Rare press coverage for bridge success
Click on this link and you’ll get to the article Toronto’s Globe & Mail ran earlier this week about Fred Gitelman and Geoff Hampson’s success in the Rosenblum this month. Don’t forget to read the comments too.
I spent about half an hour on the phone with the reporter, who knew literally nothing about bridge other than that it’s a card game, and the whole conversation came out as a one-liner in the article! But perhaps I gave him useful background and perspective 🙂 He didn’t mention Geoff’s famous mother in the end, although I did tell him who she was…
I’m still not sure what put them on to the story — perhaps the WBF sent out some press releases, but if that was it, how did the Globe figure out that Fred and Geoff came from Toronto? However, who cares? Bridge gets very little media coverage, and we should welcome and encourage it when it does happen. Not only that, it’s a good piece, well-written and interesting, and only shows the game in a good light.
Well done, the Globe!
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