Sectional tournaments in Buffalo ain't what they used to be, I reflected as I looked around the cramped rooms at the Bridge Center of Buffalo. They used to fill the social hall at the Main Transit Fire Hall in Amherst, big enough to divide into two sections, with an extra row of tables for novices or single-session players along one wall.
No more. Friday saw 13 tables in the morning, 10½ in the afternoon. Saturday had 12½ in the morning, 10½ again after lunch. I wasn't there on Sunday for Swiss teams, but only six teams played. In the old days, there would be 20 plus, even if there was a Bills game. Back then, there also would be a contingent of Canadians. Nobody from St. Catharines came over. With the exception of a couple from Royal Oak, Mich., who happened to be in town and a pair from Rochester on Saturday (that's one of them, Anthony Auriemma, in the photo), it was only us Buffalo players.
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