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Ital, threatened with elimination after being held to a tie by the Philippines in thea blitz in'the evening to clinch one of the two berths in the VeniceBfternoony Gx'upted with a 'z 'i 6 eve

Cup final. The Italian women have played Bll their matc es, so ' e r o1 din the 12 they get fox the bye this afiexnoon., is 65. Either ArgentVictoiy Points iinc u g e; ' ' her Ar ent

OX' 6 Qi 6 8th U "t d Stat 8 cantop this'total but it is impossible for 1 oha kes the battle between the Axgentines Bnd ihe Americana e ggth bi 'eet match of

e x .. ~ ' l match with a 6 VP lead, theyhave to bethe afternoon . Since the Amexicane will go into the ma c wh In fact ae long ae they score at least 8 o t efavored to earn the other finalist bert,

* * h th . A ericane but the conditions of1 ualif, Ax' Gntina has to scox'8 at lea,et I . 8 ' o 6

A merMB e* A I3-7 win wouM put Argent' in a iie with the merlcane, ucontest Mte that the team that won the head-to-hcarl match woula qm " yualif in the event of atie in Victory Points,

Yes, things looked bad for Italy in ihe afternoon, The Philippine ladiesdies di,dn't like thatk st da 'e Daily Bulletin about "Italy should have an easy time against the

nd the actuaW. outscored thePhili ines" Th y went into the match with a vengeance, and they yP er that translated to a 10-10 tie in VPs. After the match,E'uX'GpeaQ Champed 80-78. Howevers Bs, X'

ha 1 i h dhimeatihe Philippine ladies descended GQ ma886 on the editor Bnd v8ry ' ppx y wa c 6his words.

Meanwhile Axgentina ilad a bye and the American ladies were beating out Australia 9I2-8, in an extremely hard-fought match.

In the evening, the Italian ladies knew what they needed to do. They sta e a 6first half~ buiMing up B 62-2 Ga . ' Gy-24 1 d. They they held the South American champs to only 6 s

Points.inthe SGCOrl W 8 SCO n l see ' ' G Qa.d half hil ri g 28 themselves, That waa worth all 20 Victory o n e.The United States had a toughex tixne with the Philippines, winning o y I - .The two ~lists ~l meet in a 64-boaxd final tomorrow,

4'~ ++A Six ~erent countries will battle this BSernoon fox' tllx'86 Gf the foux' berthain theen TGBXQ8, Meanwhile,. the Glimineea will fight it Gut fox'eem~leof the BosenblumOpenGam' ' h will in th afternoonthetopfiveplacesin the SwissTeams" " inal berth.

'ni knockout this evening to deter~8 the fourth Se~inal elosers ln a mi owin ngage in I2-board matches; .the foux victors will t Gn p y

to it in Gnedd i ] I2 bo d latch-8 and the two ."Gmaining teaxne wi go ~oItIS going to be B long evening> albeit B, most mterestrng

fashionone, This ie the Grat time an international team event has been xun in t-isBDdinterest is rl~llng ai fevex' pitch.

he OustedIn th Ku an bxacke' the French team captained by Paul CSwitzerland, captained by Jaixne Ortiz-Patino. Tile othex' matcil waa

8 X'OP 8 icyc Ben't exactl

European, since one of' the ieame wae Panama, but naturally not Bll three bracketscame out exactly evens However, it's Bn all-Europe bracket now because thePolish team, captain bv Marian Frankiel, emerged the v~er ovex the Maduro team.

Th N rih American final comes down to a Canada-U. S, battle. Ira Corn"88 G

COX'iQteam de Ga 6 .. 6f ted the U. S. team captained by Ken Cohen, In. an extremely low-scor gmatch, the Canadian teaxn captained by Petex Nagy ousted George 8 p ea ee and Co,

It came ae a surprise to absolutely no one thai Brazil,, captained by Pedro-cao made it to the final in the Rest-of-the-%'Grid bracket, After all

the Braziliane axe present World Team Olympiad champions, Bnd two mern ers othe team, Gabino Cintra and Marcelo Branco, wex e Actors in the Open Pairs here.Brazil defeated DGQ Cowan.'8 entry from Canada. Morocco, captained by HamidSebti, scored an impressive victor'y ovex Australia, captained by Ji,m Borin.

BHACHMAN TEAM IKADS IN ALVISS... See story on page 2,

speeseeedbyshe Hyar f. RegeIlCy HO'telrid Bridge Federation,

New Orleans La., U.S.A.hosted by the

anContractBridgeLeague June 17-30! 1978

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SWISS TEAN Leaders sSer Bound 0 0:100 . m. T~uesda:P4 - Malcolm Brachm" n - %ilUiam Eisenberg - Bobext Goldman Eddie Kantar - Mfike

Passell Pau.' Soiovray USA!lb 18 Lou Bluhm - ...'sober' LiPsitz - Tom Sandex'8 Neil Silverman - Alan Sontag '-

Peter Reich.eel USA!822 Gerald Miclaxud - G. R, Nail - Caxol Sanders Betty Ann.Kennedy USA!$16 - Mike Beckex GQn Tcn"mn Fred I@milton - Mike Lawrence Bon Bubin

- John Swarlson USA!851 - Hymiie Bl'.",kow - Nm9" e Eber DuggieEttlinger Dennis Horwitz South Africa!:.$84 - Joe Amsbuxy A,'bert Qorrmer Paul Hackett - Tony Sowter Sally Sowter-

Bita Oldroyd ! Great Britain!83 - Don Kraus' l.e',v Mathe Vic Mitchell - Sam Sta~n Matt Granovetter USA!

465 Ebbe Nyn"n - Kate Nyxnan i orenzo Buneberg - Ulla Buneberg Finland!488, - Steve Aarone - Sheila Forbes Tom. Gx eex Alex Kiein - cabin Wigdor. Canada!$26 - Goxan iI7atteeon - Pe e" von Ciriacy - Dir~ Schxoeder - Oetlef von Gynz Germany!f24 - Dianna Gordon - 'karen Allison Katie Thox pe - Pam Bridson - Francine Cimon-

Sharyn Kokieh Canada,!$61 - V, S. Orkay-Shaxma - Joginder Singh - 8 M Dayal - 8 Gokhale India!419 -'Steve Altman - Tom Smith - Boger Bates *" John Mohan USA837 - Synezio Feri:ei:a - Nelson $erreixa - Agota Mandelot - Pedro Mandelot-

. Heloxsa Ko!.:,'!ueira .Zrnesto O'Ox'ei Bx'azT1!$35 - Paul C Teai S C Kong - Sherman C Kuo '. 7 P Tu. - H T Chang - T T:Chang Taiwa

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rs Swtss, Suuuu 0~12~00 m~TuesdaFrancine Cii,mon - j iana Gordon Baxbara Hainia Sharyn Kokieh - Katie Thorpe-

Pa m Bridson Canada!Lou Bluhm - Bobert Lipeitz - Toxn Sanders - Neil Silverman - Alan Sontag - Peter

Weicheel USA!Steve Altman Tom Smith - Bogex Bates - John Mohan USA!Paul Casselle Tim Bo.shaw - Arthur Puckrin - Pat Puckrin Gr'eat Britain!Edith Boeenkranz -George Bosenkranz -Sol Dubson Beiko 6" Hara -Constant FuaGeorge Arnott - Joker Arnott -, Tereeil18 Gonzales Ito VeMgen - Gus

Fi~uero I-'l1"'lax~i, ines!Malcolm Brachma.".1 -' 0Vm Eieenberas - Bob Goidman Ed Kantar - Mike Paseell-

Paul Sol",vay IJSA!Joe Amebury- A i::~rt Dormer Paul Hackett Tony Sowter - Sally Sowter-

Pita O>dxoyd Gx eat Britain!Mike Beckex Stan Tomchin Fred Hamilton - Mike Lawrence Bon Bubin-

John Swanson USA!Ted Hoxlung Di k Hart - Bay Jotcham - DavM I indop - John Stevens -.Andy

Altay Canada!Anders WIorath - Per-Olof Sundelin Hans-Olof Hallen-Alvar Stenberg Sweden!Juan Nunez - Santiago Bivas - Anton Cahn Speyer - JaimeBoitman Colombia!Toine van Hoof-Pieter Vlrintermane-Nico Doremans-Jaap Trouwborst Netherlands!Hugo Schwaxtz-Sha',"om Seligman-Zliakim Shaufel-Samuel Lev-Michael Hochzeit-

Yeshayhu Levit t Israel!Don Kralies -Lew Mathe -K~ic Mitche]1 -Rm Sta~man -Matt Granovettex USA'

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flu* *WARD ... Bhw I 't', hei. 't f 'th 5L P'h h~Tfwas presented with 8 check for!II75 at a genexal meeting of the International Bridge PressAssociations for hie presentationO*bridge hande 1n his Sunday Columns

Malcolm Braclv1x~n 8 team of world champions, which wae knocked out'in.the firstround of the Bosenb'.".lm Open Teams ie making:; stxong bid to return to the Open Teamcompetition via the Swiss Teams. The team. Qf Bxachman, Eddie Kantax, BiDy Zieenberg,

!bby Goldman P; ul Sorrow and Xr~e Passelti has piled up 280 Victory Points so' farthe Swiss, 26 better 1,.'KQ tile record compiled by Lou BMlm and Co. Botl1 ax'e.U. S. teams.The Gerry Michaud team from. the U, S.. has 241 VP8 whDe a South Afxican team captained byHymie Butkovr 8" c'. th..: U, S. team led by Mike Becker both «XIave 240 In additions the six teamsthat were defeated in iast night'8 knockoute now, enter the Swiss with a carryover of 240 VPs,

This afternoon Brach"mn vrill take on. the Svrfes team captained by Jaime Ortiz-'Patino inits fix st match. F..'eanlI hiile Bluhm'8 strong sextet wi3. oppose Jim Borinl 8 Australian team.Thexe will be two 8V,-U, S. matches Michaud vs. George epee and Becker ve. Ken Cohen.

The top five tea>:18 at the end of the afternoon session virill join the thrcue teams that losein thll,s afternoon'8 knockouts in an eight,-team match in the evenIIng to deterge which ONEteam moves back into the main Open Team event for tomorrow" 8 eemifinals. The eight teamswill engage in a xfia1i-knockolat,

Besults of Tuesday Afternoon's MatchesBracket I2. Switzerland Ortiz-Patino! def, Finland Nyman! $55 73-49

11. France Chemla! def. Taiwan Kong! 835 104-395. Italy Garozzo! lost to Poland Frankell! 0 20 68-72

56. Panama Maduro! def, Germany Hanken! 817 78-67Bracket II51. South Africa Butkow! lost to USA Cohen! 42710. USA Kaplan! lost to USA Corn! 41561. India Gokhale! lost to Canada Nagy! 8219. USA Bapee! def. Canada Aarons! 0 33

Bracket IIIl. Brazil Assumpcao! def, Germany Schroeder! 125 95-66

53, South Africa Driver! lost to Canada Cowan 58-1246. Australia Borin! defeated India Gupta! $62 58-557. Morocco Sebti! defeated Yugoslavia {Bajic! 109-69

Makeup of Teams Participat~~ in Gyes Teams~ 4th session ~ 8;00'. m. Tuesdayl. BBAZIL Pedro-Paulo Assumpcao Gabriel Cha gas- Gabino Cintra - Marcelo Branco-

Sergio Barbosa Boberto Taunay2. SWITZEBLAND Jaime Ortiz-Patino Pietro Bernasconi Jean Besse Thomas

Fenwick - Halit Bigat6. AUSTHALIA - Jim Borin - Norma Boxin - George Havas - Alan Walsh - Don Evans-

Ron Klingex7. MOBQCCO - Hamid Sebti -Chakib Tazi -Bob Slavenbux g-Abbes Sherif Klalami9. USA George Bapee Bon Andersen Jim Jacoby Sidney hazard Hugh Maclean-

Ira Bubin11. FBANCE - Paul Chemla Michel Lebel Christian Mari Michel Perron15. USA - Ira Corn {NPC! - Bobert Hamman Bobert Wolff Dan Morse - Curtis Smith-

Eddie Wold - Cliff Busdell20. POLAND - Marian Frenkiel Leonard Michiewski -Andrzej Macieszczak-Lukasz Lebioda

Andrezej Wiikosz Janusz Polec21. CANADA -. Peter Nagy Gerry Charney - Sammy Kehela - George Mittleman Eric

Murray Eric Kokish27, USA Ken Cohen Larry Gould - Larry Kozlove John Sheridan John Solodar -Lew Stansby36. CANADA Don Cowan Mike Cummings - Mary Paul Maurice Paul - John Guoba-

John Carruthers56, PANAMA - John Maduro Alberto Calvo - Drew Cannell Jeff Hand

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2. Switzex land Ortiz Patino!France Chemla!

j Bracket I winnerPoland Frenkiel!

11. France gChemla~

20, Poland Frenkiel} 2.8.

56. Panama Maduro! 58wk ~ ~~ ~ ~~ w

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15. USA QCorng

9. USA /Bagel

1, Brazil LAssum~cago

36. Canada Cowan!

6, Australia LBorinj g4 . Bracket III winnerMorocco QSebtig

ATTENTION, participaxxts in the Open Pairs Women's W~irs, Open Teams and Venice Cup.Please pick up your invitation to the Victory Banquet at the Hospitality Desk starting at 10a, m.today. Please do this as soon as possible. If your invitation is not there, we apologize for theerror. Please leave your name and New Orleans address at the Hospitality Desk and theinvitation will be delivered to your room. NQN-PABTICIPANTS in these events: If you wish topurchase tickets, you may do so at the Hospitality Desk at $30 per ticket, The number of extratickets is very limited, and they will be sold on a first come-first served basis.

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Board 27 in the Gpen Teams gaveDlr: SouthVul None

Kit Woolsey a chance to shxn~

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4 9872 Gpposite a partlaer that has doubled twiceV 65 Bnd then cuebid, Kit decided his Rlandwasworth0 10942 game even though he had only 2 HCP. Kit'8 game4 KJ2 bid propeL'ed Robinson to the slam,

The opening lead was the CK to the ace,followed by B diamond FUff. A spade was led to dummy, finessing thejack andanotherdiamondruff followed. The wae taken again and the'7A was cashed. Woolsey tGok the 4Aand cleal'Gd tx'Umpsending ixi Ms hand. 86 Led 3i cluba Hamlnan played the los covered by thequeen and won by the king, Stripped and Gndplayed i i A spade ox d;"amond back gives a stuffand ruff; a club cack and he takes the ace and nine,

Maybe Kit, got the'inspiration for the neat play when he found out that he had won thePrecision award for the best artiicle written onsystems. Tllis award, given by the InternationalBridgePressAssociation, wae fax Me axt";cle, "Puppet Stayman", in The BridG'6 World,

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There is some comfort in bidding the close siam, This one arose in the second half of thematch between India Gupta! Bnd Australia Borin! bn the third knockout.

INDIA i AUST jRALIAEAST Big Club i Standard "?!4 AZv G~uts Viotor ! Evans ~Kits er~ A K 7 WEST EAST i WKST EAST

]4 Q J1074 14 2 & V.! i 2NT ! 3NT !

3 4 ! 3 v . f 44 ! 4'V ! ! Asking about spades 4 4 ! 44 i 64 Pass{2! 5 spades, 1 top honor 4 1!iT 5 9 i ! Three-way FLannery or ! Cuebid 64 Pass i 19-20 balanced or 19-20

t 6-3-2-2 witl" 6-minor!t "! Positive, interrogatoryt ! 19-20 5-3-3-2 with ai 5-card Dlinori ! Which minori ! Clubs+ cue of'VA

WEST4 K76427 86 >> A 104A 865

64 is slightly superior to 64 since it may withstand a badspade division which kine 69. However everything layperfectly 'making seven in boti'l contracts. The betterslam cost MPs: ' seas eveF, thu

A simple but neat play hand arcs in the first half of the samae

TGNGUK IN CHKKK... A New Zealander brought a lot of shoe samples here -- butsomebody stole them, This probably wiLL occasion a classified ad somewhere that willgo eoxnethixig like thee," 'MBD w'Lth Only B rxght foot looking fox' man with Grly a Left foot purpose; to trade unused left shoes for mvased right shoes. " The thief wij3, have to dosometMng Like that . BLL the samples were Left shoes i

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WEST EAST Both tabil.es made 44. How should you plan theqJ >t> I» 10 8 . play after B trump lead; »

V 85 0 J 7 2 I elected to finesse the W and had no further0 A @ 0 10 9 5 2 problem after a club switch, Had there been a4 4 1052 KQ6 88cond trumps declarer wins 'tI'los cashes >!At>

crosses to 4K and takes a Loser-on-Loser play bydiscarding a heart on the <'>10, The more interesting question is: what is the best line of playafter a spade lead, the diamond finesse losing, the opposition cash their two heart tricks '? Youcan try for 3-3 clubs or ~A dropping you can try fox B second diamond finesse; you can play asecond round of truxxlps and then play for the long trump hand to hold the jack-fourth in clubs,or you can try for some squeeze possibility, WMch is best ? A close question at best,

At the world championships Bermuda Bowls and Glympiads Haxold Franklin is thechief tournament director. But he considers himself much moxe a promoter than a director.And he has been pursuing a career as a bridge journalist and editor for many years.

The WorM Brioge Federation has named Franklin the chief director for its tournaments,and his cheerfu]. countenance is familiar to aL> the world" s top players, He also is the chiefdirector for the European Bridge League and tbe English Bridge Union,

Ab a jouxnalist, he has been writing for the Yorkshixe Post for some 31 years, an theLondon Times has been publishing his work for 16 years. In additiona be is the editor of theEnglish Bridge Union Quarterly magazine.

He played in several European championships long ago, but he bas played very little inthe past 20-odd yeaxs. Instead he gets special enjoyment from promoting various events.Perhaps the best known of. these is tbe Sunday Times paixs contest, which he bas beenpromoting for 14 years. Ori~lly this was a local event, but Franklin has made it THE bigpairs contest of the entire world, Top-flight pairs everywhere vie for imitations, but only 16of the best get invited,

Franklin got started in the promotion business in 1966 by offering to set up a matchbetween English players and the Beet of the World. A top-xanking American player agreed toparticipate, but later withdrew when be discovered one of the British playe'rs was to be TerenceBeese, at that time under a cloud because of the Buenos Aires 1965 championships. This madeheadlines. So Franklin got Gmax Sharif, then at, the height of his acting careex as a replace-ment. That made headlines. But Sbarif, who was making a picture in Paris, had to commutedaily between Paris and London to play in the event. And of course that made headlines, too.Franklin's xeputation as a promoter had been made,

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Bob Hamman, Bobby Wolff, Edgar Kaplan and Norman Kay are close friends have beenfor many years, In fact, on sevexal occasions, they have played togethex as a team. But whenit comes to a bridge match, any one of them will be totally savage to any one of the others ifhe's an opponent. If you don't believe it, look what happened to Kay and Kaplan when Hammanand Wolff caught them in a cross-ruff in their knockout match yesterday afternoon.Dlr: SouthVal: K-K 0 K J a ~Ka laa WalK Hamman

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MISSISSIPPIBIVZHBOATCRUISE

There are still several places open on the list for the MississippiHiverboat cruise tonight. There will be free Po Boys and coffee.There will be a cash bar. There wiQ be Dtxieland and dance musicby Tommy Yetta and his band,

Buses will leave the Hyatt Regency at 8;30 pm for the first shuttle run to the "Presiden",Cruise time is 9;36 pm to 12 midnight; the band plays 'til 12:30 and shuttle buses back to thehotel will run from 12 midnight, Your cost is only $2 per person.

0 3 Yes, it's txue that Kaplan and Kay shouM4 J 9 8 5 4 3 have been in spades in fact Q would go only

4 A Q 10 542 . one down, even ona heart lead as long as'0 A 6 2 declaxer doesn't play the queen on the 0 J.0 J62 Declarer would be able to take the |v'A and lead a4 10 club, and when a heart came back, there would be

no way to get back to the West hand to get a ruff.The only losers would be a diamond, a club and a heart,

And yes, it's true that 50 can always be set although chances are faii,r that it wouldn' tbe. If, when declarer leads the lt'J, North merely ducks, declarer wiH have to lose two heartsplus a club. However, if North should cover the 'VJ, then there is only one heart loser, andthe diamond gaxne comes home.

But that's not our story. Kay responded hearts, and when Kuplan leaped to the heartgame, Kay bid K instead of 54 ovex the M bid,

The opening lead was the 45a and the ace won. Now Wolff started on diamonds, but Kayruffed the second one. Only trouble was, he sent a boy on a man's errand he ruffed with the3 and East had the 5 to cover it, Hamman txied a spade, and this was ruffed, of course.Another diamond, ruffed and overruffed, then another spade zMfed. That was six tricks for thedefense 1100 points. Kay couM have saved 666 points by ruffing the diamond with the 7instead of the 4, but his team was headed for a big loss in any event because his teammatesarrived at a spade slam .at the other table, going down one, Going down 1100 meant losing 14IMPs down 500 would have lost 9.

Thishandarosein the third session of the Mixed Pairsandmostdeclarersmadeeleventricks in the syade game on a non-trump lead,Bd. $19

4 K9754'V 50 10974 A1094

Dlr; South Many declaxerawhoreceiveda trumyVul:E-W lead led a diamond at trick twohopingthedefensewould go wrong but pexaistent trumpleads held declarer to 10 tx'icks.

Ian McCance of Australia, non-playingeaytain of the Australian Venice Cup team,received a trump lead and when dummy's 4'10held the trick he decided to give up on the0 A@10 diamond ruff.

QA J73 Theplaynowwent'VA,heartruff, spade0 42 to the queen, heartruff, club to the king and4 K@62 another heart re, Dummy was now reenteredwith the club queen in order to draw theoutstandingtrump after which the two clubs were cashed.

Thatwas11 tricks with three spades,thxeeheartruffs, the 0 A and fouxclubs areally neat dummy reversal.

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This hand is from the third session of the MixedEric Kokish in partnership with his wife Sharyn.Bd.$24 Erie ~sbar nDlr; Vilest 4 J10 8763 NORTH EAST SOUTHVul: None 0 A Q 73 14 1NT 24

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C' 94 The double was made as loudly as possible0 A 10 7 5 4 3 using bidding boxes. On the lead of the OA it4 95 looked as if declarer could lose control.

Q At trick two, Eric led a low club to the0 K852 queen and king in order to retain control. The9 club return was taken in dummy and dummy's4 Q J10863 second diaxnond was ruffed.Eric now cashed the '0 A-Q and when bothopponentsfollowed,he exited with a spade, The spade returnwasruffedin dummy andtheQKwasplayedon which Eric discarded the 4A t! leaving dummyhigh. Plus 690 was worth132matchpointson a 142 toy, contributing to the paix's standingof third overall goinginto the final

session.

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SOLOMONTROPHY;This %BF trophyin honor of Charles J, Solomon is awarded at eachPairsOlympiadto the nation withthe best overallvictorypointrecord. %'inners andrunners-up to date are; 1966 United States Great Britain1970 United Rates Italy1974 United Nates Ita lyLargelybecauseof its sweep in the Mixed Paix'aand the toy two places in the Ladies'Pairsthe USA is well on the way to winning a fourth consecutiveSolomonTrophy.As setup for the Pair Olymyiad, this is the scale of awards:

Mixed Womeoo ~GeoFirst 6 8 12Second 6 8Third 2 6Fourth 1 ! 4Fifth 1 2Sixth 1So far the points have been distributed as follows;OPEN WOMENS MIXED Cumulative Totals;Brazil 12 USA 8 USA 6 USA 35 1/2Canada 8 USA 6 USA 4 Brazil 12USA 6 France 4 USA 2 ' Canada 8Poland 4 Poland 2 USA 1 Poland 6USA 2 Ireland 1 Fx'anceUSA/Nld tie} 1 Ireland 1

Netherlands 1/2

Eric Kokish and Peter Nagy won the Itosenkranz Award for the best bid hand of theyear, given by the International Bridge Press Association, The hand took place in the SyingoldTeams at the ACBL Summer North American Championships last year. This was the award-winning bidding sequence;

KokishEASTPass4 4 !4 4 }6 4 !

NORTH10PassDbl, {4!Pass

Dlr NorthVul: BothWESTO' A 3'VA90764 AK109732

EASTO' K@1020 54320 84 9864

Strangely enough or maybe it's not so strange Kokish also was one of the playersinvolved in the runner-up bidding sequence. This hand came up in the Life Master Men'8 Pairsat the Fall North Amexican Championships, and this time his partner was Mare Jacobus.Here'8 how that sequence went:Dlr: West KQkish ZacobusVul: E-W NORTH SOUTH

PassI3bl.Pa 88PassPassPas,s

EASTPa 8834 !4 0 !5 4 !7 4 9!Pass

WEST1 0 !2 0 !4 4 !4 '0 !5NT 8!7U

! At unfavorable vulnerability West did not wish to invite vigorous competition by startingwith a strong, artificial 24.

! An unbalanced game force that could NGT be a classic 3-suited hand since West did notopen with a iRoman 2 0.

! East showed considerable working values no long side suit, not both minors since Eastdid not use a negative double at his first turn.

! A long-suit slam try, alerting East to the area of greatest concern. ! Value-showing cuebid. ! West can do no more without some help in the key club suit, and at the same time he

conveys his pov erful suit to his partner who might have been concerned about apotential trump suit for slam purposes,

{7! East is driving to slam and gives West the most useful information, 8! West would Dke to try a grand slam if East can cover his club losers, sohe uses a grand

slam force with CI UHS as trumps. 9! East accepts. Note that he would bid 74 if he had two of the three top trumps in ANY suit

that wao designated as keys eo ge ~ switch the K/W clubs and hearts and 74 is best! West 8conversion to 7V was intended aD along,

rThe above notes also are by Eric Kokish, who comments:The grand slam was cold with the <>A lead, but it was an excellent contract aD the time.

If North has 5 spades and 4 clubs, he wiD be squeezed once the spade threat is isolated. IfSouth has 4 clubs and the OA he wiD be squeezed. If clubs break, or North can be placed withJ-x, 10-x ox J-10, declarer wiD also make the contract,

Very few pairs bid the grand, but I think the nice thiLng about this deal is the conjidenceeach partner demonstrated at each turn in R first-time partnership,

ANOTHER GESTURE GF SPORTSMANSHIP... It happened in a toy-level Open Teams match,with Ron Andersen and Hugh MacLean playing against Eric Murray and Sammy Kehela. After abad start, Kehela-Murray were magog a comeback, and the outcome was far from certain withthree boards to go. MacLean opened 14 and Andersen responded to the Precision bid with 1 lifT 8-13! so the hand dejinitely was in the game zone, But Hugh inadvertently yuDed out hisPass card I That constituted a caD Under. the rules, but Murray said "We don't play that way"and insisted that Hugh take back the Pass and replace it with his real bid. Kehela noddedapprovingly. As a result, the Americans got to a game that made but the Canadians won thematch anyway,

! Anything else would be a distortion. ! Preemptive ! A definite slam try ! Probably an error since he would be on lead{5! A value-showing cuebid ! My last slam try below game, Please tell me more. ! I have R diamond control, more spade help and ahigh txump honox'. CQUM you expectmore Y

These notes are by Eric Kokish who also comments:This x'Gsulted in R Slam ~g RgRinst a good team Rnd 8ex'ves to point Qut that it is po88ible

to scientjficRDy investigate a, tricky minor suit slam without resorting to Blackwood, The useof 4NT as a general slam tx'y js probably under-appreciated today.

SCHEDULE FGB TODAY wednesday, June 28!

12:30 p. m.12:30 p. m.12:30 p. m.3:00 p. m.

OPEN TEAMS - Knockout IVOpen Teams Sviss, 3rd sessionVENICE CUP TEAMS, 1st halfVENICE CUP TEAMS, 2nd half

OPEN'TEAMS -Mini KnockoutVENICE CUP TEAMS No play scheduled tonight

8:00 p. m.8:00 p. m.

27~ 12:30~m~3rd roundVPs Forward Cumulative

Argentina Bye

North America 4-37! 7-24!

vs»Austraha

39

Italy 78 2-40! 6-40!

vs.

Philippines 80 10

10

VPs Forward Cumulative

25

39Argentina 5-52! {6-28!

vs.Italy 20

North America 2-15! 2-44!

vs.Philippines

VENICE CUP~ June 28~ 12:30~m~ 5th xoundIMPsBye

Cumulative

Argentina

vs.North America

Australia

. vs.Philippines 30

Swiss Round 1 8 m Monda$18 Katherine Wei Judi Rxdin - Barbara Happaport - Edith Kemp - Nancy Gruver-

Nancy Alpaugh USA! 590 4 -' Malcolm Brachman %illiam Eisenberg Hobert Goldman Eddie Kantar Mike

Passell - Paul Soloway USA! 58443 - NeQ Chambers ADen Graves Joe Silver - Fred Hoffer Canada! :58f28 - Roy Dalton -Bruce Gowdy Paul Heitnex Boy Hughes Irving Litvack -Bill

Ingram Canada! 57449 Toine van Hoof Pieter %'intermans - Nico Doremans Jaap Trouwborst Nthlnds! 49140 Christer Hedborg Stanley Olsson KjeKI. Holmgren Eimax Vendelin Sweden! 44

. $12 Sadek Hadwan Ahmed Hussein Omar Sharif Kamal Hassan Josephine Morcos Michel Doche Egypt! 43

f34 - Joe Amsbury - Albert Dormer - Paul Hackett Tony Sowter - Sally Sowter - BitaOldroyd, Great Britain! 42

846 - David Kirsh - Evelyn Kirsh George Betek - Mari Hetek - Shelagh Heatherington- Leah Milgram Canada! 40

152 Goodman So. Africa! 39 123 - Gomez-Diaz {Spain! 25864 Slack St. Kitts! 33 $59 Sanchez-Fogarty Mexico! 24858 Mariscal Mexico! 30 $30 Beale {Australia! 94:41 - Fussel {Ger'manv! 30