Peter
Ader was the owner of the Central Bridge Club in the seventies,
employing Jeff Morris as the club manager. When Peter died
suddenly, Jeff moved the business to the Palatine Road site and
renamed it Manchester Bridge Club, where it remained for forty
years before moving to its current premises on Wellington
Road. Peter Ader is remembered by the award of the
eponymous trophy competed for on the last Wednesday before
Christmas.
This
year's winners were Eve Lighthill and Raymond Semp playing North
and South on this exciting deal which featured a very
complicated auction.
Eve
opened a multi two diamonds showing a weak two in a major, East
overcalled two spades on his strong hand, Raymond bid a natural
three clubs and West raised spades. East had enough to go
to game and Raymond correctly decided that they didn't have
enough defence to beat four spades (though that contract needs
very careful playing), and that they might make five
clubs. When this came round to East he, also correctly,
decided that although he had a good hand it could only expect to
make one defensive trick, so he introduced his second
suit. West should pass this, but she corrected to five
spades. Now the spotlight was on Eve, she admitted to her
club support and now it was West's turn to face a
decision. She now showed her diamond support and South's
double ended the auction.
On
the ace of clubs lead East was hopeful of making the contract
but unsurprisingly, given the high level competition, the spades
failed to break kindly and he was one off.
The
par result is six clubs one off, but East West didn't lose any
match points by getting the final decision wrong. Other
tables played in five clubs doubled making, four hearts by North
failing by three tricks and four spades doubled by East going
four off when declarer lost control when forced by club leads.
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