June 2009

New Committee

As had been widely noted, this year's AGM saw several long-standing committee members stand down. In his chairman's report Andrew Moore paid tribute to them all; Peter Gemmell, Pauline Hanson, Norman Less and John Standley have many years service to the association between them and they received the thanks of the meeting.

New faces will appear around the meeting table:

• Alan Green
• Rick Hanley
• Michael O'Reilly
• David Price

As mentioned in March, David Price takes over as County Captain but the others will have to wait until the first meeting to find out what jobs they have!

New Date for County Match

The away match against Norfolk (previously the 21st of June) has been re-arranged and will now take place on 15-Nov-2009. The revised fixture list is in 'Forthcoming Events'.

Honour Roll for 2008-2009

Bridge in the Cupboard

You may know the ♦7 as the 'beer card' but Mike Chanter's Evariste, the seven of diamonds has a taste for Champagne.

Forthcoming Events

World Wide Simultaneous Pairs

Friday/Saturday 5th/6th June 2008, clubs. See the ECats website for participating clubs.

County Matches

This is the revised schedule for Eastern Counties Matches:

Sun 12-Jul-2009 - v Bedfordshire - Away
Sun 20-Sep-2009 - v Cambs & Hunts - Home
Sun 18-Oct-2009 - v Herts - Home
Sun 15-Nov-2009 - v Norfolk- Away
Sun 22-Nov-2009 - v Cambridge University - Away
Sun 3-Jan-2010 - v Northants - Home
Sun 7-Mar-2010 - v Essex - Away

If you are interested in playing for the county side, Suffolk has a policy of granting all those interested an outing for the 'C' team: contact the captain .

Results

Norfolk & Suffolk Green-Point Weekend

Pairs

The event attracted a sizeable number of visitors from outside East Anglia who made of with the leading places but there was a sizeable cluster of Suffolk pairs in the top third (52 pairs took part).

1.	David Cooper / John C Williams	107 VP
2.	Ron Davis / Alan Oddie	106
3.	Andrew Thompson / Mike Walsh	105
…
11=	Graham Beeton / Sue Flin	84
13=	Andrew Moore / Jane Moore	84
13=	Rosemarie Mascall / Norman Denny	84
15	Roy Newton / Gill Newton	80
16=	Ralph Parish / Michael Kempster	75
16=	Margaret Scurlock / Elizabeth Godden	75

Teams

Much the same pattern was repeated in the teams; Rick & Fleur Waters being top Suffolk pair, fifth in a tight finish, with team-mates from Norfolk.

1.	Sheila Evans, William Blackman, Robert Turnham, Michael Wiles	95 VP
2=	Malcolm Young, Jeff Calladine, Alan Kenny, Richard Horsley	91
3=	Michael Keogh, Jurdy Brewer, Richard Brewer, Mike Kennedy	91
4.	Peter Oake, Nicole Cook, Debbie Sandford, Gad Chadha	90
5.	Bogdan Drobny, Maureen Kimbley, Rick Waters, Fleur Waters	89

Full results for both events are on the website.

AGM Pairs

After a commendably brief meeting, nineteen pairs contested the AGM Pairs despite the glorious sunshine. Rosemarie Mascall and Norman Denny let nothing distract them and were over a board clear of second.

1.	Rosemarie Mascall / Norman Denny	65.63%
2.	Rick & Fleur Waters	59.96%
3.	Eric Newman / Mike Malin	57.16%

Full results are on the website.

Suffolk Mixed Pairs - Ringer Cup

The destination of one of those trophies (above) has already been decided: the first event of the 2009-2010 season was played on Wednesday and Graham Beeton and Janet Fleming can plan what to do with the Ringer Cup next May. They topped a competitive final - first three all above 60%. 29 pairs took part.

1.	Graham Beeton / Janet Fleming	61.62%
2.	Julie Menzies / David Haig-Thomas	60.86%
3.	Andrew & Jane Moore	60.31%

Full results are on the website.

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