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=BRIDGE 2+A OUARTERTY FII Ridgee 2 - CANNES ' =BRIDGE 2+a OUARTERTY FII RIDGEe 2 - CANNES '"YJJI[BTidgE oz Aprjl 17-23 1967 OUARTERLY APRIL 17-18-19, at 2.30 p.m. a MIXED PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP. THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATI ON (1st Prize-2,000 New Francs') OF THE ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION APRIL 20-21-22-23. *( OPEN PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP. (1st Prize-5,000 New Francs.) Edited by HAROLD FRANKLIN i.i.ltt.i 40.000 Frants (f3,000) in Prizes We would like this publication to reflect the activities of the English Every evening, April 17'22 inclusive, Bridge'rama Bridge lJnion, of the County Associations, of international bridge. witt ores6nt a frieidlv'match between France and ltaly We would like to cater for the many who are more interested in ior ifie Coupe Frarigois-Andre, in which the World technique than in news and we recognise that no bridge publication is Champion Blue Team will aPPear. complete without a competition. Only a larger publication would SPECIAL TERMS. permit all these ends to be met and a larger magazine might mean a HOTEL " MAJESTIC." Full Pension (Room with Bath, leqr of half-a-crown a head on the members, annually. In the absence Tax and Service included) : 85 Fr- Single, 148 Fr' of such a solution we must accept the fact that there is not room for 118 Fr. Double' Double; Demi-Pension: 70 Fr' Single, everything and make a choice. HOTEL " MONTFLEURY." Full Pension : 68 Fr' Single' Ideally the choice should be with the members, to whom the 118 Fr. Double; Demi-Pension:56 Fr. Single,94 Fr' Quarterly, no less than the E.B.U. itself, belongs. The opinions Double. which have been volunteered suggest that to date the accent has been For Registration, Information and Pro.grammes : too heavily on the technical. This has been such a " ne\Msy " quarter Mme"N. ANSAY, 137 Avenue Victor-Hugo, Paris'l$eme' that in this issue it has been necessary to redress the balance somewhat France (Tel. KLE 62-32). drastically. * * * We hope that you, the members, will exercise your choice by express- be possible to meet the wishes of every issue of this review will give full details of the ing it. Clearly it can never The next to Fourth Annual Deauville Festival of Bridge. individual; however, the larger the number of members who write we be able to judge the Bridge-Golf Tournament, July 7th to July 12th. express their views, the more accurately will 4th Annual Festival of Bridge, July 21st to July 30th. general feeling. Inquiry into the Buenos Aires Afiair, instituted by the British For advance information write to Mme N. ANSAY The (address as above). Bridge League, was financed largely by the E.B.U. It is proper there- fore that the Tribunal's Report should be published to the members at the first possible opportunity. Although the Report was submitted to the British Bridge League on August 4th, L966, this is the first DEAUVILLE lhjl'Hltii opportunity to do so since any earlier publication would have been contrary to counsel's opinion, which has been sought at various stages. 2 3 BRITISH BRIDGB LEAGUE had occurred and the opportunities and pcitions for obrervations shoultd have lreen closely examined STATEMENT FROM THE ai neir tire time ihe obffirvation occurred as p'cssiblq. This was not done. Nor was the technical Bridge League are concerned about the evidence examined, ex€p very perfunctorily. The council of the British The evidence at ou hearings ot the experts who came from variow countries, was that if dlere Press of extracts from Sir (a. profesional -forGr;rputlicition in tfre Snglish and North American ]ohn is any cheating it is always revealed in thc bidding and plav. Mr. de Heredia Report to th6 Council and comment thereon. In order to correc-t any Tournament Diiector)' Mr, ortis Patino, Mr. Flint and Mr. l(onstam were quite categodcal that if a pat could bc dctcctcd jn thc rccofd of their bidding and playing the cards. *ti"t hiv have arisen a,s a result-thev.have-+ecided to ask the - cheated, then this ;i;;;;;";ii; to The evidence about thc tridding and plav did no't suppoft the allegations of cheating. There were iffi6il;1-ift Eridge tvtas,azine and the English Bhdge Union Quarterls hands whcre Messs. Rccsc and Sahlrpiro had cards which, using conventional methods, would have publish the RePort in full. -jsrificd a bid in Hcarts yet rhey cithcf, failcd to flnd the suit ai all or failed to bid hich enoush. REPORT In U.S. 74. Mr. Reisq trcft his partncr in a One Heart contract when Mr. Sohapiro had Four 'we were askgd by the British Bridge League to elquire into allesations that Mr. Reese and Hearts to ths Te n ald Mr. Rccsc had Jack md anorther, instead of calling On€ No Trump, whiah fUr. S"iupirc nia "cneaica UV giuing nng",: signalJ at the World Bridge Championship in Buenos Aires would haye bccn a bcttcr contract i[ any case, and oertainly bettet uith the knowledge of the Heart in May, 1965. holdins. "' 'W. iii"ia to conducr rhjs cnquiry in an honorary @pacity and have. held some thirtv sittiuss I; Italy 56, Mr. Rccsc, playins agaiost Three Diamonds, failed to make the Ae of Hetrts aftet wtrich havl been-trr" sprcad ov"r apiri*irnaL"ly somc tcn months during which foulteen wjtnesses have winning with the King wh,cn his partncr had a singletou in llearts. ;;;-";li;j. i"uron tot ttrii'tcnettr of timc is vcry larselv (except for thep€riod of the General In Argentine 141, they had Ten Hearts between them yet n€ver found the suit. fi""ii""i-4i". to-tlu fu.t that Counicl for thc two pcr-sons accused was unable to agree to mcre Obviously categoiial eyidenc€ from several prominent players in Intemadonal Bridg€ to the il.i,ir.,ii fri.il.i" owing to pressirc of othcr cascs in wlrich he was engaged' We were assis-ted most effect rhat they saw Mr. Reese and Mr, SchaDiro signal by changing fingers on thq back-of their ;;;:;iiy- ilJ 6;t-paiiintty-by ihc two asscssors, Mcssrs. priday and Hiron, who commented on and cards raises a s(rong suspicion that the allegations are w€ll-fowded. Against that must be set a iiiiii".a in" inatviis of ovci fiftv hands put forward b-v bol'h sides' number of considerarions, the crudity of the signals. especially when one f,nger was shown, or when reference to us arose oiii ot r'cport bv thc World llridcc Federation drawn uD at the end ih" fi.g"rc were splayed, with two oi three fingers to show Five or Six Hearts; the concoqti@ of a The could have ot trre'-W-orrci-iiiiag" Crr*ploniilip, l, " *t i"t ,t-" Fcdcration itnnottnccd its findings on the -allegations code to comuniAate informatioo which is not as valuable as other informatim whioh ;i ;ir;"iir;-br.Gff uv ivialn-ni-cinuos of thc Amcrican reilm ilrrd Mr' Truscott' the " New York been communicated less crudely and more eoonomically in the numbtr oI signals. Six different The report recordcd thc fact thrt thc Federation had found the positions of the hands were required for the code. At some of the sessions in which they were alleced ii-i.;-'ifiial"-ioir#o.a"nt.-iire their point win the Tournament ufi*.gutioni-pt-ou.O. attegatimi- *"r-" tt,ut Mesrs. Rccsc and Schtpiro lrad signalled with io be cheating, there was no in their doing so lince Grat Britain could not ffi;;riil; iu*U"i offf.urts-in their hands. One finscr on thc ontsidc of thc cafds wh€n thev were and in the lml session at whic.h observation took place, Great Britain was defeating thc Argentinians il;ff-;r-iir"';Ghi-or 1"ft hund a"not"a On" Heart,2 finscrs lwo |lcilrts and so on to 4 fingen. ----a0ryay. i'ii"g"ir-ipuvEii inaicatea Five Hearts and 3 fingers splavcd rcprcscrrtcd Six llcarls' ifrir" is the further fact that Mr. Reese and Mr. Schapiro were on bad terms before the Tour- - -Th;re;;;ia siirirtr Bridgi Lcaguc who dccidcd that rn jndcpcndent enquirv na-J"i ut Buenm Aires; tiat Mr. Reese had writrten a letter to the British Bridge League asking *as reterreo t" irr. (thev plavers sncrta Ue ireld. It *u, ug.".d with the legal reDresentltivcs of tlrc two plflycrs accuscd were not to -inaicatedplay witb Mr. Schapiro and that the two had had a row at Bumos Aires. Co"nsei i"a iot&org u.a *itt tfr. Itritish_ BLridsc l-casrtc wlto wcro similarlv. represented. As above, rhe play and biddinc of the hands did not diwlose any cheating. It was i"-oi"i'."i"0-i,v as not tf, ure iililh;;; ugui"ii-Morri. ne-es6'anO Schapiro shoutcl bc nrcscntcd by thc llritish Bridse League. argued that Dlay€rs of the calibre oif Mr. Reese and Mr. Schapiro would be so skilful ptrt eJ"""iliired tlrii-.6oni ir t"i,rg o nmunicated privatcly by us t() thc Lcasuc, to wlrom we leave ilre tfr" infomatir"- so as to excite suspicion, but this would not account for the negative of this none thc rcDort' that Mr. Reese and-Mr. Schapiro p ayed worse than their usual fom at Buenos Aires clecision of whether to publish all. or lorle, or of ni-iiv, plaving ----rti iuia"o." before us u'" oi'iota-i'to two classes; thc cvidcncc o[ witncsscs who sav thev a"O"iitt,li, oiten tadda to achifle a contract which they should have established if they had been ir"fru"g.O "uoana-ihe teihni"al evidencc as lo thc bidditrs ilnd somctimes (but much no"-otCuiing io"""ntional methods and which thev could not have failed to have reached if thev had .n* n"g"i iig*fr legitimate choioe, these two had less often) as to the play of the b,ands.
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