Bridge Club News
In a close and surprising finish the Farmer team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, David Farmer and Cath Whiddon) had a strong final week, managing to climb from 7th to win the 2019 Club Teams Championship, ahead of the Ardill team (Jen Ardill, Peter Clarke, Anne Small and Hans van Weeren) and the Kolding team (Marieta Borthwick, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Nerida Gillies) in third place.
The Milovanovic team (Lisa Dunphy, Maris Taylor, Alessandro Gado and Aleks Milovanovic) who were leading for much of the event came fourth. Notably there was only ten VPs difference between first and sixth place teams, the top half of the 12 team event.
We will be having a dinner get-together for all Peninsula members participating in the Canberra Summer Festival of Bridge 2020. I have made a provisional booking at Bamiyan on 62/10 Lonsdale St, Braddon, for Sunday 12 January at 7pm. Bamiyan is a wonderful Afghani restaurant, an easy 10 minute walk from the Rex. It is licensed but you may also BYO – corkage $3 pp.
As it is a very busy time in Canberra, I need to confirm numbers by 30 December so please email me ASAP at
Look forward to seeing you all in Canberra!
Heidi Colenbrander
Cath and Bob Whiddon spied an appeal in Pittwater Online News, and asked Peninsula Bridge Club if they could ask our members to help.
And help they did. Ten carloads of donated unwrapped toys, non perishable food, toiletries and other goods are on their way from club members to four drought-stricken towns in western NSW.
Janet Cater (pictured) has first hand experience of living through drought on the land and brought in many bags of toys, toiletries and food.
The 2019 year long Sloman Cup was won by Aleksander Milovanovic and Alessandro Gado, decisively with a 70+% score in the final round (according to the report posted on Facebook). They finished ahead of Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge, and in third place David Farmer and Catherine Whiddon.
The 2019 Sloman Cup was played on the first Thursday of each month from March through November, with the best six scores counting.
Check the full ranking and session scores. Note that the winning pair only played in six sessions so had no ability to drop their worst scores.
The 2019 Committee invited all our wonderful volunteers to drinks and nibbles at the Dee Why Grand hotel on Thursday 12 December to say thank you! See the flier.
While the numbers were not large in comparison with the huge number of members who do volunteer at the club, it was a great chance to chat with others who might contribute in a completely different way.
If the 2020 Committee agrees, some kind of volunteer "thank you" event might become a regular tradition. There were more photos of the event (thank you Jen Ardill!) posted on our Facebook group.
Congratulations to Hans van Weeren, winner of the 2019 Jean Stebbins Trophy, ahead of Alan Davies and Anne Small.
The Stebbins is a four week individual event with entrants needing to play with different partners for each week. The best three scores count.
The first ten places together with their average % score (of their best three) are as follows:
Trumps proved victorious at Peninsula Bridge Club on Sunday 29 September in a closely fought battle for the Metro North Interclub Pairs Challenge, a few points ahead of Peninsula Bridge Club, with North Shore, Balgowlah-Dee Why and Manly Leagues filling out the remaining positions.
The event saw 72 pairs represent these five major clubs, the largest field ever for this event with its 36 tables somewhat higher than the three tables in the first time this event was run in 2008. Peninsula and the event organisers, led by convenor Cath Whiddon, were applauded for hosting a great event. Thanks to our volunteers who did not play and gave up their time to make it a great day: Bill, Joan, Bob and Andrew, also to Gayle who organised the catering.
Join us for our Peninsula Bridge Club Melbourne Cup function which will commence at 9.30 on Tuesday 5 November.
Tickets will be on sale the week starting 7 October and can be purchased from our volunteer PPV sellers for $30 (or 5 vouchers) for members and $35 for non members.
This includes table fees, morning and afternoon tea, lunch, drinks and prizes.
