It is Westheimer the second USA Team qualified to Venice Cup; they won the USA2 final against Baker. These are the winners: Valerie Westheimer, Disa Eythorsdottir, Jill Levin, and Jenny Wolpert. The result was + 4, that is 221-217 in 120 boards: Baker and her teammates fought as lionesses.
The Winner of Senior Trials is Schwartz: Richard Schwartz, cpt; J. Allan Graves, Sam Lev, Robert Hamman, Neil Chammbers, and John Schermer. They beat 215-122.5 Carolyn Linch, Eddie Wold, Mike Passell, Garey Hayden, Roger Bates, and Marc Jacobus.
Thus Bob Hamman is again protagonist in the world theatre, and this is affecting the whole championship, Bermuda Bowl and Venice Cup too; we doubt, in facts, that his fellow countrymen and countrywomen will lose the chance to be counselled by the all time greatest American player – maybe not only American.
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Paolo Enrico Garrisi