Career
He is best known as nonplaying captain, or npc, of the 1965 Great Britain Bermuda Bowl team During that World Bridge Federation championship tournament in Buenos Aires, the British pair Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro were accused of cheating. Alan Truscott—bridge editor for The New York Times from 1 January 1964 until his death in 2005—covered the January 1965 tournament, where he helped develop the allegations, convince Captain Swimer, and testify for the WBF hearing.
Decades later, his NYT bridge column in obituary of Swimer featured the affair.
"In England", Truscott summarised, "Swimer was hailed as a hero by some but targeted as a villain by others"
Swimer was born in Poland and came to Britain in the early 1920s. He died in London, England, after a short illness.
