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2000 News and Results
Blackpool Congress 2000 The Blackpool end of year congress was a
double success for Kath and Alan Nelson who won the Swiss
Pairs and then won the Swiss Teams with Tracy and Steve
Capal
Young Hacketts win Gold Cup Jason & Justin Hackett playing in a team
with Tony Forrester, Andrew MacIntosh, David Mossop and Tim
Rees won Britain's premier teams event on the 10th
December. At the Gold Cup Congress Joy and Irving
Blakey, Howard Kay and David Baskin won the teams event.
Santa Claus Pairs 2000 Winners of Manchester Bridge Club's annual festive event on 17th Dec. were Ian Pendlebury and Richard Lewis Tollemache Qualifier 2000 Manchester qualified for the Tollemache
Final for the first time for several years. The team
of John Holland, Michelle Brunner, Gary Hyett, Boris Ewart,
Bill Hirst, Howard Melbourne, David Whyte, David Barton,
Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield (npc Kevin Comrie) won their
qualifying group at Coventry on 25th-26th November.
Whitelaw Cup 2000 Kath Nelson was a member of the team which
won the Whitelaw Cup (England Ladies Teams Championship) on
the weekend of 2nd-3rd December 2000.
Ben Franks Pairs 3rd Dec 2000 1. A. Morris & J.K. Morris 2. R. Goldenfield & M. Brunner 3. D. Daji & H. Stubbings 4. B. Lewis & I. Grugulis 5. J. Holland & B. Goldenfield Great Northern Swiss Pairs This National event at Risley (7-8th Oct) was won by John Holland and 16 year old Ollie Burgess from a field of 170+ pairs, half a match clear of the field. Maastricht 2000 The
Women's Team played well to come 4th in their qualifying
group, then losing a close match against China in the round of
16. The Seniors team including Bernard Goldenfield and
Bill Hirst did exceptionally well finishing 4th and unluckily
just dropping out of the medal positions when they lost their
last round match.
Bolton Double Yet another set of victories for North
Manchester players at the Bolton congress in Sept
2000. Jeff Smith with Ollie Burgess won the Bolton
Pairs and the following day the team of Jeff Smith, David
Adelman, Tracy and Steve Capal won the teams.
Triple Trophy Triumph for Manchester Manchester
players currently hold the three major National Teams
trophies, Crockford's (English Teams), Gold Cup (British
Teams) and Hubert Phillips (Mixed Teams). Pictured are
some of the holders Michelle Brunner and John Holland
(Crockford's); Gary Hyett and Alan Mould (Gold Cup); Rhona and
Bernard Goldenfield (Hubert Phillips); John Hassett (Hubert
Phillips and Crockford's). Missing for the photo were
Bill Hirst (Hubert Phillips and Crockford's) and Howard
Melbourne (Gold Cup and Crockford's)
Bernard and Rhona Celebrate Silver Congratulations to well known Manchester partnership Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield who celebrated 25 years of marriage on the 4th December 2000 with a wonderful party at Whitefield Golf Club. President's Cup 2000 Manchester won this inter counties weekend
event by the narrow margin of 1 VP ahead of Lancashire on
29th-30th July. Playing for Manchester were Tracy
Capal - Boris Ewart, Jeff Smith - Steve Capal, Alan and Kath
Nelson, David Barton - David Whyte. Other counties
competing were Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Merseyside and
Mid-Wales
Garden Cities Congratulations to Manchester Bridge Club,
who won the Garden Cities Inter Club Teams of Eight on the
18th June 2000. Representing the club were John Holland,
Michelle Brunner, Rhona and Bernard Goldenfield, Bill Hirst
and John Hassett, Howard Melbourne and Alan Mould - all
national trophy holders already.
Yorkshire Match Manchester seem unable to translate their
fine form in National Competitions into matches, losing the
annual fixture against Yorkshire by a small margin on 8th
July 2000
Huggill Trophy Manchester failed to hold the Huggill Trophy
in the annual triangular match against Merseyside and Lancs
on the 2nd July 2000, losing to both teams.
Pachabo June 2000 Not another National Trophy win, but a
highly creditable 5th place for the Manchester Team of
Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield, Bill Hirst and John Hassett
(with John Holland and Michelle Brunner also playing in the
qualifying competition)
Lancashire Swiss Teams 20th June Was won on a split tie by Jeff Smith, David Adelman, Tracy and Steve Capal. Crockford's Cup 20-21st May Another
National Trophy win for Manchester, this time the English
Teams championship, won by John Holland, Michelle Brunner,
John Hassett and Howard Melbourne with (in earlier rounds)
Bill Hirst. This is the first time these players have
won this trophy, although John and Michelle have been close on
several occasions in previous years.
Corwen Trophy 3-4 June Well
done Jeff Smith and Mark Halliwell who came third in the
Corwen at the weekend, representing Manchester as a result of
qualifying via the Ben Franks Pairs.
National Newcomer's Pairs (15-16th April) Edward Levy and Mike Byrne continued their
fine season with a fourth place in the National Final.
Well done also Gill Riley and Sheena Adam who were tenth.
Hubert Phillip's Final 16th April 2000 Bernard & Rhona Goldenfield, Bill Hirst, John Hassett Michelle Brunner's team (John Holland, Boris
Ewart and John Armstrong) lost by 620 aggregate points to
Rhona Goldenfield's team (Bernard Goldenfield, John Hassett,
Bill Hirst) in the final of the BBL Mixed Teams of Four at
Manchester Bridge Club. It was a close match
throughout, with the lead changing hands at the end of each
set. I watched 15 boards of the 60 board final
including these two exciting and swingy deals.
A good auction to a fine contract. A club was led to the
Ace and a club returned, now the Heart Ace revealed the bad
trump split, but Michelle recovered displaying fine technique,
3 rounds of Diamonds discarding a club and ruffing the third,
followed by a Spade to the Queen and another diamond ruff to
shorten her trumps to the same length as East's, then a Spade
to the Ace and a Diamond from dummy completed the double grand
coup to land the contract. Well played, but note that if
Bernard returns a Spade at trick two, then Michelle is an
entry short for the trump coup and will go off on any normal
line of play. Michelle's team gained on this board when
slam was not bid in the other room.
Another hand
featuring fine dummy play from Bill Hirst
A poor contract (doubling 4C would have been easier, but Bill
obviously likes to show off his skill with the dummy). A
Heart was led the Ace was taken and a second heart was led,
covered and trumped by South, who then led the Spade King to
John Holland's Ace. The return of the Club King beats
the contract now, but John erred and played a Diamond.
Bill won the Ace, cashed the Spade Queen and played another
Spade. John returned a club and Bill won and played the
Diamond King and another Diamond. Boris won this and
then had to lead a red suit allowing Bill to discard all his
losing clubs on the good hearts and diamonds in dummy. In the
other room 4S went off when at some point East (John Hassett)
led a small club and South (John Armstrong) tried the Ace
rather than the ten and this was ruffed.
Portland Pairs Well done Maurice and Ann Super who were
10th overall, the highest placed Manchester Pair in the
British Mixed Pairs Championship on 25-26th March
Cantor Cup 26/03/2000
The Cantor Cup for improving players donated in memory of
Trudy Cantor by her family was held at Hale Bridge Club.
Thanks to Peter Dawson, Mike Parr and Barbara Lewis for
helping to organise this event.
1st: Jean and Peter
Morgan 2nd: Aubrey and Barbara Rothburn 3rd: Geoff Benson and Bryan Ardern 4th: Barrie Klein and Peter Britten 5th: Agnes Barlow and Elaine Burd National Newcomers Pairs Congratulations to Edward Levy and Mike
Byrne who came second in the Northern Regional Final on 19th
March. They qualify for the National final at Coventry
next month along with Gill Riley and Sheena Adam (3rd), Alex
Morris and Andrew Black (8th) and Dale McRoberts and Ben
Graham all of whom qualified from the Manchester Bridge Club
heat.
Manchester Northern Swiss Teams (Joint venture with Merseyside) Merseyside Swiss Pairs (Joint Venture with Manchester CBA) Manchester
Pairs did well in the Joint Venture event :Northern Green
Pointed Swiss Pairs on 11 March 2000 with a 1.John Hampson Geoff
Paddle (Cheshire) Life Masters 1. Manchester A 229
Jeff
Morris, Ron Morrish, John Hassett, Bill Hirst, Michelle
Brunner, 2. Manchester B 170
Kevin
Comrie, Celia Comrie, Peter Jones, Mike Ardron, Barbara Lewis
3. Bramhall 162
Gary
Hyett, Raymond Semp, Mike Parr, Tony Rhodes, Pauline Lang, Manchester Millennium Congress (15-16 Jan 2000) The congress was well attended with 72 pairs and 35 teams playing in the main events, plus over 100 novices playing in the four novice events. Pairs 1. Michelle Brunner John Holland 2. Ron Morrish Bill Hirst 3. Mark Halliwell Jeff Smith 4. Mike & Ann Hirst * 5. John Seymour Anne Jones 6. David Baskin Mike Alexander* 7. Irene Bowers Betty McNamara * 8. Leslie Klein Jeff Morris - meal 9. Tracy Capal Diana Ackerman 10. Linda Page Elizabeth Hyde 11. Eddie Luciani Laurie Sedar 12. Kath & Alan Nelson 13. Barbara Lewis Elena Rosenbaum 14. Leslie Johnson J Browning 15. Boris Ewart Jim Luck 16. L Sellyn J Benson 17. E Lighthill Sid Travers * 18. Howard Kay Bob Cooke 19. Kevin & Celia Comrie 20. Cecil Franks Mike Burtt* 21. Bernard & Rhona Goldenfield 22. Peter & Jean Hand 23. Gordon Bickley Ann Farquhar 24. Charles Wade Fran Ashton * 25. Steve Capal Anthony Lipson 26. Maurice & Ann Super 27. Alan Jones Raymond Semp 28. Phil McAreavey Maris Hamilford* 29. David Maymon Gordon Hadfield 30. G Rice C Mahan 31. Irving & Joy Blakey 32. Jenny & Jim Morris 33. Liz & Bill Wattleworth 34. Irene Cooke Marjorie Hadfield 35. Barbara & Clive Henderson 36. A Heyworth M Goldsmith 37. Murial & John Hassett 38. Ram Pandy J Sahay 39. David Stuart Irena Grugalis 40. Janette & Alistair Brown * 41. Jeff Storry A Rhodes 42. Dave Smith Peter Jones 43.Cheryl & Dave Duddell 44. John & Barbara Parkinson 45. Juliette Rickless Tilly Perez 46. Michael Donegan Jim Callaghan 47. D Armstrong N Lipson 48. Sheila Reynolds Ann Edwards 49. S Massey H Potts 50. G A Fisher Mrs C Simpson 51. D Audley Heather Collier 52. Paul Worswick Pat Burrows 53. John Fitzgerald Gill McMullen 54. Vivian & Barry Newgrosh 55. Jim & Denny Wade 56. Edward Levy Michael Byrne 57. John & Tricia Berry 58. Bill White Paul Burton 59. Jamie Cameron Rekha Catfield § Well done to the
winners: English Internationals Michelle Brunner & John
Holland with Bill Hirst and Lancashire player Ron Morrish not
far behind. § The charming Irish
ladies Phil McAreavey & Maris Hamilford won 2nd
Intermediate prize 2. Alan Jones, David Barton, Leslie Klein, Jeff Morris 3. Bernard & Rhona Goldenfield, Jim Luck, Boris Ewart 4. Kath & Alan Nelson, Jon & Tom Middleton , Michael Newman 5. Anne & Maurice Super, Elena & Marcello Rosenbaum 6. Brian Cornelius, Alan Mould, Gary Hyett, Howard Melbourne 7. Peter & June Hishmurgh, Peter & Rita Jordan 8. Dave Debbage, Bob Pitts, Pauline Lang, Malcolm Robinson 9. Sidney Leighton, Len Gorodkin, Sid Travers, Leslie Hyman 10. J Evans, Sue Hyman, A Whitam, Clive Henderson 11. David Baskin, Mike Alexander, Joyce Benson, Michelle Sellyn 12. Vivian & Barry Newgrosh, Jackie Rich, Frank Brown* 13. Don Cross, Jill Entwhistle, Roger Waddington, Sally Lewis* 14. Eve Lighthill, Ray Semp, Ian Kane, Ken Hassell 15. Jenny & Jim Morris, Denny & Jim Wade 16. Irena Grugilis, Barbara Lewis, Mark Halliwell, Mike Ardron 17. R & J Bayly, R & J Jones 18. J Powers, Betty McNamara, D Perry, P Taylor 19. L & P Burton, J & W White 20. Paul Barlow, Paul Beckworth, Andy Green , Dave Stuart 21. Tracy & Steve Capal, Ann & Mike Hirst 22. Irene Cooke, Marjorie & Gordon Hadfield, David Maymon 23. Caryl Block, Tim Smith, Howard Kay, Bob Cooke 24. Eddie Luciano, L Sedar, Jeff Smith, Derry Heartly 25. Denis & Val Robson, Irving & Joy Blakey §
Congratulations to the winners: Michelle Brunner, John
Holland, who also won the Championship Pairs on § A magnum of
champagne was presented at the end, courtesy of Charles Wade
of Holidays Abroad. The stipulation was that the winner must
be present. After lots of draws (bad luck to R Jones, D
Stuart and lots more..) it was finally won by Celia Comrie,
well deserved for all the hard work she puts into the
county!
§
Well done to the Intermediate team winners: Vivian & Barry
Newgrosh, Jackie Rich (pictured above) & Frank Brown. The
Wednesday lunchtime tutorials at the San Rocco with Tom
Middleton are starting to pay dividends...
§ Well done also to the Cross team for winning the first session. The
Novice pairs proved a great success with nearly 100
novices entering the four events.
There was some variation in standard with near beginners trying their chances along more experienced players who, although having played some time, felt that they were still below tournament standard. Winners received special prizes included bottles of Champagne, kindly donated by Charles Wade our sponsor from Bridge Holidays Abroad, Swizzles Matlow sweets and pottery from Michelle's School of Bridge. Thanks also to Jeff Morris of Manchester Bridge Club for his gift of a special Millennium pack of cards to all Novice players. Well done to all and lets see you again in our various competitions. Nothing to fear from your more experienced brethren and what a thrill when you put one over on them!
Novice Results 1: NS
1.Jess
Fozzard
& Anna Drydale Novice Result 2: 1.
Pam
Atkinson
& Liz Stead Novice Result 3: 1.
S.
Archer
& H Boydell Novice
Result 4: 1.
Jean & Peter Morgan
Infirmary Cup 1999-2000 Winners were: Alan Mould & Sandra Fenton, Tom & Jonathan Middleton,(pictured) with 133 VP Second were Chris and Linda Stuart, Michael Hart & Jonathan Smith with 121 VP Third were last year's winners: George Balon, Len Gorodkin, Leslie Hyman, Sidney Travers & Sidney Leighton with 107 VP Infirmary Plate 1. Peter & Rita Jordan, Peter & Joyce Hishmurgh (pictured) 2. Alan Tranter, Andy Burnett, Mike Beere, Clive Naylor 3. A & J Richards, Jean Beddington & Alistair McKillop Pachabo Qualifier The draw
for the qualifying competition for Manchester is as follows
Teams in the final are: Tracy Capal/Boris Ewart, Steve Capal/Jeff Smith, Mike Clarke/Martin Braid Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield, Michelle Brunner/John Holland, Bill Hirst/John Hassett Peter Slatcher
Peter Slatcher died suddenly on 6th January. He was for many years the league secretary of the Manchester Area of the NWCBA and players in Manchester were grateful for the enormous amount of effort he put into running the league and Infirmary Cup. He was a Life Master and won the league on at least one occasion. He retired to the Isle of Man several years ago. Our condolences to Erica and family.
PREMIER
DIVISION
Isolated
Menaces
were:-
Michelle Brunner, John Holland, Bernard & Rhona Goldenfield, Boris Ewart + Gary Hyett
IMPs
R Us were:-
Proteus
were:- LEAGUE
DIVISION
1A
Woodentops
were:-
Sylvia Massey, Herbert Potts, John Browning, Lesley Johnson
The
Splinters were:- LEAGUE
DIVISION
1B
Sedgeley
were:-
George Balon, Leonard Gorodkin, Sidney Travers, Leslie Hyman, Sidney Leighton
Manchester
A were:- LEAGUE
DIVISION
2A
Ferndale
were:-
Alan Humphries, Tony Gladstone, Richard Soulsby, David Latimer LEAGUE
DIVISION
2B
The
North
Star were:-
Chris Stuart, Linda Stuart, Jonathon Smith, Mike Hart LEAGUE
DIVISION
3A
Radbroke
Clubbers
were:-
John Binns, Steve Goron, Avril Lucas, John Somerfield, David Shonfield LEAGUE
DIVISION
3B
Close
Call
were:-
Alan Bennett, John Lloyd, Simon Temple, Paul Thompson LEAGUE
DIVISION
4A
Stratos
were:-
Rupert Clark, Fred Ashworth, Helen Murray, Daphne Riley LEAGUE
DIVISION
4B
Canute
C
were:-
Rosalind Allday, Janet Harrison, Sue Thompson, Dave Whitworth LEAGUE
DIVISION
5A
Prestbury
B
were:-
Steven Mattinson, Mike V Smith, Raj Gupta, Brian Hesford LEAGUE
DIVISION
5B
Brookdale
Diamonds
were:-
Noel & Nancy Clark, Joan McDowell, Marian Moulds + Alan & Jean Warwick LEAGUE
DIVISION
6A
The
Jokers
were:-
Liz Thom, Yvonne Brookes, Carol Foulkes, Betty Hesp LEAGUE
DIVISION
6B
Midland
Railway
were:-
Ted Cadman, Bryan Randall, Jane Randall, Simon Townsend NEWCOMERS'
LEAGUE
M.S.B.
Stars
were:-
Ronald Booth, John & Wendy Fuest, Harry Mellor |