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Deal of the Week National Inter-County League Finals
In the Inter-County
League finals at Coventry on the 16th June Manchester A finished third
and Manchester B were fifth in their groups. The teams had
qualified by winning the Northern Counties leagues last summer.
The A team was Michael Newman/Michael Byrne, John Holland/Gary Hyett,
Alan Mould/Alec Smalley, David Barton/Leslie Klein. The B team
was David Olliver/Richard Acaster, Eddie Thornton-Chan/Tony Hodgson,
Eve Lighthill/Howard Kay, Gillian McMullan/Neil Thomas. Full
results are on Ian
Mitchell's web site.
Didsbury Festival
Is there a festival in your area that you could use to recruit members? The county has bought the banner pictured above right; any club interested in using it should contact Irene Davies. Yorkshire Congress Congratulations to
Martin Taylor playing with Barbara Hackett who won the main pairs final
at Harrogate on 8th June and to Paul Beckwith and Neil Thomas who won
the secondary pairs final.
Pachabo Congratulations to
the team of John Holland, Alan Mould, Michael Byrne and Michael Newman
who retained the Pachabo Trophy (inter-county teams of four) over the
weekend of 8-9th June at Coventry. Manchester were in the top
four throughout the event, towards the end they were vying with Hants
& Isle of Wight for the top spot. Hants & Isle of Wight
won their last match by a comfortable margin. Although Manchester
lost their last match by the narrowest margin they held on to the top
spot by 1.5 points. This continues Manchester's fine record in
this event with the third win since 2015, the other two years they
finished second.
 Michael Newman, Alan Mould, Michael Byrne, John Holland Bernard
Goldenfield
 Bernard was born in 1932 in Manchester; he joined an accountancy firm in 1949 where he started playing bridge. Denis Robson also joined the firm soon after and they formed a partnership which lasted for over 25 years. Their best achievements were to play for England in a Camrose match in 1976 and to reach the Gold Cup final in 1983. Around 1970 Bernard met Rhona, they married in 1975. They became one of the top partnerships in the area, playing many events and winning a large proportion of them. Together they won a bronze medal representing Great Britain in the Common Market Mixed Teams in 1993, three Hubert Phillips Bowls, the NICKO (twice) and the Garden Cities (three times). They regularly played for Manchester in the Tollemache and the Northern league. Bernard won the Manchester league nine times, the Higson Cup seven times as well as every other major local event several times. He seemed to lose none of his skill even when in his eighties, although occasionally his eyesight let him down. This year he won the Higson Cup at the age of 86. Bernard was seventh in the all time master point rankings and highly graded on the NGS. He assisted Rhona with the running of the Green Point events at Altrincham and was the county's auditor for many years. Above all Bernard was a very popular player, friendly and courteous. He was a great raconteur with a large fund of good stories and jokes. He enjoyed going to Killarney every year and was recently presented with a special award for his attendance at the congress. He will be sadly missed, we send our condolences to Rhona, his family and friends. The funeral, in accordance with Jewish custom, was held on 6th June the day that he died. It was attended by several hundred people, including a large number of bridge playing friends. Corwen Trophy
The inter-county
pairs event took place at Daventry on 1st-2nd June. John Holland
and Rodney Lighton started off well, lying second after the first
session, but a poor Saturday evening session saw them drop to 15th and
they eventually finished tenth. Joy and Irving Blakey were doing
very well in third place before the final session but dropped to
15th. John Roberts and Peter Foster had a good final session to
finish 24th overall, Karen Reissmann and Irene Davies finished just
below half way.
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