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Five Top Players in First CBF Bridge Hall of Fame Meet Your Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Volume 53, Number 6 Daily Bulletin 53rd Spring North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Meet your TDs Two high seeds now This is (later Truscott). out of Vanderbilt part of a new “It was fun,” says Alexander, recalling the days High-seeded squads captained by Roy Welland series of articles before he took up tournament directing. and George Jacobs are on the sidelines today as the profiling ACBL Alexander, born Robert Jeffery, came into the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams enters the round of 32. tournament world in Fort Wayne IN, which had the closest Welland, seeded No. 7, was knocked off by No. directors who hospital to Convoy, a village in western Ohio 58, captained by Philip Becker of Beachwood OH. work at NABCs where the Alexander family was living. His teammates are Kumar Bhatia, Pepper Pike OH, In 1950, Alexander moved with his family to and Yuxiong Shen and Yi Zhong of China. Jeff another small town: Jupiter FL – population 300. Jacobs fell 141-115 to No. 55, led by Harvey Alexander has In high school, Alexander was into virtually every Brody of San Francisco. He is playing with James vivid memories sport available. He played golf, tennis, baseball, Griffin, Sausalito CA; Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL, of his first basketball and ran track. and Jim Foster, Birmingham AL. NABC. It was When it was time to attend college, he headed continued on page 11 the 1965 spring back to Ohio, enrolling at Bowling Green State tournament in Cleveland OH, where he worked University to study mathematics and statistics Durrin, Eythorsdottir teaching statistics at Western Reserve University. (he also played on the tennis team). After earning leading Mixed Pairs He and Robert Ewen, Kit Woolsey and Jim his bachelor’s degree at BGSU, he headed for the Two players from Alabama start today’s play Joy entered the Vanderbilt, which at the time was a University of Illinois to study some more. in the Rockwell Mixed Pairs with a carryover lead double elimination event with 32-board matches. It was there that his interest in bridge of about 12 matchpoints. On top with two final Alexander’s team won five matches, and it intensified. “I got more serious,” he says. He knew sessions to play are Charles Durrin of Madison and took two powerhouse squads to eliminate them. about bridge because his parents played socially, Hjordis Eythorsdottir of Huntsville. Their first loss was to Alvin Roth, Tobias Stone, and he had played in a few duplicate games near Their carryover score of 246.52 puts them Sam Stayman and Victor Mitchell. The loss that put Bowling Green. ahead of Ellen and Rob Crawford of Henderson them out of the event was to Ivan Erdos, Kelsey Alexander’s first regular partner was Gerald NV, with 238.86. Richard Reitman of Los Gatos Petterson, B. Jay Becker and Dorothy Hayden continued on page 11 CA and Peggy Sutherlin of Dallas TX are about 4.5 matchpoints behind in third place. Last year’s winners, Karen Walker and Tom Five top players in first Kniest start the day in ninth place out of 182 CBF Bridge Hall of Fame qualifying pairs. The Canadian Bridge Federation decided biography, accomplishments, photos, articles by Third Youth NABC slated last year to create a Canadian Bridge Hall of them, newspaper columns/clippings about them for New Orleans Fame. The CBF intends to recognize individuals and a bibliography of their writings. Young bridge players are expected to come for outstanding achievements as players and/or For 2010, its first year of operation, the from across the U.S. and Canada to the third Youth builders. Builders could include teachers, writers, Canadian Bridge Hall of Fame inductees will be: NABC to be held in New administrators and others. • Percy (Shorty) Sheardown – first Canadian Orleans this summer. The The Canadian Bridge Hall of Fame will be Life Master, one of the all-time greats (won von dates are from Thursday, July entirely online and may be accessed through Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs two years in a row). 29 to Saturday, July 31. the CBF web site at www.cbf.ca after the first • Sami Kehela – eight-time North American There will be games for induction ceremony. It will take place during the champion, bridge journalist, coach of the North players on all levels –even complete beginners can Canadian Bridge Championships in Markham ON, American team in the 1962. play a game called “cardrook.” May 29-June 5. • Eric Murray – Leading civil litigation The tournament is open to those 19 years old The virtual Hall of Fame will include attorney and Canada’s most successful player of or younger as of July 1, 2010. All events will be information about all inductees, including all time (many of his wins were in partnership with played at the New Orleans Marriott. Kehela). One of the founders of the CBF. The first two contests were resounding • Sam Gold – “Mr. Bridge” in Montreal and a successes. A total of 198 players attended the top tournament director in addition to being a great first Youth NAB C in Atlanta in 2008, and 168 player. He was the second Canadian LM. continued on page 11 • Bruce Elliott, four-time North American champion, including two wins in the von Zedtwizt Goodwill Message LM Pairs with Sheardown. Have you said “thank you” to a caddy during Kehela, Murray and Sheardown are members this NABC? The caddies pick up slips each round of the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame. during pair games and move boards during team See the May issue of the ACBL Bridge Bulletin games – despite players’ best efforts to hide the continued on page 11 slips and the boards. A word of thanks will These four Canadians won the Spingold Attendance brighten their day -- and yours, Knockout Teams two years in a row (1964 too. and 1965) and are now in the newly created Aileen Osofsky Canadian Bridge Hall of Fame: Sami Kehela, Eric 6677 Tables Chairman, Goodwill Committee Murray, Bruce Elliott and Percy Sheardown. Page 2 Daily Bulletin SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Wednesday, March 17 Thursday, March 18 9 am - Noon Club Director Refresher Course. An update course 10 am - Noon Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of for club directors to refresh and renew their skills for Bridge meeting. Room: Ruby 1. directing club and bridge cruise games. Anyone who is a club director or a director aboard a cruise ship is invited to Friday, March 19 participate. Fee: $15. Room: Ruby 1. 8 am - 11 pm Hall of Fame Interviews. Room: Sierra 1. 11:30 pm - 2 am Women’s Team Trials meeting. Room: Sierra 2. 10 am - Noon Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge meeting. Room: Ruby 1. CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Be sure to hear these free expert lectures in Carson Ballroom. Wednesday, March 17 Thursday, March 18 9:15 am Mike Flader Ruling the Game 9:15 am G.S. Jade Barrett The Learning Curve 6:45 pm Michael Huston Doing It With Finesse 6:45 pm Gene Simpson Drury ENTERTAINMENT / FOOD Nevada Foyer — Lower Level Nevada Foyer — Lower Level Wednesday, March 17 Wednesday, March 17 10:30 p.m. St. Patrick’s Day Limerick Contest 10:30 p.m. Reuben Sandwich Drop your entry at the Information Desk. Green Beer and Reuben Sandwiches Thursday, March 18 10:30 p.m. Ice Cream Friday March 19 10:30 p.m. Fifties Sock Hop Free Beer and cash bar. Today’s host The annual sectional in Klamath Falls is in the Bid Box Alerts and beautiful month of May. Each day, a different group of units will host Jackson County Unit 484 the NABC. The host for today is Area 7 and their Announcements Medford and Ashland are the principal representative is Bernadine Lacy. The units in Area When using bid boxes, the ACBL requires that communities comprising the Jackson County 7 are: players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the Unit and while the county is not that large, its Grants Pass Unit 481 same time. population is diverse. Ashland, lovely Ashland, The Grants Pass Unit is reminiscent of bridge When making an Announcement, use the is the much-heralded location of the Ashland clubs of the Fifties with a very intimate and small- Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap Shakespearean Festival. Its avant garde atmosphere town tone to its games. The unit has 120 members. the Alert strip at the same time. makes it a year-round attraction to tourists from Grants Pass offers three regular games a week A player who Alerts or Announces a bid must all over the world. Jacksonville provides a taste of on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In addition to make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or Oregon’s gold rush years and Medford – home to their regular games, they have a Monday morning Announcement has been made. the world famous Harry and David Corporation – is seminar and an Intermediate-Newcomer game the business center for most of Southern Oregon. on Tuesday. The Tuesday game has a very active With a new and increasingly active airport and group with a tremendous sense of community having the I-5 corridor bisect the center of town it pride. Unit 481 also holds an annual sectional in is attracting many new players. This unit has 184 late June. members. The slogan for Grants Pass is “It’s The With three very active day games on Monday, Climate,” and the devoted members of this Unit do Wednesday and Friday and one evening game on everything they can to make it a great climate for Monday.
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