Totally Unauthorized

Okay, who is Wayne Rechnitz?

This is one of the things that makes me crazy.  Wayne Rechnitz, of Orinda, CA, was on the team that placed 7 OA, 5th in the X strat, yesterday in the Swiss Teams.  I don’t know him.  Why?  How can there be an A/X player, from Orinda, who is I/we don’t know?  There seem to be players, even in our area, who only come out for nationals–how do we lure them to our club games, sectionals, unit games, etc?  This inquiring mind is just baffled.

Moving on, I was searching in Orinda first today to see how Manfred did–and the answer is 23rd overall in the Silver Ribbon Pairs, playing with Jack Scott.  The final last night was a darned tough field, even with me in it.  At least I got to enjoy pseudo-squeezing Chuck Burger (one of the Bear Stearns former big shots) by running my 9 card club suit for an uptrick.

Last night in the side game Dan Rubinfeld and Keith Gunn were 3rd in B, Bill Barron and Randy Corr were 3rd in C.  Nice symmetry there.

Another man I don’t know–Mark Burkhammer of Concord was 9th in the Daylight Pairs.  We have to get to know these people.  Ching Chao came in 5th in the B strat, with a partner from the partnership desk.

Judy Keilin and Jack Meng were 3rd in their bracket in compact KO’s.  Olivia Guthrie and Roma Rehfisch placed in two separate 100/200/300 events.

The brothers Huffaker won the A/X teams.  Big brother Ron even had on long pants–I didn’t even know he owned them.

There may be more, but I have to go play.  Check again at noon.  Hope I find something better than Johnny Rockets for lunch.