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March 7 - March 17, 2002 45th Spring North American Bridge Championships Houston, TX Vol. 45, No. 10 Sunday, March 17, 2002 Editors: Brent Manley and Henry Francis 2002 Worldwide Bridge ContestThe 2002 Worldwide set Bridge for Contest June is scheduled 8 Daily for BulletinFriday June 7 and Saturday June 8, and the orga- nizers are hoping for an even bigger participation than last year. The contest will again be scored dynamically across the field using Internet, with each club scoring the local heat using specially developed software, then uploading the files directly to a central server farm in England. The results will then be scored, together with the results from the hundreds of other clubs, across the field to give an overall winner. The Web Site, at www.ecatsbridge.com, will link to the results, generating a great deal of excitement as they come in and the scores are updated. The frequen- cies on each board can be examined in detail.. Each player’s personal scorecard is displayed, giving board- Bob Crossley by-board matchpoints and percentages. The deals — which, incidentally, are not “selected” Ed Gkickman in any way but are a straight set of deals — are written Bob Crossley becomes up with excellent commentary by Eric Kokish and are given to players as a printed souvenir booklet as well Bob CrossleyGrand fulfilled Life a major Master requirement for Grand as being displayed on the site. In addition, players have Life Master way back in 1974 – he won the Vanderbilt Glickman is tops the opportunity to add their own comments to the web with his brother Dave plus Joey Silver and Eric Kokish site, which adds an interesting dimension as they tell — perhaps the youngest team ever to win that event. This of individual triumphs and disasters! week he fulfilled the other requirement – he scored his amongWhen Ed Glickman newcomers learned that he had a good The contest provides an exciting, enjoyable and chance to be the top masterpoint winner among the 10,000th masterpoint. challenging game to the participants. The rare oppor- The Vanderbilt was the vehicle once again – he fin- newcomers, he changed his plans, deciding to stay for tunity to join a major event and compete with players the rest of the tournament rather than go home to ished tied for fifth in the Vanderbilt playing with Jack from so many other countries provides a stimulating Coleman and with teammates Aleksander Petrunin and Snowmass CO. He changed his airline ticket at his own experience. The commentary booklets give everyone expense and found a new hotel room. Andrew Gromov of Russia and Cezary Balicki and Adam a chance to discuss the hands afterwards. Add to this Zmudzinski of Poland. They lost to Reese Milner, who He is virtually certain to win the trophy that goes the enjoyment of watching the scores change as new to the I/N player who scores the most points in I/N went on to win the event. results come in, the fun of adding your own comments Bridge has been Crossley’s life. He became a Life games. As of last night he had won 26, and he still has to the site and this becomes an event not to be missed. Sunday to go. He also won seven more points outside Master when he was only 16, and that’s also the time he Continued on page 4 the I/N area. He already has won six trophies for vic- turned pro. Nowadays he teaches on bridge cruises and at tories in I/N events. resorts. He also plays a lot of golf – and he juggles when Glickman, a film producer working on a major he wants to get away from it all. H actually is good enough musical depicting the love affair between Maurice at juggling to do well in major competitions. Chevalier and Mistin Guett, joined the ACBL two years Casen squad leads His other major victories in bridge include the Al- ago and already has piled up 155 points. This is his bany Cup in Denmark and three Central America-Carib- second NABC – he also went to Las Vegas last fall and The teamin captained Open by Drew Swiss Casen held a modest bean championships. won 23 points, including 12 gold. lead heading into the second and final day of the Open He enjoys talking about his father Cap and his grand- His regular partner, Ann Johnson, had to return to Swiss Teams. Casen, Lee Rautenberg, Bernie Miller and father, who also was Cap. He remembers when they won Durango CO for an emergency shortly after this tour- Lewis Finkel will take a carryover of 20 Victory Points the All-Western back in the Fifties against Lew Mathe’s Continued on page 4 into play Sunday. team. His grandfather psyched on the very first board, Right behind with 17.14 VPs are Jack Coleman, Bob and his opponents were watching him closely for addi- Crossley, Cezary Balicki, Adam Zmudzinski, Andrew tional psychs – but that first one was the only one. His Breed in the lead Gromov and Aleksander Petrunin. plan of action completely confused the opposition. A teamin of Womensworld champions ledSwiss by Mildred Breed were the leaders after two qualifying sessions of the There’sWhos a caddy working caddying at the 2002 Spring in Houston?NABC Ask Little Eddie Women’s Swiss Teams, which concludes today. Each in Houston with an unusual distinction. member of the team – Breen, Shawn Quinn, Petra She is one of the few people who can call one of Hamman, Joan Jackson, Nancy Passell and Nell Cahn the world’s top players “Little – have won world women’s titles. Eddie.” In second place entering play today are Lynn Deas, That would be Joan Wold, Beth Palmer, Jill Meyers, Irina Levitina and Randi Monton. mother of Eddie Wold, many- time North American champion and one of the top professional players on the tournament cir- Illinois, NJ pairs cuit for decades. At home, Wold, who is Ed- Jameslead Hudson in of Dekalb NAP IL gamesand Meyer Abarbanel ward Jr., is “Little Eddie” to of Belvedere IL were in the lead after two qualifying ses- avoid confusion with his father, sions of the North American Pairs, Flight B. They held a who also answers to Eddie. lead of less than half a board over Elwin Brown of Joan Wold “I tried calling one Edward Gloucester ON and David Sabourin of Ottawa ON. and the other Eddie,” says Joan, In Flight C of the NAP, Jacek Leznicki of Verona NJ “but it didn’t work.” and Jerry Owczarek of Union NJ were the leaders over Hollis and Gery Barry of Toronto. Both events conclude today. Continued on page 4 Her name is Abby Smith Page 2 Daily Bulletin HendrikPower Sharples of of Portland the ORdeuce dropped by and The person who wasToday to become St. is Patrick, St. the Patrickssion of the Irish Day!country to Christianity. His mis- showed us this hand. “What do you think the odds are patron saint of Ireland, was born in Wales about sion in Ireland lasted 30 years. that you could score a trick with the singleton heart AD 385. His given name was Maewyn, and he al- After that time, Patrick retired to County deuce against a 4ª contract?” We were wary – we most didn’t get the job of bishop of Ireland because Down. He died on March 17 in AD 461. That day didn’t say zero because he wouldn’t have asked the he lacked the required scholarship. has been commemorated as St. Patrick’s Day ever question unless it happened. Far from being a saint, until he was 16 he con- since. Dlr: South « K 9 4 2 sidered himself a pagan. At that age, he was sold Much Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick’s Vul: N-S ª K J 6 5 into slavery by a group of Irish marauders who Day. Not much of it is actually substantiated. Some © 9 4 raided his village. During his captivity, he became of this lore includes the belief that Patrick raised ¨ A 10 2 closer to God. He escaped from slavery after six people from the dead. He also is said to have given « 7 6 3 « 10 8 5 years and went to Gaul, where he studied in the a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes ª 2 ª A Q 10 3 monastery under St. Germain, bishop of Auxerre, from Ireland. Of course, no snakes were ever na- © J 10 7 5 3 2 © Q 8 for a period of 12 years. tive to Ireland, and some people think this is a ¨ K 4 3 ¨ Q J 7 5 During his training he became aware that his metaphor for the conversion of the pagans. « A Q J calling was to convert the pagans to Christianity. Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. ª 9 8 7 4 His wishes were to return to Ireland, to convert the Patrick’s Day has evolved into more of a secular © A K 6 native pagans to Christianity. But his superiors in- holiday. One traditional icon of the day is the ¨ 9 8 6 stead appointed St. Palladius. But two years later, shamrock.This stems from a more bona fide Irish West North East South Palladius transferred to Scotland. tale that tells how Patrick used the three-leafed 1© Patrick, having adopted that Christian name shamrock to explain the Trinity. He used it in his Pass 1ª Pass 2ª earlier, was then appointed as second bishop to Ire- sermons to represent how the Father, the Son and Pass 2« Pass 4ª land.

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