Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!wildbill From: wildbill@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (William J. Laubenheimer) Newsgroups: net.rec.bridge Subject: U.S. Wins Bermuda Bowl; Great Britain Wins Venice Cup Message-ID: <10894@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 20:14:01 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10894 Posted: Mon Nov 4 20:14:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 23:29:23 EST Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 33 Keywords: Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup, Sao Paulo The United States team of Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Hugh Ross, Peter Pender, Bob Hamman, and Bobby Wolff (Alfred Sheinwold, NPC) has won the 1985 Bermuda Bowl competition, which ended Saturday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, beating the Austrian team of Jan Fucik, Franz Terraneo, Heinrich Berger, Wolfgang Meinl, Kurt Feichtinger, and Karl Rohan (Franz Baratta, NPC) in the finals. Although I do not have the total score at this time, the U.S. was leading by 78 IMPs with 48 boards to play, and lengthened their lead to 98 IMPs with 16 boards left. The U.S. team thus gained a measure of revenge against the Austrians, as Fucik, Terraneo, Berger, and Meinl were all members of the 1984 Olympiad team which eliminated the U.S. Olympiad team, of which Hamman and Wolff were members, in the quarterfinals in Seattle. The Venice Cup finals also featured a rematch from last year's Olympiad, as the U.S. #1 team of Kathie Wei, Judi Radin, Jacqui Mitchell, Gail Greenberg, Carol Sanders, and Betty Ann Kennedy (Dan Morse, NPC), Ladies' champions in 1984, met the British team of Michelle Brunner, Gillian Scott-Jones, Nicola Smith, Pat Davies, Sally Horton, and Sandra Landy (Grattan Endicott, NPC). Smith, Davies, Horton, and Landy were part of the British Olympiad team which lost to the U.S. in the Olympiad finals. The previous result was once again reversed, as the British team beat the U.S. by a comfortable 110 IMPs. I will continue to post details on these events, plus results from the Fall North American Championships, currently under way in Winnipeg, as I receive them. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill Remember: You can always tell a bridge player, but you can't tell him much.