The Annual Winter Teams Championship was conducted this year in a revised format and attracted a red hot field including many former winners. The Teams format gave all players a better chance of collecting some of those illusive Red Points. The leaders after the 1st round were Team Fane with 33 points after a decisive win. They were less fortunate in Round 2 surrendering the lead to Team Lindsay, who continued on their winning way to retain their lead going into Round 4. They had a handy lead of 16 points over the eventual winners. Director Peter Hume was kept busy all day with a slight computer glitch. Members and visitors are reminded that our Super Congress will be held over the weekend of July 22/23 with Pairs on Saturday and Teams on Sunday. Entries should be made on the NSWBA website. Team Members VPs W-D-L Rpts Barry Foster - Hope Tomlinson - Martin Johnson - Chris Hasemore 59.75 4-0-0 0.64 Lorraine Lindsay - Richard Carter - Wendy Mitchell - Dorothy Berzins 56.4 44-0-0 0.64 Jim Routledge - Karen Ody - Sylvia Foster - Jaan Oitmaa 53.34 2-1-1 0.40 Jorgen Boettiger - Deborah Guthrie - Julie Teague - Joan Walsh 44.55 2-0-2 0.32 Felicity Fane - Heather Brown - Peter Hume - Elaine Hume 40.88 1-1-2 0.24 Christine Hadaway - Chris Hannan - Robin Vaughan - Ed Vaughan 35.17 2-0-2 0.32 Susan McCall - Judy Wulff - David Adams - Pamela Joseph 32.91 1-0-3 0.16 Edith Marshall - Hilary Owen - Marcelle Goslin - Frankie Craven 32.41 1-0-3 0.16 Kerry-Anne Durrant - Carolyn Girdwood - Jennifer Tebb - Irene Irvine 84 4.55 0-0-4

Bridge can be fun.

What a nice break from the really serious stuff this competition was.
The Teams of Three combines three friends with a truly accomplished player. Each friend playing with the ace, in turn. The fun starts when the expert is expected to learn our funny ways of playing and foibles in about two seconds and then promptly forgetting them when they are joined by the second member of the triumvirate. Makes for a very short, sharp learning curve.
The friends also have to try to remember what they have discussed a few minutes ago, Some of us are better at that than others. I welcome you to the others.
Many, many thanks to all our top players:- Jim Routledge, Hope Tomlinson, Christine Hadaway, Sylvia Foster, Martin Johnson, Barry Foster, Chris Hannan, Jaan Oitmaa, Robin Vaughan, Lorraine Lindsay, Karen Ody and Ed Vaughan. I just hoped we didn’t teach you too many bad habits.
A big thank you to Director for all his hard work.

Place	Team	W-D-L
1	Elaine Hume - Kathryn Ivits - Alma Van Der Walt - Jim Routledge	3-0-0
2	Hope Tomlinson - John Aldersley - Beryl Lowry - Marcelle Goslin	2-1-0
3	Wendy Byrne - Christine Hadaway - Caroline Nichols - Connie Lewis	2-0-1

Full results here

Marcelle, Carolynne, John and Bruce. With our own Team of 3 next Wednesday (14th June) some members got in some practise down in the Big Smoke. Marcelle Goslin, Carolynne Mucharsky and John Aldersley teamed with Bruce Neill for the NSW Competition last month. They did us proud, finishing 2nd in their division with 3 wins and 3 loses. Very commendable in a total field that included more Grand Masters than leaves on a big tree. This competition is great fun and a chance to not only play with one of our top players but, to learn their secrets that often get them that extra trick. The Entry Sheet is on the Club Noticeboard. Nothing to lose but your smoker’s cough.

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The final results of the Jean Pelham Charity Day are in.
The total of cash, from table fees and the monster raffle, for the SDA Food Pantry was $1533, combined with about $70 of donated assorted groceries and other goodies making a Grand Total of $1600.
The pantry offers help and assistance to the needy people of the Peninsula.
It is open every second Friday at the SDA Church, opposite the carpark entrance to the Peninsula Plaza.

President Sylvia Foster with some of the Groceries bought with your money presenting them to Shelley Bell.

This annual event proved a winner, yet again. It is an opportunity for up and coming players, while competing against those of similar ability, to accumulate some of those much sought after masterpoints.

The game was played over consecutive Wednesday afternoons with three, six board matches played each day. A field of sixteen pairs committed to play. The significance of the Swiss movement is that your next opponent is decided by your score from the previous round. So winners play winners and losers play losers. You never play against the same pair twice. Points are awarded after each round.

Congratulations to winning pair Faith Ross and Elaine Hume.  And thanks to Director Peter Hume who kept the event proceeding successfully.

Here are placegetter results ... Full results here

	VPs	W-D-L
Faith Ross / Elaine Hume	84.58	4-1-1
John Aldersley / Beryl Lowry	81.88	5-1-0
Hilary Owen / Meg McGregor	73.23	4-0-2