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We have acting Partner Stewards - Margaret B is away for the next little period when the Teams are running. For this period Kevin & Anne McCarthy will be helping those who need a partner for bridge - contact number is in your Programme Book - DO TRY YOURSELF before contacting them.......

The format for this event has been changed - the "Restricted" requirement for the Teams has been removed

Teams are able to be either -

* a regular team of 4 players with NO player grade requirements

* a pair of players - no restriction on grades with these pairs being drawn to make up teams

Any queries then please contact Dallas

Dallas

Cambridge ran its very successful and enjoyable tournament last weekend and this could be doubly said about a couple of Hamilton Pairs. Congratulations to

   Ian & Cynthia Clayton ( Very nattily dressed in Suits and hats ! ) coming first in the Open competition

   Trini Lin & Catherine Cameron in the Intermediate also with first place

 

 

 

Top Hamilton Team in the overall competition was DesPRats which was in 3rd placed with Karen Harris, Malcolm Smith, Ian Ross, Jenny Seavill, Lois Jones & Stewart Lawrence making up the team

Mentioned in dispatches were -

5th place in the Open Field - Karen Harris & Malcolm Smith
and also in
5th Place in the Intermediate - Ranjith Cooray & Roger Gunning

Some amazing photos of the different team outfits can be found here

Saturday saw the Hamilton Club run the 10A Hamilton Open Teams which was very well supported by 25 teams from around the top half of the North Island. Running out the winners were the McGann team - Hugh McGann, Michael Ware, Tom Jacob, Steph Jacob by a rather comfortable 21 VPs over the 2nd placed Boughey team. Hamilton members were to be found across the top 4 teams. There was some very close bridge with the Chen team - Yuzhong Chen, James Yang, Herman Yuan, John Wang who missed being in second place by 0.01 VPs - this close run competition continued for the next few placings

While the Open players were contesting the Teams event 34 pairs took part in the Hamilton Intermediate Pairs. Winners on the day were the Taupo Pair of Frances Rankin & Derek Rankin followed by Judith Howard & Joanne Swanwick from Matamata
Top Hamilton Pairs were Catherine Cameron & Trini Lin in 4th place and Bruce Cresswell & Vaughan Samuelson in 5th. The majority of the players in this event were from the Waikato / Bays area but it was nice to see two pairs from New Plymouth competing

Hamilton's Karen Harper & Carissa Oliver - Top Juniors in the Intermediate Pairs

The club's committee has asked Directors to remind members to arrive on time to enable sessions to start on time i.e., to be seated by 6.50 pm Monday and Tuesday evenings, 12.50 pm for Tuesday and Friday sessions and 7.20 pm for Wednesday and Thursday sessions.

Members arriving late may find they are unable to play.