Everybody
at the Unit 116 picnic Sunday was saying this is their favorite unit event. How
come? It has to be the food. Wiedner’s chicken. Paul Zittel’s corn salsa. And
Zittle’s corn on the cob, fresh picked that morning. It doesn’t get any better
than that.
So
credit the food with bringing a huge crowd to the Grandstand Casino Room under
the race track grandstand at the Erie County Fairgrounds in Hamburg. They were
running races outside during the afternoon. 26 tables in the morning session.
24 in the afternoon. Pretty much the same food as last year. Bigger crowd.
What
made it notable, however, was the debut of the unit’s new electronic scoring
devices. Identical to the ones I’ve come to know and admire at the Bridge Centre
of Niagara in St. Catharines. The only difference is that the folks in St.
Catharines have worked with it enough to make it run smoothly. Setting up the
devices created delays at the start of the morning and afternoon sessions,
which stretched the day out well past 7 p.m. Good thing I took the night off
from work. My plans for twilight gardening, however, were cut pretty short.
I’m
not sure if the electronic devices also were responsible for the delays in
posting scores, but it seemed to take longer. In the morning session, scores
were posted and then revised to combine the two sections of players. Partner
Myra Razik and I finished with 52.62%, fourth in A and third in B for 0.77 of a
master point, then got revised to 52.42% and 0.44 of a master point. In the
afternoon session, we nearly made up for that subtraction. Our 50.96% game
placed us eighth in the B strat overall for 0.28 of a master point. We were low
enough so that we don’t show up in the results posted on the Unit 116 website.
Unexpected big winners, near as I can
tell, are Carl and Jan Hasselback, who were first in B and C in the morning for
4.21 points and first in C in the afternoon for 1.70 points. Only team to outdistance
them was Jay Levy and Bud Seidenberg, second overall in the morning (3.83
points) and second overall in the afternoon (2.34 points).
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