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Deal of the Week
Manchester Bridge Club - 40 Years After 40 years at its
venue on Palatine Road Manchester Bridge Club will be moving in the New
Year. At a party at Palatine Road on Dec 9th plans were outlined
for the club's future. The club will be moving to share premises
with the Fallowfield Lawn Tennis and Bowls Club at 81 Wellington Road,
Fallowfield M14 6BN (about half a mile from Palatine Road). The
first event at the new venue will be the duplicate on Wednesday January
2nd. Building and fitting out work is currently taking place to
prepare the new venue. See the Manchester Bridge Club
web site for further details and news.
European Mixed Teams Trials The play-offs for the
team to represent England in the European Mixed event took
place on 8-9th Dec. at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club.
Congratulations to Michael Byrne playing with Fiona
Brown, Frances Hinden, Graham Osborne, Sally Brock and Barry
Myers who won both their semi-final and final matches
convincingly. The European event will be in Lisbon in February.
 Barry Myers, Sally Brock, Fiona Brown, Michael Byrne, Frances Hinden, Graham Osborne Ben Franks Pairs Manchester's
qualifier for the Corwen Trophy was held at Manchester Bridge Club on
Sunday 2nd December. A small but select field of 14 pairs played
three
boards against each other pair. After the first session Alec
Smalley
and Barbara Lewis were leading ahead of John Holland and Rodney
Lighton. These two pairs met in the final round of the second
session,
with Alec and Barbara still just ahead until the last board, when Alec,
playing in a pushy three notrump, guessed to knock out the opposition
aces in the wrong order and went down, converting a potential top into
a bottom.
Alec and Barbara finished third, with David Sarabowski and Sam Herman
second. In fourth place and also qualifying for the Corwen were
Karen
Reissmann and Irene Davies.
Thanks to Ann Thornton for organising the event and to Jeff Smith for directing. Full results are on the Manchester Bridge Club web site.
League (30th Nov) Another month and
more results.
In
division one Michael Byrne's St Titus team are off to a good start with
three good wins, Justin Hackett's Mutton Madras are in second place
some way behind. In division two Proteus (Frank Brown) with three
wins and Sedgely (Bernard Kaye) are the leaders.
Petersfield (Eddie Thornton-Chan) have played one match in division three and won 30-0, Altrincham A (Geoff Hull) have a more realistic score averaging 19.8 after five matches. David Milne's Astrazeneca Stars have dropped to second in division four, just behind Haidee Tattersall's Conquering Hearts. In division five Ray Hill's Monton Misfits have won five out of five matches ahead of Adam Wiseberg's lastminute.bid who have completed seven of nine matches already. Division six is still going slowly but 4 Bridgemates (Margaret Harris) lead with two good wins. In division seven Ruff Diamonds (Peter Shakespeare) have won their only match 30-0, Ashton United (Sheila Wimbleton) have had three good wins to lie second. Llangollen Swiss Teams Catherine Draper and
Andrew Woodcock were on the winning team in the Welsh event on 24-25th
November playing with Gillian and Joe Fawcett respectively Bernard
& Rhona Goldenfield, John Holland and Jackie Pye were third. Click here
for the North Wales web site.
Senior World Championship Congratulations to
John Holland and Alan Mould who have been chosen to play for the
England senior team in the World Championships in China next
September. They replace Alan Mayo and Rob Cliffe in the Shelley
team who qualified from the European championship earlier this year.
Tollemache - Manchester Qualify The inter counties
teams of eight qualifying weekend took place on 17-18th Novenber at
Daventry. After a ruling involving a match between Middlesex and
Sussex Manchester finished second in their group qualifying for the
sixth year in a row. The Manchester
team was John Holland/John Hassett,
Michael Byrne/Michael Newman, Catherine Draper/Andrew Woodcock, Alan
Mould/Gary Hyett. John Holland and John
Hassett
headed the cross IMPs for their group, the other three pairs
were negative on
the cross IMPs. The final is in February.
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