Reed Thompson) and Dave White wrote a bridge Fall 1994 – Tom Stack, Gary Steiner column “About Boulder Bridge” in the Boulder 1995 – Vern Bruce Johnson Daily Camera. Irene Hyatt took over this column 1996 – Suzanne Jones from 1965-1980 and it was renamed “The 1997 – Suzanne Jones Kibitzer.” 1998 – Suzanne Jones In the early 1960’s, Broma Lou and 1999 – Gary Steiner partner Kay LaVelle won the four session open Anne Vincent, President Unit 359 pairs, in which they picked up 50 red points, at the Denver Regional. The Denver unit then paid for Broma Lou and Kay to attend the nationals MCKENNA CUP LEADERS in Lexington, KY and play in the National The leaders heading into the Fall Women’s Pairs where they started against Helen Bonanza are: Sobel with Charles Goren kibitzing. 1. Janet deGrazia 23.81 In 1963, Broma Lou and Suzanne Jones 2. Michael Perlman 22.26 began playing together and they have won 3. Suzanne Jones 21.44 numerous events. In 1970, Broma Lou and 4. Gary Greene 17.47 Suzanne went to Europe for nine weeks and 5. Larry Dolan 17.47 played bridge in various cities including Paris, 6. Richard Laver 15.62 London, Copenhagen and Edinburgh. While 7. Charlie Anderson 11.06 there, many of the local bridge players invited 8. Jeanne Gray 8.24 them into their homes for bridge and dinner. Since retiring from teaching business at Fairview High School, Broma Lou won the Player HIGHLIGHT: National Women’s Board-a-Match in 1980 in San Francisco playing with Judy Randel, Marcia

Broma Lou Reed Masterson and Sally Woolsey. She placed It is interesting to look at some highlights second in the National Women’s Swiss in 1994 of Broma Lou Reed’s bridge career and a few in Kansas City playing with Janet Daling, Sharon details about the history of bridge in Boulder. Coulson and Jean Anderson. And she has placed third and fourth in national events several times.

3 Only a handful of Colorado players have ever won national events. SORRY, PARTNER! At the national level, her partners have I hate defense. I think others do as well. included Suzanne Jones, Judy Randel of It’s just not as much fun as declarer play. I wind Albuquerque, Janet Daling of Seattle, Jeannie up apologizing to my partner a lot more. Here’s Grunwald of Golden, Laurel Hyder of Colorado a case in point. I was West with: Springs and Flo Newlin of Denver. Broma Lou’s ª A 7 5 current partner is Linda Sundbye. © 8 3 Broma Lou has gone to the last five ¨ A K J 9 7 6 World Bridge Tournaments, which are held § 9 3 every four years. She attended the 1998 World South is Dealer with no one vulnerable and the Bridge Tournament in Lille, France with bidding proceeds: Suzanne Jones; Albuquerque in 1994 and S W N E Geneva, Switzerland in 1990 with Janet Daling; P 1¨ D1 1NT2 and Miami in 1986 and Biarritz, France in 1982 2© 3¨3 3©4 P with her former husband Dick Reed. Prior to P P5 1998, one had to place in a national event in 1 want us to play order to qualify to attend the World Bridge 2 no, no Tournaments. 3 I really want to play Broma Lou has won the Colorado 4 so there! Victory Trophy the most times with five wins. 5 darn, partner is a bad card holder. The Colorado Victory Trophy is awarded to the Colorado player who wins the most masterpoints I lead the ¨K (what else?) and dummy st nd rd during the year by placing 1 , 2 or 3 overall in puts down: open events at Colorado sectionals. ª Q J 4 Changes she has seen in bridge over the © A 5 2 years include: ¨ Q 8 5 2 1) In the early days of bridge, masterpoints § K J 5 were hard to win. Team games were not

played except for a Friday afternoon Raise to three in direct seat is a bit of a Board-a-Match at tournaments; stretch, isn’t it? Maybe he’s declared against me 2) Swiss teams and Knock-Out teams have in the past. Or maybe he really hates defense too. given an entirely new perspective to OK, time to buckle down. If he’s this optimistic, tournaments; maybe we can beat this. All follow to the first 3) Many, many more bidding conventions trick ¨K, ¨2, ¨10, ¨3. Partner encouraged! I are now used; continue with ¨A, ¨5, ¨4, ruffed! You 4) The events were all open, not stratified. probably saw this coming, I didn’t. The rest of Bridge players were either Life Master or the hand is pretty cut and dried. not;

5) The behavior of bridge players at the ª table has improved with the Zero Q J 4 Tolerance policy; © A 5 2 6) And tournaments now are non-smoking. ¨ Q 8 5 2 Congratulations Broma Lou on all your § K J 5 success! ª A 7 5 ª K 9 8 Anne Vincent, President Unit 359 © 8 3 © J 7 4 ¨ A K J 9 7 6 ¨ 10 4 § 9 3 § Q 10 7 6 2 4 ª 10 6 3 2 Kane, is on pace to set a new record for points © K Q 10 9 6 so accumulated. His accomplishment, however, ¨ 3 is less remarkable than that his main competition § A 8 4 has come from a Boulder Flight B player! That Declarer pulls trump, pitches a club on player, Janet deGrazia, is second with four the ¨Q, drives out the two top spades and tournaments to go. makes four when both spades and trumps break Janet became a Life Master in NYC, and for him. then didn't play tournament bridge for eighteen You are probably asking yourself why I years. A colleague at C.U. (Cheri Kedrowski) continued diamonds when partner played the got her back to the table only a couple of years ¨10 on the first diamond. I should know that ago. A former successful tri-athlete, when Janet partner has a doubleton for his 1NT bid and is isn't running her usual couple of hours a day, she just giving me count. If partner had a four card directs the Outreach program of the College of or longer major, he would have bid it over the Engineering. She lives with her husband Hans double. If partner had six or more clubs, he Funke and daughter Isabella (age 7) in south would have bid 2§ over the double. (After all Boulder. this is a nonforcing bid since the only forcing Janet's record in team games has been bids after the double are redouble or a new suit particularly impressive, winning or placing with at the one level.) Therefore, partner must have a SIX different pairs of teammates. She plays 2/1 3-3-2-5 distribution and declarer has the stiff with a lot of gadgets and loves defense. diamond. Her attacking style is evident on the I have a natural shift to the §9. If following hand from a Ft. Collin's team match: Janet is North, nonvul vs. vul, West is declarer covers with the §J, partner covers. If Dealer and the bidding proceeds: declarer plays low, partner plays low. Declarer W N E S pulls trump. Now the tricky part: When declarer leads a small spade to the queen in dummy, I 1¨ 1© 1NT 2© must rise with the ªA and lead another club. 3§ P 3NT P This is the only defense that will hold declarer to 4¨ P 4NT P three. Too tough for me. Sorry, Partner! P P A Square Guy ª J 8 x © A Q x x x ¨ K x MASTERPOINT RACES § J x x The bridge world is chock full of them, ª K x x ª Q x x the most notable being the Barry Crane 500. © ----- © K J 10 9 Colorado has its own: The Colorado Victory ¨ J 10 9 x x x ¨ Q x Trophy Race. The CVT is awarded each year to § A K Q x § J x x x the player who accumulates the most ª A 10 9 x masterpoints by placing first, second, or third in © 8 7 x x sectionally rated events in Colorado. Boulder ¨ A x x too has its own race: the Jim McKenna Trophy, § x x which is awarded to the Boulder player amassing South's opening lead was the ©8, which the most points in Boulder's two sectionals. Janet won and shifted to ªJ. South allowed the The winner of the CVT is--as you might ªK to win in dummy. When declarer called expect--drawn from the list of usual suspects: small diamond from the dummy, Janet popped those Flight A players who attend most of the sectionals in the state. This year the leader, Al with the ¨K, played ª8 through the ªQ, putting declarer down three vulnerable. 5 Janet is not too surprisingly leading Boulder's race for the McKenna trophy, KATHY’S KORNER followed closely by Mike Perlman. The standings are listed earlier in this newsletter. Suzanne Jones

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY From the June 2000 newsletter Thought for the Day: Alas, unlucky Louie’s luck remains unchanged and our friend Sylvia as always lands on her feet. There are no balls left in the basket at noon. If you have a favorite puzzle, riddle or joke to share in this column, please send it to the editor.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Sept 17 Unit game, 1pm, Depot Sept 22-24 Cheyenne Sectional Sept 25-Oct 1 El Paso Regional Kathy Ludwig, Vice President Sept 28 Longmont Club championship Oct 4 Wednesday Club championship Oct 6-8 Black Canyon Sectional Oct 16-22 Las Vegas Glitter Gulch Sectional Oct 27-29 Boulder Fall 2000 Bonanza Nov 6 Boulder Bridge Club championship Nov 9-12 Denver Fall Sectional Nov 16-26 Fall NABC, Birmingham, AL Dec 1 FAC Club championship Dec 4-10 Western Conference STAC Dec 6 Wednesday Club STAC game Dec 8 FAC STAC game Dec 10 Boulder Unit 359 Annual Holiday Party Dec 14 Longmont Club championship

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