Bridge Club News

"Bridge enjoys immense popularity partly because of the high standards of ethics and etiquette which are observed by the players who are expected to conduct themselves in a highly civilised manner.

Violations of proper etiquette are quite common from inexperienced players, either through ignorance or inadvertence. A well-mannered opponent who is the victim of a violation by such a novice player will, if comment is considered necessary, be at pains to make it clear that the comment is intended to be helpful and will never make a newcomer feel ill-at-ease. Bridge is an extremely ethical game..."

Read the full article on the ABF website.

Forty-eight Peninsula players sailed forth (most literally on the ferry across Broken Bay) to visit Brisbane Waters Bridge Club in the first head to head interclub event. This event - the brainchild of their Christine Hadaway and on our side Vivien Eldridge, Anne Small, Catherine Whiddon and Sue Falkingham - was designed in particular to provide a fun teams day for each club's large numbers of novice players. We had four teams with members all under 10MP.

The heavy morning rain did not upset our spirits (fortunately Brisbane Waters Bridge Club picked us up from Ettalong wharf) and we quickly settled into the format. Experienced players helped teams newbies to cope with the different scoring, the number of boards played was reduced for the restricted and novice fields, and finger food was served in the longer breaks between rounds to encourage social interaction.

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Peninsula players did well at the 2017 NSW State Restricted and Novice Championships in Wollongong on 4-5 November.

Peter Clarke and Hans van Weeren continued their recent triumphs by winning the Restricted State Championship (less than 300MP) with team mates Jeff Conroy and Jill Bentley. They won decisively with a VP tally of 125.72, more than 30 points ahead of second place. Check the Restricted Championships full results.

Marieta Borthwick, Heidi Colenbrander, Ray Hurst and Annegrete Kolding were runners-up in larger and closer field in the Novice State Championships (less than 100MP). They had  no match losses and scored 108.06 less than five points short of the winners. Check the Novice Championships full results.

Gayle King would like to hear from anyone who would like to help make this year's Christmas party a fantastic & memorable event. It is being held on Sunday 10th December.

Assistance is required with...

• Food and sundries purchase (quantities have already been estimated from last year )... And you can still play bridge!
• Publicity ... And you can still play bridge!!
• Setting up on the day ... And you can still play bridge!!!
• Photographer for the day ... And you can still play bridge!!!!
• Kitchen co-ordinator for the day ... And you can still play bridge!!!!!

If you would like to help, please contact Gayle - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

On Tuesday 24 October Anne Brown and Bill Fitzsimons won the 4th session of The Lawrence competition, just ahead of Trish Giles and Verl Lawrence.

There is just one more session of The Lawrence in 2017, to be held on Tuesday night on 28 November, with another $200 cash prize to be won.

Maybe Verl will win this one?

Trish Giles has won the 2017 Stebbins competition, ahead of runner-up Anne Small. It was a four week event that saw many players humbled but not Trish and Anne, nor Annegrete Kolding who won the <100MP category.

Board 16 in the final session was notable - with game contracts in both directions. In fact 12 tricks made in Hearts by North five times (including one doubled and one redoubled), while eleven tricks were made in Spades by West at all the other eight tables! 

Check the full results.

On Thursday, Sarah Young presented cheques for $4,500 each to Eileen from Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary and Ken from the Rural Fire Service. They were very pleased indeed.

Ken let us all know about the great work the RFS does, in particular that if you live in a bushfire prone area and are no longer able to prepare your property for the bushfire season, the RFS can come and help at no cost.

Eileen told us all about the changes that will be happening at Mona Vale Hospital when the new hospital opens.

Congratulations to Sue Riley who is the driving force behind the fund-raising and thanks to all our members for their generous contributions throughout the year.

Vona lost her life this October after an almost 18 month battle with cancer. Till the end one of her passions was bridge. She and Alan joined Peninsula Bridge Club in 2000 and Vona last played on 3 August this year.

Her funeral was low key, family focused and attended by a large contingent of her bridge family.

Vona loved to represent the club in congresses and interclub events. She was a very good player with 830+ masterpoints and relished the challenge of playing difficult to make contracts. She was also an enthusiastic doubler always saying to the opposition: “I think I’ll give you a kiss”.

Over the years as well as representing the club Vona was a dealer, and was involved in aspects of catering and mentoring younger players.

Farewell Vona you will be missed.