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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
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 20:14:01 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 23:29:23 EST
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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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
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