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2008 News and Results
Bernard
and Rhona Goldenfield won the Mixed pairs with a huge score,
second equal were Kath and Alan Nelson. In the Swiss
Pairs Michelle Brunner and John Holland were second with Joy
and Irving Blakey fifth. Finally in the Swiss Teams
David Adelman won with Jeff Smith, Jackie Pye (Lancs) and
Alex Hogg (Derby). Congratulations to all of them - full
results are on the EBU web site.
Winners
of Manchester Bridge Club's annual festive event were Alex and
Tony Wilkinson with an enormous score of 69%. Second
were Ed Levy and John Parsons just ahead of Eve Lighthill and
Dave Debbage.
Alex and Tony Wilkinson with Jeff Morris Channel Trophy This
Junior International event took place in London from
19th-21st December. Playing for England in various
teams were local juniors Mike Bell, Jennie Marvin, Elizabeth
Roberts and Amy Stout. The U-25 team came third.
The U25 women did better finishing 2nd= close behind
the winning Dutch team.
After
the first 2 months the current standings are
First: Dangerous Spiders Margaret Taylor, Melanie Rankin, Magda Brenda, Ross Allen, Luke Webb, Chris Thom +68 Second: DD’s Dreamers Iain Hart, Jo Krasner, Steve & Janet Parr +42 Third: Fast Arrival Katie Hill, Nick Townsend, Stephanie Hauser, Stephen Ward, Helen Hauser Fourth: Goodness Knows Danny Doherty, Lionel Cox, Helen Clarke, Barbara Spitz Fifth: Michael’s Marauders, Joan & Alan Hinchliffe, Geoff Ashcroft, Andrea Bell There are three more months to go, so plenty of time for the placings to change. Women's trials Tracy and Kath Selected Following
their third place in the trials for the Lady Milne on 6th-7th
December Kath Nelson and Tracy Capal have been selected to
play in the Lady Milne in Ireland on 17-19th April 2009.
Well done to
them and we look forward to seeing them on BBO
Ben Franks Congratulations
to Rodney Lighton and Gary Hyett who won the Ben Franks Pairs
at Manchester Bridge Club on 7th December. They were a
smidgeon ahead of John Holland and Michelle Brunner.
First session winners were Rhona and Bernard Goldenfield. Third overall were Barbara Lewis and Alec Smalley who won the second session. Second session prize, however, went to Peter Bailey and Ben Graham who did extremely well in their first ever county event. Fourth were John Roberts and Fred Bell with the top four pairs qualifying for the Corwen Trophy in June. Thanks to Pat Buxton for the organisation, mince pies and wine and to Jeff Smith for directing.  Gary Hyett and Rodney Lighton  Alec Smalley and Barbara Lewis  Ben Graham and Peter Bailey 1 Rodney Lighton & Gary Hyett 62.95% 2 John Holland & Michelle Brunner 62.16% 3 Alec Smalley & Barbara Lewis 58.98% 4 John Roberts & Fred Bell 57.05% 5 Bernard Goldenfield & Rhona Goldenfield 54.55% 6= Pete Foster & Neil Thomas 54.43% 6= Pauline Lang & Steve Mattinson 54.43% 8 Ben Beever & Eddie Thornton-chan 52.95% 9 Raymond Semp & Peter Jones 52.84% 10 Jeff Morris & David Adelman 51.59% 11= Dave Audley & Frank Brown 50.23% 11= Ben Harrison-Graham & Peter Bailey 50.23% 13 John Rudolf & Pauline Rudolf 50.00% 23 pairs competed Tollemache Qualifier The
Manchester team of Mike
Bell & David Collier, Michelle Brunner & John Holland,
Michael Byrne & Michael Newman, John Hassett &
Bill Hirst, Kath & Alan Nelson were drawn into the largest
and strongest group in the Tollemache Qualifier on 29-30th
November. They finished a disappointing 7th out of 10.
Junior Selections A
large number of Junior Selections have recently been announced
by the EBU with Manchester players featuring strongly.
In the Channel Trophy, to be held in London 19th-21st
December Liz Roberts & Jennie Marvin and Amy Stout
(playing with Emily Middleton) are in the U25 Women's team,
Mike Bell plays with Adam Hickman in the U25 open.
In the Junior Camrose in Northern Ireland on 20th-22nd
February Mike Bell and Adam Hickman are reserves while Michael
Byrne is npc of the U20s. Mike and Adam play in the
White House tournament in Amsterdam 9-16th March.
For the European Championships in Romania 8-18th July four pairs form a squad with three to be selected later. Included amongst these are Mike Bell with Adam Hickman and Alex Morris with Fiona Brown. Full details are on the EBU web site. Camrose Selections Congratulations
to John Holland and Michelle Brunner who have been selected
to represent England in the Camrose Trophy weekend on 6-8th
March at Oxford. They are also reserves for the other
Camrose weekend. As England are the the hosts of the
second weekend this season there is also an English Bridge
Union team. Mike Bell and Michael Byrne make their
first senior appearance in
the Camrose playing
for this team on 9th-11th January at Cardiff.
John
Holland and Michelle Brunner playing with Paul Hackett and
Tony Waterlow finished second in this event after the final
weekend on 15th-16th November. John Hassett and Bill
Hirst finished in third place. Results are on the EBU
web site.
Newcomer's League On
the first Thursday of each month a Newcomers Teams
competition is being held at Manchester Bridge club.
This is an MCBA event and all are welcome.
The results of the first week in November were as follows: 1 DD's Dreamers +62 Iain Hart Jo Krasner Steve and Janet Parr 2 Dangerous Spiders +40 Margaret Taylor Melanie Rankin Magda Brenda Ross Allen 3 Fast Arrival -5 Katy Hill Nick Townsend Stephanie Hauser Stephen Ward 4 Goodness Knows -48 Danny Docherty Lionel Cox Helen Clark and Barbara Spitz 5 Michaels Marauders -49 Joan and Alan Hinchliffe Geoff Ashcroft Andrea Bell Northern League Manchester
A and C teams have finished the season in first place after
the final matches in Bradford on Saturday 25th October.
In the B Division Manchester were second to Yorkshire.
The final scores
are now on the Northern League web site.
Intermediate Pairs MCBA
held the first Autumn Pairs event for Intermediate players on
Sunday October 26th at Altrincham Bridge Club. 17 pairs
participated and the event was played in a friendly atmosphere
and the players enjoyed the afternoon. Thanks to Stanley
Blaiwais for directing and Pat Buxton for hosting. The
prizewinners were:
1st - Karen Leigh and Helen Reid - 60.79%2nd - John Sayers and Vanessa James - 56.62% 3rd - Liz Downie and Margaret Kelly - 56.39% 4th - Ros Mayall and Joyce Sykes - 55.56% 5th - Gordon and Daphne Youles - 55.42% 
Play in progress at Altrincham 
Director
Stan
Blaiwais and organiser Pat Buxton
Dubrovnik Congress Congratulations to John and Pauline Rudolf on winning the Open Pairs and the Swiss Teams at the EBU overseas congress in mid-October. Beijing - 1 Gold + 2 Silver
The first World Mind Sport Games and the World Team Olympiad
took place in Beijing from 3rd to 18th October.
Congratulations to Ed Jones of Leicester, Ben and Tom Paske of Herefordshire, Rob Myers of Harrogate, Daniel Macintosh of Gloucestershire and Adam Hickman of Birmingham/Manchester who lost a close final to France in the under 21s event. Their captain was Manchester's Michael Byrne assisted by coach Alan Shillitoe. Together with Duncan Happer they have worked very hard encouraging and training the Juniors over the last few years and this success is well deserved. In the World Team Olympiad England won a Gold in the Womens event and a silver in the Open. Didsbury's Justin and Jason Hackett were members of the Open team. Congratulations to all involved. Wilmslow Guild On
Wednesday October 1st Wilmslow Guild Bridge Club held their
first gentle duplicate afternoon at Chorley Village Hall. This
is for Wilmslow Guild members who have been to classes at the
Guild, or who are inexperienced players who would like to take
part in a duplicate event. It is hoped that as they
become more experienced they will be directed to play in local
clubs at a faster pace! Anyone who is interested should
get in touch with the Wilmslow Guild. Their website is www.wilmslowguild.org
Defence of the Year - Michelle Wins IBPA Award International Bridge
Press Association Award
We are delighted to report
that the
International Bridge Press Association have made the
award of defence of the year to Michelle Brunner
for her play against China in the 2007 World
Championship quarter finals.
This defence has been widely reported previously, but it is worth repeating for those who haven't seen this brilliant play.
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South and North bid as follows: One Club (Precision, 16+), One Diamond (0-7); Two Spades (forcing to game), 2NT; Three Clubs, Four Clubs; Five No-Trumps (Grand Slam Force), Seven Clubs (only one honour, but extra length). Rhona Goldenfield found the excellent lead of the jack of hearts, declarer played dummy's queen, and, if Michelle had covered with her king, South would have won with her ace. With no entry to dummy she would have had to cash the ace of trumps - and drop the singleton KC. But Michelle withheld her king and declarer took the club finesse. One down! Derbyshire Green Point Congratulations
to Pauline Lang and Steve Mattinson playing with Babs Matthews
and David Strawbridge of Cumbria who were the highest placed
MCBA members, coming 3rd in the teams event at Spondon. 38
teams competed on 28th September.
Northern League - September 27th A
good all round performance by all pairs resulted in a
further increase in overall lead in the C Division ( now a
margin of 48 VPs in front of the 2nd place County (Yorks
SE)) and a good win on the day.
Manchester 86 VPs (Pennington/Johnson/Morris/Morris/Kaye/Waddington/Steedman/Bowdler) Yorks SE 81 Lancs 64 North East 63 Yorks NW 46 Merseyside/Cheshire 41 Westmorland 39
The match was played in a most friendly atmosphere, venue
superb and refreshments most enjoyable.
Special thanks are due to Keighley Bridge Club (who were most magnificent hosts) and to Director Rob Turner for his efficient running of the event. (report from Bernard Kaye).
In the A division Manchester improved their lead yet again
winning with 72 VPs just ahead of Lancashire on 70 VPs.
However, closest rivals Yorkshire had a poor result
only getting 44 VPs.
In the B division Manchester retained their second place in the table despite only being fourth on the day, leaders Yorkshire were equal with Manchester. Full results for all divisions are on the Northern League Web Site Manchester Players do well in Junior Trials At
the U25 Junior Camrose trials held on September 20th/21st in
Solihull Manchester players topped the field.
Alex Morris, partnering Fiona Brown (formerly of Australia and now of Harrogate) led the field for the first half of the tournament and finished on +77 imps. Mike Bell partnering Birmingham's Adam Hickman went one better and finished on +78 imps, defeating a slam on the last board to just pip them. Both pairs will be strongly placed to be picked for at least one junior international, when selections are made later on in the year. The winners of the trials were Ben Paske and Ed Jones who scored over 100 imps, both are well known to Manchester players for their participation in the Manchester Congress and recent Manchester Bridge Club anniversary teams. English Premier League The
English Premier league first weekend was held in London on
6-7th September. This event is the trials for England
selection. Congratulations to John Holland and Michelle
Brunner who, playing with Paul Hackett and Tony Waterlow,
built up a good lead after the first 6 matches. Two
more weekends later follow in the Autumn. John and
Michelle were easily the best pair on the Butler scores.
Full results are on the EBU web site.
Northern League The
Manchester A team maintained their top of the table position
in the second match of the Northern League at Manchester
Bridge Club on Saturday 30th August. They scored 65
VPs just ahead of Merseyside on 64. Lancashire scored
56 and Yorkshire 54 with North Wales and Cumbria also
participating. The Manchester team was Bernard and
Rhona Goldenfield, Michelle Brunner and John Holland, Gary
Hyett and Rodney Lighton, Mike Bell and Mike Newman.
In the B division Manchester fared less well with 58 VPs, coming fourth in the second set of matches to lie in third place overall behind Yorkshire and North East. The C Division team had an excellent second set of matches, winning them all to finish first over the second set of matches and open up a substantial lead overall. Detailed results are on the Northern Bridge League web site. Manchester Bridge Club 30th Anniversary The
30th Anniversary weekend (
22nd-24th August) was
very successful with 16 teams playing in the main event on
Saturday and Sunday afternoons and many distinguished
players participating. It was particularly nice to
have our Welsh friends (two teams of top players) join us
for the weekend as well as many of the country's leading
juniors practising for the World Mind Sports Olympiad to
be held in October in Beijing.
The teams was won by Roy Moore from Solihull playing with Paul, Justin and Barbara Hackett. Runners up were four of the England Under 28 team - Ben Green, Duncan Happer, Fiona Brown and Susan Stockdale. The 30th Anniversary party went on till 1.00am and photos can be found on the MBC web site. The Friday night Odd Couples Event was won by Bernard Goldenfield playing with Dhun Daji. Runners up were Daily Telegraph Bridge Correspondent Patrick Jourdain playing with Tean Porteous. Patrick has a good record in Odd Couples events. Five years ago he came for our 25th Anniversary Celebrations and won playing with Nicki Marks. This year Nicki was unable to be with us as she was celebrating her wedding in Bournemouth. We wish her and husband Norman all the very best.
Brighton 2008 In
the Swiss pairs in the first weekend top placed Manchester
pair were Michaels Byrne and Bell who were 11th, with
Michelle Brunner and John Holland 19th= out of 474.
In the Swiss Teams (second weekend) Michael Byrne and Mike Bell came 6th in the Mayers Cup (B Final) playing with Simon Cope and Duncan Happer, while Michelle Brunner, John Holland, Bill Hirst and John Hassett were 3rd= in the Brighton Bowl. Michael Byrne and Mike Bell had an excellent congress also winning the mid-week KO teams with Simon Cope, Ed Jones, Ben Paske, and Tom Paske. Michael Byrne then teamed up with Bryony Youngs, Ben Green and Andrew Murphy to win the mixed pivot teams. And finally Amy Stout playing with Phil Godfrey won the Thursday afternoon open pairs in a field of 56 pairs. Full results are on the EBU web site. Summer Congress Scarborough The teams was won by Manchester's John Holland playing with Clive Owen, Ron McEwan and Giles Foster on Friday 1st August. President's Cup The
inter counties event was held in Poulton on July 26th-27th.
Manchester's team was Michael Byrne/Michael Newman, Michelle Brunner/John Holland, Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield, Mike Bell and David Collier, Joy and Irving Blakey. Manchester got an enormous score (15 vps a match, 120 overall) but finished 3rd. Bill Hughes Simultaneous Congratulations
to Manchester Bridge Club players Ann Thornton and Alan Bray
who finished 2nd with 70.15% in this recent simultaneous out
of about 400 pairs.
An interview with Sue Bailey, who had a great time playing
along the world's best players in the American Nationals in
Las Vegas, appears in the bulletin of the tournament on 25th
July.
Bill Hirst and John Hassett of Manchester also competed in the main event, the Spingold, in Las Vegas. One Day Green Point Swiss Teams This event was held at Altrincham Bridge Club on 20th July.
1st Team 3 Dave & Jean Keen, Neil Thomas & Pete Foster ........................... 99 2nd Team 11 Kath & Alan Nelson, Alan Jones & Jeff Smith ........................... 94 3rd Team 10 Andrew Petrie, Bill Alston, Sue & Nick Woodcock ....................... 93 4th Team 9 Joy & Irving Blakey, Rhona & Bernard Goldenfield ...................... 90 (ascenders prize-winners) 5th Team 22 John Holland, Michelle Brunner, Michael Byrne & Boris Ewart ........... 89 6th Team 13 Ewart Evans, Julia Newall, Brian Ripley & Barrie Newall ............... 82 7th Team 17 Arthur & Louise Orme, Pam Edwards & Olwen Brown ....................... 79 8th Team 14 Marianne Farr, John Morrell, Mike Nicholson & Steve Haley ............. 76 9th Team 20 Sid Travers, Eve Lighthill, Ray Semp & Denis Robson ................... 71 10th Team 5 David Strawbridge, Babs Matthews, Bill & Joyce White .................. 69 11th Team 7 Pauline Lang, Steve Mattinson, David Pennington & Rod Franks .......... 67 12th= Team 2 Dave Matthews, Barry Hobden, Kevin Higgins & Richard Sinton (N/E) .... 66 (non-expert prize-winners) 12th= Team 23 Jim & Jenny Morris, George & Phyllis Clarke ........................... 66 14th Team 4 Barbara Lewis, Alec Smalley, Celia & Kevin Comrie ..................... 64 15th Team 19 Bob Loveridge, Meg Henderson, Helen Montgomery & Margaret Mitchell .... 63 16th= Team 1 Vivienne & Barry Newgrosh, Eric Rose & Mohammed Jabbar (N/E) ......... 62 16th= Team 6 Earl O'Keeffe, Rob Roberts, Cameron Boyd & Geoff Cowie ................ 62 18th= Team 18 Peter & Maggie Jackson, Lindsey Barnes & Graham Campbell (N/E) ....... 60 18th= Team 8 Lance Bloohn, Karen Sandler, Jean & Tony Richards (N/E) .............. 60 20th Team 24 Peter Richmond, Gareth Thomas, David Edwards & Roger Allison .......... 59 21st Team 12 Mike Percik, Linda Wilson, Irene Bowers & Wynn Sutherland ............. 57 22nd Team 15 Bill & Liz Wattleworth, Don Cross & Jill Entwistle .................... 56 23rd= Team 21 Pam Hyett, Jane Marvin, Christine Blackburn & Dave Dawson (N/E) ...... 48 23rd= Team 16 Irene Davies, Karen Reissmann, Anne Turner & John Fitzgerald (N/E) ... 48 County League Finals Manchester
won the A and B sections of the Northern League last season,
and thus qualified to send A and B teams to play in the
winners finals at Solihull on 13th July.
Manchester A finished 3rd from 5 teams, their players were Kath and Alan Nelson, Tracy Capal and Boris Ewart, Mike Bell and David Collier, Michael Newman and Michael Byrne. Manchester B captained by Denis Robson finsihed 2nd from 5 teams with 55 vps out of 80 with Oxford winning with 61 vps. Our players were Frank Brown and Dave Audley, Raymond Semp and Denis Robson, Peter Jones and Neil Thomas, David Olliver and Ken Hassell. The cross imp ranking was in the order given above with all positive and Brown/ Audley recording +132 in cross imps in front of Semp/ Robson on +118. John Armstrong  We
are shocked and saddened to report the sudden death of
John Armstrong on 3rd July after a short illness.
Although not a Manchester member, John was well
known to many Manchester players having been a member of
Derbyshire and Merseyside over the years and frequently
playing in events in the Manchester area. He was one
of England's top players with a record number of Camrose
appearances. He recently formed a successful
partnership with John Holland and they played at the
European Championship in Pau doing very well in the final
stages of the event.
John also played with John Holland and Michelle Brunner in a Hubert Phillips team in the eighties and nineties winning the competition five times in nine years. John was always friendly and willing to pass on advice to fellow players. Our condolences to his family, friends, bridge partners and team mates. A full obituary is on the EBU web site. Riviera Congress Young
Manchester player Mike Bell had a successful congress at
Torquay on 28-29th June, winning the Swiss Teams with U20
team mates Tom Paske, Ben Paske and Ed Jones. He also
managed a good fourth place in the Swiss Pairs with Ben
Paske. Full
results are on the EBU web site.
Northern Bridge League This
season's Northern Bridge League first event was on Saturday
28th June. In the A division at Brierfield Manchester
won all 4 matches and scored 66 vps out of 80 to lead the
division by a good margin from Yorkshire.
Well done to Michael Byrne (cap) / Michael Newman, Gary Hyett / Rodney Lighton, David Barton / Alan Jones, and star pair David Collier / Boris Ewart who enjoyed their first game together! In the C division, played at Manchester Bridge Club, Manchester lead by a single VP, on 84 out of 140, with Lancashire in second place. Well done to Pat Burrows / Paul Worswick, Dhun Dahji / Howard Stubbings, John Fitzgerald / Gillian Mc.Mullan, Alistair McKillop / Terry McCaughey. The B Team finished in third place at Darlington with 57. Yorkshire won with 62/100, second was 59/100 and Manchester scored 57/100. The team was Denis Robson / Ray Semp, Peter Jones / ?, Joyce White / Joyce Jones, Neil Thomas / Peter Foster "Joyce and I thoroughly enjoyed the day, the bridge club is lovely, the food was very good too and the hospitality and director excellent". Thanks to Joyce Jones for info on the B Team result. U20 Training Weekend Michael
Byrne ran an under 20 training weekend at Manchester
Bridge Club on 21st-22nd June.
On the Sunday an enjoyable and interesting 38 board match was played between a strong "Manchester" team and the juniors. Manchester won by only about 30 IMPs - a good result for the juniors. The Manchester team was Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield, David Barton/Jeff Smith, Rodney Lighton/Mike Bell, Michael Newman/David Collier, David Adelman/Tom Slater, Duncan Happer/Susan Stockdale. Thanks to the Manchester players for their time. Thanks to Michael Byrne for his hard work running the weekend, directing the event and providing excellent analysis after the match.
The Open team finished 12th in the final group after
scraping through qualifying on a split tie.
Congratulations to John Holland and John Armstrong who
were second in the Butler scoring in the final. In the
Womens England were ninth and in the Seniors seventh, losing
out on qualification for the World Championship on a split
tie.
Manchester players were heavily involved in this tournament from 14th to 28th June, held in Pau in the French Pyrenees. In the Open team John Holland played with John Armstrong of Derbyshire. Manchester associate members Paul, Jason and Justin Hackett together with Tony Waterlow of Middlesex made up the team which was captained by Manchester's Bill Hirst. The Womens' team was captained by Manchester's Alan Mould. Gerard Faulkner Salver Congratulations
to John Hassett, Bill Hirst, John Holland and Clive
Owen who won the Seniors' KO Teams on 8th June beating
Dennis O'Donovan's team by 54 IMPs.
Manchester AGM and Pay for Play There
was a good attendance for the Manchester AGM which was
held on Thursday 5th June at 7.30 pm at Manchester
Bridge Club.
Jeff Smith retired as chairman after five years service. The meeting expressed their gratitude for his hard work over this period and presented him with a retirement gift of a sat-nav. Kevin Comrie is the new chairman, with Bob Cooke taking over as vice chair. The new selection committee is Denis Robson, Bob Cooke, Rhona Goldenfield, Alec Smalley and Jenny Morris. A desire was expressed for competitions for Internediate players i.e. a higher standard than the Cantor Cup, but excluding experts. The tournament committee will consider this. The meeting hoped to see more news for and about club players on the county web site. I am keen to do this, but I can only do so if sent news items (with photos is best) about local club events and successes. In general I will publish anything that I am sent, so long as it is sensible and relevant. At an EGM on 4th June the counties voted for the EBUs proposals for play to pay by a majority of 52 to 31. The major purpose of this change is to increase the membership of the EBU so that bridge can benefit from advertising, sponsorship and government funding. Pay to play will come into effect in April 2010. Obviously a lot of work needs to be done in the intervening period to set up new IT systems, new financial and membership arrangements and so forth. The EBU and the Manchester county will be trying to persuade as many clubs as possible to stay within (or join) the EBU, To start this process the EBU will be giving each affiliated club and county a free copy of the new (2007) Laws of Duplicate Bridge which will come into effect on 1st August.  League
Division Trophies were presented at the AGM to the few
winning teams present.
Division 4b Kevin Higgins captain of The Tricksters receives the cup from Eve Lighthill Other team members were Richard Sinton, Barry Hobden and Dave Matthews Player of the Year Congratulations to the winners of this competition – Gary Hyett (Expert) and Mike Bell (Intermediate). Full result are in the spreadsheet on the PotY page.
The only major change for next year’s competition is that
Intermediate will be defined as players in the first or
second division of the Manchester League or of equivalent
standard.
 Gary
Hyett
Senior Camrose John
Holland and Paul Hackett were members of the victorious
England team in the inaugural Senior Camrose competition
at Oxford on the weekend of 31st May to 1st June.
See the EBU web site for results and photos.
Spring Bank Holiday Congress Congratulations
to Michael Byrne, playing with southerners Andrew Murphy,
Simon Cope and Bryony Youngs who won the Swiss teams at
the Spring Bank Holiday congress held in Bournemouth.
They swept the field winning every match and averaging a record 17 vps a match. Killarney Manchester
players
were out in force at Killarney and did very well.
Bernard
and
Rhona Goldenfield 2nd in pairs with Bill Hirst 3rd.
The Goldenfields came 2nd in Mixed teams and Loch Lein
teams.
The
Ladies
teams was won by Rhona Goldenfield & Celia
Comrie playing with Irish partners.
The Mens teams was won by Bernard playing with Kevin Comrie & Jim Luck and Paul Casselles. In
the
Mixed
pairs Rhona was second playing with Ted Revely.
Joy
and
Irving Blakey were 3rd in Loch Lein teams.
Kath
Nelson
and Bill Hirst were 3rd in the Mixed teams.
Rhona
says
"Wonderfully friendly congress, I would recommend any
players wanting a lovely holiday to go next year in
May".
Gold Cup John
Holland's team (Michelle Brunner, John Hassett &
Bill Hirst) advanced to the fifth round by beating
Malcolm Oliver's Yorkshire/North East team on Sunday
18th May.
The
England U28 trials took place at Solihull this weekend
(17-18th May). Michael Byrne and Mike Bell
finished in fourth place with five pairs competing.
Ten
Manchester Pairs travelled to the Wirral on Saturday
10th May to play in the Merseyside Swiss Pairs.
Congratulations to David Collier and Sid Travers
who won and to Jim and Jenny Morris who won the
ascenders prize. Also doing well were Karen
Sandler and Lance Bloohn in fourth place and Bill and
Joyce White who were fifth. Full
results are on the Merseyside web site.
The
Manchester County Cup was won by Michael Byrne's team
(Michael Newman, Michael Bell, Dave Collier, Gary Hyett)
convincingly beating Braid (M Clarke, A Jones, D Barton)
by 67 imps.
This team will go on to represent Manchester in the Pachabo final on 14th/15th June Spring Fours Congratulations
to
Mike Bell and Ed Levy who won the secondary event - the
Punch Bowl - at the EBU Stratford Spring Fours over the
early May bank holiday weekend playing with Roger Mapp and
Michael Ranis.
 Mike
Bell, Michael Ranis, Ed Levy and Roger Mapp
Madeleine Berney Swiss Pairs In
Lancashire's Madeleine Berney Swiss Pairs competition at
Brierfield on 4th May Manchester players took the top
three places.
1st Rhona & Bernard Goldenfield 107 VPs (Win number 4!) 2nd Steve Mattinson & Pauline Lang 105 (Holders from last year) 3rd Gillian McMullan & John Fitzgerald 100 It was a well-organised, excellent event run by Tony Woollin with lovely food and wine! 36 pairs competed. National Pairs Final Mike
Bell and Michael Byrne finished a creditable ninth in
the National Pairs Final on the 19th-20th April.
Other Manchester results were Jeff Smith 22nd
playing with Andrew Petrie of Lancs and Dave Audley and
Mark Bass who finished 31st.
Michael
Byrne's team (Mike Bell, Gary Hyett, Rodney Lighton and
Michael Newman with a guest appearance by Tom Slater in one
match) won the first division by comfortably beating Polar
Bears 24-6 in their final match. This is the first
league win for all three Michaels - a special mention to
Mike Bell for whom it is his first full season in
Manchester. St Titus narrowly failed to win last
season, finishing 1 VP behind Agamemnon.
A 79 imp win against Inverted Minors in March meant the title race was all but over with two matches to go, but St Titus made heavy weather of it, losing their penultimate match 28-2 to DASH. This builds on a great season for the team members, who between them have won the Nicko, Congress teams, Ben Franks and are in the final of the Manchester County Cup. 
Mike Bell, Michael Byrne, Michael Newman and Rodney Lighton Higson Cup/Plate Finals The
Higson Cup and Plate finals were held at Manchester Bridge
Club on Sunday April 6th.
Michelle Brunner's Isolated menaces Team won the Cup for the umpteenth time with a huge score. In the plate congratulations to Hindsight Convention - Don Fitzpatrick, Alan Tranter, Harry Ingham and Colin Humphrey who won by a smaller margin. Cup Final 1st Isolated Menaces -1.......Goldenfields, B Ewart & M Brunner 116 VPs 2nd Inverted Minors...........Blakeys, D Barton & J Smith 99 VPs 3rd Tempo......................C Bloch & D Daji, P Lang & D Pennington 79 VPs Plate Final 1 8 HINDSIGHT CONVENTION 86 H Ingham,D Fitzpatrick,C Humphrey,A Tranter 2 3 BEAR CLUBBERS 79 P Foster,N Thomas,D Keen,J Keen 3 6 HYDRANGEAS 72 P Wosrwick,G Johnson,P Beckwith,A Marvin 4 2 ENDPLAYED 69 A Edwards,A Drysdale,B Silver,E Hyde 5= 1 RUBY THURSDAY 68 S Kershaw,J Whitehead,A Murphy,I Southward 5= 7 MILKMEN 68 A Green,G Kasnicki,P Hytner,J Holmes 7 4 AZ KINGS 65 D Haydock,K Faulkner,B Moore,A Jeater 8 5 WATCHUS 53 G Hadfield,E Rose,C Cull,C Gray
Gold Cup In
the Gold Cup Jeff Morris' team (Dave Debbage, David Adelman,
Edward Levy) cruised through to the 4th round beating the
number 10 seeds (Brian Senior, Nevena Senior, Steve Ray,
Sandra Penfold) by 20 imps, having led throughout. They play Tony Sowter's
team in the next round.
They will join John Holland's team (Michelle Brunner, John Hassett, Bill Hirst, Gary Hyett, Michael Byrne) who face Malcom Oliver's North East team. Gerard Faulkner Salver John
Holland, Bill Hirst and John Hassett, playing with Clive
Owen of the North-East have reached the final of this
National Senior's team's event where they will play Denis
O'Donovan's team.
Congratulations
to Bill Hirst who has been selected as non-playing captain for
the England team in the European championships in Pau in June.
I believe that
this is the first time he has been npc. This means that
a large proportion of the open team is either Manchester
registered or resident with Paul, Jason and Justin Hackett and
John Holland playing and Bill as captain.
Portland Pairs Many
congratulations to John Holland and Michelle Brunner who won
this year's Portland Pairs on Sunday 30th March playing in a
strong heat at Manchester Bridge club. They are the
first pair ever to win this title three times. In second
place was Tracy Capal playing with Bill Niccol of Liverpool at
the North Wales heat. Full results are on the ecats simultaneous pairs site.
Easter Successes Congratulations
to the following Manchester players who did well in the Easter
tournaments in Blackpool and London.
At Blackpool, David Berrisford (playing with Richard Acaster of Merseyside) won the Swiss Pairs for the second year running, with Michelle Brunner and John Hassett in second place. In the pairs final Kath and Alan Nelson were second with Irving and Joy Blakey third. These two pairs then teamed up to finish first equal in the Swiss Teams with Catherine Draper's Lancashire team. The Nelsons and Blakeys were awarded the cup as they beat the Draper team in their head to head match. At London Michael Byrne and Mike Bell won the Open pairs. Full results are on the EBU web site. Northern Pairs In
the Northern Pairs Championship held on Sunday 16th March at
Bradford Bridge Club, the winners were local youngsters
Michael Byrne and Mike Bell, scoring 64% that left them over a
board clear of the field. The event was held as a qualifier
for the National Pairs final, with the top eight pairs going
through. Other Manchester contenders who did well were Jeff
Smith (playing with Andrew Petrie from Lancashire) who was
third, and Dave Audley and Mark Bass who recovered from a poor
first half to finish eighth and grab the last qualifying spot.
This is the fourth consecutive year that a Manchester pair has won the Northern Pairs, previous winners were Jeff Smith/David Adelman (2005), Michael Byrne/John Hassett (2006), John Holland/Michelle Brunner (2007). The National final will be held on 19th and 20th April in Hinckley and we wish all 3 pairs good luck in their efforts to bring the trophy home to Manchester. Full results are on the EBU web site. White House Junior Tournament This
invitational event took place in The Netherlands from 10th
to 14th March. Manchester player Mike Bell was in the
U25 team playing with Joe Mela. The U20 team was
captained by Michael Byrne, in the team was Adam Hickman who
was playing with Tom Paske.
Manchester/EBU Green Point Swiss Pairs This event was held at Altrincham Bridge Club on Saturday 8th March. Congratulations to Gary Hyett and Raymond Semp First ten - full list on the results page. 1 40 RAYMOND SEMP - GARY HYETT 108 2 43 ALAN NELSON - KATH NELSON 103 3 46 CATHERINE DRAPER - ANDREW WOODCOCK 103 4 28 IRENE BOWERS - WYNN SUTHERLAND 94 5 27 IAN KANE - KEN HASSELL 91 6 3 SAM HERMAN - BARBARA LEWIS 91 7 49 BERNARD GOLDENFIELD - RHONA GOLDENFIELD 89 8 7 PAULINE LANG - ROD FRANKS 86 9 37 ANDREW PETRIE - GILES FOSTER 86 10 11 BOB LOVERIDGE - HELEN MONTGOMERY 85 11 13 JIM MORRIS - JENNY MORRIS 85
MBC v Young
Chelsea
This match to mark the respective anniversaries of Manchester
Bridge Club (30th) and Young Chelsea (40th) was played on-line
on Sunday 11th March.
Representing Manchester were Dave Debbage, Edward Levy, John Hassett and Alan Mould . Representing Young Chelsea were Internationals David Gold, Rob Cliffe, Heather Dhondy and club director Gordon Rainsford. Manchester won by 6imps over 18 boards after being 4 imps behind at half time. Alan Mould played from the main room at the club and gave a most fascinating and instructive running commentary on his own bidding and play in front of an audience of 30 plus players. Many thanks to Alan for his time and to David Collier for all his technical assistance. Prior to the on-line match there was a short duplicate playing the same hands as the match. The top pairs were: 1st Ted Cadman and Iain Mackie 66.15% 2nd Peter Jones and Jeff Morris 60.94% 3rd Graham Winn and Susan Triggs 59.52% 4th Bernard and Rhona Goldenfield 58.85% 5th Dave Matthews and Ann Thornton 57.74% Full results on Machester Bridge Club's web site. England Trials
Congratulations to John Holland playing with John Armstrong,
Paul Hackett and Tony Waterlow who won the final of the
trials at Solihull over the weekend of 1st-2nd March.
They will represent England in the European Championships in Pau, France in June. 
Tony
Waterlow, John Holland, Paul Hackett and John Armstrong
Congratulations
to Michael Byrne, Mike Bell, John Hassett and Gary Hyett who
came 2nd in the EBU Spring Congress teams, held on Sunday 24th
February in Harrogate.
Unfortunately, in a feat of unbridled stupidity, half of the team failed to fill their car with enough petrol and they came to a shuddering halt on the M60. They were rescued by the AA. Also in the top ten in a field of 91 teams were Dave Debbage (5th) and Jennie Marvin (9th). Bramhall Salver Congratulations
to Marple Bridge Club (Joyce Jones, Pat Booth, Phyllis &
George Clark, Jeanne & Ron Bayly, Sylvia Massey, Herbert
Potts) who
retained the Bramhall Salver (invitational inter club teams of
eight) at Bramhall Village Club on Sunday 24th February.
1 Marple 75 VPs 2 Altrincham 61 VPs 3 Cheadle Hulme 45 VPs 4 Bramhall 5 Prestbury 6 Brookdale 
The victorious Marple team with (in centre) Ron Steedman Bramhall Chairman Gazette Trophy Jim
& Jenny Morris, Bill & Joyce White, Dhun Daji &
Howard Stubbings and Kevin Higgins with Rod Franks, won the
Gazette Trophy competition at Altrincham Bridge Club on 17th
Feb with a score of 68. As a result the team will go
forward to represent Manchester County Bridge Association at
the Garden Cities Regional Final.
Final Scores Bramhall 68 VPs Manchester A 48 VPs Altrincham A 37 VPs Manchester B 30 VPs Altrincham B 17 VPs  Howard Stubbings, Kevin Higgins, Rod Franks, Joyce White, Bill White, Jenny Morris, Jim Morris and Dhun Daji EBU/Manchester Swiss Pairs 8th March 1 40 RAYMOND SEMP - GARY HYETT 108 2 43 ALAN NELSON - KATH NELSON 103 3 46 CATHERINE DRAPER - ANDREW WOODCOCK 103 4 28 IRENE BOWERS - WYNN SUTHERLAND 94 5 27 IAN KANE - KEN HASSELL 91 6 3 SAM HERMAN - BARBARA LEWIS 91 7 49 BERNARD GOLDENFIELD - RHONA GOLDENFIELD 89 8 7 PAULINE LANG - ROD FRANKS 86 9 37 ANDREW PETRIE - GILES FOSTER 86 10 11 BOB LOVERIDGE - HELEN MONTGOMERY 85 11 13 JIM MORRIS - JENNY MORRIS 85 12 21 ABDUL JABBAR - ERIC ROSE 83 13 25 PAUL WILLIAMS - HILDA WILLIAMS 81 14 29 SID TRAVERS - DAVID COLLIER 80 15 15 GEORGE CLARKE - PHYLLIS CLARKE 78 16 31 JOYCE JONES - PATRICIA BOOTH 77 17 18 DON CROSS - JILL ENTWISTLE 76 18 41 RAY ASHLEIGH - ANNE SUPER 76 19 12 FRANK MCCARTHY - MARTIN TAYLOR 76 20 34 TIM PRIOR - RICHARD SILCOCK 74 21 50 DAVE MATTHEWS - BARRY HOBDEN 73 22 9 ED GLINERT - HOWARD STUBBINGS 72 23 45 GEOFF COWIE - ROBBIE ROBERTS 71 24 35 BILL WHITE - JOYCE WHITE 70 25 17 JOHN ROBERTS - FRED BELL 69 26 32 BEN BEEVER - EDDIE THORNTONCHAN 67 27 48 NICK WOODCOCK - SUE WOODCOCK 67 28 6 STEVE MATTINSON - JILL ROE 66 29 33 ROGER WADDINGTON - BERNARD KAYE 66 30 2 YVONNE BARNES - DAVID GEARY 65 31 19 DHUN DAJI - ELENA ROSENBAUM 65 32 22 BORIS EWART - PETE FOSTER 64 33 4 GEORGE LEIGH - PETER JACKSON 63 34 20 LINDA STUART - BARBARA HEATON 61 35 14 IRVING BLAKEY - JOY BLAKEY 61 36 24 KAREN REISSMAN - IRENE DAVIES 60 37 44 DENIS ROBSON - VAL ROBSON 60 38 8 DAVID STRAWBRIDGE - BABS MATTHEWS 59 39 42 DAVE BERESFORD - ROBERT JONES 58 40 23 RON BAYLY - JEANNE BAYLY 57 41 36 CLIVE BARNETT - ANNE BARNETT 55 42 38 JOHN FITZGERALD - ANN TURNER 55 43 39 VIVIENNE NEWGROSH - JACQUELINE RICH 54 44 5 MICHAEL NEWMAN - MIKE BELL 52 45 10 MAX RICHMAN - SANDRA RICHMAN 51 46 1 GORDON RICE - LANCE BLOOHN 51 47 16 PETER HAND - JEAN HAND 50 48 47 CELIA COMRIE - BOB COOKE 50 49 26 MICHAEL CLEAVER - VIVIEN CLEAVER 47 50 30 MARGARET WARD - BETTY MONTROSE 19 Junior Camrose Feb 15-17th 2008 - Chancellors An
exciting weekend of Junior bridge at Chancellor's with a
good turnout of spectators from the Manchester area to watch
an excellent vugraph presentation commentated by Paul Bowyer
(and Alan Mould for the last session). There were many
interesting and fairly wild deals to provide good
entertainment for the crowd.
Thanks to all the Manchester area volunteers and the EBU staff for making it an enjoyable and successful event. Congratulations to the England U25 team who narrowly beat Scotland in the Junior Camrose and to the Scotland U20 team who reversed the result in the Peggy Bayer trophy. Full results are on the EBU web site.
Cantor Cup An event for beginners and inexperienced duplicate players was held on Sunday 3rd February at Altrincham Bridge Club. Congratulations to the winners of the trophy David and Jennifer Wickenden 2nd were Gloria and John Quayle 3rd Andrea O'Rafferty and Sue Wells 4th Wendy Burton and Angela Parkinson Brenda Swales and Barbara Dickie won the spot prize for nearest 50%
Thanks to the Cantor family who came to present prizes - all
three brothers were there Brian, Martin and Phil and their
families.
Brian, who is Vice Chancellor of York University spoke and made the presentations. He said that this year was the tenth anniversay of the death of Trudy and he was pleased to see how successful the competition had become, with this year's attendance being a record at 15 tables. Dave and John in Oz David
Debbage and John Hassett have just returned from a holiday in
Australia, where they played some bridge competing in the
Australian National Championships in Canberra.
They finished joint first in the qualifying event for the Australian National Open Trials - but unfortunately are Pommies! They nearly qualified for the teams championship finals playing with two Australian lady internationals - lying sixth in their pool of over 100 teams with 8 qualifying they just failed in the last Swiss teams match being beaten by world champions Zmudzinski and Balicki - part of the eventual team winners. National Women's Pairs Congratulations
to Tracy Capal and Kath Nelson on their win in this four
session event over the weekend of 26-27th January at Hinckley.
In fourth place were Rhona Goldenfield and Michelle
Brunner.
Full
results of the Women's and Men's pairs are on the EBU web
site.
Hubert Phillips Rhona
Goldenfield, Bernard Goldenfield, John Hassett and Bill Hirst
have reached the semi-final of the English Bridge Union's
Mixed Teams Championship by defeating Susan Stockdale's young
Midlands team.
Chester Congress Well
done to Jim and Jenny Morris, Bill and Joyce White who had
another successful trip to Merseyside, winning the teams event
at the Chester Congress on Sunday 20th January.
Manchester Congress 5-6th Jan 2008 Manchester's
major weekend event took place on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th
of January at the Renaissance Hotel on Deansgate.
Thanks to Kevin Comrie for photos and organisation. Thanks also to Bob Cooke, Jeff Smith and many others for organisation. Thanks to Stan Blaiwais and Tony Woolin for directing.
Manchester Congress Pairs 1st John Hassett & Bill Hirst .................. 2125.0 63.85 % 2nd John Holland & John Armstrong .............. 2117.0 63.61 % 3rd Adrian Thomas & Liz Commins ................ 2030.0 61.00 % 4th Alec Smalley & Peter Jones ................. 1993.0 59.89 % 5th Jeff Smith & Jackie Pye .................... 1983.0 59.59 % 6th Michelle Brunner & Alan Nelson ............. 1974.0 59.31 % 7th Marianne Farr & Rhona Goldenfield .......... 1962.0 58.95 % 8th Joy & Irving Blakey ........................ 1939.0 58.26 % 9th Tom Dessain (J) & Cedric Cockcroft ......... 1897.0 57.00 % 10th Alan Williams & Paul Casselle .............. 1889.0 56.76 % 11th Bob Myers & Adam Hickman (J) ............... 1879.0 56.46 % 12th Thomas Paske (J) & Simon Cope .............. 1863.0 55.98 % 13th= David Pennington & Rod Franks .............. 1858.0 55.83 % 13th= Jeff Morris & Patrick Jourdain ............. 1858.0 55.83 % 15th Paul Hackett & Keith Jordan ................ 1838.0 55.23 % 16th Beth & Barry Wennell ....................... 1824.0 54.81 % 17th Frank Brown & David Audley ................. 1821.0 54.72 % 18th Janet de Botton & Nick Sandqvist ........... 1816.0 54.57 % 19th Alan Tranter & Andy Burnett (I) ............ 1803.0 54.18 % 20th Bernard Goldenfield & Jim Luck ............. 1795.0 53.94 % 21st David Faria & Jonathan King (J) ............ 1775.0 53.34 % 22nd Mike Bell (J) & David Collier .............. 1764.0 53.00 % 23rd Geoff Cowie & Robbie Roberts ............... 1752.0 52.64 % 24th Bryony Youngs & Alan Jarvis ................ 1750.0 52.58 % 25th Karen Reissmann & Irene Davies (I) ......... 1736.0 52.16 % 26th Bill & Joyce White ......................... 1734.0 52.10 % 27th Michael Byrne & Michael Newman ............. 1725.0 51.83 % 28th Eve Lighthill & Sid Travers ................ 1704.0 51.20 % 29th Pauline Lang & Steve Mattinson ............. 1673.0 50.27 % 30th Andrew Murphy & Tom Slater (J) ............. 1660.0 49.88 % 31st Graham Currie & Ben Beever (I) ............. 1659.0 49.85 % 32nd Gillian McMullan & John Fitzgerald ......... 1646.0 49.46 % 33rd Tim Matthews & Babs Matthews ............... 1635.0 49.13 % 34th= Eddie Thornton-Chan & Nigel Matthews (I) ... 1634.0 49.10 % 34th= Terry Walsh & Peter Goodman ................ 1634.0 49.10 % 36th Bev Pardoe & Steve Kelsall (I) ............. 1625.0 48.83 % 37th Tony O'Neill & Susan Triggs (I) ............ 1614.0 48.50 % 38th Howard Stubbings & Dhun Daji ............... 1590.0 47.78 % 39th Graham Campbell & Lindsey Barnes (I) ....... 1584.0 47.60 % 40th Amy Stout (J) & Sue Richmond (I) ........... 1581.0 47.51 % 41st Elena Rosenbaum & Barbara Lewis ............ 1579.0 47.45 % 42nd Ray Ashleigh & Anne Super .................. 1576.0 47.36 % 43rd Barbara & Clive Henderson .................. 1574.0 47.30 % 44th Bernard Kaye & Edward Levy ................. 1573.0 47.27 % 45th David Matthews & Barry Hobden (I) .......... 1568.0 47.12 % 46th Judy Stelfox & Keiran Taylor-Thomas (I) .... 1558.0 46.81 % 47th David Geary & Yvonne Barnes (I) ............ 1557.0 46.78 % 48th Dieter Salden & Tony Coley (I) ............. 1542.0 46.33 % 49th Steven & Emma King (J) ..................... 1538.0 46.21 % 50th Colin Nugent & Chris Whaley (I) ............ 1537.0 46.18 % 51st Duncan & Diane Ault (I) .................... 1512.0 45.43 % 52nd Peter & Brenda Greaves ..................... 1510.0 45.37 % 53rd Gary Kaye & John Moran (I) ................. 1496.0 44.95 % 54th Irene Bowers & Wynn Sutherland ............. 1482.0 44.53 % 55th Jenny & Jim Morris ......................... 1468.0 44.11 % 56th Margaret Ward & Betty Montrose (I) ......... 1456.0 43.75 % 57th= Graham Wynn & John Parsons ................. 1448.0 43.51 % 57th= Pat Burrows & Caryl Bloch .................. 1448.0 43.51 % 59th Alan Bray & Ann Morris (I) ................. 1445.0 43.42 % 60th Vivienne Newgrosh & Jacqueline Rich (I) .... 1434.0 43.09 % 61st Don Cross & Jill Entwistle ................. 1402.0 42.13 % 62nd Mike Green & Mike Davies (I) ............... 1395.0 41.92 % 63rd Richard Acaster & David Berrisford ......... 1372.0 41.23 % 64th Stuart Quirk & Olivia Hackett .............. 1251.0 37.59 % 65th Rupert Clarke & Linda Williams (I) ......... 1242.0 37.32 % 66th Janet Rolls & Brian Howe ................... 1069.0 32.12 % Manchester Congress Teams A Final 1 J Pye & J.Smith, M.Bell & D.Collier 65 Imps 2 J de Botton & N Sandqvist, J & J Hackett 53 3 M Byrne & M Newman, B Hirst & J Hassett 49 4 J Armstrong & P Hackett, M Brunner & J Holland 39 5 B Youngs & A Jarvis, A Murphy & T Slater 26 6 A Whittam & C Henderson, T & A Wilkinson 19 7 T Paske & S Cope, A Hickman & R Myers 14 8= P Goodman & A Thomas, I & J Blakey 7 8= A Williams & P Casselle, P Jourdain & A Nelson 7 10 B & R Goldenfield, B Ewart & J Luck -35 11 B & T Matthews, B & J White -42 12 D Matthews & B Hobden, K Higgins & R Sinton -90 13 J & J Morris, L Barnes & G Campbell -112 B Final 1 P Foster & P Callow, F Brown & N Thomas 52 2 E Lighthill & S Travers, R Semp & G Hyett 38 3 D Faria & J King, D Salden & T Coley 25 4 G Currie & B Beever, E Thornton-Chan & D Tattersall 19 5 J Morris & D Adelman, D Debbage & E Levy 17 6 J Parry & P Booth, P & G Clarke 9 7 B Newall & B Ripley, E Evans & J Newall 6 8 F McCarthy & B Kaye, B Mendlesohn & G Cohen -2 9 J Parsons & G Wynn, S Richmond & S Triggs -3 10 B Lewis & S Herman, P & L Hepworth -25 11 B & V Newgrosh, P Chetham & J Rich -34 12 I Davies & K Reissman, M Taylor & P Green -44 13 D Daji & H Stubbings, E & M Rosenbaum -58 C Flight 1 T Walsh & D Kemple, A Super & B Cooke 60 2 R Franks & J Moran, S King & B Kaye 16 3 D Cross & J Entwistle, W Sutherland & I Bowers 7 4= R Acaster & R Steedman, P & B Greaves -3 4= G Cowie & C Boyd, E O’Keefe & R Roberts -3 6 G Johnson & A Marvin, D Ackroyd & P Beckwith -21 7 D & D Ault, R Bradbury & S Beswick -56 Novice Sat Morning NS 1 John & Gloria Quayle 65.32% 2 Sophia Casey & Yvonne Chadwick 53.92% 3 Angela Parkinson & Margaret Taylor 53.33% 4 Marjorie Blackham & Joan Hill 52.03% 5 Kevin Bennett & Philip Mott 51.81% 6 Louise Vincent & Mary Giles 50.74% 7 Monica Lyness & Marie Hoctor 38.58% 8 Angie Shaw & Cath Barker 36.43% EW 1 Dorothy Kitchen & Linda Lomax 59.80% 2 Craig & Jean Porteus 53.49% 3 Pat Dee & Sue Howarth 51.04% 4 Christine Butterworth & Bill Maude 50.17% 5 Joan Hinchliffe & Denise Phythian 47.30% 6 Haidee Schofield & Felicity Byrne 45.36% 7 Anne Shaw & Brenda Jackson 42.06% Novice Sun Morning NS 1 Jack Hassan & Ruth Franklin 61.76% 2 Sue Rowarth & Kathy Priestly 57.43% 3 John & Gloria Quayle 54.78% 4 Sue Bailey & Judy Hearson 54.31% 5 Louise Vincent & Mary Giles 53.37% 6 Christine Butterworth & Bill Maude 51.25% 7 Pat Dee & Angie Shaw-Davidson 47.26% 8 Joan Hinchliffe & Denise Phythian 42.47% 9 Farokh Engineer & David Rigby 28.26% EW 1 David Pearce & Alan Langston 59.19% 2 Gordon & Daphne Youles 55.00% 3 Margaret Ward & Judy Barker 54.72% 4 Phil Hayward & Nigel Catterall 54.41% 5 Haidee Scholfield & Jean Porteus 52.29% 6 Mel Rankin & Margaret Taylor 48.37% 7 Barry & Diana Payne 44.12% 8 Andrew Garrett & Stephanie Hauser 44.06% 9 Felicity Byrne & Ian Thompson 38.06% Novice Sun Afternoon 1 Margaret Ward & Judy Barker 76.04% 2 Mel Rankin & Margaret Taylor 58.33% 3 Haidee Scholfield & Daphne Youles 57.50% 4 Jack Hassan & Alexandra Birchall 48.96% 5 Sue Bailey & Judy Hearson 46.88% 6 Phil Hayward & Nigel Catterall 45.83% 7 Steven & Janet Parr 42.71% 8 Andrew Garrett & Stephanie Hauser 40.00% 9 Don Thompson & David Rigby 35.83% County Cups 2007-8
TeamsD.AUDLEY F.Brown, M.Bass, S TraversM.BYRNE M Newman, D Collier, M Bell, Gary Hyett R.GOLDENFIELD B.Goldenfield, M.Brunner, J.Holland B.KAYE D.Tobias, G.Cohen, B.Mendelsohn B.LEWIS S.Herman, K&C.Comrie, P.Jones J.SMITH D.Robson, R.Semp, A. Nelson D.BARTON A. Jones, M. Clarke, M. Braid J MORRIS League
2007-8
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