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2004 Not News Issue 7.Pub NOT NEWS 2004 Editor: Stephen Lester Production: Jennifer de Livera Jane Rasmussen ADMINISTRATORS RULE, OK! TIM BOURKE’S DAILY PLAY PROBLEM At Rydges, Team 16, BROCKWELL, contains four 7. AVOIDANCE PLAY illustrious bridge administrators, John Brockwell, Summer Festival Convener for many years and former East deals, EW vulnerable ABF President. He is playing with Tony Jackman, longtime Convener of the Gold Coast Congress, and a North prominent figure in Queensland bridge. ] Q 10 8 6 5 4 2 [ 3 Eric Ramshaw, Chairman of the ABF Tournament Com- } 9 7 2 mittee is playing with John Wignall, WBF Vice- { J 9 President, Zone 7’s WBF representative, and one of New Zealand’s most distin- South guished and suc- ] A K J 3 cessful represen- [ A J 7 tative players. } K 6 4 3 { A 6 As a Kiwi bridge player, I looked West North East South up to John Wig- Pass 2NT nall from an early Pass 3[ Pass 3] age, so it gave Pam Rickard, John Brockwell, Pass 4] All pass me great pleas- Margaret Reid and Tony Jackman: ure when he Round 2, 16 v 36: 22 - 8 win to the West leads [K against this promising venture. agreed to write a gentlemen short autobiogra- You have nine top tricks and there are a number of phy for our Bulletin. He also included one of his favour- possibilities for a 10th. What is the best of these? ite deals, which will be published in the next issue. PLATE PRIZE PRESENTED We congratulate Doreen Payne for her win, with Fifine Hutton, in the Australian Open Pairs Plate. Doreen has been coming to the Festival for the past 32 years - since the inception of the event, in fact. Unfortunately, her record must be broken this year, as her team for the SWPT had to disband for health reasons. Doreen, 82, plays at Lindfield Bridge Club. She The other table: Betty Priestley, may look familiar Eric Ramshaw, Pat Crowe, John Wignall to some of you - her daughter is one Valerie Table Tally Cummings. Fifine, who was at Midnight 19/01/2004 not available for the photograph, 3339 is Tony Hutton’s mother. John Scudder awards the plate to Doreen NOT NEWS # 7 Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Page 1 SWPT RYDES SWPT RYDES AFTER ROUND THREE DATUMS Pl Tm Name Score Board Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 001 002 Paul Marston 73 1 210 50 -120 Matthew Thomson Gabi Lorentz John Lester 2 -40 530 -330 Stephen Burgess Ashley Bach 3 -30 270 250 002 008 Tim Bourke 70 Margaret Bourke 4 170 80 -40 Arjuna De Livera David Smith 5 -200 1230 -20 Richard Oshlag Mary Oshlag 6 -40 -170 350 003 003 Matthew McManus 68 Michael Ware 7 -540 630 0 Sartaj Hans Avinash Kanetkar Khokan Bagchi 8 100 -70 -60 004 006 Cathy Chua 68 9 110 120 520 Chris Hughes George Smolanko David Lilley 10 -300 -500 20 005 050 Sharon Mayo 68 Greg Mayo 11 60 470 -280 Ben Chosid Frank Budai 12 210 570 490 006 018 Helen Lowry 64 Elizabeth Adams 13 60 -140 -30 Jillian Hay Tony Nunn 14 360 470 -350 007 017 Nicoleta Giura 63 Nick Hughes 15 -90 140 -420 Julian Foster David Weston 16 -470 -560 -80 008 057 Tom Kiss 63 William Zhang 17 -60 350 390 Andrew Barany Peter Livesey 18 -70 140 -150 009 011 Karen Cumpstone 62 Emma Barrack 19 40 -50 30 Shirley Newton Jenny Wilkinson 20 -110 -40 -70 Chris Ackerley Arlene Schwartz 010 026 Michael McQueen-Thomson 62 Helen Snashall Catherine Lachman Vivienne Goldberg Julette Alexander NOT NEWS # 7 Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Page 2 SWPT NCC SWPT NCC AFTER ROUND THREE DATUMS Pl Tm Name Score Board Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 001 002 Barry Noble 75 George Bilski 1 200 100 -260 Terry Brown Phil Gue Michael Prescott 2 -110 200 -420 Bob Richman 3 70 200 360 002 021 Marlene Watts 74 Berenice Folkard Robert Milward 4 -40 40 -250 Helen Milward 5 -110 920 40 003 001 Mary-Ann Brifman 69 Richard Jedrychowski Hugh McGann 6 -110 -150 440 W Pszczola M Kwiecien Matthew Mullamphy 7 -590 640 130 004 007 Peter Fordham 69 8 50 -170 -70 Arian Lasocki Richard Brightling Ian Thomson 9 20 140 480 005 003 Jessel Rothfield 68 10 -270 -570 70 Seamus Browne Kieran Dyke Ishmael Del'Monte 11 100 360 -340 Robert Fruewirth Carole Rothfield 12 70 610 630 006 005 Alan Walsh 68 Barbara McDonald 13 40 -110 140 Mike Hughes Ted Griffin 14 170 480 -330 Kim Morrison Marilyn Chadwick 15 -280 60 -470 007 006 Callin Gruia 68 Wally Malaczynski 16 -620 -660 -120 Apolinary Kowalski Mirek Milaszewski 17 -50 330 430 008 013 Jan Cormack 64 George Kozakos Elizabeth Havas 18 10 20 -170 Candice Feitelson 009 004 Valerie Cummings 64 19 70 -70 110 Peter Newman T Yoshida 20 -100 -140 0 Edward Chadwick Pauline Gumby Warren Lazer 010 019 Justin Stark 64 NATIONAL Robert Gallus Andrew Mill CONVENTION Cathy Mill CENTRE NOT NEWS # 7 Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Page 3 MEET JOHN WIGNALL the atmosphere at World Championships. The Systems Policy and the doctrine of full disclosure have had a I learned bridge at Manchester University in 1952 and huge effect on this. The creation of a Convention Card joined the Christchurch Contract Bridge Club in early Editor, then in DOS, was bogged down, and I was 1954. I served on the Committee on and off from 1958 asked to have it finalised. When this was done I saw and was President in 1975 when a disastrous fire during that we would need a similar program in Word. Then we the building of an extension destroyed most of it. I then would need a dedicated website where all systems to supervised the rebuilding, which turned out to be a very be used at a coming World Championship would be successful exercise. filed. In all of this I acted as a Facilitator; I did not do much myself, but I got it done. The players have At about that time I joined the NZCBA Management adopted the new technology with enthusiasm. They can Committee and remained an active member until four study opposing systems at length and ask questions years ago. I wrote its Systems Policy, its Appeals Com- before the event. They are relaxed and all the old suspi- mittee procedures, and its Trials regulations. But it has cions have gone, by and large. This has been a great been a source of disappointment to me that I was never achievement. elected Chairman of the Management Committee, which would have enabled me to do so much more for Currently I chair a Committee looking at the revision of the NZCBA. the Laws. We are aiming at a new Law book in 2005. We have had face to face meetings, but most work is Instead, when the opportunity arose in 1986, I accepted done by email. Again I am the facilitator rather than the the post of Zone 7 representative on the WBF Executive mover. I had a similar position with a Committee that Council. Denis Howard had just become WBF President last year produced a set of Laws for electronic bridge. and so the post had become vacant. It took a few years to pick everything up but gradually I took on more and This by way is, in my opinion, the way bridge will ex- more jobs. I was one of those who pushed for a more pand. I think we should let the clubs target the senior modern accounting system. I helped Karl Rohan with a citizens, and give every help to the bridge playing sites WBF Systems Policy, then when I became Chairman of to attract the young and the students. Those in between I am afraid we have lost. the Systems Committee, I rewrote the policy with Edgar Kaplan. I contributed to the Rules and Regulations I was awarded Membership of the New Zealand Order Committee, and then as time went on I chaired a num- of Merit in 1998 for services to bridge. This is a New ber of ad hoc committees to deal with specific problems Zealand MBE, the same award given to Rixi Markus - computer sponsorships, smoking etc. Nowadays, I and Bruce Bell. Ed: The late Bruce Bell was the most either take the Minutes of Executive council meetings or famous bridge player in New Zealand for over three check their accuracy. decades. In combination with players like the late Eileen Currently I am on the WBF Management Committee, Taylor and Rex Evans, Bruce had his name on most trophies in the country. Credentials, Laws, Finance, Advisory, and Chair Sys- tems and the Laws Drafting Commit- You may also like to know that tee. I am the First Vice-President, the since 1966 I have had a regular nominated successor to José bridge column in The Press, Damiani. I am also a vice chairman of Christchurch, so I have been a the WBF Appeals Committee, and member of the IBPA since around generally supervise Appeals at World 1970 I think. Championships. I was Chairman of a Over the years I won every NZ committee appointed by the President national title, most on several oc- to meet in Lausanne when there was casions, playing with either Frank some disquiet over the appeals proc- Lu, Roy Kerr or Kris Wooles. But ess generally. It was my suggestion my proudest achievement was to that we adopt a "Code of Practice" win the National Rubber Bridge and once we had worked one out Knock-out Competition virtually there has been a dramatic improve- John with his Beamer - the plates used to be three years running.
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