Category: 75thanniversary

After the 1969 International Team was selected, the Pair-Team trials were discontinued in order to allow selection of an entire team rather than individual pairs to comprise a team. The 1970 International Team was selected by a direct 180-board playoff between the winners of the 1969 Vanderbilt and Spingold. This reduced the prestige of the
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Day three saw the lead change hands again. Feldesman-Morse rally with a crushing 70-14 defeat over Eisenberg-Goldman, Rubin-Westheimer edge Rapée-Lazard 44-40 and Hamman-Kantar return to the top with a 52-32 win over Caravelli-Rosenberg. Shockingly Kaplan-Kay lose their fifth straight match. Leading scores are: Hamman-Kantar 342 ½; Rapée-Lazard 332; Eisenberg-Goldman 310 ½; Feldesman-Morse 261 ½. By
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On the second day, the standings took on a new complexion as Eisenberg-Goldman crushed Hamman-Kantar 70 ½ – 13 ½ and Rapée-Lazard narrowly defeated Caravelli-Rosenberg 45-39. Rubin-Westheimer took Wolff-Jacoby 63-21 and Becker-Hayden edged out Kaplan-Kay 50-34. The standings bunch with Rapée-Lazard 229; Hamman-Kantar 227 ½ ; Eisenberg-Goldman 217 ½ ; Rubin-Westheimer 199. Slams proved troublesome
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Hamman-Kantar started the finals with a 29 point lead over second-place Rapée-Lazard. The spread between first and 10th was a match and a half – 126 VPs. Rubin-Westheimer beat Hamman-Kantar 43-41 in the first match as Rapée-Lazard closed the gap beating Kaplan-Kay 55-29. The big win of the day went to Roth-Root who blitzed Caravelli-Rosenberg
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Sixteen pairs (Edgar Kaplan – Norman Kay, B. Jay Becker – Dorothy Hayden, George Rapée – Sidney Lazard, Bob Hamman – Eddie Kantar, Phil Feldesman – Dan Morse, Sami Kehela – Wolf Lebovic, George Rosenkranz – Paul Hodge, Dan Rotman – Charles Perez, Gerald Caravelli – Milt Rosenberg, Bobby Wolff – Jim Jacoby, Bobby Goldman
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Many methods have been tried for selection of the North American team for Bermuda Bowl contests or of the United States team for World Olympiads. From 1950 to 1960 selection was based on team performance. The ACBL selected the winners of the Spingold, or the victors in a playoff between the Spingold and Vanderbilt winners.
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Reprinted from The Bulletin October 1968: The Los Angeles office of the ACBL, at 11010 Santa Monica Blvd., will be consolidated with the League’s principle headquarters at Greenwich CT as of the close of business Friday, Oct. 11, 1968. The building there, built in 1956, will be sold. Alan Oakes is transferring to Greenwich. The
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In 1965, the international bridge world was rocked by a widely publicized charge that Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, representing Great Britain in the Bermuda Bowl at Buenos Aires, Argentina, had transmitted information about the heart suit by finger signals. The original observations were made by B. Jay Becker and Dorothy Hayden, members of the
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In Sports Illustrated, Charles Goren commented: Both teams were frequently hampered by their own bidding methods and occasionally this happened on the same hand. Dlr: South ♠ J 10 7 5 Vul: None ♥ J 7 5 ♦ A 10 7 5 2 ♣ J ♠ 8 6 2 ♠ 4 3 ♥ 9 8
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The Scientists (Al Roth, Tobias Stone, Robert Jordan, Arthur Robinson, Sam Stayman and Victor Mitchell) faced off against the Traditionalists (Lew Mathe, Meyer Schleifer, Eric Murray, Sami Kehela, B. Jay Becker and Dorothy Hayden) in a 180-board match held at the Park Lane Hotel on Jan. 15-17, 1965. The match sponsored by The Bridge World
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The first person to be recognized in the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge as the youngest Life Master was John R. Crawford. He earned the title in 1939 when he was 23 years old and held the honored position for nearly 13 years. Crawford went on to become one of the most famous bridge stars, winning
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To become a Life Master is the dream of all serious bridge players. Some never make it in their lifetime. To become a Life Master, a player must win a specified number of masterpoints at different levels of play, including major bridge tournaments, and accumulate 300 (or 500 depending on when a player joined ACBL)
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A Honeywell H-800 computer, one of the highest speed giant electronic brains in operation, dealt all the hands that were played in the Life Masters’ Pair Championship at the 1963 Los Angeles NABC then scored the results to a 25 point top with phenomenal speed and accuracy. Sometimes, due to human slowness rather than computer
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By Al Sobel ♠ 10 7 3 ♥ K 8 ♦ A K Q J ♣ A K Q 5 ♠ 4 ♠ A 6 5 ♥ Q 10 5 ♥ A J ♦ 10 6 4 2 ♦ 9 8 7 5 3 ♣ J 10 6 3 2 ♣ 9 7 4 ♠
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Both Great Britain and Italy had gone through the qualifying rounds without defeat and as the luck of the draw would have it, these two teams met in the first round with Italy losing 66-58, the smallest possible losing margin. (In the finals -fewer than 8 IMPs would have counted as a tie). France defeated
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At the outset, the teams were divided into three sections of ten, ten and nine, from each of which the two top teams would qualify for the play-off rounds. It was decided that three of the four American teams (to be chosen by lot) would join Italy, France and Great Britain as the top seeded
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