MANCHESTER CONTRACT BRIDGE ASSOCIATION

Simultaneous Pairs

Manchester Bridge Club are holding heats of the simultaneous pairs Wednesday 14th at 8 pm and Thursday 15th at 7.30 pm all welcome, partners found.

Merseyside Swiss Pairs

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.

League

Latest update is 11th May. Almost all the results are now in. Congratulations to the promoted teams, commiserations to those relegated - try to get back up next year.

Many thanks to Boris Ewart for all his hard work in running the League and Cup this year.

Manchester AGM

This year the Manchester AGM will be held on Thursday 5th June at 7.30 pm at Manchester Bridge Club - all members welcome. Note the change of date.

Jeff Smith has announced that he will not be standing for re-election as Chairman after five years of doing the job. Thanks to Jeff for his hard work over this time.

Nominations for officers of the MCBA are made by written nomination to the Secretary accompanied by the written acceptance of the nominee. The notice convening the AGM shall include any such nominations already received and shall also invite further nominations to be received by the Secretary no later than 14 days before the date of the AGM. If no nominations for an office have been received, nominations may be accepted at the AGM.

Officers of MCBA are Chairman, Vice‑Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Congress Secretary, Tournament Secretary, Match Secretary, League Secretary, Schools Officer, Teachers Liaison Officer, Newsletter Editor, EBU Delegates, EBU Alternates, Auditor, 5 members of Selection Committee, Tournament Committee and Conduct Committee.

County Cup

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 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 ccompeted.

One Day Green Point Swiss Teams
Now half full

(Or half empty) 12 teams had entered by 28th April.

ST PETERS ASSEMBLY ROOM, 134 CECIL ROAD, HALE, ALTRINCHAM WA15 9NU
Tel: 0161 282 1754

SUNDAY 20th JULY 2008 at 11.00am
Strictly Limited to 24 Tables

Click here for entry form and further details

MCBA Selections

The selection committee has chosen the following pairs for various inter county matches over the summer

National (NBL) Final (Sun 13 Jul 08) at Solihull	A Div M Bell + M Byrne M Brunner + R Goldenfield(Capt) B Goldenfield + J Smith A + K Nelson	B Div R Alexander + R Jones D Audley + F Brown P + J Hishmurgh D Robson (Capt) + R Semp
NBL (28 June 08)	A Div at Brierfield D Barton + A Jones M Bell + M Byrne M Brunner + R Goldenfield (Capt) G Hyett + R Lighton	B Div at Darlington D Audley (Capt) + P Jones M Bass + F Brown P Foster + N Thomas J Jones + J White	C Div at Manchester D Daji + H Stubbings J Fitzgerald + G McMullan B Kaye(Capt) + D Tobias J + J Morris
Presidents Cup (26-27 July 08 at Poulton)	M Bell + M Byrne M Brunner + J Holland B + R Goldenfield J Hassett + B Hirst

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.

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