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2002 News and Results
Ben Franks  Father
and
son pairing of Bill Hirst and Andy Hirst triumphed in the
Ben Franks Pairs on 8th December at Manchester Bridge Club.
A turnout of 42 pairs was the largest for several
years, stretching the organisational skills of tournament
director Dave Debbage who had to cope with upstairs and
downstairs sections (we consoled him with the fact that it
was good exercise). Second were half time leaders Jeff
Smith and Mark Halliwell, third Mike Byrne and Alex Morris,
fourth David Audley and Frank Brown. It was good to
see two school pupil pairs competing, Elizabeth Roberts and
A Wilkinson finishing well up in the field.
1st
B Hirst A Hirst ....................... 59.20 %2nd M Halliwell J Smith ............. 58.39 % 3rd A Morris M Byrne ............... 58.28 % 4th F Brown D Audley ................ 58.22 % 5th J Hand P Hand ...................... 56.92 % 6th G Rice S Bielecki .................. 56.59 % 7th D Barton D Whyte ................ 55.99 % 8th E Roberts A Wilkinson .......... 55.72 % 9th= D McDouall J Holland ........... 54.47 % 9th= D Pennington R Franks ......... 54.47 % 9th= JC Roberts F Bell .................. 54.47 % 12th G Finks S Travers .................. 54.41 % 13th D Stuart A Green ................... 53.92 % 14th K Nelson A Nelson .................53.59 % 15th T Capal A Kenworthy .............53.10 % 16th W White J White .................... 53.00 % 17th D Cross J Entwistle ............... 52.29 % 18th P Foster J Liebeschuetz ..........52.12 % 19th M Borley G Horton .................51.31 % 20th R Jones J Jones ......................51.14 % 21st I Blakey J Blakey .................. 50.76 % 22nd L Williams L Bloohn .............. 50.33 % 23rd D Dhaji D Hammonds .............50.27 % 24th A Purdy P Hackett ..................50.00 % 25th E Lighthill P Lang ................. 49.95 % 26th R Lighton B Ewart .................. 49.67 % 27th R Gupta S Mattinson .............. 49.51 % 28th R Acaster P Burrows ............... 49.46 % 29th C Ryall J Marray .................... 49.24 % 30th C Lee R Turner ...................... 48.53 % 31st J Fitzgerald G Mcmullan .......... 47.98 % 32nd S Booth D Tattersall ............... 47.44 % 33rd G Farrington P Green .............. 46.35 % 34th S Blaiwais M Taylor ................. 45.86 % 35th AD Roberts J M Roberts ..........45.37 % 36th B Kaye R Waddington ...............44.28 % 37th I Bowers E Rose ...................... 44.01 % 38th I Grugulis B Lewis .................. 43.36 % 39th O Hackett M Goldsmith ............43.25 % 40th A McKillop T McCauchey .........38.78 % 41st C Fisher A Stout ...................... 34.91 % 42nd P Emm J Marvin ....................... 25.60 % December Newsletter Newsletter EBU Road Show
The EBU road show came to Manchester Bridge Club on Friday
22nd November.
The EBU General Manager Terry Collier, John Pain (Bridge for All) and Christine Duckworth (Education) presented EBU plans for youth, general membership development and tournament bridge. The presentations were well received and generated a considerable amount of discussion. The EBU officers went away with a useful input from Manchester and Lancashire members. Also in attendance for a while was Keith Bradley, the local MP.  EBU Consultation Team with attendees and Keith Bradley MP Front row Denis Robson (EBU Chairman), Jeff Morris (EBU Board member and director of Manchester Bridge Club) John Pain (Bridge for All Manager EBU) and Keith Bradley MP for Manchester Withington Behind them Eve Lighthill (Manchester CBA Chairman), Terry Collier (EBU Manager) and Dawn Mertens (EBU) Manchester Qualify for Tolly Manchester
came second in their qualifying group of the Tollemache
inter counties teams of eight on 23rd-24th November,
qualifying for the final. Congratulations to the team
of Michelle Brunner, John Holland, Gary Hyett, Boris Ewart,
Adrian Kenworthy, Mike Goldsmith, Mike Byrne, Alex Morris,
John Hassett and Bill Hirst. Npc was Jeff Smith.
 Teacher David Adelman with Mini Bridge Pupils at Manchester Bridge Club David
Adelman is spearheading a drive to get mini bridge taught to
gifted primary school pupils in Manchester. He is
currently teaching sessions in several primary schools and
trying to get funds for more. Here he is pictured with
school children who were enjoying a short Autumn half
term course at Manchester Bridge Club.
 A
party was held for Mary Higson after the duplicate at
Manchester Bridge Club on 9th October. Mary will be
leaving the Manchester area soon to live near her son in
Esher. Mary has been associated with bridge
organisation in Manchester since the 1950's and during the
Sixties and early Seventies she ran the league, cup,
tournaments and congresses as well as being secretary.
This was practically a full time job. She
continued as tournament secretary until 1999. All
Manchester players are grateful for the huge amount of time
and effort that she has put in on their behalf. Bridge
in Manchester would never have flourished so successfully
without Mary. As a player she had many successes, she
won the league at least once, the Cup twice and the Ben
Franks pairs once, as well as numerous congress events.
She has continued to play regularly at the Manchester
and Cheadle Hulme clubs. We shall miss her cheerful
smile and friendly manner and wish her good luck with her
move.
October Newsletter Newsletter Huggill Trophy Congratulations
to
the Manchester Team who won the annual triangular match
against Lancashire and Merseyside on 12th October at
Merseyside Bridge Club.
Representing Manchester were:- Howard Kay, Bob Cooke, Jeff Smith, Maurice Super (74 VPs) Irving Blakey, Joy Blakey, Peter Hishmurgh, Joyce Hishmurgh (102 VPs) Mary Costagliola, Peter Hodgson, Dhun Daji, Howard Stubbings (81VPs) Alan Jones, David Barton, Ray Semp, Eve Lighthill (92 VPs) Jeff Smith was a late replacement for Ann Super, average was 80 VPs. 1st Manchester 349 VPs 2nd Lancashire 317 VPs 3rd Merseyside 294 VPs English Trials
Gary Hyett and Alan Mould playing with John Collings and
Martin Jones of Coventry finished second in the trials
earning themselves a play off match against Paul Hackett,
Tony Waterlow, John Armstrong and Danny Davies to decide
who represents England in a European event. That
match will take place in January.
Ed Levy's team (Alex Morris, Michael Byrne and Andrew Woodcock of Lancs.), who had done extremely well to reach the second stage of the trials, gained valuable experience, but were not well placed. As a result of their placing in the trials Gary and Alan have been selected to play for England in two matches in the current series. When they have played these they will have equalled Danny and Reuben Myers Manchester partnership record of five matches in the Camrose series. However, Alan and Gary have also represented Great Britain in a European and also each played one other Camrose with different partners. Great Northern Swiss Pairs A
fine win for Mark Halliwell and Mike Ardron with a score
of 72% in a field of 164 pairs at Risley on 5-6th October.
Third were David Barton and Alan Jones. For
full list of results see EBU web site.
In
the first round of the NICKO the Whitefield Golf Club team
of Bernard Kaye, Tobias, Mendelson and Cohen beat Sandra
Penfold's team, last year's finalists from Bradford.
World
Championships
Michelle
Brunner and Rhona Goldenfield played for the England
Ladies Team in Montreal in the McConnell Cup from August
16th to 31st. The team qualified for the knock out
stages and lost in the quarter finals to The
Netherlands.
Manchester
won the President's Cup held at the Eden BC,
Carlisle on the weekend of 3rd to 4th August.
The team was Jeff Smith - David Adelman, Michael Newman - Mike Byrne, Adrian Kenworthy - Mike Goldsmith, Dave Baskin - Derry McCarthy (Sat), Peter & Joyce Hishmurgh (Sun). Seven teams took part - Manchester, Yorkshire, Lancashire, N.Wales, Cumbria, Merseyside, Mid-Wales. Format was all-play-all sixteen board matches. Manchester led throughout, though Yorkshire made a late charge to get close. First Three - Manchester 89 VPs, Yorkshire 85 VPs, Merseyside 77 VPs. This
event
at Risley on 28th July was won by Michelle Brunner,
Rhona Goldenfield, John Hassett and Bernard
Goldenfield
3rd were Jeff Smith, Jackie Pye, David Barton and Alan Jones For full results see the EBU competitions page Yorkshire match Manchester
beat Yorkshire on 6th July in the annual inter county
match.
Manchester
Aggregate Score
1 D.Barton D.Whyte L.Klein J.Morris 1520 2 F.Bell J.Roberts M.Costagliola D.Gray -150 3 J.Smith M.Halliwell A.Nelson K.Nelson -210 4 J.Hassett B.Hirst M.Goldsmith A.Kenworthy 4740 5 I.Blakey J.Blakey S.Travers L.Gorodkin -590 6 H.Kay B.Cooke D.Debbage E.Lighthill 450 Yorkshire 1 G.Jepson D.Musson R.Pike D.Robinson 2 D.Coley D.Waxman T.Gisborne S.Davies 3 R.Winter S.Teshome M.Marston P.Tempest 4 R.Jepson A.Brosgill B.Townsend N.Woolven 5 G.Newman A.Golding B.Grayson J.O’Sullivan 6 J.Procter D.Lewis S.Davies S.Galloway Manchester led by 2420 points at half time and won by 5760 aggregate points. The match was run in the usual format of twelve 3-board rounds with each pair playing every other pair. Manchester gained an early lead and although there was a near 3000 swing back to Yorkshire in one set, Manchester led throughout emerging as comfortable winners. Particularly outstanding was Team 4 which along with Team 1 accounted for most of the winning margin. There was no team with a big deficit, so the whole Manchester team played well . Thanks to Jeff Smith for this report.
Commonwealth Games 2002
Tuesday
to Saturday 16th-20th July
In the final matches Patron (Tony
Forrester, John Armstrong, Paul, Jason and
Justin Hackett) beat Canada (Judith and Nick
Gartaganis, Gordon Campbell and Keith Balcombe)
by 27 IMPs and Wales (Gary and Dafydd Jones,
Peter Goodman and Adam Dunn, Tim Rees and Filip
Kurbalija) beat Maple (Bernard Goldenfield and
John Holland, Gary Hyett and Boris Ewart, John
Hassett and Bill Hirst) by 6 IMPs. Bronze
medal went to India (C R Bandrinath, K R
Venkataraman, P Sridharen, R Krishnan, Sunit
Chokshi and S Sundarraman) the winners of the
consolation event. Second in the
consolation were the Manchester CBA team of Jeff
Smith, Sid Travers, Joy and Irving Blakey, an
excellent result, ahead of Northern Ireland,
Singapore, Merseyside CBA, Evans and England.
 Sid Travers (facing camera) and Jeff Smith in play in the consolation event  Irving and Joy Blakey playing against David and Jean Keen of Liverpool  The consolation event in the Whitworth Hall  Roman Smolski once of Yorkshire and England now playing for Bermuda  The Welsh Silver medal winning team Peter Goodman, Adam Dunn, Filip Kurbalija, Dafydd Jones, Tim Rees, Jim Luck (NPC), Gareth Jones  Bill Fung Chairman of Maple Financial Services - main sponsors of event Bill was resident and played bridge in Manchester in the seventies  Ed Levy and Tracy Capal in the consolation event  Brian Callaghan (facing camera) and David Burn of the England Team  David Barton (in white jumper!) and Leslie Klein Friday - Canada beat Wales by 7 IMPs over 48 boards (this is the match for Gold and Silver medals). Patron 1 (Hacketts, Forrester, Armstrong) beat Maple (Patron 2 Boris Ewart's Manchester team) by 92 IMPs. Final Group tables at end of play
on Thursday, Wales made a late rally, winning
their last match well while Australia lost heavily
to Pakistan. Wales will play Canada in one
semi-final, while the two patron's teams will play
in the other semi-final on Friday. The Final
is on Saturday. The remaining teams play a
consolation event.
Group A 1 Canada 315 2 Patron 2 297 3 India 284 4 England 246 5 Scotland 228 6 Zimbabwe 226 7 Trinidad & Tobago 220 8 Singapore 217 9 Kenya 207 10 Sri Lanka 205 11 Jamaica 204 12 Isle of Man 203 13 Jersey 189 14 Mauritius 175 15 Antigua & Barbuda 168 Group B 1 Patron 1 277 2 Wales 274 3 Australia 266 4 Pakistan 258 5 Northern Ireland 257 6 South Africa 240 7 Bermuda 230 8 Malaysia 220 9 Guyana 210 10 Guernsey 208 11 Uganda 203 11 Malta 203 13 St Lucia 197 14 Barbados 184 15 Tanzania 165  Gary Hyett and Boris Ewart in play against Jamaica (watching is MCBA Treasurer Bernard Kaye)  Tony Forrester and John Armstrong concentrating deeply  John Hassett playing the contract while Bill Hirst counts the tricks  David Price (facing camera) and David Mossop of the England Team  The VuGraph room at the Commonwealth games  The VuGraph showing Thursday's Board 25 This swingy deal caused trouble in many matches Malaysia managed to play this in 4H -4 E-W and 5D doubled -3 N-S in the VuGraph match against Bermuda  Erik Kokish of Canada - Chief VuGraph commentator A vast army of Manchester
volunteers was in place at the Whitworth Hall to
ensure that the Commonwealth Games started
running smoothly on a beautiful Manchester
day.
 Play in progress at the Whitworth Hall and some of the star players below
European Championships Congratulations to Michelle Brunner and Rhona Goldenfield playing for the England Women's Team who finished in the Bronze Medal position at Salsomaggiore. Michelle Isolates the Menace
In the European match against Austria the following
deal was appropriately played by the captain of
Manchester's Isolated Menaces team.
Dealer
S N/S vul.
South opened 4 Diamonds. Michelle (West) overcalled 4 Hearts and Rhona raised to 6 Hearts. After a Diamond was led to the King and a trump switch won in hand, Michelle ruffed her remaining Diamond, drew the last trump with the Heart Ace, played Spade Ace and ruffed a Spade. Then a Club to the King and another Spade ruff ensured that North was controlling Spades (isolating the menace). Then Michelle ran all the trumps to squeeze North in the black suits for the twelfth trick. In the other room England played in 5 Diamonds which was made on a misdefence - 17 IMPs to England. Commonwealth Games Trials Trials
were held at Manchester Bridge Club on 16th June.
Winners were Jeff Smith, Sid Travers, Joy and
Irving Blakey who will represent Manchester CBA in the
consolation event at the Games. Second were Tracy
Capal, Ed Levy, Mike Goldsmith & Adrian Kenworthy.
Third were Peter Foster, Dr John Liebeschuetz, Stefan
Bielecki & Phil Callow.
10 teams played 9 five board rounds. Manchester Fourth in Pachabo The
Manchester
Team of Tracy Capal, Gary Hyett, Adrian Kenworthy and
Mike Goldsmith did very well in the Inter County Teams
on the 8th/9th June, finishing fourth. See the EBU
web site for a full set of results.
Lady Milne Trophy Michelle
Brunner and Rhona Goldenfield continued their recent
excellent run of results. Representing England
they won the Lady Milne (Women's Home internationals) in
Aberdeen on the weekend of 2/3 June.
Manchester
Pairs do well in Corwen
In
the Inter County Pairs Corwen Trophy on 25th-26th
May leading Manchester Pair were John Holland and
David McDouall who finished fourth out of 109 pairs.
Close behind in tenth position were father and
son pair Bill and Andrew Hirst. The other
Manchester qualifiers Elise Ford and Anne Jordan,
Paul Worswick and Pat Burrows finished in the top
half.
1st Brian Cornelius, Alan Mould, Gary Hyett &
Howard Melbourne 102
2nd Tracy Capal, Edward Levy, Ollie Burgess & Richard Probst 100 3rd Jeff Smith, Jackie Pye, John Stell & David Adelman 96 4th Jack Johnstone, Ruth Henig, Gareth Roberts & Paul Fearnhead 94 5th John , Dawn Herbert, George & Val Eakin 91 6th Alan Jones, Nevena Senior, David Barton & Alan Purdy Michelle
Brunner and Rhona Goldenfield were members of the
winning team in the final Women's trials on the
6-7th April. They now play in the Lady Milne
in Aberdeen in June. They also play in the
World Championships in Canada later this year.
A
Silver Medal in the European Mixed Pairs
Championship in Ostend for Kath Nelson and Steve
Eginton (of Berks & Bucks, formerly Manchester).
This is the first ever medal won in this event
by a British pair.
 Kath and Steve proudly display their silver medals.  After the fog had cleared - Kath Nelson and Steve Eginton League 2001-2002  League winners 2001-2002 Ed Levy, Tracy Capal, Leslie Klein and Jeff Smith Roy Higson Cup and Plate 2001-2 The final of the Roy Higson Cup and Plate took place on 7th April at Manchester Bridge Club. Prizes were presented by Mary Higson to the following winning teams. Roy Higson Cup  Winners: Isolated Menaces minus one. John Hassett, Bill Hirst, Boris Ewart and Gary Hyett Second: Double Trouble David Barton, David Whyte, Brian Meakin and Geoff Hull Third: Scattered Values Paul Worswick, Pat Burrows, Ron and Jeanne Bayley Roy Higson Plate 
Winners: PR's Ron Steedman, Pat Crooks, Reg Bowdler and Morag White Second: Sedgeley George Balon, Len Gorodkin, Sid Travers, Leslie Hyman, Sid Leighton Third: Milkmen David Stuart, Andy Green, Jenny Holmes, Peter Hytner EBU Under 25 Championships Congratulations
to
Michael Byrne & Alex Morris who finished 3rd in
the English under 25 pairs on 29th March.
The Cantor Cup took place at the Altrincham Bridge club
on Sunday March 24th. There were 13 1/2 tables.
All those who came had a most enjoyable time and
the event was friendly and welcoming.
The Cantor family donated Ł100 for the 1st prize together with replicas of the Cantor Cup. The first 5 pairs won prizes: they were: 1st Hetty Davies and Anna Thompson 2nd Elaine Burd and Agnes Barlow 3rd Ailsa Mack and Dorothy Fletcher 4th Lynn and Dave Matthews 5th S Atkinson and P Stormont Portland Pairs Top
placed Manchester pair in the British Mixed pairs
championship were Bernard & Rhona Goldenfield who
came 6th overall, playing in the Manchester heat on
16-17th March.
 Swiss Pairs 1 Bernard Goldenfield Rhona Goldenfield 87% 2 John Holland Ollie Burgess 75% 3 Paul Williams Hilda Williams 75%  Swiss Teams 1 Martin Cantor Bill Niccol Ted Reveley John Armstrong 113VP 2 Michelle Brunner Rhona Goldenfield John Holland Bernard Goldenfield 103VP 3= Barry Jones Bryan Edwards Shirley Webster Steve Doubt 92VP 3= Sue Woodcock Nick Woodcock Andrew Woodcock Hector Barker 92VP Grand Masters Pairs
This National Event for England's highest ranked players
held on the 2-3rd March was won by John Holland and
Michelle Brunner - another National title to add to
their collection.
Gazette Cup Held at Manchester BC Sunday Feb 3rd 2002  Winners: Cheadle Hulme BC Cheadle Hulme
will go forward to represent Manchester County in the
Garden Cities trophy. Cheadle
105 Cheadle
Hulme J.Smith/R.Alexander, D.Gray/M.Costagliola,
M.Robinson/P.Lang, P&J.Hishmurgh Manchester Congress 2002 Novice Pairs Winners Session
1
- Vanessa James John Sayers Intermediate Pairs 2nd Vivian
Newgrosh and Juliet Rickless Championship Pairs Ladies Pairs Mens Pairs Mixed Pairs John and Muriel Hassett (sorry no photo) Championship Teams CHAMPIONSHIP PAIRS – SAT 5th JANUARY 2002 1 E.Lighthill
S.Travers 2244 63.40 Teams 6th January 2002 Championship Teams Final 1 M.Brunner,
J.Holland, W.Hirst, J.Hassett 163 VP Consolation
Teams Final Teams MCBA Manchester Congress 5th Jan – 6th Jan 2002 Novices Session 1 – Sat 5th Jan 2002 Afternoon 1 Vanessa James
John Sayers 87 63.97 Novices Session 2 – Sat 5th Jan 2002 Evening 1 Agnes
Barlow Elaine Burd 84 66.67 Novices Session 3 – Sun 6th Jan 2002 Morning 1 Peggy
Sherratt Frank Reid 160 66.67 Novices Session 4 – Sun 6th Jan 2002 Afternoon 1 Stephen
McCracken Lynn McCracken 172 68.25 Pachabo Qualifier 2001-2002
D.BARTON
D.Whyte,
L.Klein, J.Morris
IMPs
R
Us: Tracy CAPAL; Ed LEVY; Jeff SMITH; Steve CAPAL &
Leslie KLEIN
DJ Jam: Dave McDOUALL; Mike GOLDSMITH; Jason HACKETT; John HOLLAND & Adrian KENWORTHY Agamemnon: Kath NELSON; Martin BRAID; Mike CLARKE; Alan NELSON; Mike NEWMAN & Stuart SHALOM
Double
Trouble:
David BARTON; Geoff HULL; Brian MEAKIN & David WHYTE
Manchester J: Ian PENDLEBURY; Chris BARNARD; Richard LEWIS; John RUDOLF & Dave SMITH
Mighty
Aphrodite:
Graham BURNS; David ADELMAN; Anthony LIPSON; John STELL
& Alex WISEMAN
Manchester A: Maurice SUPER; Denis ROBSON; Valerie ROBSON; Ann SUPER & Jeff Morris
Milkmen:
Andy
GREEN; Jenny HOLMES; Peter HYTNER & David STUART
Tempo:
Caryl
BLOCH; Pat BUXTON; Peter HODGSON; Mike PARR & David
PENNINGTON
Stratos:
Rupert
CLARK; Fred ASHWORTH; Helen MURRAY & Daphne RILEY
Besses
Force:
Harry BAILEY; Lawrence ABRAMSON; Peter MACLESE; H
WEINSTOCK;
Nick COHEN; Hilary FISHER & Alice WHITEHEAD
Bloohn's
Babes:
Lance BLOOHN; Sally ARCHER; Hilary BOYDELL & Linda
WILLIAMS
Davenport
A:
Stewart THOMAS; Derek BAILEY; Chris BAKER & Jim
O'NEILL
The
Shakers:
Bernard CLAYTON; Jeffrey BOR; Jonathon HERMAN & Ivor
ROSENBERG
The
Gamblers:
Doreen JACOBS; Hilary GELLMAN; Marshall GELLMAN &
Beattie LEVENE
Klinger's
Clan:
Mary HUGHES; Joan ASHWORTH; Denny FRANKS & Mike HUGHES
The
Transatlantic
Alliance: Jean MORGAN; Peter MORGAN; Neil WHITE & Mary
WHITE
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