[blml] Friend in distress. [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Robb Gordon (remembering Ralph Cohen):

>>At the Laws Commission meeting in Chicago
>>you asked us to share our memories of
>>Ralph. I first met Ralph by phone in the
>>mid-70's when he was national coordinator
>>for the GNT. Some influential people from
>>my District were trying to change the
>>qualification rules in mid-contest to
>>benefit their friends. Of course, it took
>>Ralph about 30 seconds to fix that!

[snip]

Paul Marston, Aussie international player,
Australian Bridge editorial January 2007:

[snip]

>The National Open Teams at the Summer
>Festival in Canberra is still in need of
>overhaul. You have to play five long days
>and nights just to qualify for the NOT and
>play in the NOT starts on the evening of
>the fifth day after a long day of bridge.
>Then you continue non stop for three more
>days, finishing up long after everyone
>else has gone home.

[snip]

Richard Hills:

Diddums.

250-odd teams are perfectly happy with the
current format of the Summer Festival, but
because poor Paul Marston regularly reaches
the Grand Final he now wants to change the
qualification rules to benefit himself.

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, mentor
National Training Branch
(02) 6225 6285

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