Hall of Fame to Honor Four Players The American Contract Bridge League's Summer North American Championships begin this week in Atlanta. The final rounds of the Grand National Teams start on Wednesday, and the main events commence on Friday. The Hall of Fame dinner is on Thursday evening. This year there are two inductees. Gail Greenberg will receive the Von Zedtwitz Award, for service to bridge and expertise as a player. Greenberg has won 17 national titles and 5 world championships. She was also the nonplaying captain of the winning United States women's team in 2007. Max Hardy, who died in 2002, will be honored as the Blackwood Award winner for his work in bridge without necessarily being an expert player. Hardy wrote several books and was a tournament director for more than 40 years. Although he never won a national title, he accumulated more than 10,000 master points. Also at the dinner, the Sidney Lazard Jr. Sportsmanship Award will be given to Benedicte Cronier and Sylvie Willard from France. Greenberg was South in the diagramed deal. West's two-no-trump overcall showed at least 5-5 in the red suits. Then the auction accelerated to seven spades. North's redouble and five hearts indicated both red-suit aces. Now West lost concentration. Thinking that her partner was on lead, she doubled, asking for a club lead, the first suit bid by the player on her right. When West realized it was her lead, she chose the heart queen. Greenberg won with dummy's ace, drew trumps ending in the dummy and discarded her heart loser on the diamond ace. Then she wondered why West had doubled. Declarer deduced correctly that West had thought East was on lead. And if so, West had to be void in clubs. So, at Trick 5, Greenberg ran dummy's club nine. When that held, she could claim for plus 2,470. This accident brings to mind the first time the Lightner Slam Double occurred. Theodore Lightner was playing with Ely Culbertson. Their opponents bid to a small slam, which Lightner doubled, holding a void in his right-hand opponent's side suit and an ace. The opponents redoubled. Lightner sat back and awaited the killing lead from Culbertson. But after a few moments, Culbertson said, "Teddy, it's your lead."