Sunday, March 9, 2008 Volume 51, Number 3 Daily Bulletin Detroit, Michigan

51st Spring North American Bridge Championships Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Dave Smith ACBL to ban Lebi, Jacob take electronic devices Silodor Pairs title in national events Canadians and Leave those cell phones, iPods and PDAs at home Dan Jacob scored two 60% – or at least in your hotel room: The ACBL of games in the final sessions of Directors approved a sweeping ban on electronic the to win devices at their recently completed meetings at the the event by less than a board. It Spring NABC in Detroit. The policy goes into effect was the third NABC title for July 1, 2008. Lebi, of Toronto, (the others “This policy is designed to prevent problems and were the Fast Pairs in 2006 and protect the integrity of our top-tier events,” said Rick the Blue Ribbon Pairs in 1989) Beye, ACBL Chief Tournament Director. but the first for Jacob, of The electronics ban will apply to all NABC Vancouver. (national-level) events, but not to regional or The winners posted a Intermediate-Newcomer contests. 59.74% score in the afternoon, The text of the policy reads as follows: and had a 61.59% game in the evening. Their total score (with Electronic devices, excluding health-related carryover) was 2598.74. (Top in equipment, capable of sending or receiving the final was 77). communication, including but not limited to, In second with 2545.09 was headphones, earphones, cellular phones and mini- Ralph Buchalter of South computers: (1) shall not be allowed in the playing Orange NJ and Migry Zur- areas, adjacent hallways, restrooms or accessible Campanile of East Palo Alto CA. break areas; and (2) shall not be used during a They won the Silodor Open Pairs: Robert Lebi and Dan Jacob. session. In third with 2461.42 were These restrictions shall apply to all pairs, team GS Jade Barrett of Elk Point SD and Jim Kirkham Because the champs live far from each other, members, captains, coaches, recorders and kibitzers of San Bernadino CA. they frequently practice online. Lebi is a retired and shall apply throughout any actual playing session Lebi and Jacob were 17th after Friday’s systems analyst for the Royal Bank of Canada. Jacob or segment. qualifying round, but had moved into third place reviews construction engineering projects for the A violation of this policy shall result in a after the first final session. Canadian government. disciplinary penalty of one full board (or 12 IMPs at that form of scoring) for the first offense. A second offense shall result in disqualification from the event Passell is MP leader with 60,000 for the pair/team. of Las Vegas in 2001. Passell finished second Kibitzers violating this policy shall be removed NV has topped the 60,000- in the World Teams from the playing area for the remainder of the session. masterpoint level. He is number Championships twice — in two on the all-time list, trailing Valkenburg, Netherlands, in 1980 The Summer North American Bridge the late by a little and in Manila in 1977. Championships in Las Vegas will be the first NABC more than 5000 . In He has won 21 NABC impacted by the new policy. third place is championships. Passell is one of Participants in nationally rated events (which who has about 58,900 a few players who has won all include not only the top-level NABC+ games but also masterpoints. three major NABC team masterpoint-restricted contests such as the Mini- Passell is a perennial championships. His squad won , Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs, National 199er contender in the the Teams in 1976, and 99er Pairs and lower flights of the North Top 500 (previously called the 1988 and 1992; the Vanderbilt American Pairs and ) will be McKenney Trophy), winning it Knockout Teams in 1978 and reminded not to approach the playing area with a in 1976. He has been the leading 1982; and the Knockout personal electronic device in their possession, even if masterpoint winner at NABCs on three occasions. Teams in 1978, 1986 and 1987. the device is turned off. Passell is a full-time player who is a WBF World Passell and his wife, Nancy, are one of only a The new policy will be extensively publicized in Grand Master and an ACBL Grand Master. He won handful of couples who are both world champions. upcoming issues of the Daily Bulletins, the Bridge the World Open Team championship in Rio De He was recently elected to the ACBL Bridge Hall of Bulletin and the ACBL web site. Janeiro in1979 and the Transnational Teams in Paris Fame. Spring forward! The upcoming year will be an Remember Daylight Saving Time exciting one for Junior begins today. Advance your clocks and players. The United States watches one hour. Bridge Federation will send three Junior teams to championships in Beijing, Goodwill Message China, and two to Poland. Many players are now in the good The USBF held a reception habit of saying “, please” when for Junior players yesterday, calling a caddy. Do your part in hosted by Rose Meltzer. fostering a spirit of courtesy and respect Attending were USBF by remembering to say, “Please.” President Jan Martel, Justin Caddymaster Jackie Matthews says, “We all Lall, ACBL President Dan answer to ‘caddy,’ but we prefer to answer to our Morse and Dana Berkowitz. last name: Please.” , Chairman National Goodwill Committee Page 2 Daily Bulletin

SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Sunday, March 9 Monday, March 10 9:30 am - Noon Board of Governors Meeting. This meeting is open to all 9 a.m. – noon Duplication seminar. Per Jannersten, of bid box and members. Room: Renaissance Ballroom, Level 4. Duplimate fame, will show teachers, club managers and 10 am - Noon Free Bridge Lesson with Marti Ronemus. Ronemus, one of tournament officials how to use software to generate deals, ACBL's well-known teachers and Bridge Bulletin columnist, how to transfer deals between different software platforms, presents a fun bridge lesson for intermediate and newer how to display deals in style and how to duplicate players. Room: Ambassador 1, Level 3. without errors. Room: Marquette B, Level 5. 10 am - Noon Reception for Bridge Teachers of Junior Players. Interested 10 am - Noon Competition and Conventions Committee meeting. Room: in teaching the game of bridge to Juniors? Currently teaching Cadillac A, Level 5. Juniors? Meet officials from The School Bridge League and 11 am - Noon Get Online with Bridge Base. Don't miss this opportunity to the ACBL Education Department staff to exchange ideas and meet with , creator of the ACBL's Learn to find others interested in pursuing Junior bridge activities in Play Bridge program. Get a guided tour of the Bridge Base their areas. Location: Marquette B, Level 5. web site and its outstanding teaching features. Room: LaSalle 10:30 am - Open Team Trials meeting. Room 6516. A & B, Level 5. 12:30 pm 5 - 7 pm Goodwill Reception. Room: Ambassador 3, Level 3. Noon - 5 pm Happy Bridge. Free game for new players. Room: Ambassador 1, Level 3. Tuesday, March 11 11 pm - 1 am ACBL Patron Member Reception. Room 7010. 10 am - Noon Senior Team Trials meeting. Room: Marquette A, Level 5.

CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Be sure to hear these free expert lectures daily at the Detroit NABC in the Monday, March 10 Ambassador 1 room, Level 3. 12:15 pm Responding To a Sunday, March 9 6:45 pm Jakob Kristinsson 12:15 pm Allan Mazer You Have the Right to Remain Silent 6:45 pm Mel Colchamiro How to Play Like an Expert (Without Tuesday, March 11 Being One) 12:15 pm Mary Smith Responses to Takeout Doubles 6:45 pm Lawful Preemption

LATE NIGHT/ENTERTAINMENT Live entertainment and food will be provided each evening at 11 p.m. Monday, March 10 Variety show of local talent including a capella strolling singers from The Sunday, March 9 University of Michigan School of Music (Voice). On Level 4. Variety show of local talent including a capella strolling singers from The Food: Chili and crackers University of Michigan School of Music (Voice). On Level 4. Food: Turkey and ham sandwiches Tuesday, March 11 Motown, The Contours. Mackinac Ballroom, Level 5. Food: Sanders creampuffs

Wednesday, March 12 Compuware World Detroit Tour Information Headquarters. Leave hotel at 9 a.m. Lost For all tours, meet at Tours Desk on the 4th A pair of prescription reading glasses in a black Level of the RenCen. All tours will return in time for Thursday, March 13 Henry Ford Museum. case. Last seen in the Ontario Exhibit Hall on Level the 1 p.m. game. Leave hotel at 9 a.m. Individuals pay fees ($14 3. If found, please call Tom Piliste at 313-278-6987. Free van transportation will be provided, when per adult maximum). needed, in 15-passenger vans. Tours are limited in size (there are three vans). Please register at the Tours Desk Friday, March 14 Detroit Institute of Arts. BARON BARCLAY at least 24 hours in advance. A $5 reservation fee is Leave hotel at 9:45 a.m. Individuals pay entry fees ($8 required; it will be refunded during the tour on the per adult maximum). BRIDGE SUPPLIES return trip. All van trips are round trips. All tours are Baron Barclay has all the new titles and a large subject to availability. Saturday, March 15 RenCen Tour only. selection of sale books. We also have Detroit Tours of the RenCen will be available daily, NABC Souvenir Pins for $8 or free with any March 7-15, except Sunday. To go on a free private purchase of $20 or more. tour conducted by a guide for our group only, please register at the Tours Desk by 9 a.m. for the 10 a.m. tour on the same day. In addition, free public tours are available each day (except Sunday) at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tours of the RenCen will be listed Win $50! below only when there is no other tour on a given day. Baron Barclay will give away a $50 gift certificate each day from Saturday, March 8 to Saturday, March 15. Sign up at the Baron Barclay Bridge Sunday, March 9 Detroit Institute of Arts. Supplies booth for your chance to win! Leave hotel at 9:45 a.m. Individuals pay entry fees ($8 per adult maximum). The winner of Saturday’s drawing is Roger L. Smith of Sacramento CA. Monday, March 10 Henry Ford Museum. Leave hotel at 9 a.m. Individuals pay entry fees ($14 Bridge teacher and author Allan Mazer per adult maximum). will be at the Baron Barclay booth to Your Detroit hosts want you to enjoy your trip. sign his new book, “Listen, Learn, Tuesday, March 11 Ann Arbor and the They are offering a wide variety of excursions. Lead” or any of his previous four titles The Tour Desk, located on Level 4, is manned by University of Michigan. Leave hotel at 8 a.m. Visit on Sunday, March 9 at 4 p.m. the U-M Map Library. Map Library Head, Karl Mares Hirchert, Don Rumelhart, Donna Tope and Longstreth, has arranged a private tour for our group other volunteers who can help you. featuring panoramic views of Ann Arbor from the 8th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library and an unusual Happy Birthday, Al opportunity to view uncut 17th-century French Detroit-area expert Al Silber is playing in the geographic playing cards. Also visit the U-M 3D afternoon session of the Sunday-Monday Side Baron Barclay is located on the 4th Level in the Laboratory. 3D Lab Manager, Lars Schumann, has Game. He has a distinguished record of bridge Renaissance Ballroom foyer. We are open from 8:30 arranged a private tour centering on the virtual reality successes with many sectional and regional titles. a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7:30 p.m. daily. capabilities of this remarkable lab. Silber will celebrate his 96th birthday March 15. Daily Bulletin Page 3 JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS Alert! By Lynn Berg It can be hard to As with Alerts, you should remember to Alert, make sure the opponents are especially when you aware of your Announcement. play with the same Keep Announcements brief and partner all the time and simple. your bids are very Sometimes, you may realize familiar to both of you. that you have not given a timely It’s important to realize Alert or Announcement. In that that Alerts are not for case, you should call the director your benefit or if the auction is not finished, to partner’s. Alerts are make sure that the opponents get meant to keep the all their rights. If the auction is opponents informed. In fact, you have no right to over, you should tell the the information your partner gives to the opponents of a failure to Alert – opponents. In some cases, you must act as if you your own or partner’s – only if could not hear what your partner said! your side is declaring. Tell them You and your partner should have convention before the is made. cards made out identically. If you look at the card, They may want to call the you’ll see printing in black, in red and in blue. director, and they are certainly Items in black do not require Alerts, but you entitled to. may still have to answer questions about some of If your side is defending, you your bids. There is a wide latitude for variation in must wait until play is over standard bidding, and your treatment might be before telling the opponents somewhat different from another pair’s. about any failures on your part Any time you fill out a red line or check a red during the auction. box on your card, you must Alert if that The truth is, many times the convention comes up. Alerts should be timely. As opponents know what is going soon as your partner makes an Alertable bid, you on, even if you’ve forgotten. should say, “Alert,” making sure that the They may consult your side’s opponents hear you. . In many bid boxes, you can find a blue Alert From the other side of the card or stick. Take it out and show it to the table, there is protocol for opponents as you say “Alert.” Say only the word inquiring about an opponent’s bid Alert. Do not explain the call unless an opponent or Alert. Don’t ask unless you asks you to. need to know to make a bidding A blue box on your convention card means decision immediately. If you that if the bid comes up, you must make an know what you plan to do Announcement. For example, if partner opens anyway, don’t ask! It interferes 1NT, you are obliged to Announce the high-card with the flow of the bidding, and an improper The opening leader may ask questions before point range, e.g., “Fifteen to seventeen.” question could inhibit your partner’s defensive leading face down. It’s common for the opening Other examples are a forcing or semi-forcing actions. Ask only at your turn to bid. Don’t ask to leader to put his on the table face down and 1NT response to an opening bid of one of a major, wake your partner up. That’s unethical. If you are in inquire, “Questions, partner?” major-suit transfer bids over notrump openings the pass-out seat, though it’s legal to ask, usually it’s If you aren’t sure whether to Alert, err on the and – and the possibility that your 1♣ better to wait until partner has made a face-down side of being open and ethical to your opponents. opening could be shorter than three. lead. Thinking bridge hand (the pits), signs off at 3♠. has the ♣K makes it easy to play the ♣Q and Defensive commentary: West cashes three make the contract. If West is marked with the ♣K, By Eddie Kantar hearts and shifts to the ♦J. play a low club from dummy, hoping East has the Play commentary: As South, you see that West, jack. ♠ Dlr: West A 9 5 4 a passed hand, has already turned up with 10 HCP, If a passed hand turns up 10 HCP, play the ♥ Vul: N-S J 9 3 so East must have both black kings. There is still a partner for any missing queen, king or ace. If a ♦ Q 4 chance. Win the ♦Q, cash the ♠A, continue with the passed hand turns up with 11 HCP, play the ♣ A 10 6 4 ♦A and ♦K, stripping that suit, and exit a spade. On partner for any missing jack, queen, king or ace. ♠ ♠ 6 2 K 3 a good day, East will have started with a doubleton If a passed hand turns up with 12 HCP, you are ♥ ♥ A K Q 7 8 6 2 ♠K and be forced to return a club. Knowing East playing against a very conservative bidder! ♦ J 10 8 7 ♦ 9 5 3 2 ♣ J 7 5 ♣ K 9 8 3 ♠ Q J 10 8 7 The best deal at the ♥ 10 5 4 ♦ NABC is the Celebrity AK 6 Speaker Series. They ♣ Q 2 are educational, they West North East South are entertaining, and, Pass Pass Pass 1♠ best of all, they are free. Dbl 2NT Pass 3♠ Each day, 45 minutes All Pass before each session of bridge, you can learn Opening lead: ♥A. from the best. Susan Bidding commentary: West's passed-hand Srokosz and Julie Morrone, both of takeout double shows 9-11 high-card points, plus Windsor ON, attended a support for the unbid suits. In addition, West is session featuring likely to have four hearts, the unbid major. North's who jump to 2NT is conventional. It is the equivalent discussed common of a limit raise, because a jump to 3♠ after a errors in bidding. takeout double is considered weak and preemptive. South, with a minimum and balanced Page 4 Daily Bulletin

Bidding skill propels Yang, Shi to NAP win On Thursday evening, the District 13 duo of David Yang and Xiaodong Shi won the Baldwin Flight A. Yang and Shi, of the area, used excellent judgment in the bidding on these two deals from final to help them to the victory. A little luck was needed on the first deal, but when you’re hot, you’re hot: Dlr: East ♠ K 7 Vul: None ♥ A K 8 5 4 3 ♦ J Last year’s Silver Ribbon Pairs winners: Allan ♣ A J 6 2 Siebert and Alan Stout. ♠ A9 8 ♠ Q 6 4 3 ♥ 10 9 7 6 ♥ Q J Confused? Don’t know where you’re playing? Can’t find the bathroom? Look for local Silver Ribbon Pairs ♦ 5 4 ♦ 10 9 2 volunteers wearing an “Ask Me” button and a ♣ K 9 7 5 ♣ Q 10 8 4 begins today joker’s cap. Beverly Garner helps player Debbie ♠ J 10 5 2 The Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs — open only Stavro or Toronto ON. ♥ 2 to players who are at least 55 years old and who ♦ A K Q 8 7 6 3 have pre-qualified by placing first or second in a Showing them ♣ 3 regional- or national-rated senior event — gets how it’s done underway today. West North East South The Silver Ribbon Pairs By Shi Yang consists of two qualifying and Eric Leong found himself at the helm in 2NT Pass 1♦ two final sessions. The here, against a seeded pair, and showed them how it Pass 1♥ Pass 1♠ winners will have their names was supposed to be done. (Hands rotated for Pass 2♣ (1) Pass 2♦ inscribed on the Leventritt convenience.) Pass 2♥ Pass 3♦ ♠ Trophy and will receive a Dlr: East AK 8 Pass 4♦ Pass 4♥ (2) ♥ certificate of recognition. Vul: Both Q 8 Pass 5♣ (3) Pass 6♦ ♦ The trophy honors Peter 8 7 6 3 2 All Pass ♣ Leventritt of New York, ACBL president in 1954 Q J 10 (1) Fourth suit; game forcing. ♠ ♠ and assistant treasurer 1945-46. He served as Q 10 6 3 J 9 4 2 (2) Roman Key Card Blackwood for diamonds. ♥ ♥ president of the Greater New York Bridge K J 3 7 6 5 4 2 (3) 2 key cards without the ♦Q. ♦ ♦ Association and the Card School of New York, A Q 10 4 J 9 Yang credits the success of this deal to Shi’s 4♦ ♣ ♣ which he co-founded. 9 8 A2 bid which set diamonds as trumps and expressed ♠ Leventritt (1916-1997) pioneered the use of the 7 5 slam interest. ♥ Schenken System in partnership with its inventor, A 10 9 On the opening lead of a low club, Yang won ♦ . He represented North America in K 5 dummy’s ace, cashed the ♥A K and ruffed a heart ♣ the and placed second in 1957, 1961, K 7 6 5 4 3 (East discarding). Declarer reentered dummy with 1963 and 1965. West North East South the ♦J and ruffed another heart. Yang drew trumps Winners: Pass Pass and led a spade dummy’s king. The defense could ♦ ♥ ♣ 1992 James Leary, S. Irving Steinfeldt 1 Pass 1 2 not prevent declarer from getting to the dummy to ♥ 1993 Joan Remey Moore, Helen Shanbrom Dbl (1) 2 Pass 2NT discard his losing spades on the established hearts. 1994 Virgil Anderson, Jayne Thomas All Pass Plus 920 was good for 13 out of 13 matchpoints. 1995 Gene Freed, Peter Benjamin (1) . 1996 Phil Karani, West found the best lead of a spade. Leong won Dlr: South ♠ 10 9 5 3 2 ♣ 1997 Chuck Said, John Russell on the board and played the Q, ducked, then a Vul: N-S ♥ Q 5 4 1998 Eli Borok, Bill Sides second club. East won and returned a spade to the 10, ♦ K 9 5 1999 Jim Kirkham, Corinne Kirkham ducked, and a third spade was won in dummy. ♣ Q 9 2000 , Now came all the clubs. This was the position as ♠ K J 7 6 ♠ A8 2001 , Steve Catlett the last one hit the baize: ♥ A9 ♥ 8 7 2 ♠ 2002 Marilyn Hemenway, Mike Albert – ♦ A3 ♦ Q J 10 8 6 ♥ 2003 Roger Lord, Alan Popkin Q 8 ♣ 10 8 7 5 4 ♣ AK 2 ♦ 2004 Joseph Godefrin, Ed Schulte 8 7 6 ♠ Q 4 ♣ 2005 Marla Chaikin, Bill Esberg – ♥ K J 10 6 3 ♠ ♠ 2006 Lew Finkel, 6 J ♦ 7 4 2 ♥ ♥ 2007 , Alan Stout K J 7 6 ♣ J 6 3 ♦ AQ ♦ J 9 ♣ – ♣ – West North East South ♠ – Shi Yang ♥ A10 Pass ♦ K 5 1♣ Pass 1♦ 1♥ ♣ 7 1♠ 2♥ Dbl All Pass What was West to do? If he pitched a spade, he would be endplayed in one red suit to lead the other. If To see is to believe After passing originally, South overcalled 1♥ he pitched a heart, declarer would take his two heart See the very latest with his rather meager values, undeterred by the winners. And if, as he did, he threw a diamond, Leong ♠ in card dealing unfavorable vulnerability. Shi rebid 1 and North would lead a low diamond from his hand for his ninth raised hearts. Yang, who had enough values to force technology, which trick. to game, but lacked clear direction, doubled to get uses standard The defenders have two ways to do better. When more information from West. Shi, however, had no East wins the ♣A, he can lead a diamond through, or playing cards good options either and decided to convert the he can play the ♠9, to remain on lead for the ♦J rather than double to penalty. switch if declarer ducks. Note that if Leong has to win specially marked or bar coded cards. The defense scored seven obvious tricks to the second spade, West can unblock the ♠Q in the defeat the contract two tricks. Plus 500 was worth ending to break up the position. Demonstrations available at N.E. Bridge 13 out 13 matchpoints. Note that even if the Supplies next to the Renaissance Ballroom. vulnerability had been equal, the decision to convert Lost and found For further information: the double would have still been correct since East- West can’t make 3NT despite holding a combined A lost and found area has been set up in the www.playbridgedealer4.com 26 HCP. Daily Bulletin office in the Michelangelo Room, or Level 4. [email protected] Daily Bulletin Page 5

What are they thinking? East-West have a real problem after South opens a club — how to get to 4♥. At one table, they were faced with a somewhat different problem, one that they solved even less successfully. The footnotes (using editorial license) are supposed to represent the players’ thoughts. (Deal rotated.) Dlr: North ♠ 9 8 5 Vul: None ♥ A 6 5 4 ♦ J 10 8 5 ♣ A4 ♠ A4 ♠ K Q J 10 3 ♥ K Q 10 2 ♥ J 9 8 3 ♦ A K 8 7 6 ♦ 4 3 2 ♣ 10 6 ♣ Q ♠ Be sure and stop by the registration desk, 7 6 2 located on Level 4, to get your free goodies. Staff ♥ 7 Julie Baba, Bob Varty and Joanne Molt are there ♦ Q to help you sign up. The hours are 9 to 10 a.m., Mary MacNeil of Rochester MI tries out the ♣ K J 9 8 7 5 3 2 11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. The BridgePad in the 0-299er game yesterday. The West North East South section top prize desk is located next to the BridgePad is a device to send scores Pass Pass (1) 1NT (2) registration desk with the same hours. electronically to the game director instead of 2♦ (3) Dbl (4) 2♥ (5) Pass (6) filling out a pickup slip. “They’re easy to use,” ♣ said MacNeil. Pass Dbl (7) Pass 3 (8) Too Deep () for me! Pass 3NT (9) Pass Pass (10) By Barry Rigal Pass (11) You’d expect most North-South pairs to reach Parking? (1) I used to open these hands 2♠, but now I’ve 2♥ on this deal (rotated) from the first qualifying grown up. Two Great Deals! session of the Silodor Open Pairs. (2) I have not grown up. I know the opponents Park in the Beaubien Place Parking Garage at Dlr: East ♠ 6 5 3 don’t play a penalty double of 1NT. amazingly low rates: $8 per day on weekdays and Vul: Both ♥ 10 8 (3) I wish I were playing penalty doubles. just $1 per day on weekends. You must present a ♦ A5 3 (4) That’s what a penalty double looks like. discount coupon to get these rates. (Standard rates ♣ A J 9 7 6 (5) I hope they double me here. are $12 and $5.) These coupons are available at the ♠ K J 10 9 ♠ A Q 7 4 2 (6) I’ve probably done enough so far. Tournament Information Desk (Level 4, West ♥ J 4 3 ♥ 6 5 2 (7) That’s what a penalty double looks like. Foyer). ♦ J 10 8 7 ♦ 9 4 (8) Maybe I should sit for the double . . . hmm, The Beaubien Place Parking Garage is attached ♣ Q 5 ♣ K 10 4 better not. directly to the RenCen via an interior, covered ♠ 8 (9) ****!! Guess we’d better bid game then. walkway. You don’t have to go outside to get to the ♥ A K Q 9 7 (10) Maybe this is our cheapest minus score. playing site. ♦ K Q 6 2 (11) Wish we were playing penalty doubles! When you enter the garage, pull the parking ♣ 8 3 2 The play was unremarkable. West led the ♦A, ticket. When you exit, present the ticket and the The issue is whether declarer brings home plus and shifted to the ♥K. South (who was later heard coupon to the cashier to receive the discounted 170 or plus 140. At our table, the ♠J to the ace saw remarking that he wished he’d had enough nerve to price, which is also good for multiple night stays. East shift to a diamond, and declarer had an easy ) won the ♥A and cashed his nine tricks. Plus Please note that there is a handy map on the back of plus 170 for 17 out of 24 matchpoints. 400 was enough to keep South happy for the rest of each coupon. What if the defense tries repeated spade leads the evening (maybe the rest of the tournament). The least expensive parking during the week is instead? Maybe declarer can the fourth spade in at the GM Lot along the river. This is a very large dummy, but that means he can’t draw . surface lot near the Marriott. It costs only $3 per When playing against the Imagine South ruffs the second spade to lead a day. On weekdays, you will not find a less Poles, do as the Polish do! club. West carefully rises with the queen (else at expensive place to park. double-dummy play, declarer can put in dummy’s Both of these parking facilities are located east By Barry Rigal jack!), and when dealer ducks he plays a third spade. Our Polish opponents came to the table and of the RenCen. Declarer ruffs and plays the ♣A and another club – Alerted us to the fact that they lead low from and West pitches the fourth spade. That lets East doubletons. This deal (rotated) came from the first lead another spade, and this time, there is a trump qualifying session of the Silodor Open Pairs. You know you’re . . . promotion. Dlr: East ♠ Q 9 7 5 By Dorsey Brooks Minus 140 would have earned the defenders 14 Vul: N-S ♥ 7 2 You know you’re a fanatical out of 24 matchpoints. playing couple if: ♦ 10 8 5 1. Your wedding anniversary is between July 15 ♣ J 8 6 4 and July 31 (or Mar. 4 and Mar. 16). ♠ 6 2 ♠ J 10 8 3 Bridge Festival for women 2. Two weeks before the wedding, you ♥ A 10 6 5 3 ♥ J 4 The , in cooperation complain, “You know, you never really proposed to ♦ AQ ♦ 7 4 3 with Bridge Base Online, will host a Women’s me,” and he says, “You’re more beautiful than a 2♣ ♣ Q 10 9 2 ♣ K 7 5 3 Bridge Festival to be organized on the Internet, bid. When I’m a Life Master, will you be my Life ♠ AK 4 April 7-13, 2008. Four 10-board tournaments (pairs Mistress?” ♥ K Q 9 8 and individual, alternating) will be offered daily, for 3. Your relatives gasp and ask, “Who is that ♦ K J 9 6 2 a period of seven days. man getting into the honeymoon car with them?” ♣ A All the tournaments are limited exclusively to and your mother explains that, “He’s the Best Man, West North East South women players. Advanced registration is required, Bruce Gowdy. He’s our son’s partner in the Men’s Pass 1♦ no later than one week before the start of the Pairs.” 1♥ Pass Pass 1NT Festival. In order to participate, competitors must 4. You overhear your five-year old daughter say All Pass also have the (free) BBO software installed on their to her three-year old brother, “Let’s play house, you I was West. Not being psychic, I led the ♣10 to computer. The entry fee is $1 per session, the be the daddy.” Your son climbs into daddy’s chair the ace. I won the diamond play at trick two to lead standard fee for most BBO “pay” tournaments. and says, “You’ve got five spades to the King, a club to the 8 and queen. Declarer threw a Women interested in participating in this new Queen.” diamond. Now to get our six tricks, partner Eric and exciting event should go to 5. Two hours into the 10-hour ride home from Leong found the neat play of a low heart to the www.worldbridge.org for all the relevant the Summer NABC in Boston, your now 11-year-old queen and ace, for a low heart back to the jack. This information, which is available in many languages son, who has just served as a caddy for the first time way, at least, we held declarer to plus 90, critical in the Women’s section of the WBF website. asks, “What do other people DO when they go on since there were quite a few plus 110s for North- vacation?” South. Matchpoints: 17 out of 24. Child care 6. To celebrate your 50th wedding anniversary, Child care is available from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. your daughter buys a brick in your names for the Check cashing and 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Contact Donna Compton in River Walk at the GM Renaissance Center in front You can cash a check or purchase bridge bucks room 6320. of the Underground Railway Statue. It reads: ACBL each day at 12:00 p.m. at the Renaissance Foyer on LM Zerrene and Dorsey Brooks. Level 4. Page 6 Daily Bulletin

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET 1 13 Tables FIRST FRIDAY SENIOR PAIRS Mike Potoczak, Lincolnshire IL; Jaroslaw Piasecki, Buffalo Grove 22.0 Tables IL; Grazyna Brewiak, Gdansk 80- Poland; Kazimierz Omernik, ABC Poland 8.96 1 John Dreifus, Farmington MI; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Wds MI 67.82% vs George Retek, Westmount QC; Alvin Levy, Lake Worth FL; 6.72 2 Jack Jessop - Michael Selby, Windsor ON 60.53% Richard Anderson, Regina SK; Jerry Mamer - Dennis Nelson, 5.04 3 Ronald Horwitz, Farmington Hls MI; Brenda Jaffe, Farmington MI 59.38% Saskatoon SK 3.78 4 Sandra Hammer, New Smyrna Bch FL; Courtney Nelson, Wells VT 58.22% 5.67 5 1 Marlene Mandell - Seymour Mandell, Southfield MI 57.87% 15.47 3/4 Joyce Hampton, Blythewood SC; Lucas Lebioda, 2.94 6 Joyce Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Sandra DeMartino, Riverside CT 57.52% Columbia SC; Jon Rice - Mike Rice, Winston Salem NC; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Andrew Hurd, Charleston SC 4.25 7 2 1 Charles Federman, Bloomfield Hls MI; Dennis Potocsky, Melvindale MI 56.71% 15.47 3/4 David Langer - Mark Ginsburg, Buffalo Grove 3.19 3 2 Harriet Ruderman - Milton Ruderman, Roseville CA 54.05% IL; Jack Forstadt, Evanston IL; Alan Resser, Chicago IL 2.39 4 3 Helen Cook, Troy MI; Lois Booth, Birmingham MI 53.01% 1.96 5 John Marhofer, Cuyahoga Fls OH; Stephanie Bernstein, Solon OH 52.08% EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET 2 1.68 6 4 Dennis Ott, Orange Beach AL; Terry Davis, Ray MI 51.39% 9 Tables 1.55 5 Charles Gaeth, Benicia CA; Thomas Bode, Toledo OH 50.12% Paul Janus, Lincolnshire IL; William Smith, Riverwoods IL; Paul Wright Jr, Mount Pleasant SC; Scott Hiller, Marshall MN 1.68 6 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 50.00% vs Rosemary Bruggen - James Greiner, Loudon TN; Julia Misslin - ALAN CASTLE MEMORIAL 299ER PAIRS Peter Misslin, Vonore TN 7.0 Tables ABC 8.17 3/4 Nicholas Ogan, Moreland Hills OH; Chantal 2.40 1 Douglas Sweeder - Bill Ahlstrom, Bloomfield Hills MI 64.92% Whitney, Shaker Heights OH; Victor Vertes, OH; Marlene Zinamon, Beachwood OH 1.80 2 1 1 Allen Woolfrey - Jan Woolfrey, Mississauga ON 64.67% 8.17 3/4 Richard Kain - Gayle Harrison, 1.35 3 2 2 Stuart Dombey, Ann Arbor MI; Albert Sayed, Superior Townsh MI 55.92% MN; Bill Lough, Edina MN; Benny Libster, Zoran Israel 1.01 4 3 Meg Baker - Karen Warner, Rochester Hills MI 54.35% 0.76 5 4 Lorette Savauge, St Marys ON; Lori Bailey, Waterloo ON 53.42% EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET 3 12 Tables Gordon Zind - Catherine Chell, Ottawa ON; Helen McMaster, SIDE SERIES I Boston MA; Richard Saval, Wayland MA 8.0 Tables vs ABC Wayne Gergen - Thomas Racciatti, Minneapolis MN; Philip 2.73 1 Malcolm Collins, Dundas ON; Susan Oakes, Burlington ON 60.00% Duterme, Bellaire TX; Sam Dodson, TX 2.43 2 1 1 Suman Agarwal, Hilliard OH; Jerome Williams, Westerville OH 56.25% 1.82 3 2 Jim Rudolph - Adrienne Rudolph, Ann Arbor MI 55.83% 5.56 3/4 Stuart Danoff - Joan Danoff, Stamford CT; Tad Stawski, Pickering ON; Norman Crandell Sr, Hiawassee GA 1.01 4/5 Ed Freeman, Portland OR; Richard Douglas, Kemblesville PA 55.00% 5.56 3/4 Richard Peacock - Lucy Peacock, Grosse Pnte Pk 1.49 4/5 3 2 Jim Carey, Clinton IA; Arnold Holmberg, Anoka MN 55.00% MI; Darlene Smith - Richard Smith, St Clair Shrs MI 1.03 4 Dan Neill, Lexington KY; Jason Rotenberg, Fairfield CT 54.58%

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION KO BRACKET 4 FIRST SATURDAY FAST PAIRS 13 Tables 12.0 Tables Joyce Michaelson - Carol Holcombe - B George Holcombe, Anchorage AK; Pierina Graebe, Northford CT ABC vs 12.25 1 , NY; Shannon Cappelletti, Hollywood FL 62.80% Judith Kilcher, Clinton Twp MI; Jeff La Caze - Thomas Lewis, Hot 9.19 2 Harry Nuckols - Mary Poplawski, Vestal NY 61.31% Sprgs Vlg AR; Donna Frohm, Burtchville MI 6.89 3 John Moffat, Bellingham WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 59.52% 5.17 4 Bernard Fudor, Murrysville PA; Allan Smith, Peterborough ON 59.38% 2.74 3/4 Dianne Kiehl, Muskego WI; Marlene Backus, Brookfield WI; David Hunt - Fani Hason, San Diego CA 4.08 5 Marc Rabinowitz, Hudson OH; Michael White, Atlanta GA 58.18% 2.74 3/4 Barbara Olsen, Pickering ON; Constance Van 3.50 6 Sylvia Moss - , New York NY 56.70% Ditzhuyzen, Stouffville ON; Debbie Stavro - Catharine Gilmour, 3.06 7 Barbara Clinton, Aurora ON; Roni Atkins, PA 54.02% Toronto ON; Arne Garvander, Richfield MN 4.43 1 1 Frederic Fayle, Rochester MI; James Banaszek, Washington MI 51.49% 3.32 2 Tammy Pepper, Thousand Oaks CA; C. Buddy Carls, Huntington Bh CA 48.81% FIRST FRIDAY MIDNITE KO 2.49 3 Margaret Moore - Judi Amatangelo, Northville MI 45.98% 6 Tables 2.43 1 Susan Conrad, Madison OH; Joan Ann Waletzky, 2.60 4 2 Pat Denapoli, Lasalle ON; Peggy Kainz, Windsor ON 45.83% Beachwood OH; Francis Tseng, Erie PA; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro 1.95 3 Stephen Massicotte, Sarnia ON; Marc Seguin, Windsor ON 45.54% PA 1.29 2 Vera Petty - Roman Smolski, Warwick Bermuda; HARKISHAN LALL GULATI SENIOR PAIRS G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Georgia Heth, Morton IL 26.0 Tables ABC FIRST SATURDAY/SUNDAY MORNING KO BRACKET I 16 Tables 9.80 1 Vera Petty - Roman Smolski, Warwick Bermuda 63.72% David Maidman - Marin Marinov, New York NY; Rumen 7.35 2 Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI; William Malesevich, Mayville WI 63.03% Trendafilov - , Varna Bulgaria 5.67 3 1 Russell Samuel, Glen Cove NY; Barry Samuel, Santa Cruz CA 62.76% vs 4.25 4 2 1 Sanford Birnholtz, Keego Harbor MI; Clarke Cunningham, Dearborn MI 60.96% Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; Earl Knipfel, Moose Jaw SK; 3.66 5 Bill Cook Jr, Madison MS; Jeffrey Taylor, Eugene OR 59.97% Witold Turant, Lodz Poland; Jan Zadroga, Ksiazenice Poland 2.90 6 Carl Eastman, Toms River NJ; Aaron Cohen, Manchester To NJ 59.35% Kelley Hwang - John Ramos, New York NY; Will Engel, Freeport 2.90 7 Jeanine Dow - C Arthur Nevins, Kalamazoo MI 58.95% IL; James Melville, Springfield IL 3.19 3 2 Richard Johns, Okemos MI; C Phillip Simonds, Livonia MI 56.73% vs 2.39 4 3 W Oates - P Oates, Brighton MI 53.33% Riva Akerman - Elliot Sternlicht - Alan Lechner, New York NY; 1.89 5 Alain Blaise, Val-David QC; Francois Falardeau, Repentigny QC 52.48% Thomas Rozinski, Forest Hills NY 1.62 6 Jule Greene, Macon GA; Carl Nelson Jr, Dublin GA 51.61% 1.67 4 Suresh Kamat, Fairfield OH; Jayant Sudame, Middletown OH 51.37% 1.68 5 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 50.47% Corner Market 1.13 6 Carol Chudy - Henry Chudy, Jr, Williamsville NY 49.43% BRIDGE+ Gift & Coffee Shop 8.0 Tables 1.05 1 Sheri Rotenberg, Bloomfield Hill MI; Miriam Forman, W Bloomfield MI 59.13% 0.69 2/3 Joan Richardson - Constance Jones, Brighton MI 58.93% Featuring fresh brewed 0.69 2/3 Joyce Byrwa - Bob Byrwa, Bloomfield Hills MI 58.93% 0.44 4 Gwendolyn Lemmons - Barbara J White, Detroit MI 56.75% Illy Coffee 0.29 5/6 Donna Schnepf, Saginaw MI; Pat Brown, Linwood MI 56.35% And a large selection of 0.37 5/6 Judi Petterson, Oakland MI; Lauretta Powell, Rochester Hills MI 56.35% Coca-Cola products SAM/DAN HIRSCHMAN 299ER PAIRS 20.0 Tables ABC Receive 15% off 4.24 1 1 1 Ronald Gutzwiller - Deborah Gutzwiller, Mason OH 71.73% any one Detroit Souvenir* 3.18 2 2 Tova Reinhorn - Andrei Reinhorn, Williamsville NY 64.80% *With the purchase of any beverage 2.39 3 3 2 Frances Kawalec - Henry Lee Evans, Ann Arbor MI 63.39% 1.79 4 4 Richard Brewer - Henry Haberkamp, Rochester Hills MI 61.52% 1.41 5 5 3 Jean Hornbacher - Peggy Roberts, Rochester Hills MI 60.20% We are located on the 1.01 6 6 Jack Bourget, Bloomfield Hill MI; Joy Selesko, Livonia MI 59.82% 1.41 4 Debbie Stavro, Toronto ON; Constance Van Ditzhuyzen, Stouffville ON 58.63% 3rd floor of the Marriott, 0.99 5 Douglas Sweeder, Bloomfield MI; William Ahlstrom, Bloomfield Hls MI 58.04% just off the Main Lobby. 0.71 6 Richard Cantley, Birmingham MI; Dennis Waniolek, Shelby Township MI 57.74% Daily Bulletin Page 7

SAM/DAN HIRSCHMAN 49ER PAIRS FIRST SATURDAY/SUNDAY MORNING KO BRACKET 2 18.0 Tables 16 Tables ABC Karen Lane - Suzanne Kosky - Phil Dowd - Jan Stewart, Toronto ON 2.94 1 1 Fred Gramlich, Alexandria VA; Jack Williams, Grosse Pointe Fa MI 65.05% vs 2.21 2 2 Robert Bercovici - Bina Feldman, Toronto ON 63.52% Michael Sherman, Chickamauga GA; Jeffrey Boak, Bethesda MD; 1.65 3 Martha Fordon, Grosse Pte Frms MI; Gwen Balance, Grosse Pointe MI 62.50% Adam Kaplan - Todd Kaplan, New Port Richey FL 1.24 4 3 1 Hiro Sugiura - Mako Sugiura, Livonia MI 61.01% 0.93 5 4 Susan Michelotti, Birimingham MI; Robert Michelotti, Birmingham MI 58.70% Tony Viidik - Joan Viidik, Waterloo ON; William Mellon - Xiao 1.00 6 5 2 Stuart Sherman, MI; Luai Hinnawi, Canton MI 56.55% (Joe) Zhao, Hamilton ON vs 0.52 6 3 Wendy Subrin, Rochester Hills MI; Mary Macneil, Rochester MI 54.04% Dana Elliott - William Connellan, Rochester MI; Connie Dugger - 0.50 4 Susan Solarz, Farminghton Hls MI; Marlene Emmer, Farmington Hill MI 53.87% Stephen Kalstein, Birmingham MI

TOM GARDNER SIDE SERIES II FIRST SATURDAY/SUNDAY MORNING KO BRACKET 3 20.0 Tables 16 Tables Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Cameron Shunta, Grand ABC Haven MI; Zachary Wasserman, Farmington MI; Brian Wyman, 4.55 1 M Schuler, Alexandria VA; Benny Libster, Zoran Israel 74.31% Ann Arbor MI 3.41 2 1 Betsy Wilson - Jim Wilson, Strongsville OH 63.89% vs 2.56 3 John Gustafson - Helen Gustafson, Des Moines IA 63.66% Robert Jiobu - Honey Barnes - Judith Nevai, Columbus OH; Dean 2.58 4/5 2 1 Matthew Huntington, Rochester MN; David Gronbeck, Minneapolis MN 59.95% Congbalay, Terrace Park OH 1.68 4/5 Walter Pease - Catherine Dwinnell, Anchorage AK 59.95% Ray Feher, Mountain TN; Joyce Feher, Signal Mt TN; 1.94 6 3 2 Dorothy Dunn - Ernest Dunn, Durand MI 59.72% William Hamden - Bonnie Hamden, Shelby Twp MI 1.35 4 Bert Onstott III - Katherine Onstott, Stafford TX 56.25% vs 1.45 5 3 Gerald Avery, Dewitt MI; Jerry Stimpfle, Dansville MI 54.86% Mary Lovrics, Don Mills ON; Barbara Murray, Caledon ON; Josee 1.09 6 4 Genadiy Hirscht, Albion MI; Susan Shorter, Saint Paul MN 51.62% Hammill - Shelley Burns, Toronto ON 1.24 5 Robert Hobbs, Ann Arbor MI; Susan Halasi, Toronto ON 49.31% A M COMPACT CONSOLATION BRACKET 1 8 Tables Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Serge de Muller, Fribourg Switzerland; Gary Brown, CA; Kiran Vanderbilt KOs start today Gulati, Bloomfield MI vs The Vanderbilt Knockout Teams begin today with 14 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; , Charles Nemes, Hinsdale IL; Subba Ravipudi, Downey CA; Martin a total of 75 teams entered. The top 31 teams recieve New York NY; - Walid Elahmady, Morris, Wheeling IL; William McFall, New Berlin WI byes and begin play tomorrow. The remaining 44 Cairo Egypt; Terje Aa, Heimdal, Norway; Joergen Bud Biswas, Lexington MA; Robert Casey, Worcester MA; Paul teams play today in 11 four-way matches with three Molberg, Trondheim Norway Wolf II, Shrewsbury MA; Merle Stetser, Honolulu HI teams advancing from each. The 33 survivors join the 15 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; , West vs 31 with byes to begin knockout play on Monday. Bloomfield MI; Stephen Landen, Ellicott City Melanie Tucker - John Kranyak - John Hurd, New York NY; Joel The top-seeded 27 teams are: MD; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Sarasota FL; Mike Wooldridge, Buffalo NY 1 , New York NY; , Passell, Las Vegas NV; , Houston TX A M COMPACT CONSOLATON BRACKET 2 Hollywood FL; - 16 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Gunnar Hallberg, 8 Tables - -, Rome Italy Brighton, United Kingdom; Fredrik Nystrom, Michael Strong, Winfield IL; Dick Wilson - Marilyn Goldman, Rochester NY; Gene Miley, Hinsdale IL 2 , New York NY; , Stockholm, Sweden; , Taby, vs Atlanta GA; , Clearwater Bch FL; Sweden; Zhao Jie, Tianjin, People’s Republic of John Kinst, Batavia IL; Jean Faeth, Hinsdale IL; Craig Wakefield, Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL; - Bob China; Fu Zhong, Beijing, China Des Plaines IL; Robert Dolan, Oak Park IL Hamman, Dallas TX 17 Michael Moss, New York NY; Vincent Demuy, 3 Lou Ann O’Rourke, Scottsdale AZ; Laval QC; Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Ira Chorush, - , Las Vegas NV; Giorgio Houston TX Duboin, Torino Italy; , Philadelphia PA; 18 , New York NY; Migry Zur , Barcelona Spain Campanile, East Palo Alto CA; Hjordis 4 - George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Robert Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL; Bjarni Einarsson, YOU'RE SO Levin, Bronx NY; , Andes NY; Neskaupstad, Iceland; Jon Baldursson, CLOSE YOU , New York NY; Michael Hafnarfjordur, Iceland; Thorlakur Jonsson, Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY Kopavogur, Iceland CAN ALMOST 5 Aubrey Strul, Delray Beach FL; Michael Becker - 19 Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Martin Fleisher - David Berkowitz - Larry Cohen, Boca Raton FL; , New York NY; William TASTE IT. , Castro Valley CA; , Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ; Steve Beatty, Mill Davis CA Creek WA; Douglas Doub, W Hartford CT FIND US ON 6 - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow 20 Piotr Tuszynski, Warsaw Poland; Farid Assemi - Russia; , Smolec Poland; Adam James Tritt, Fresno CA; Edward Wojewoda, LEVEL 1 Zmudzinski, Katowice Poland Clovis CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA; Apolinary 7 Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; , San Kowalski, Warsaw, Poland Francisco CA; , Gaithersburg MD; 21 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; , , Mesa AZ; , Oslo Huixquilucan Mexico; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA; Norway; , Trondheim Norway Jr, Mission Viejo CA; Huub 8 , Chicago IL; , Bertens, Tilburg 50 Netherlands; Ton Sarasota FL; , Parma Italy; Roy Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands Welland - -Welland, New York NY 22 Krzysztof Martens, Rzeszow Poland; Krzysztof 9 , Arlington VA; , Jassem, Puszczykoud Poland; Boguslaw Weekdays: Darnestown MD; , Kensington CA; Gierulski, Elblag Poland; Jerzy Skrzypczak, , Bloomington NY; , Mragowo Poland 6:30am - 7:00pm Houston TX; , Las Vegas NV 23 Bob Jones, Hypoluxo FL; , Las Vegas Weekends 10 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; , NV; Paul Marston, Australia 1360 Australia; 8:00am - 7:00pm Dallas TX; , Huntsville AL; Joe Stephen Burgess, Sydney Australia "Starbucks and the Starbucks logo are registered Grue, New York NY; , Mill Valley CA; 24 Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL; , trademarks of Starbucks US Brands, LLC" Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV London England; , Dallas TX; 11 , CA; , New Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL York NY; Fred Chang, Flushing NY; Jacek 25 Robert Hollman, Santa Barbara CA; Dennis Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Gary Cohler, Miami Clerkin - Jerry Clerkin, Bloomington IN; FL; Grant Baze, San Diego CA , Florianska C19 Poland; 12 , Miami FL; Russell Ekeblad, Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk Poland; Bruce Providence RI; , Encinitas CA; Ferguson, Boise ID Marcin Lesniewski, Zakopane Poland; Louk 26 John Fout - Michael Polowan, New York NY; Jeff Verhees, Voorhou Netherlands; Jan Jansma, Roman, Alexandria VA; Bryan Maksymetz, Alert Malden Netherlands Bay BC; Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC; Sushi 13 Andrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Bjorn Jacob Morgan, Madison WI Located on Level 1 Fallenius, New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo 27 Melanie Tucker - John Kranyak - John Hurd, Sweden; Piotr Gawrys - Bartosz Chmurski, New York NY; , Buffalo NY; Monday - Friday Warsaw Poland , Rotterdan Netherlands; Bas 10:30 AM - 7 PM Drijver, Rotterdam Netherlands Page 8 Daily Bulletin The Vanderbilt K

The premier event of the Spring North American Championships is the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams. The history of the prestigious contest stretches back to 1928 when the man who invented , Harold S. Vanderbilt, put the trophy bearing his name into play. The winners list is a who’s who of bridge, a parade of the titans of the game. As part of the ACBL’s ongoing archiving project, photos of some of the winners are included with this history. The The Vanderbilt Trophy for the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams was donated in 1928 by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who won the event in 1932 and 1940. The Vanderbilt was contested annually in New York —- as a separate championship —- until 1958 The Vanderbilt champs in 1950 (holding an unidentified trophy) were John Crawford, when it became part of the Spring North American , George Rapee, Howard Championships. Schenken and . Vanderbilt winners receive replicas of the trophy —- a practice initiated by Vanderbilt from the first running of the event and perpetuated by a $100,000 trust fund administered by ACBL under the terms of Vanderbilt’s will. On display at ACBL Headquarters in Memphis are replicas donated by the families of Caroline Taylor, who won the Vanderbilt in 1928, and , a Vanderbilt winner in 1944 and 1945.

Winners: 1928 Ralph Richards, Gratz Scott, Edwin Wetzlar, Wilbur Whitehead tied with Abraham Brown, Mrs. Sidney Lovell, Caroline Taylor, Nils Wester 1929 Michael Gottlieb, Lee Langdon, Jean The 1964 winners were Eddie Kantar, Bob Mattheys, Harry Raffel Hamman, , Howard Schenken, Peter 1930 , , Leventritt and Don Krauss. This picture, taken , 1950 John Crawford, George Rapee, Howard the following year, is a shot of the defending 1931 David Burnstine, , Willard Schenken, Sidney Silodor, Sam Stayman champs, but with a change in the roster. Karn, P. Hal Sims 1951 B. Jay Becker, John Crawford, George Rapee, (Standing) Kantar, Hamman; (seated) Mathe, 1932 Willard Karn, P. Hal Sims, Harold S. Schenken and . Sam Stayman Vanderbilt, Waldemar von Zedtwitz 1952 Ned Drucker, Irvin Kass, Sidney Mandell, 1933 Phil Abramsohn, Benjamin Feuer, Francis Milton Moss, Jesse Sloan Rendon, Sydney Rusinow 1953 , , Peter 1934 David Burnstine, Richard Frey, Michael Leventritt, William Lipton, Gottlieb, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schenken 1954 Kalman Apfel, Francis Begley, Ned Drucker, 1935 David Burnstine, Michael Gottlieb, Oswald Sidney Mandell, Milton Moss Jacoby, Howard Schenken, 1955 B. Jay Becker, John Crawford, George Rapee, 1936 Phil Abramsohn, Irving Epstein, Harry Howard Schenken, Sidney Silodor Fishbein, Fred Kaplan 1956 B. Jay Becker, John Crawford, George Rapee, 1937 David Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby, Merwyn Howard Schenken, Sidney Silodor Maier, Howard Schenken, Sherman Stearns 1957 B. Jay Becker, John Crawford, George Rapee, 1938 David Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby, Merwyn Howard Schenken, Sidney Silodor Maier, Howard Schenken, Sherman Stearns 1958 , Sam Fry Jr., Leonard 1939 Melville Alexander, Sigmund Dornbusch, Syl Harmon, , They won in 1979: (standing) Richard Freeman, Gintell, Lee Hazen, Harry Raffel 1959 B. Jay Becker, John Crawford, , ; (seated) Cliff Russell, , 1940 Edward Hymes Jr., Charles Lochridge, Robert George Rapee, Sidney Silodor, Eddie Wold and Tommy Sanders. McPherran, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Waldemar 1960 John Crawford, Norman Kay, Sidney Silodor, von Zedtwitz Tobias Stone 1941 John Crawford, Myron Fuchs, Robert 1961 Charles Coon, Robert Jordan, , McPherran, Sherman Stearns Arthur Robinson 1942 Lester Bachner, Sigmund Dornbusch, Richard 1962 Larry Kolker, Carolyn Levitt, Jerry Levitt, Frey, Lee Hazen, Sam Stayman Garrett Nash, George de Runtz 1943 Harry Fagin, Harry Fishbein, Fred Kaplan, 1963 , Edith Kemp, , Alvin Roth, Tobias Stone Clifford Russell, William Seamon, Albert 1944 B. Jay Becker, , Sidney Silodor, Weiss Helen Sobel 1964 , Eddie Kantar, Don Krauss, 1945 B. Jay Becker, Charles Goren, Sidney Silodor, , Lew Mathe, Howard Helen Sobel Schenken 1946 John Crawford, Oswald Jacoby, George 1965 Philip Feldesman, John Fisher, , Rapee, Howard Schenken, Sam Stayman Oswald Jacoby, , 1947 David Clarren, Harry Feinberg, Harry 1966 Philip Feldesman, Bob Hamman, Sami Team spirit: The 1985 Vanderbilt champs were Fishbein, Larry Hirsch, Joseph Low Kehela, Lew Mathe, Ira Rubin Michael Becker, Eric Rodwell, Ron Rubin, Peter 1948 Robert Appleyard, Jay T. Feigus, William 1967 James Jacoby, , Lew Mathe, Weichsel, Mike Lawrence and Jeff Meckstroth. Lichtenstein, Harry Sonnenblick, Albert , , Lew Weiss Stansby 1949 , Harry Fishbein, Lee Hazen, 1968 Bobby Jordan, Edgar Kaplan, Norman Kay, Larry Hirsch, Charles Lochridge Arthur Robinson, , Alvin Roth Daily Bulletin Page 9 Knockout Teams

1986 Edgar Kaplan, Norman Kay, Bill Root, 1987 , Peter Boyd, Lew Stansby, , Steve Robinson, Chip Martel 1988 Eddie Kantar, Alan Sontag, John Mohan, Roger Bates 1989 Ron Rubin, Michael Becker, Bart Bramley, Robert Levin, Lou Bluhm, Peter Weichsel 1990 Dan Morse, John Sutherlin, Michael Kamil, , Tom Sanders, Bill Pollack 1991 Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Kit Woolsey, 1992 Andy Goodman, John Mohan, Roger Bates, The 1987 winners pose with their miniature , Neil Chambers trophy replicas: Peter Boyd, Lew Stansby, 1993 Howard Weinstein, Peter Nagy, Dan Morse, Steve Robinson, Peter Pender, Chip Martel and Hugh Ross. John Sutherlin, Tom Sanders, 1994 , Gaylor Kasle, , Zia Mahmood, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby 1995 Bill Root, Richard Pavlicek, Michael Polowan, Marc Jacobus 1996 Zia Mahmood, Michael Rosenberg, Seymon Deutsch, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby 1997 Richard Schwartz, Mark Lair, Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Paul Soloway, 1998 Richard Schwartz, Mark Lair, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Paul Soloway, Bobby Goldman 1999 George Jacobs, Ralph Katz, Peter Weichsel, This squad won four-handed in 1995: Marc Alan Sontag, Lorenzo Lauria, Alfredo Jacobus, Bill Root, Richard Pavlicek and Versace Michael Polowan. 2000 Nick Nickell, Richard Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell 2001 Andrei Gromov, Aleksander Petrunin, Cezary 1969 Gerald Hallee, Paul Soloway, John Swanson, Balicki, Adam Zmudzinski Richard Walsh 2002 Reese Milner, Marc Jacobus, Sam Lev, John 1970 Edgar Kaplan, Norman Kay, , Mohan, Jacek Pszczola, Piotr Gawrys Sidney Lazard, Eric Murray, George Rapee 2003 Nick Nickell, Richard Freeman, Bob 1971 Bill Eisenberg, Bobby Goldman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Hamman, Jim Jacoby, Mike Lawrence, Eric Rodwell Bobby Wolff 2004 George Jacobs, Ralph Katz, Lorenzo Lauria, 1972 Steven Altman, Eugene Neiger, Thomas Alfredo Versace, Norberto Bocchi, Giorgio Smith, Alan Sontag, Joel Stuart, Peter Duboin Weichsel 2005 Richard Schwartz, Michael Becker, Larry 1973 Mark Blumenthal, Bobby Goldman, Bob Cohen, David Berkowitz, Massimo Hamman, Mike Lawrence, Bobby Wolff Lanzarotti, Andrea Buratti The 1997 Vanderbilt winners: (standing) Bobby 1974 David Crossley, Robert Crossley, Eric 2006 Fred Chang, Seymon Deutsch, Gunnar Goldman, Steve Robinson, Paul Soloway, Peter Kokish, Joey Silver Hallberg, , Fu Zhong Boyd; (seated) Richard Schwartz and Mark 1975 Roger Bates, Larry Cohen, Richard Katz, 2007 Christal Henner-Welland, Antonio Sementa, Lair. John Mohan, , Bjorn Fallenius, Cezary 1976 Roger Bates, Larry Cohen, Richard Katz, Balicki, Adam Zmudzinski John Mohan, George Rosenkranz 1977 , Mark Blumenthal, Fred Hamilton, Mike Lawrence, Ron Rubin, John Swanson 1978 , Bobby Goldman, Eddie Kantar, , Mike Passell, Paul Soloway 1979 Lou Bluhm, Richard Freeman, Mark Lair, Cliff Russell, Tom Sanders, Eddie Wold 1980 Russ Arnold, , Jeff Meckstroth, Bud Reinhold, Eric Rodwell 1981 B. Jay Becker, Michael Becker, Edgar Kaplan, Norman Kay, Ron Rubin 1982 James Jacoby, Jeff Meckstroth, Mike Passell, Eric Rodwell, George Rosenkranz, Eddie Wold 1983 Bill Root, Richard Pavlicek, Norman Kay, Edgar Kaplan 1984 Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Hugh Ross, Peter Pender 1985 Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, Ron Rubin, Mike Lawrence, Michael Becker, Peter Last years’s winners: 2007 ACBL President Sharon Fairchild presents the Vanderbilt Trophy to the Weichsel 2007 winners: Bjorn Fallenius, Antonio Sementa, Christal Henner-Welland, Roy Welland, Adam Zmudzinski and Cezary Balicki. Page 10 Daily Bulletin

Patricia Otis, Dearborn MI; Rose Marie Cassmer, Macedonia OH; TOM GARDNER SIDE SERIES II Barbara Kalnick, Trenton MI; Angelina Searles, Alliance OH 56.00 Tables vs 7.84 1/2 M Schuler, Alexandria VA 137.13% Jean Carpenter, Harbor Springs MI; David Muzzall, Petoskey MI; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL; Arlene Dick, Sherman Oaks CA 7.84 1/2 Benny Libster, Zoran 137.13% 6.35 3/4 Johan Upmark, Stockholm 125.71% A M COMPACT CONSOLATION BRACKET 3 6.35 3/4 Jessica Piafsky, New York NY 125.71% 8 Tables 5.85 5/6 Alan Schafer, Essexville MI 124.61% John Lamarre - Dale Mackenzie, Barrie ON; Jamie Rocci, Lisle 5.85 5/6 Robert Varty, Grand Rapids MI 124.61% ON; William Niemczyk, Novi MI 4.80 7/8 , Stony Brook NY 120.52% vs Ronnie Sweed - Norman Sweed, Potomac MD; Peggy Harbers - 4.80 7/8 Margo Sinclair, New York NY 120.52% Mike Harbers, Franklin TN ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 1 JACK & JEAN SCHULTZ SWISS 16 Tables 53 Tables 65.00 1 James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon, ABC Hollywood FL; Claudio Nunes, Roma Italy; Fulvio Fantoni - 9.56 1 Glenn Robbins, New York NY; Arnold Fisher, Clementon NJ; Fred Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy Paul, Cliffside Pk NJ; Bob Gwirtzman, Brooklyn NY 77.00 45.50 2 Reese Milner, Los Angeles CA; Fred Chang, 7.17 2 Joyce Hampton, Blythewood SC; Lucas Lebioda, Columbia SC; Jon Flushing NY; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Grant Baze, San Diego CA; Sam Lev, New York NY; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC Rice - Mike Rice, Winston Salem NC; David Grainger, Etobicoke 26.00 3/4 , New York NY; Warren Spector, ON; Andrew Hurd, Charleston SC 67.00 Palm Beach FL; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba 44 Israel; Eldad 5.38 3 Abe Jakob, Ft Lauderdale FL; Serge de Muller, Fribourg Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel Switzerland; Gary Brown, San Francisco CA; Carlos Pellegrini, 26.00 3/4 Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Kyle Larsen, San Buenos Aires Argentina 59.00 Francisco CA; Geir Helgemo, Trondheim Ca Norway; Tor Helness, Oslo Norway; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, 3.53 4/5 Ken Monzingo, San Diego CA; Bonnie Bagley, Spgs CO; Katowice 40-479 Poland Aileen Osofsky, Phoenix AZ; Ken Barbour, Scottsdale AZ 58.00 3.53 4/5 George St Pierre - Harry Stratton, Columbus OH; Roy Baldwin, ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 2 Dublin OH; Robert Brandow, Toledo OH 58.00 16 Tables 2.27 6 Mel Colchamiro - Janet Colchamiro, Merrick NY; Daniel Colatosti, 44.76 1 David Maidman - Marin Marinov, New York Boca Raton FL; John Malley, Pascoag RI 57.00 NY; Rumen Trendafilov - Kalin Karaivanov, Varna Bulgaria 31.33 2 G Venkatesh, Los Altos CA; Anil Padhye, 5.16 1 Margot Hirsch, Arlington TX; Joo-Hee Janicki, Markham ON; Mumbay India; Jyotindra Shah - S Karmakar, Mumbai India Loretta Green, Dodd City TX; Andrzej Niewiadomski, Scarborough ON 46.00 17.90 3/4 Glenn Robbins, New York NY; Bob Gwirtzman, 3.87 2 Jerry Thorpe, Tacoma WA; Eugene Kales, East Lansing MI; Louise Brooklyn NY; Arnold Fisher, Clementon NJ; Fred Paul, Cliffside Pk Hollingsworth - Edith Ferber, Waterloo ON 45.00 NJ 3.49 3/4 1 Ronald Lipowski - Thomas Hunt, Rochester Hills MI; Ross 17.90 3/4 Jerry Fleming, Los Alamos NM; Cecil Cook, Weinstein, Oakland MI; Gwen Kuechle, Rochester MI 44.00 Long Beach CA; Richard Anderson, Regina SK; George Retek, Westmount QC 2.54 3/4 Stephen Allen, Rochester Hills MI; Norm Bash, West Bloomfield MI; Steven Jacob, Birmingham MI; Curt Hofer, Novi MI 44.00 ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 3 2.62 5/7 2 William Preston, St Joseph MI; David Shafer, Richland MI; Marian 12 Tables Gilbert, Kalamazoo MI; Linda Hartman, Allegan MI 43.00 27.74 1 Linda Harrison, Calgary AB; Rock Shi Yan, 1.26 5/7 Gilbert Fox, Auburn IN; Edmond Douville, Hobart IN; Donna Simon Richmond BC; Hao Ge, Cleveland OH; Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA 19.42 2 Richard Radtke, Plymouth MI; R Lisa, Grosse - Daniel Simon, South Bend IN 43.00 Ile MI; Kenneth Smith, Lathrup Village MI; Nathan Banker, Flat 1.26 5/7 Katherine Rabenstein, Washington DC; Patricia Stephenson - Diane Rock MI Schafer, Lansing MI; Edgar De Souza, Burlington ON 43.00 11.10 3/4 Joyce Hampton, Blythewood SC; Lucas Lebioda, 1.72 3/4 Randall Farr - James White - Jean Lin, Windsor ON; A Joan Columbia SC; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Andrew Hurd, Fischer, Burton MI 42.00 Charleston SC; Jon Rice - Mike Rice, Winston Salem NC 1.72 3/4 David Nagy - Armeen Qayoom, Tecumseh ON; T Poisson, Belle River 11.10 3/4 Jadwiga Polujan, Port Coquitlam BC; Richard Wieland, Falls Church VA; Dick Wilson - Marilyn Goldman, ON; Bea Woodman, Windsor ON 42.00 Rochester NY 1.10 5 Richard Peacock - Lucy Peacock, Grosse Pnte Pk MI; Darlene Smith - Richard Smith, St Clair Shrs MI 39.00 ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 4 14 Tables TOM GARDNER SIDE SERIES II 19.90 1 Carl Bartone, Bonita Springs FL; Karen Bartone, 23.0 Tables Penticton BC; Jean Monette, Hallandale FL; Claude Henin, Ottawa ON ABC 13.93 2 Clark Malcolm - Jerry Thornton - Adrienne 5.01 1 1 Jessica Piafsky, New York NY; Johan Upmark, Stockho Sweden 66.67% Rudolph - James Rudolph, Ann Arbor MI 3.76 2 John D’Errico, Alton NY; Sally Hill, Webster NY 65.28% 7.96 3/4 Wayne Gergen - Thomas Racciatti, Minneapolis 2.82 3 M Schuler, Alexandria VA; Benny Libster, Zoran Israel 62.82% MN; Sam Dodson, Houston TX; Philip Duterme, Bellaire TX 2.62 4 2 Bruce Scott, Des Plaines IL; James Abbott, Chicago IL 58.56% 7.96 3/4 Rosemary Bruggen - James Greiner, Loudon TN; Julia Misslin - Peter Misslin, Vonore TN 1.59 5 Georgann Humphrey - Jim Humphrey, Highland Park IL 56.94% 2.05 6 3 Shirley Wright - Robert Pezzack, Toronto ON 56.45% ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 5 1.47 4 C. Thompson Wells, Jr - Janet Wells, Grosse Pointe MI 56.02% 16 Tables 1.96 5 Michael Mullendore, Ellicott City MD; Samuel Phillips, Largo FL 55.79% 14.73 1 Bev Drill - Arnold Drill, Kaneohe HI; Tad 2.58 6 1 Sam Manzo - Sandra Manzo, Shelby Township MI 55.56% Stawski, Pickering ON; Arlene Dick, Sherman Oaks CA 1.94 2 Gayle Harrison, Minneapolis MN; Judy Musech, Bloomington MN 53.70% 10.31 2 Kai Hsi - Richard Bauman - John Gajar, Ann Arbor MI; Beverly Meloche, Monroe MI 1.45 3 Robert Johnson - Martha Johnson, Suttons Bay MI 51.01% 5.89 3/4 Connie Dugger, Birmingham MI; Nancy Erwin, 1.09 4 Darleen Sweeney, Novi MI; Peggy Dupont, Loudon TN 50.69% Troy MI; William Connellan - Dana Elliott, Rochester MI 1.07 5 Susan Srokosz, Windsor ON; Sharon Beneteau, Harrow ON 48.52% 5.89 3/4 Jamie Rocci, Lisle ON; Hindupuram Sriharsha, Orillia ON; Dale Mackenzie - Ragnar Paulson - John Lamarre, FIRST SATURDAY FLIGHT A/X PAIRS Barrie ON 41.0 Tables ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 6 AX 16 Tables 27.21 1 James Stokes, Grand Rapids MI; Bernace De Young, Miami FL 61.90% 12.57 1 Craig Wakefield, Des Plaines IL; Lynne Marley, 20.41 2 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL; Paul Lewis, Zionsville IN 59.40% Downers Grove IL; Jean Faeth, Hinsdale IL; Robert Dolan, Oak 15.31 3 Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 58.74% Park IL 11.48 4 John Maki, Bothell WA; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA 56.29% 8.80 2 Huston Mallory - Joseph Stephenson - Sally Spalsbury, Lansing MI; Mary Lou Schaffer, East Lansing MI 9.07 5 Elaine Said, Nashville TN; Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA 55.86% 5.03 3/4 Ronald Lipowski - Thomas Hunt, Rochester 7.77 6 John Sinclair - Christine Urbanek, Tonawanda NY 55.85% Hills MI; Ross Weinstein, Oakland MI; Gwen Kuechle, Rochester 6.80 7 Diane Walker, Gaithersburg MD; Kristjan Blondal, Kopavogur Iceland 55.25% MI 6.05 8 Carlos Munoz, White Plains NY; Dan Hertz, Harrison NY 55.16% 5.03 3/4 Michael Sears - Debbie Sears, Boyne City MI; 5.44 9 Chester Johnson, Chicago IL; Harold Singleton III, South Orange NJ 55.03% Pamela Ziegel, Petoskey MI; Carol Bertschinger, Harbor Springs 4.95 10 Rita Ellington, Traverse City MI; Robert Morris, Houston TX 54.96% MI 4.54 11 Judy Bramley - Bart Bramley, Dallas TX 54.82% 6.29 12 Donald Rumelhart, Ann Arbor MI; Zeke Jabbour, Boca Raton FL 54.77% New Life Master 3.89 13 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Ellis Feigenbaum, Petah Tikva 493 Israel 54.49% Ross Weinstein of Oakland MI is the first new 3.63 14 Tony Kasday, Puyallup WA; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 54.41% 6.62 15 1 Stephen Jackson, Roseville MN; Warren Nelson, Cloquet MN 54.27% Life Master to report in. He earned his gold card 4.97 16 2 Paul Frean, New York NY; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 54.22% playing in the Friday-Saturday Knockout Teams 3.02 17 Amalya Kearse, New York NY; Alan Messer, Toledo OH 54.17% with Thomas Hunt, Ron Lipowski and Gwen 2.86 18 Malle Andrade - Lew Walter, New York NY 54.17% Kuekle. 3.72 3 Christopher Cowan - Stephen Young, Mississauga ON 53.00% Other new Life Masters or rank advancements 2.79 4 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Fred Chasalow, Millbrae CA 52.43% should report to the Daily Bulletin to be recognized. 2.21 5 Bud Biswas, Lexington MA; Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA 52.17% The office is located in the Michelangelo Room on 1.89 6 Edward Zujko, Clinton Twp MI; Deborah De Witt, Ann Arbor MI 51.59% Level Four. Include your name, hometown, partner(s) and the event you played in. Daily Bulletin Page 11

ART PRICE/DICK LAWRENCE KO 7 SILODOR OPEN PAIRS 16 Tables 78.0 Tables 7.80 1 Judith Kilcher, Clinton Twp MI; Donna Frohm, 130.00 1 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 2598.74 Burtchville MI; Jeff La Caze - Thomas Lewis, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 97.50 2 Ralph Buchalter, South Orange NJ; Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 2545.09 5.46 2 Marvin Shapiro - Judith Shapiro, Akron OH; 73.13 3 G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Jim Kirkham, San Bernardino CA 2461.42 Susan Roberts, Cuyahoga Fls OH; Richard Roberts, Cuyahoga Falls OH 57.78 4 Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Martin Fleisher, New York NY 2436.90 3.12 3/4 Larry Willis - Paul Nelson, Petoskey MI; Marcy 52.00 5 , Boca Raton FL; Louk Verhees, Voorhou Netherlands 2436.47 Rowan, Deerfield Beach FL; Jane Huff, Columbus OH 47.27 6 Michael Lawrence, Brentwood TN; John Solodar, Palm Beach Gdns FL 2428.41 3.12 3/4 Terry T Brown, Rochester Hills MI; Ronna 43.33 7 Stephen Burgess, Sydney Australia; Paul Marston, Australia Australia 2417.78 Galin, West Bloomfield MI; William Landrum, Detroit MI; Chris 40.00 8 Robb Gordon, Sedona AZ; Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ 2415.09 Wiggins, Bloomfield MI 37.14 9 Perry Johnson, Bloomfield Hls MI; Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL 2385.31 ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 1 34.67 10 Gary Gottlieb, Brooklyn NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden 2384.85 16 Tables 32.50 11 David Berkowitz - Larry Cohen, Boca Raton FL 2383.64 32.50 1 Jim Reiman, Mansfield OH; Peter Rank, Palm 30.59 12 George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain 2365.21 Springs CA; Jay Baum, Germantown TN; Jim Linhart, Raleigh NC 28.89 13 Michael Moss, New York NY; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 2355.40 22.75 2 Gene Owens - Christine Owens, Grand Blanc 27.37 14 Michael Polowan, New York NY; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI 2351.09 MI; Daniel Suty, Houston TX; Bob Webber, Waterford MI 14.63 3 Lynne Feldman, Champaign IL; Dick Benson - 26.00 15 Douglas Simson - Walter Johnson, Columbus OH 2345.76 Chris Benson, Le Roy IL; Paul Schroeder, Wind Lake WI 24.76 16 Winthrop Allegaert - , New York NY 2343.94 11.38 4 Tim Crank, Cincinnati OH; Richard Baum - Ed 23.64 17 Edward Wojewoda, Clovis CA; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw Poland 2333.50 Lazarus, Baltimore MD; James Murphy, Concord NC 22.61 18 Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 2330.84 21.67 19 Linda Smith - , Hixson TN 2322.90 ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 2 20.80 20 Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL 2320.19 16 Tables 22.28 1 Les Bart - Gloria Silverman Bart, Bradenton FL; 20.00 21 Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX 2298.37 David Abelow, Owings Mills MD; Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD 19.26 22 Aton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands 2296.10 15.60 2 John Duquette, Oshawa ON; Ron Bishop - Doug 18.57 23 Nader Hanna, Willowdale ON; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 2290.91 Baxter, Toronto ON; Stephen Mackay, Markham ON 17.93 24 Gene Simpson, San Rafael CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 2274.38 10.03 3 Jim Fatka, Greenville MI; Lynne Schaeffer, W 17.33 25 Adele Verkamp, Phoenix AZ; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ 2272.29 Bloomfield MI; Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH; Dave Swarthout, San Antonio TX 16.77 26 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; William Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ 2271.81 7.80 4 Zac Cohen, San Lorenzo CA; Gary Macgregor, 16.25 27 Richard Burton - Beatrice Kemp, Dacula GA 2268.30 Portola Valley CA; Jack Margid, San Francisco CA; Jim O’Neil, 15.76 28 Bryan Maksymetz, Alert Bay BC; Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC 2262.00 Palo Alto CA 15.29 29 Nan Wang, Eatontown NJ; William Esberg, Long Branch NJ 2259.95 14.86 30 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman, Atlanta GA 2258.31 ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 3 14.44 31 Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook NY; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 2252.62 16 Tables 16.34 1 Jan Assini, Aurora OH; William Cornwell, 14.05 32 Bob Feller, Guilderland NY; Simon Kantor, Agawam MA 2252.27 Hubbard OH; Susan Stark, Cleveland OH; Frank Aquila, Fairlawn 13.68 33 Bjarni Einarsson, Neskaupstad Iceland; Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL 2250.67 OH 13.33 34 Scott Levine - Aaron Silverstein, New York NY 2247.80 11.44 2 Barry Lippitt, Southfield MI; Jerrold Grossman, 13.00 35 Susan Parnes - Gordon Parnes, Flint MI 2247.59 Rochester Hills MI; Sheldon Kirsch, West Bloomfield MI; Irving 12.68 36 Milton Zlatic, Saint Louis MO; Tom Oppenheimer, Ballwin MO 2245.74 Rosenstein, Troy MI 12.38 37 Michael Golden, Wyckoff NJ; Chris Compton, Dallas TX 2241.72 7.35 3 Mike Hartop, Ammon NB; Jerry Mamer - Dennis Nelson, Saskatoon SK; Dale Murray, Riverview NB 12.09 38 Alan Watson, Lexington MA; David Becher, Swampscott MA 2238.21 5.72 4 Donna Compton, Dallas TX; Bill Rosenbaum, 11.82 39 Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN; Peggy Kaplan, Minnetonka MN 2235.28 New York NY; Lisa Berkowitz - Dana Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL 11.56 40 Andrew Rosenthal - Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY 2231.46 12.30 41 Terje Aa, Heimdal Norway; Joergen Molberg, Trondheim Norway 2219.86 ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 4 11.06 42 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA 2217.22 15 Tables 11.33 1 Marlene Mandell - Seymour Mandell, Southfield 10.83 43 David Bakhshi, London England; Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 2214.05 MI; Dolores Bright, Milford MI; Charles Federman, Bloomfield Hls 10.61 44 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 2209.93 MI 10.40 45 Thomas Gandolfo, Edmonton AB; Dann Kramer, Calgary AB 2209.45 7.93 2 Michael Sherman, Chickamauga GA; Jeffrey 10.20 46 Tom Kniest, University City MO; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL 2202.62 Boak, Bethesda MD; Adam Kaplan - Todd Kaplan, New Port 10.00 47 , Palm Bch Grdns FL; Lewis Finkel, Jupiter FL 2201.73 Richey FL 9.81 48 Bartosz Chmurski - Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland 2198.87 5.10 3 Paul Janus, Lincolnshire IL; William Smith, Riverwoods IL; Birte Ayer, Toronto ON; Jerry Vopicka, Sarnia ON 9.63 49 Christal Henner-Welland, New York NY; Antonio Sementa, Parma Italy 2196.70 3.97 4 Gary Robertson, Blenheim ON; Lee Easterbrook, 9.45 50 Robert Cappelli, Bloomfield MI; Michael D Alioto, Birmingham MI 2193.91 Chatham ON; Jack Jessop - Michael Selby, Windsor ON

FIRST SATURDAY B/C/D PAIRS ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 5 24.0 Tables 16 Tables BCD 8.37 1 Michael Moore, Grosse Pointe MI; Mary Lou Moore, Grosse Pte Park MI; Suman Agarwal, Hilliard OH; Jerome 10.04 1 Joseph Fehir Jr, Fenton MI; Richard Mayer, Fraser MI 59.48% Williams, Westerville OH 7.53 2 Bill Huepenbecker, Huron OH; Paul Kwiecien, Lansing MI 59.14% 5.86 2 Ching-Po Wang, Troy MI; Ying Yuan - Yaqi Zhu, 5.65 3 Jack Alhale - Rozi Alhale, New York NY 59.04% Kalamazoo MI; Xingyu Zhang, Ypsilanti MI 6.27 4 1 Dennis Ryan - Barbara Tysdahl, Menomonie WI 58.45% 3.77 3 Susan Conrad, Madison OH; Joan Ann Waletzky, 4.12 5/6 2/3 Elianor Kennie, Kentville NS; Robert Lass, Chicago IL 57.75% Beachwood OH; Francis Tseng, Erie PA; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 4.32 5/6 2/3 Jagjit Singh, East Lansing MI; Leon Schmelzer, Bath MI 57.75% 2.93 4 Arne Garvander, Richfield MN; Rose Marie 2.51 7 Alice Leicht, San Diego CA; Karl Zaman, N Royalton OH 57.25% Cassmer, Macedonia OH; Richard Douglas, Kemblesville PA; 2.65 4 Danny Krebs - Carolyn Krebs, Essexville MI 54.17% David Vaclavik, Appleton WI 2.09 5 Laszlo Kovacs, Hazel Park MI; William Kacuba, Harrison Twp MI 53.53% 1.79 6 J C Chupack - Scott Chupack, Gurnee IL 53.01% ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 6 3.87 1 Michael Peikert - Fran Peikert, Hickory Corners MI 52.43% 16 Tables 6.59 1 Stu Cohen - Mark Weiss, Southfield MI; Laura 2.90 2 Linda Scites - Larry Scites, Indianapolis IN 50.35% Crorey, Franklin MI; Beth Armstrong, Kalamazoo MI 2.18 3 Ann Ramroth - William Ramroth, Livonia MI 49.07% 4.61 2 James Carey, Clinton IA; Cyrinda Forth, 1.63 4 Jim Masterson, Saint Clair MI; Joseph Drolz, Clinton Twp MI 48.09% Peterborough ON; Stephen Kalstein, Birmingham MI; Arnold 1.29 5 Susan Evett - Matthew Evett, Ann Arbor MI 47.18% Holmberg, Anoka MN 2.97 3 Karen Lane - Suzanne Kosky - Phil Dowd - Jan SATURDAY EVENING 299ER SWISS TEAMS Stewart, Toronto ON 2.31 4 Harry Jagtiani, Clarkston MI; Xiao (Joe) Zhao, 18 Tables Hamilton ON; Kenneth Savage - Katie Savage, Bloomfield Hlls MI ABC 3.96 1 1 1 James Hammond - Jean Hammond, Northville MI; Katherine Busch - ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 7 Charles Busch, Oakland MI 70.00 12 Tables 2.97 2 2 Keith More - Flora More - Henry Lee Evans - Frances Kawalec, Ann 5.67 1 Zachary Wasserman, Farmington MI; Cameron Shunta, Grand Haven MI; Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Arbor MI 61.00 Brian Wyman, Ann Arbor MI 2.23 3 3 2 Debbie Stavro - Cathy Gilmour, Toronto ON; Constance Van 3.97 2 Michele Griffin, Penfield NY; Elaine Brigman, Ditzhuyzen, Stouffville ON; Barb Olsen, Pickering ON 55.00 Webster NY; Anne Kampmeier - Susan Hill, Rochester NY 1.67 4 Stacy Dibbell, Bismarck ND; Susan Thiess, Eau Claire WI; Don 2.55 3 John Philbrook, Manchester MI; Walter Magee, Baumbach, Toledo OH; Debbie Nisius, Waterville OH 53.00 Manitou Beach MI; Judi Trenton, Tecumseh MI; David Warwick, 1.25 5 Charlene Slager - Mary Kaechele - Barbara Harris, Kalamazoo MI; Adrian MI 1.98 4 John Wiseman - Carolyn Wiseman - Aileen Holly Harrington, US 51.00 Bement - Patricia Carson, Ann Arbor MI 1.29 4 3 Jean Hornbacher - Peggy Roberts, Rochester Hills MI; Sandra Weaver, Washington MI; Marietta Ankoviak, Romeo MI 42.00 ELSIE BREMEN COMPACT KO 8 0.85 5/6 Richard Brewer - Henry Haberkamp, Rochester Hills MI; Sharon 15 Tables Maaske - James Phillips, Troy MI 40.00 4.00 1 Ian Walker, Port Elgin ON; Bud G. Barley, 0.85 5/6 Susan Boeing - Jane Mc Laughlin, San Francisco CA; Hannah Hanover ON; Erma Hermann, Grand Blanc MI; Sally Stevens, Flint MI Rabinowitz, Manalapan FL; Lenore Cavallero, Hillsborough CA 40.00 2.80 2 James Potter, Farmingtn Hills MI; Ellen Silverest, Brighton MI; William Gregg, Livonia MI; Cheryl Kreger, Dearborn MI Page 12 Daily Bulletin

1.80 3 Dianne Kiehl, Muskego WI; Melvin Rueppel - SATURDAY EVENING 5/20/50 PAIRS John Krueger, Estes Park CO; Marlene Backus, Brookfield WI 7.5 Tables 1.40 4 Robin Schiller, Tecumseh ON; Mike Schiller - ABC Cathy Paterson - Helen McKelvie, Windsor ON 1.89 1 1 Sabrina Frean, New York NY; John Simpson, Madera CA 60.00% ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 1 1.42 2 2 A. John Weymouth - S Weymouth, Toronto ON 59.09% 8 Tables 1.06 3 3 Gerard Quenneville - Marian Quenneville, Windsor ON 55.00% 13.00 1 Bert Newman, West Bloomfield MI; Robert 0.80 4 4 Dale Mackenzie - John Lamarre, Barrie ON 52.72% Crafton, W Bloomfield MI; John Buchheister, Troy MI; Richard 0.82 5 5 1 Linda Harris - Jill Greimel, Rochester Hills MI 52.50% Yanko, Las Vegas NV 0.62 2 Mary Macneil, Rochester MI; Wendy Subrin, Rochester Hills MI 51.25% 6.89 2 Barry Harper, Regina SK; Alan Wienman, Morton IL; Brenda Jacobus, Las Vegas NV; Cameron Doner, Richmond BC 0.46 3 Roberts Poglits - Ellen Poglits, W. Bloomfield MI 50.91% 2.93 3 Farid Assemi - James Tritt, Fresno CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA; Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA SATURDAY EVENING 100/200/300 PAIRS 7.0 Tables ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 2 ABC 8 Tables 9.12 1 Elaine Landow - Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA; 2.40 1 1 1 Max Glick, Pittsburgh PA; Zachary Scherr, Great Neck NY 63.75% Joann Glasson - Bob Glasson, Pennington NJ 1.80 2 2 2 Patti Knote, Fishers IN; Judy Drejer, Indianapolis IN 60.42% 4.83 2 William Higgins - Nancy Sachs - Amitabh Raturi, 1.35 3 3 Larry Willis - Paul Nelson, Petoskey MI 57.50% Cincinnati OH; Robert Sulgrove, Spring Valley OH 1.01 4 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 55.83% 0.94 5 4 3 Margaret Cohen - Walter Cohen, Bloomfield Hls MI 55.42% ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 3 8 Tables 6.50 1 Marshall Kuschner, Reston VA; Hal Hindman, Monitoring Annandale VA; Steven Schatzow, Washington DC; Sarah Goodstein, Convention card Potomac MD At this and future North American 3.45 2 Linda Webb, Fargo ND; Sarah Imig, Sioux City championships, ACBL will be reminder IA; Marsha McElroy, Davenport IA; Sue Himel, Omaha NE monitoring NABC+ events with 1.46 3 Weidong Pei, Brea CA; Mariko Kakimoto - Each player is required to have a convention Atsuko Kurishima, Newport Beach CA; Ahmed Sorathia, Chino CA visible, real-time cameras. card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a The images will be recorded session. Both cards of a partnership must be ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 4 and will be available for later 7 Tables identical and include the first and last names of 4.55 1 John Tscholl - Donald Little, Canton OH; Michael official inspection and review. each member of the partnership. Kraut, Royal Oak MI; Lynda Flanger, Gainesville VA By general monitoring of the session and If a director determines that neither player has 2.41 2 Nancy Strachan - Jacqueline Syer, Oakville ON; participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source of a substantially completed card, the partnership may Judite Kokis, Mississauga ON; Florence Belford, Milton ON information that may be useful in determining facts 1.02 3 Nancy Evans - Shirley Lundstrom, Cuyahoga Falls play only the Yellow Card and OH; Mary Gleghorn, Stow OH; Barbara Schidlowski, Kent OH and settling issues arising from some types of ethical may use only standard carding. This restriction and behavioral complaints or actions. This may be lifted only at the beginning of a subsequent ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 5 procedure is intended to assure everyone that the 8 Tables round after convention cards have been properly 3.40 1 William Riley - Nancy Riley, Silver Lake OH; playing field is level and that misbehavior will not prepared and approved by the director. Further, the Dennis Wott, Fremont OH; Thomas Bode, Toledo OH be tolerated. partnership will receive a 1/6 board matchpoint 1.80 2 Nicholas Ogan, Moreland Hills OH; Chantal penalty for each board played, commencing with Whitney, Shaker Heights OH; Victor Vertes, Cleveland OH; Marlene Slow Play Zinamon, Beachwood OH the next round and continuing until the restriction 0.77 3 Dale Dallaire, Aldie VA; J Hernandez, Ann Arbor Slow play, as opposed to careful or thoughtful is lifted. In IMP team games, penalties shall be at MI; Marcia Abramson, Detroit MI; Gary Luoma, Livonia MI play, is discourteous to your opponents — and to all the discretion of the director. other competitors as well. Players and pairs who If the director determines the partnership has at ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 6 take more than their allotted time are subject to 8 Tables least one substantially completed convention card 2.58 1 Shirley Mueller - Jean Donoho - Barbara penalty. but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, Tommasini - Ronald Tommasini, Louisville KY In general, pairs who are rarely late will be the director may give warnings or assign such 1.37 2 David Copi, Ann Arbor MI; A Poole, New Minas warned while pairs who are habitually tardy and/or NS; Elizabeth VonRiesenfelder, Manchester VT; Pat Simpson, Madera penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the CA pay no attention to time limits will be penalized. circumstances.

ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 7 The objective of these 6 Tables Bid Box Alerts and warnings and penalties is the 2.26 1 Deanna Holtzman, Bloomfield Hls MI; Fran Announcements encouragement of full Wigod, West Bloomfield MI; Shirley Blatt, Highland Park IL; Cydnie compliance with ACBL Reich, W Bloomfield MI When using bid boxes, ACBL suggests that regulations. 1.20 2 Stuart Dow, Grosse Pt Farms MI; Nancy players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the McCaffrey - Nancy Hohlfeldt - Glenn Peters, Grosse Pointe MI same time. ELSIE BREMEN CONSOLATION KO 8 When making an Announcement, use the Masterpoint disclaimer 7 Tables Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the 1.60 1 Norman Sweed - Ronnie Sweed, Potomac MD; Scores as reported in the Daily Bulletin are Mike Harbers - Peggy Harbers, Franklin TN Alert strip at the same time. subject to change because of score changes or 0.85 2 Ellen Macdonald, Scottsdale AZ; Marilyn Lindow A player who Alerts or Announces a bid should corrections. - Phyllis Schwikert, Troy MI; Carolyn Campbell, Oakland MI make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or Therefore, the masterpoint awards as shown are 0.76 3 Norma Basner - Dolores Sverid, Saginaw MI; Announcement has been made. Judith Kareus, Midland MI; Gale Novak, Sanford MI also subject to change. Daily Bulletin Page 13

TOM GARDNER SIDE SERIES II - SATURDAY EVENING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OO EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Michael Mullendore, Ellicott City MD; Samuel Phillips, Largo FL 55.79% 1 1 Jessica Piafsky, New York NY; Johan Upmark, 115 58 Stockho Sweden 66.67% 2 Virginia Lifton, Marco Island FL; Mike Cappelletti Sr, Alexandria VA 55.32% 2 John D’Errico, Alton NY; Sally Hill, Webster NY 65.28% 3 2 1 Gayle Harrison, Minneapolis MN; Judy Musech, Bloomington MN 53.70% 3 Georgann Humphrey - Jim Humphrey, Highland Park IL 56.94% 4 Jacob Schuurman, Three Rivers MI; Lee Beckett, Southfield MI 50.93% 4 Melvin Marcus, Waltham MA; Rena Lieberman, North Easton MA 54.86% 2 Darleen Sweeney, Novi MI; Peggy Dupont, Loudon TN 50.69% 2 Robert Ewigleben - Jayne Ewigleben, Elizabethtown KY 52.55% 1 Robert Werner, Chagrin Falls OH; William DeGraf, Fort Belvoir VA 47.69% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PP EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Shirley Wright - Robert Pezzack, Toronto ON 56.45% 1 M Schuler, Alexandria VA; Benny Libster, Zoran Israel 62.82% 2 2 C. Thompson Wells, Jr - Janet Wells, Grosse Pointe MI 56.02% 2 1 Bruce Scott, Des Plaines IL; James Abbott, Chicago IL 58.56% 3 James Nash - Cookie Hoberman, Omaha NE 55.64% 3 Michael Strong, Winfield IL; Gene Miley, Hinsdale IL 55.32% 4 3 1 Sam Manzo - Sandra Manzo, Shelby Township MI 55.56% 4 2 Mary Lou Vermerris, Gates Mills OH; Wayne Ward, Newbury OH 52.88% 5 Dorsey Brooks - Zerrene Brooks, Canadian Lakes MI 54.33% 5 Rosalyn Silverstein - Philip Silverstein, Bronx NY 49.91% 2 Robert Johnson - Martha Johnson, Suttons Bay MI 51.01% 1 Susan Srokosz, Windsor ON; Sharon Beneteau, Harrow ON 48.52%

SILODOR OPEN PAIRS - SECOND FINAL SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B C D E F EAST-WEST 1 Robb Gordon, Sedona AZ; Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ 60.89% 1 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 61.56% 2 Edward Wojewoda, Clovis CA; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw 0 Poland 60.34% 2 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Louk Verhees, 2215 SH Voorhou Netherlands 60.06% 3 Michael Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; , Cambridge MA 59.69% 3 Andrew Rosenthal - Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY 58.92% 4 Michael Lawrence, Brentwood TN; John Solodar, Palm Beach Gdns FL 59.44% 4 Sheri Winestock, Las Vegas NV; Eddie Wold, Houston TX 58.87% 5 Terrance Rego, Mississauga ON; Lino D’Souza, Burlington ON 57.24% 5 Winthrop Allegaert - Jaggy Shivdasani, New York NY 58.49% 6 Nader Hanna, Willowdale ON; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 57.22% 6 G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Jim Kirkham, San Bernardino CA 58.47% 7 , Torino Italy; John Russell, North Barringto IL 57.07% 7 Gary Gottlieb, Brooklyn NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden 58.17% 8 Alan Watson, Lexington MA; David Becher, Swampscott MA 56.62% 8 Perry Johnson, Bloomfield Hls MI; Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL 57.42% 9 Frank Treiber III, Cincinnati OH; Joseph Ernsthausen, Sylvania OH 56.39% 9 Bob Hamman - Petra Hamman, Dallas TX 57.32% 10 Craig Gower - Alon Apteker, Johannesburg South Africa 56.32% 10 Shane Blanchard - Robert Blanchard, New York NY 57.29% 11 David Bakhshi, London England; Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 56.14% 11 Henry Bethe, Ithaca NY; Allen Tan, Makati Philippines 56.04% 12 Richard Burton - Beatrice Kemp, Dacula GA 56.07% 12 Robert Levin, Bronx NY; Glenn Milgrim, Forest Hills NY 55.82% 13 Ralph Buchalter, South Orange NJ; Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 55.74% 13 Stephen Burgess, Sydney Australia; Paul Marston, Australia 1360 Australia 55.27% 14 Michael Polowan, New York NY; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI 55.67% 14 David Berkowitz - Larry Cohen, Boca Raton FL 55.12% 15 Aton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg 50 Netherlands 55.59% 15 Douglas Simson - Walter Johnson, Columbus OH 55.04% 16 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Barry Rigal, New York NY 55.49% 16 Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook NY; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 55.02% 17 Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Martin Fleisher, New York NY 55.14% 17 Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL 54.87% 18 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman, Atlanta GA 54.82% 18 Mary Smith, Detroit MI; Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON 54.77% 19 Allan Falk, Okemos MI; Peter Friedland, Cupertino CA 54.77% 19 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 54.72% 20 Thomas Peters, Grapeland TX; John Zilic, Houston TX 54.72% 20 Garry Karst, Edmonton AB; Ray Grace, Sherwood Park AB 54.35% 21 Andrew Gofreed, La Plata MD; David Ruderman, Burtonsville MD 54.57% 21 Leonard Melander, West Bloomfield MI; Larry Mori, Clearwater FL 54.30% 22 Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Jo Morse, Palm Bch Gdns FL 54.40% 22/23 Bartosz Chmurski - Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland 53.65% 23 Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Steven Love, Laguna Niguel CA 54.20% 22/23 Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX 53.65% 24 Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA; Debbie Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY 54.05% 24 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 53.25% 25 Linda Hughes, Edmond OK; En Xie, Saint Louis MO 53.47% 25 Susan Parnes - Gordon Parnes, Flint MI 53.20% 26 Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 53.40% 26 Scott Levine - Aaron Silverstein, New York NY 53.07% 27 , Vancouver BC; Melih Ozdil, Astoria NY 53.32% 27 James Armstrong, Romulus MI; Daniel Marcus, Bloomfield Hill MI 53.00% 28 Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY 53.00% 28 Roger Bates, Mesa AZ; James Gordon, S Burlington VT 52.87% 29 Martin Hirschman, Southfield MI; Barbara Marcus, Bloomfield MI 52.75% 29/30 Adele Verkamp, Phoenix AZ; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ 52.85% 30 Michael Kovacich, Stone Mountain GA; Samuel Marks, Atlanta GA 52.72% 29/30 Michael Golden, Wyckoff NJ; Chris Compton, Dallas TX 52.85% 31 Ira Ewen, New York NY; Frank Mastrola, Swansea MA 52.62% 31 Otto Adamec - Greg Reich, New York NY 52.75%

FIRST SATURDAY FLIGHT A/X PAIRS - SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS G H I EAST-WEST AX AX 1 James Stokes, Grand Rapids MI; Bernace De Young, Miami FL 64.43% 1 Elaine Said, Nashville TN; Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA 60.10% 2 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL; Paul Lewis, Zionsville IN 58.74% 2 1 Stephen Jackson, Roseville MN; Warren Nelson, Cloquet MN 57.89% 3 John Maki, Bothell WA; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA 57.82% 3 2 Paul Frean, New York NY; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 56.93% 4 Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 56.70% 4 3 Sandra DeMartino, Riverside CT; Georgia Heth, Morton IL 56.85% 5 Tony Kasday, Puyallup WA; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 55.47% 5 John Sinclair - Christine Urbanek, Tonawanda NY 56.73% 6 Judy Bramley - Bart Bramley, Dallas TX 55.23% 6 Robert Casey, Worcester MA; Paul Wolf II, Shrewsbury MA 56.42% 7 Gene Freed, Los Angeles CA; Colby Vernay, Lacon IL 55.12% 7 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Ellis Feigenbaum, Petah Tikva 493 Israel 55.79% 8 Chester Johnson, Chicago IL; Harold Singleton III, South Orange NJ 54.99% 8 Michael Gore, Brooklyn NY; Walter Schenker, Pine Brook NJ 55.00% 9 1 Madhu Viswanathan, Champaign IL; L Ravichandran, 54.66% 9 Amalya Kearse, New York NY; Alan Messer, Toledo OH 54.09% 10 Jane Segal, Villanova PA; Judy Kay-Wolff, Las Vegas NV 54.24% 10 Dennis Kasle, Bloomfield MI; Hemant Lall, Dallas TX 54.09% 11 Janet Robertson, Timonium MD; Ron Haack, New York NY 53.27% 11 4 Christopher Cowan - Stephen Young, Mississauga ON 54.03% 12 Sharon Meng-Horton, Dade City FL; Rahn Smith, Brandon FL 52.90% 12 5 Edward Zujko, Clinton Twp MI; Deborah De Witt, Ann Arbor MI 53.89% 13 2 Bob Meixner, Hinsdale IL; Wesley Suzuki, Oakbrook Terr IL 52.50% 13 Georgiana Gates, Houston TX; James Thurtell, Dallas TX 53.10% 14 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY 52.47% 14 Susan Picus, New York NY; Stacy Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 52.90% 15 Jesus Arias, New York NY; Haig Tchamitch, Scottsdale AZ 52.23% 15 Diane Walker, Gaithersburg MD; Kristjan Blondal, Kopavogur Iceland 52.81% 16 3 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Fred Chasalow, Millbrae CA 52.18% 16 Alan Schafer, Essexville MI; Robert Varty, Grand Rapids MI 51.66%

FIRST SATURDAY B/C/D PAIRS - SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION J EAST-WEST BC D BCD 1 Alice Leicht, San Diego CA; Karl Zaman, N Royalton OH 64.26% 1 1 Elianor Kennie, Kentville NS; Robert Lass, Chicago IL 62.27% 2 1 Laszlo Kovacs, Hazel Park MI; William Kacuba, Harrison Twp MI 61.46% 2 Joseph Fehir Jr, Fenton MI; Richard Mayer, Fraser MI 57.15% 3 Jack Alhale - Rozi Alhale, New York NY 56.74% 3 Theresa Fowler - Cerona Stevens, Marquette MI 55.44% 4 George Dragich - Rosemary Dragich, Windsor ON 53.62% 4 Julie Tigges, Minneapolis MN; Jill Flader, Saint Paul MN 54.02% 5 Karen Brown, Loudon TN; Virginia Bissig, Bear Lake MI 51.62% 5 Leigh Ives - Paul Campbell, Barrie ON 52.31% 2 Mares Hirchert - Charles Hirchert, Hartland MI 49.28% 2 1 Rita Fagan - Gordon Fagan, Flint MI 51.85% 3 1 Susan Evett - Matthew Evett, Ann Arbor MI 48.75% 3 Claudia Kober - Eugene Kober, Indianapolis IN 50.14% 2 Judith Rolnicki, Brunswick OH; Sue Pisanelli, Parma OH 48.24% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION K EAST-WEST BC D BCD 1 1 Dennis Ryan - Barbara Tysdahl, Menomonie WI 63.19% 1 1 Jagjit Singh, East Lansing MI; Leon Schmelzer, Bath MI 56.48% 2 Bill Huepenbecker, Huron OH; Paul Kwiecien, Lansing MI 56.94% 2 2 1 Michael Peikert - Fran Peikert, Hickory Corners MI 54.17% 3 2 Mark Brader - Catherine Brader, Toronto ON 53.70% 3/4 Tom Barrett, Clearwater FL; Richard Dittman, Tecumseh ON 53.70% 4 Laurie Gordon, Warren MI; James Saionz, Lakeland FL 52.31% 3/4 3 Roslyn Kaufman - Beverly Kruger, West Bloomfield MI 53.70% 5/6 Percy Wu, Grand Rapids MI; John Wang, Beltsville MD 51.16% 5 Robert McKee, Detroit MI; Mark Bumler, Winter Springs FL 53.47% 5/6 Gail Levy, Melville NY; Reisha Berkowsky, Huntingtn Sta NY 51.16% 1 Ann Ramroth - William Ramroth, Livonia MI 50.69%

SATURDAY EVENING 5/20/50 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION SECTION V AB C 1 1 Sabrina Frean, New York NY; John Simpson, Madera CA 60.00% 2 2 A. John Weymouth - S Weymouth, Toronto ON 59.09% 3 3 Gerard Quenneville - Marian Quenneville, Windsor ON 55.00% 4 4 Dale Mackenzie - John Lamarre, Barrie ON 52.73% 5 5 1 Linda Harris - Jill Greimel, Rochester Hills MI 52.50% 6 Ellen Harwood, St Catharines ON; Sharon Stevens, Vineland STN ON 51.82% 6 2 Mary Macneil, Rochester MI; Wendy Subrin, Rochester Hills MI 51.25% 3 Roberts Poglits - Ellen Poglits, W. Bloomfield MI 50.91%

SATURDAY EVENING 100/200/300 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION X EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Patti Knote, Fishers IN; Judy Drejer, Indianapolis IN 60.42% 1 1 1 Max Glick, Pittsburgh PA; Zachary Scherr, Great Neck NY 63.75% 2 2 Larry Willis - Paul Nelson, Petoskey MI 57.50% 2 2 2 Margaret Cohen - Walter Cohen, Bloomfield Hls MI 55.42% 3 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 55.83% 3 3 Dan Jaffe - Ky Jaffe, Columbus OH 51.25%

No calls, please Entry fees Nightly Buffet Cell phones, audible pagers or any similar Players must be ACBL members whose service The River Café has a nightly buffet. Along with communication equipment may not fees or dues are current in order to compete in any a full salad bar, soup, rolls and amazing desserts, be operated or operable in the of the following nationally ranked events: Baldwin there is a carving station. The fee is $22 (not playing area during a session of North American Pairs (Flight A), Silodor Open including tax and gratuity). play at NABCs except for health- Pairs, Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, Leventritt Silver The River Café is located on Level 3, adjacent related equipment or by permission Ribbon Pairs, , Lebhar IMP to the hotel lobby, and dinner begins at 4 p.m. of the director-in-charge of the Pairs, Whitehead Women’s Pairs, Jacoby Open nightly. tournament or event. Swiss Teams, and the Machlin Women’s Swiss Sunday’s menu: Cajun chicken, shrimp creole, Teams. The entry fees for these contests are $18 per meat loaf, carved strip loin and stir-fry vegetables. Smoking notice player per session. Players must also be current ACBL members to All Marriott hotels, which include Renaissance play in the Bean Red Ribbon Pairs, the Golder properties, are smoke-free. Smoking is not permitted North American Pairs (Flight B) and the President’s inside these hotels, including the Cup North American Pairs (Flight C). The entry fee guest rooms. is $16.50 per player per session. Players are reminded that Regional championships are $15.50 per player penalties may apply for smoking per session for ACBL members, $17.50 for in unauthorized areas, including nonmembers. stairwells and emergency exits. All other events are $14.50 per player per session for ACBL members, $16.50 for nonmembers. Page 14 Daily Bulletin

FIRST SATURDAY FAST PAIRS – 1ST OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION P EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 John Moffat, Bellingham WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 63.99% 1 Marc Rabinowitz, Hudson OH; Michael White, Atlanta GA 68.45% 2 Jenny Wolpert, New York City NY; Shannon Cappelletti, Hollywood FL 61.31% 2 Harry Nuckols - Mary Poplawski, Vestal NY 63.10% 3 Barbara Clinton, Aurora ON; Roni Atkins, Pittsburgh PA 59.52% 3 Sylvia Moss - Judi Radin, New York NY 56.55% 4 Bernard Fudor, Murrysville PA; Allan Smith, Peterborough ON 58.04% 4 Elaine Ware, Vernon BC; Dan McCaw, Toronto ON 49.70% 5 Vince Oddy, Aurora ON; Dan Gerstman, Buffalo NY 52.38% 5 William Winokur, West Bloomfield MI; Walter Goldsmith, Bloomfield MI 49.40% 1 1 Phyllis Jones, Brampton ON; Doreen Finley, Mississauga ON 50.60% 1 Tammy Pepper, Thousand Oaks CA; C. Buddy Carls, Huntington Bh CA 48.81% 2 Margaret Moore - Judi Amatangelo, Northville MI 45.83% 2 1 Frederic Fayle, Rochester MI; James Banaszek, Washington MI 48.51% 2 Stephen Massicotte, Sarnia ON; Marc Seguin, Windsor ON 43.45%

HARKISHAN LALL GULATI SENIORS - 1ST OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Russell Samuel, Glen Cove NY; Barry Samuel, Santa Cruz CA 72.69% 1 Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI; William Malesevich, Mayville WI 63.72% 2 Glenn Eisenstein - Abbie Cole, New York NY 60.92% 2 Carol Stewart, Henderson NV; Paul Ivaska, Las Vegas NV 59.80% 3 Shiv Arora, Saginaw MI; Subhash Gulati, Bloomfield MI 54.24% 3 Evelyn Kleinsasser, Alachua FL; Giorgio Helmsdorff, Bogota Colombia 58.72% 4 Carl Eastman, Toms River NJ; Aaron Cohen, Manchester To NJ 54.16% 4 Vera Petty - Roman Smolski, Warwick Bermuda 58.07% 5 2 1 Judith Kadri - Mike Kadri, South Lyon MI 47.36% 5 Rosalind Pearlman, Pikesville MD; Andrew Lohan, Mahwah NJ 55.67% 3 2 Kenneth Recker, Dimondale MI; Sally Angelacos, East Lansing MI 47.25% 1 1 Richard Johns, Okemos MI; C Phillip Simonds, Livonia MI 54.97% 2 John Marhofer, Cuyahoga Fls OH; Stephanie Bernstein, Solon OH 52.52% 3 Howard Ringel, Cincinnati OH; Paul Pschesang, Milford OH 45.20% 2 Mary Toth, Lake Orion MI; Isabel Harper, Oxford MI 38.71% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION CCC EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Jeanine Dow - C Arthur Nevins, Kalamazoo MI 62.56% 1 Allan Siebert - David Siebert, Little Rock AR 59.20% 2 1 1 Han Wang - Michael Adelberg, Ann Arbor MI 57.18% 2 Bill Cook Jr, Madison MS; Jeffrey Taylor, Eugene OR 57.27% 3 Eunice Garrison, Lake Worth FL; Gloria Brown, Virginia Bch VA 56.15% 3 Dennis Carman - Susan Bailey Carman, Plainwell MI 55.53% 4 2 2 Sanford Birnholtz, Keego Harbor MI; Clarke Cunningham, Dearborn MI 55.90% 4 1 Richard Kain, Minneapolis MN; Bill Lough, Edina MN 54.26% 5 3 Suresh Kamat, Fairfield OH; Jayant Sudame, Middletown OH 54.44% 5 Richard Ekstrum, Crystal MN; Steven Gaynor, Minneapolis MN 51.63% 2 1 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 51.26% 3 Alain Blaise, Val-David QC; Francois Falardeau, Repentigny QC 50.89% 2 W Oates - P Oates, Brighton MI 50.06%

FIRST SATURDAY FAST PAIRS – 2ND OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION P EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Harry Nuckols - Mary Poplawski, Vestal NY 59.52% 1 Jenny Wolpert, New York City NY; Shannon Cappelletti, Hollywood FL 64.29% 2 Linda Lewis - Paul Lewis, Sioux Falls SD 55.06% 2 Bernard Fudor, Murrysville PA; Allan Smith, Peterborough ON 60.71% 3/4 1 1 Frederic Fayle, Rochester MI; James Banaszek, Washington MI 54.46% 3 Sylvia Moss - Judi Radin, New York NY 56.85% 3/4 John Molt Jr - Joanne Molt, Grand Rapids MI 54.46% 4 John Moffat, Bellingham WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 55.06% 5 Vince Oddy, Aurora ON; Dan Gerstman, Buffalo NY 52.68% 5 William Winokur, West Bloomfield MI; Walter Goldsmith, Bloomfield MI 53.87% 2 2 Stephen Massicotte, Sarnia ON; Marc Seguin, Windsor ON 47.62% 1 1 Pat Denapoli, Lasalle ON; Peggy Kainz, Windsor ON 51.49% 2 Tammy Pepper, Thousand Oaks CA; C. Buddy Carls, Huntington Bh CA 48.81%

HARKISHAN LALL GULATI SENIORS 2ND OF 2 SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Vera Petty - Roman Smolski, Warwick Bermuda 69.38% 1 1 1 Sanford Birnholtz, Keego Harbor MI; Clarke Cunningham, Dearborn MI 66.01% 2 Robert Houtrow, Delton MI; Lowell Seyburn, Portage MI 60.19% 2 Eunice Garrison, Lake Worth FL; Gloria Brown, Virginia Bch VA 58.85% 3 1 1 Richard Johns, Okemos MI; C Phillip Simonds, Livonia MI 58.49% 3 2 Jule Greene, Macon GA; Carl Nelson Jr, Dublin GA 56.75% 4 Carol Stewart, Henderson NV; Paul Ivaska, Las Vegas NV 57.97% 4 Jeanine Dow - C Arthur Nevins, Kalamazoo MI 55.34% 5 2 2 Yadu Vaidya, Beavercreek OH; Robert Lutz, Dayton OH 52.68% 5 Edward Bloom, West Bloomfield MI; Roger Leemis, Southfield MI 52.19% 3 Howard Ringel, Cincinnati OH; Paul Pschesang, Milford OH 48.12% 3 2 Carol Chudy - Henry Chudy, Jr, Williamsville NY 50.86% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION CCC EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Bill Cook Jr, Madison MS; Jeffrey Taylor, Eugene OR 62.68% 1 Carl Eastman, Toms River NJ; Aaron Cohen, Manchester To NJ 64.54% 2 Richard Ekstrum, Crystal MN; Steven Gaynor, Minneapolis MN 59.44% 2 Gabriel Tawil, Glendale WI; William Malesevich, Mayville WI 62.34% 3 1 1 W Oates - P Oates, Brighton MI 56.60% 3 1 1 Roberta McGowan, Saginaw MI; Peggie Jones, Detroit MI 55.17% 4 Allan Siebert - David Siebert, Little Rock AR 54.56% 4 Joyce Stuart, West Bloomfield MI; James Anderson III, Waterford MI 54.78% 5 2 Alain Blaise, Val-David QC; Francois Falardeau, Repentigny QC 54.07% 5 2 2 Cyrille Goode, Southfield MI; Joanne Levine, Boca Raton FL 53.86% 3 2 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 49.68% 3 Russell Samuel, Glen Cove NY; Barry Samuel, Santa Cruz CA 52.83%

FIRST SATURDAY FLIGHT A/X PAIRS - SATURDAY AFTERNOON - 1ST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS G H I EAST-WEST AX AX 1 Donald Rumelhart, Ann Arbor MI; Zeke Jabbour, Boca Raton FL 61.34% 1 Charlene Predmest, Delray Beach FL; Maggie Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 61.94% 2/3 Rita Ellington, Traverse City MI; Robert Morris, Houston TX 59.82% 2/3 Carlos Munoz, White Plains NY; Dan Hertz, Harrison NY 60.78% 2/3 Thomas Turgeon - Mark Ospeck, Memphis TN 59.82% 2/3 Andy Avery, Jamaica VT; Cecily Kohler, Washington DC 60.78% 4 James Stokes, Grand Rapids MI; Bernace De Young, Miami FL 59.36% 4 Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL; Paul Lewis, Zionsville IN 60.07% 5 1 Sylwia McNamara - Michael McNamara, White Plains NY 58.70% 5 Malle Andrade - Lew Walter, New York NY 57.95% 6 Diane Walker, Gaithersburg MD; Kristjan Blondal, Kopavogur Iceland 57.69% 6 Kerr Godfrey, Houston TX; Jack Lacy, Lago Vista TX 57.14% 7 2 Bernie Greenspan, Beachwood OH; Paul Facinelli, Avon Lake OH 57.34% 7 Patricia Tucker - Edward Hales, Atlanta GA 56.07% 8 Kenneth Chatzinoff, Cinnaminson NJ; Rammohan Sarangan, Arlington VA 56.53% 8 Barry Senensky, Thornhill ON; Paul Janicki, Markham ON 55.67% 9 Dan Parish Jr - Elise Parish, Omaha NE 56.38% 9 Erez Hendelman - Shelly Dunietz, New York NY 55.62% 10 David Lindop - Audrey Lindop, Toronto ON 56.02% 10 Chester Johnson, Chicago IL; Harold Singleton III, South Orange NJ 55.06% 11 John Sinclair - Christine Urbanek, Tonawanda NY 54.96% 11 John Maki, Bothell WA; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA 54.76% 12 Tony Kasday, Puyallup WA; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ 53.34% 12 Robert Hampton, Blythewood SC; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY 54.66% 13 Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA; Ellis Feigenbaum, Petah Tikva 493 Israel 53.19% 13 Joan Priebe - James Priebe, Mississauga ON 54.61% 14 3 Christopher Cowan - Stephen Young, Mississauga ON 51.97% 14 Judy Bramley - Bart Bramley, Dallas TX 54.40% 15 Elaine Said, Nashville TN; Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA 51.62% 15 Amalya Kearse, New York NY; Alan Messer, Toledo OH 54.25% 16 4 Paul Frean, New York NY; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 51.52% 16 1 Bud Biswas, Lexington MA; Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA 53.85% 17 Robin Taylor, Gaithersburg MD; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 51.16% 17 Robert Lavin, East Longmeadow MA; Patricia Wright, Charlotte NC 53.49% 5 Jacqueline DeRouin, Okemos MI; Suzanne Siebert, Little Rock AR 51.06% 2 Craig Zastera, Woodinville WA; Fred Chasalow, Millbrae CA 52.68% 3 Bob Meixner, Hinsdale IL; Wesley Suzuki, Oakbrook Terr IL 46.76% 4 Henryk Szejnwald, Los Altos CA; Franklin Gonzalez, Menlo Park CA 46.10%

FIRST SATURDAY B/C/D PAIRS SATURDAY AFTERNOON - 1ST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION J EAST-WEST BC D BCD 1 1 Jagjit Singh, East Lansing MI; Leon Schmelzer, Bath MI 59.03% 1 Jack Alhale - Rozi Alhale, New York NY 61.34% 2 George Dragich - Rosemary Dragich, Windsor ON 56.48% 2 Joan Bentz, Ann Arbor MI; Susi Pitts, Cumming GA 59.49% 3 2 Danny Krebs - Carolyn Krebs, Essexville MI 55.79% 3 Robert McKee, Detroit MI; Mark Bumler, Winter Springs FL 57.41% 4 Tom Barrett, Clearwater FL; Richard Dittman, Tecumseh ON 54.63% 4 Margaret Bell, Warren MI; Jane Hall, Clinton Twp MI 56.94% 5 Karen Brown, Loudon TN; Virginia Bissig, Bear Lake MI 53.47% 5 1 1 Michael Peikert - Fran Peikert, Hickory Corners MI 50.69% 3 1 Linda Scites - Larry Scites, Indianapolis IN 49.77% 2 Mares Hirchert - Charles Hirchert, Hartland MI 50.23% 3 Darla Petersen, Ajax ON; Elizabeth Carson, Montreal QC 49.54% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION K EAST-WEST BC D BCD 1 Joseph Fehir Jr, Fenton MI; Richard Mayer, Fraser MI 61.81% 1 Bill Huepenbecker, Huron OH; Paul Kwiecien, Lansing MI 61.34% 2 1 Scott Miller - Patricia Miller, Auburn Hills MI 56.02% 2 1 J C Chupack - Scott Chupack, Gurnee IL 56.25% 3 Percy Wu, Grand Rapids MI; John Wang, Beltsville MD 54.86% 3/4 Gail Levy, Melville NY; Reisha Berkowsky, Huntingtn Sta NY 53.70% 4 Julie Tigges, Minneapolis MN; Jill Flader, Saint Paul MN 53.94% 3/4 2 Dennis Ryan - Barbara Tysdahl, Menomonie WI 53.70% 5/6 2/3 Aslam Siddiqui - Sandra Siddiqui, Carmel IN 53.24% 5/6 Laurie Gordon, Warren MI; James Saionz, Lakeland FL 53.24% 5/6 2/3 Elianor Kennie, Kentville NS; Robert Lass, Chicago IL 53.24% 5/6 3 Claudia Kober - Eugene Kober, Indianapolis IN 53.24% 1 Jim Masterson, Saint Clair MI; Joseph Drolz, Clinton Twp MI 52.31% 1 Betty Andersen - Richard Drouillard, Sterling Hts MI 49.77% 2/3 Rita Fagan - Gordon Fagan, Flint MI 42.36% 2/3 Judith Rolnicki, Brunswick OH; Sue Pisanelli, Parma OH 42.36%

BRIDGE+ - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION U EAST-WEST 1/2 Joan Richardson - Constance Jones, Brighton MI 58.93% 1 Sheri Rotenberg, Bloomfield Hill MI; Miriam Forman, W Bloomfield MI 59.13% 1/2 Joyce Byrwa - Bob Byrwa, Bloomfield Hills MI 58.93% 2 Judi Petterson, Oakland MI; Lauretta Powell, Rochester Hills MI 56.35% 3 Gwendolyn Lemmons - Barbara J White, Detroit MI 56.75% 3 Beth Gursky, Bloomfield Hils MI; Shelley Boschan, Bloomfield Hills MI 54.96%

SAM/DAN HIRSCHMAN 299ER PAIRS - AFTERNOON SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION T EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Debbie Stavro, Toronto ON; Constance Van Ditzhuyzen, Stouffville ON 58.63% 1 1 1 Ronald Gutzwiller - Deborah Gutzwiller, Mason OH 71.73% 2 2 2 Douglas Sweeder, Bloomfield MI; William Ahlstrom, Bloomfield Hls MI 58.04% 2 2 2 Frances Kawalec - Henry Lee Evans, Ann Arbor MI 63.39% 3 3 Abra Dennis, Jamesville NY; Mateele Kall, Manlius NY 55.06% 3 3 Jack Bourget, Bloomfield Hill MI; Joy Selesko, Livonia MI 59.82% 4 4 Diane Bofferding - Richard Bofferding, Saginaw MI 52.68% 4 4 Kathy Simpson, Bloomfield Hils MI; Sook Wilkinson, Bloomfield Hill MI 54.17% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION X EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Tova Reinhorn - Andrei Reinhorn, Williamsville NY 64.80% 1 1 Richard Brewer - Henry Haberkamp, Rochester Hills MI 61.52% 2 Julie Herman - Gail Geiger, Birmingham MI 58.33% 2 2 1 Jean Hornbacher - Peggy Roberts, Rochester Hills MI 60.20% 3 2 1 Raj Patil, Bloomfield Hill MI; John McAnally, Livonia MI 56.63% 3 3 2 Richard Cantley, Birmingham MI; Dennis Waniolek, Shelby Township MI 57.74% 4 3 2 James Phillips - Sharon Maaske, Troy MI 51.57% 4 Berton London, Bloomfield Hls MI; William Niemczyk, Novi MI 48.55% 4 Kathleen Bortolotti - Lucile Caron, Windsor ON 49.66%

SAM/DAN HIRSCHMAN 49ER PAIRS - AFTERNOON SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION S EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Stuart Sherman, MI; Luai Hinnawi, Canton MI 56.55% 1 Martha Fordon, Grosse Pte Frms MI; Gwen Balance, Grosse Pointe MI 62.50% 2 2 Allen Woolfrey - Jan Woolfrey, Mississauga ON 53.87% 2 1 1 Hiro Sugiura - Mako Sugiura, Livonia MI 61.01% 3 3 2 Wendy Buttermore - Rich Buttermore, Royal Oak MI 53.27% 3 2 2 Susan Solarz, Farminghton Hls MI; Marlene Emmer, Farmington Hill MI 53.87% 4 Ellen Poglits - Roberts Poglits, W. Bloomfield MI 52.98% 4 Ann Katz, W Bloomfield MI; Carolyn Watson, Novi MI 49.70% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION V EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Fred Gramlich, Alexandria VA; Jack Williams, Grosse Pointe Fa MI 65.05% 1 1 Robert Bercovici - Bina Feldman, Toronto ON 63.52% 2 Sandra Weaver, Washington MI; Marietta Ankoviak, Romeo MI 54.21% 2 2 Susan Michelotti, Birimingham MI; Robert Michelotti, Birmingham MI 58.70% 3 2 1 Wendy Subrin, Rochester Hills MI; Mary Macneil, Rochester MI 54.04% 3 Katherine Busch - Charles Busch, Oakland MI 51.91% 4 3 Nancy Stein, Huntington Wds MI; Margaret Brown, Huntington Wood MI 50.34% 4 Sabrina Frean, New York NY; John Simpson, Madera CA 51.45%

TOM GARDNER SIDE SER II – 3RD OF 4 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OO EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 M Schuler, Alexandria VA; Benny Libster, Zoran Israel 74.31% 1 1 1 Matthew Huntington, Rochester MN; David Gronbeck, Minneapolis MN 59.95% 2 Sharon Jabbour - Shirley Presberg, Boca Raton FL 55.79% 2 Margo Sinclair, New York NY; Valentin Kovachev, Stony Brook NY 56.48% 3 Aileen Osofsky, Phoenix AZ; Ken Barbour, Scottsdale AZ 52.78% 3 2 Bert Onstott III - Katherine Onstott, Stafford TX 56.25% 4 Isolde Knaap, Salem OR; Patricia Worthley, Andover MA 52.08% 4 Gerald Avery, Dewitt MI; Jerry Stimpfle, Dansville MI 54.86% 1 Judy Hocher, W Bloomfield MI; Patricia Rogoski, Memphis TN 51.16% 2 1 Robert Hobbs, Ann Arbor MI; Susan Halasi, Toronto ON 49.31% 2 Gayle Harrison, Minneapolis MN; Judy Musech, Bloomington MN 46.76% Daily Bulletin Page 15

NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PP EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Dorothy Dunn - Ernest Dunn, Durand MI 59.72% 1 1 Betsy Wilson - Jim Wilson, Strongsville OH 63.89% 2 H Jay Sloofman, Ardsley NY; Gary Paston, Syosset NY 54.17% 2 John Gustafson - Helen Gustafson, Des Moines IA 63.66% 3 Jon Baldursson, Hafnarfjordur Iceland; Thorlakur Jonsson, 200 Kopavogur Iceland 53.94% 3 Walter Pease - Catherine Dwinnell, Anchorage AK 59.95% 4 Beverly Gardner, Farmington Hls MI; Gail Hanson, Lake Orion MI 53.01% 4 Alice Wegman, Bethesda MD; Estelle Margolin, Rego Park NY 52.55% 2 Mary Ross, Farmington MI; Victoria Vallone, Macomb MI 48.84% 2 1 Genadiy Hirscht, Albion MI; Susan Shorter, Saint Paul MN 51.62%

SILODOR OPEN PAIRS - 1ST FINAL SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B C D E F EAST-WEST 1 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 60.31% 1 Bryan Maksymetz, Alert Bay BC; Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC 63.01% 2 G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Jim Kirkham, San Bernardino CA 59.99% 2 Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Martin Fleisher, New York NY 62.01% 3 Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC 59.67% 3 Ralph Buchalter, South Orange NJ; Migry Zur Campanile, East Palo Alto CA 60.96% 4 Bjarni Einarsson, 740 Neskaupstad Iceland; Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Huntsville AL 59.39% 4 Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY 59.77% 5 Charles Kopp, Columbus OH; Gregory Potts, Portsmouth OH 59.04% 5 George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain 59.62% 6 Tom Kniest, University City MO; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL 58.79% 6 Michael Lawrence, Brentwood TN; John Solodar, Palm Beach Gdns FL 59.47% 7 Mike Potoczak, Lincolnshire IL; Kazimierz Omernik, 58.49% 7 Robert Cappelli, Bloomfield MI; Michael D Alioto, Birmingham MI 58.39% 8 Beverly Perry, New York NY; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA 58.02% 8 Nan Wang, Eatontown NJ; William Esberg, Long Branch NJ 57.49% 9 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Louk Verhees, 2215 SH Voorhou Netherlands 57.99% 9 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 56.22% 10/11 David Berkowitz - Larry Cohen, Boca Raton FL 57.94% 10 Paul Meerschaert, Saint Paul MN; Peggy Kaplan, Minnetonka MN 55.84% 10/11 Michael Moss, New York NY; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 57.94% 11 Milton Zlatic, Saint Louis MO; Tom Oppenheimer, Ballwin MO 55.79% 12 Stephen Burgess, Sydney Australia; Paul Marston, Australia 1360 Australia 57.77% 12 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman, Atlanta GA 55.29% 13 Allan Stauber, Palm Bch Grdns FL; Lewis Finkel, Jupiter FL 57.64% 13 Gene Simpson, San Rafael CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 55.12% 14 Robert Sartorius, Lake Hiawatha NJ; Rick Roeder, San Diego CA 56.79% 14 Michael Polowan, New York NY; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI 54.92% 15 Robert Kent, Marina Dl Rey CA; Ellen Kent, Marina Del Rey CA 56.27% 15 Nader Hanna, Willowdale ON; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 54.82% 16 Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX 55.82% 16 Bob Feller, Guilderland NY; Simon Kantor, Agawam MA 53.65% 17 Adele Verkamp, Phoenix AZ; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ 55.79% 17/18 Robb Gordon, Sedona AZ; Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ 53.60% 18 Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY; Betty Ann Kennedy, Shreveport LA 55.44% 17/18 Michael Kovacich, Stone Mountain GA; Samuel Marks, Atlanta GA 53.60% 19 Roger Zellmer - Marvin French, San Diego CA 55.42% 19/20 Saleh Fetouh, Buffalo NY; Paul Thurston, St Catharines ON 53.17% 20 Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL 55.17% 19/20 Roger Lord - Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO 53.17% 21 Gary Gottlieb, Brooklyn NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden 54.85% 21 Sangarapil Mohan, Oak Brook IL; Claude Vogel, Chicago IL 51.97% 22 Shawn Quinn, 30-218 Krakow Poland; JoAnna Stansby, Castro Valley CA 54.42% 22 Richard Burton - Beatrice Kemp, Dacula GA 51.67% 23 Thomas Gandolfo, Edmonton AB; Dann Kramer, Calgary AB 54.35% 23/24 Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Jack Bryant, Saint Louis MO 51.55% 24 Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook NY; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 54.30% 23/24 Aton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands 51.55% 25 Douglas Simson - Walter Johnson, Columbus OH 53.62% 25/26 Fred King, Falls Church VA; Richard Temkin, Farmington MI 51.47% 26 Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; William Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ 53.60% 25/26 Terje Aa, Heimdal Norway; Joergen Molberg, Trondheim Norway 51.47% 27 Scott Levine - Aaron Silverstein, New York NY 52.95% 27 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Neal Satten, Wynnewood PA 51.35% 28 Susan Parnes - Gordon Parnes, Flint MI 52.92% 28 Allan Graves, Vancouver BC; Melih Ozdil, Astoria NY 51.22% 29 Kerry Holloway, Bloomington MN; Larry Oakey, Minneapolis MN 52.50% 29 Laurie Kranyak, Bay Village OH; Phillip Becker, Beachwood OH 51.07% 30 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Jim Krekorian, New York NY 51.80% 30 Alan Applebaum, Brookline MA; James Streisand, Sudbury MA 51.05% 31 Christal Henner-Welland, New York NY; Antonio Sementa, Parma Italy 51.75% 31 David Bakhshi, London England; Barnet Shenkin, Boca Raton FL 51.02%

FIRST FRIDAY SENIOR PAIRS - FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AAA EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Joyce Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Sandra DeMartino, Riverside CT 60.42% 1 William Winokur, West Bloomfield MI; Toshiko Sasaki, Novi MI 58.10% 2 Jack Jessop - Michael Selby, Windsor ON 60.19% 2 Shiv Arora, Saginaw MI; George Churchill, Swartz MI 57.18% 3 1 Marlene Mandell - Seymour Mandell, Southfield MI 59.26% 3 1 1 Charles Federman, Bloomfield Hls MI; Dennis Potocsky, Melvindale MI 54.17% 4 Joyce Stuart, West Bloomfield MI; James Anderson III, Waterford MI 58.56% 4 2 J Morris Swiger - Elmer Johansen, Ann Arbor MI 50.69% 2 1 Dennis Ott, Orange Beach AL; Terry Davis, Ray MI 56.25% 2 Cathy Paterson - Helen McKelvie, Windsor ON 49.54% 3 2 Bette Wolf, Flint MI; James Bronson, Lakeland FL 51.85% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION CCC EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 John Dreifus, Farmington MI; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Wds MI 65.51% 1 Tony Ames, Minnetonka MN; Elaine Ware, Vernon BC 60.42% 2 Ronald Horwitz, Farmington Hls MI; Brenda Jaffe, Farmington MI 60.42% 2 Evelyn Kleinsasser, Alachua FL; Giorgio Helmsdorff, Bogota Colombia 56.71% 3 Roger Nortman, Leonia NJ; Annabella Nelken, Clifton NJ 58.80% 3 Cheryl Jackson, Kansas City MO; Dan McCaw, Toronto ON 53.47% 4 1 1 Harriet Ruderman - Milton Ruderman, Roseville CA 55.79% 4 Robert McKee, Detroit MI; Barbara Jur, Warren MI 52.08% 2 2 Elizabeth Marcotte - Barbara Clifton, Windsor ON 48.84% 1 Edward Zujko, Clinton Twp MI; Vikas Phadke, Troy MI 51.16% 3 Curtis Jacobson, Detroit MI; William Burkhardt, South Lyon MI 44.21% 2 1 Charles Gaeth, Benicia CA; Thomas Bode, Toledo OH 48.61% 3 2 Michael Nolan - Marilynn Nolan, Troy MI 48.15%

ALAN CASTLE MEMORIAL 299ER FIRSTSATURDAY MORNING - ONE SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PP EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Allen Woolfrey - Jan Woolfrey, Mississauga ON 64.67% 1 Douglas Sweeder - Bill Ahlstrom, Bloomfield Hills MI 64.92% 2 2 Meg Baker - Karen Warner, Rochester Hills MI 54.35% 2 1 1 Stuart Dombey, Ann Arbor MI; Albert Sayed, Superior Townsh MI 55.92% 3 Lenore Cavallero, Hillsborough CA; Susie Boeing, San Francisco CA 50.33% 3 2 Lorette Savauge, St Marys ON; Lori Bailey, Waterloo ON 53.42%

SIDE SERIES I - FIRST SATURDAY MORNING—2ND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION QQ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Suman Agarwal, Hilliard OH; Jerome Williams, Westerville OH 56.25% 1 Malcolm Collins, Dundas ON; Susan Oakes, Burlington ON 60.00% 2 2 Jim Rudolph - Adrienne Rudolph, Ann Arbor MI 55.83% 2/3 Ed Freeman, Portland OR; Richard Douglas, Kemblesville PA 55.00% 3 Dan Neill, Lexington KY; Jason Rotenberg, Fairfield CT 54.58% 2/3 1 1 Jim Carey, Clinton IA; Arnold Holmberg, Anoka MN 55.00% 2 Christopher Cowan - Stephen Young, Mississauga ON 51.67%

TOMORROW’S BRIDGE EVENTS Monday, March 10, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* Other Dr. Brenda Fortunate and Ed White Morning Bracketed KO Teams 1st Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Continues Tuesday-Thursday mornings The Kalamazoo Bridge Center Morning Side Game 1st single session Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Part of the Monday-Wednesday Morning Side Game Series 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $14.50 Monday, March 10, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Stratified Daylight Pairs 1-2 Mackinac Ballroom, Level 5 $15.50 $17.50 Monday-Tuesday Senior KO Teams 1-2 Mackinac Ballroom, Level 5 $15.50 $17.50 Monday, March 10, 1 p.m. The Bridge Connection Side Game 3rd single session Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Part of the Sunday-Monday Side Game Series The Tom Gardner 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 The Tom Gardner 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $14.50 Monday, March 10, 1 & 7:30 p.m. Vanderbilt KO Teams Round 2 Renaissance Ballroom, Level 4 $18 Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs 1-2 F Renaissance Ballroom, Level 4 $18 The Lotte and Wayne Lee Memorial Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Compact KO Teams 1-4 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 The Lynette Marcus and Ruth Temkin Strati-Flighted Pairs A/X 1-2 Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 The Lynette Marcus and Ruth Temkin Strati-Flighted Pairs B/C/D 1-2 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50

Monday, March 10, 3 p.m. The Dr. Max Parker Memorial One-session Stratified IMP Pairs single Mackinac Ballroom, Level 5 $14.50 $16.50 Monday, March 10, 7:30 p.m. The Donald and Betty Carr Memorial One-session Stratified Swiss Teams single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 The Bridge Connection Side Game 4th single session Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Part of the Sunday-Monday Side Game Series Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $14.50 Monday, March 10, 11:30 p.m. Zip KO Teams single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, Strati-Flighted and Strati-Flighted Senior events are divided: A/X (3000+, 0-3000); separate from B/C/D (1000-2000, 500-1000, 0-500). Strata breaks for Stratified and Stratified Senior events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750). *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current. Page 16 Daily Bulletin

TODAY’S BRIDGE EVENTS See page 2 for other events Sunday, March 9, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* Other ACBL Educational Foundation Bracketed KO Teams 4th Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Saturday-Sunday Morning Compact Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Friday-Sunday Morning Side Game Series 3rd single session Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $14.50 Sunday, March 9, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Stratified Fast Pairs 1-2 Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Sunday, March 9, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. The Dottie Morochnick Memorial Stratified Senior Swiss Teams 1-2 Mackinac Ballroom, Level 5 $15.50 $17.50 Sunday, March 9, 1 p.m. The Bridge Connection Side Game 1st single session Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Part of the Sunday-Monday Side Game Series Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 “Thanks to the Pro-Am Pros” 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 “Thanks to the Pro-Am Pros” 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $14.50 Sunday, March 9, 1 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Vanderbilt KO Teams Round 1 Renaissance Ballroom, Level 4 $18 Entry for the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams required by 8 p.m. Saturday, March 8. Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs 1-2 Q Renaissance Ballroom, Level 4 $18 Pre-qualification required. 2 qualifying & 2 final sessions. The Lotte and Wayne Lee Memorial Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Continues Monday The Clarice and Jack Gordon Memorial Strati-Flighted Swiss Teams 1-2 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Stratified Pairs 1-2 Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Sunday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. The Harry W. Becker Memorial One-session single Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 Stratified Board-a-Match Teams Open to Swiss dropouts and new entries The Bridge Connection Side Game 2nd single session Ontario Exhibit Hall, Level 3 $15.50 $17.50 Part of the Sunday-Monday Side Game Series Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er, 49er Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $14.50 $14.50 Sunday, March 9, 11:30 p.m. Zip KO Teams single Ambassador Ballroom, Level 3 $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, Strati-Flighted and Strati-Flighted Senior events are divided: A/X (3000+, 0-3000); separate from B/C/D (1000-2000, 500-1000, 0-500). Strata breaks for Stratified and Stratified Senior events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750). *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

Today’s Sponsorships and Memorials This event and the Partnership Desk are named in what were, at the time, extraordinarily well-attended chief engineer for RCA at age 26. He opened a the memory of Dottie Morochnick. Dottie was semi-annual Pro-Am events in the Detroit area. When company, Electronic Sound Engineering, where he a Gold Life Master with more than 3,000 masterpoints. she heard about this sponsorship, in her usual self- designed intercoms and sound systems for church and She served on the board of the Michigan Bridge effacing manner, she declined to have her name parochial schools. The first multi-TV cable he Association. She is best known, however, for making associated with it, but instead, wanted to recognize the invented for high-rise residences is still in use in a career of being in charge of the partnership desk at many area “pros” who donated their time and Chicago. His prized project was safety phones on MBA sectionals and regionals for what seemed to be experience to the events. Thank You, Sandy! Chicago’s Sears and Twin Prudential Towers. He had forever! She took great pride in putting together patents in 10 countries. In poor health, he left for Las successful matches. She was simply a nice person Clarice Gordon (1915-97) and Jack Gordon Vegas where about a year later he became an engineer who left people feeling good about bridge and life in (1903-91) were instrumental members of the thriving at the Reynolds Missile Base, Henderson NV. He was general. This event is sponsored by her three Detroit-area bridge community for more than 25 years, a good family man, but you could never interrupt him daughters and their families and many of Dottie’s from the Fifties until the Eighties. while the “Lone Ranger” was on. friends. Clarice became a Life Master in 1965 and was an early member of the American Bridge Teachers Lotte Lee was born in Berlin and Wayne Lee was The Bridge Connection, located at 20300 W. 12 Association. She taught bridge for the city of Livonia born in Lockney TX. Lotte held a B.A. in Political Mile Road in Southfield MI (a Detroit suburb), has for more than 20 years. She also served as president Science and was City Clerk in Richmond IN for been welcoming players since the summer of 1992. of the Michigan Bridge Association. several years. Wayne received an MBA from the We pride ourselves in being the only full-time bridge Jack was recruited by Tom Weeks and became a University of Cincinnati and was a retired Lt. Colonel club in the greater Detroit area. We hold games seven Regional Tournament Director during the 1960s. He in the U.S. Air Force. They married in 1972 and were days a week and are blessed with dedicated and always stood out because of his snappy attire and long active participants in the Detroit bridge community. competent directors who have kept our club active and cigars. Jack became a Life Master in dramatic fashion They died in 2007 within three months of each other. welcoming all of these years. We are constantly in 1970 by winning the very first regional event he This event is sponsored by Rosella G. and James A. striving to make duplicate bridge a fun, yet played in after retiring as a TD (playing with Clarice, Moody, best friends of the Lees for many years. competitive, event. of course). We now have newcomer programs that we are The Gordons both loved seeing young people Advance Capital Management is the sponsor of expanding, along with teachers who are bringing in involved in bridge, including son, Robb. But Jack was the Schedule and Restaurant Guide found in your new players continuously. also quick with a sharp rebuke when some of those registration packet. It is a Michigan-based investment We wish to thank all of our players for their young people would become rambunctious (including advisory firm that specializes in retirement planning continued support. Please visit our web site at son Robb!). They were fortunate to be active during a and manages their own family of no-load mutual Mibridgeconnection.com. If you have any questions, time when bridge was popular among young people funds. CEO Bob Cappelli is an ACBL member who, e-mail us at [email protected] or call 248-356- and they did their part to contribute to that trend. like many of our members, took time off from bridge 6254. Linda and Art Golumbia and Betty and Woody Clarice and Jack are survived by their son Cary to grow his business. Bob is the co-chair of the Ott. and daughter-in-law Dr. Judy Kann of Los Angeles as Information Committee for our NABC and when well as son Robb and daughter-in-law Linda Rokeach reading the job description that said, “the information Thanks to the Pro-Am Pros. This event is Gordon of Sedona AZ. chair must know everything” was ingloriously told by sponsored by an anonymous donor whose original his wife that “you finally found a job that matches intent was to honor Sandy Goller. Sandy (with the help Harry W. Becker (1913-1990) was the father of what you have been telling me for thirty years!” of Dave Buskirk and the generosity of The Bridge Detroit’s Rosanne Winokur, Willie Winokur’s wife. For more information, call 800-345-4783 or go Connection) devoted countless hours to promoting Becker started out at age 16 fixing radios and became online at www.acfunds.com.