Grand Slam Bridge results
The competition this week was a ‘Mitchell’ movement made up of nine seated pairs and nine moving pairs.
This week saw many great deals and many slam going hands. Two visiting pairs bid and made the ultimate grand slam winning all 13 tricks; one of the two pairs scored an impressive 1,790 points as their opponents doubled the contract and failed to thwart the Grand Slam. Six other hands bid and made small slams, that is twelve tricks. One ambitious pair bid a grand slam in Diamonds (7 Diamonds) and the opponents got them down five tricks doubled for a 1,400 point penalty.
The winners of the moving pairs were Phil Lalor and Margaret Redmond. Gwen Teevan and Mairead Fallon came home second and third were Statia Hagan and Joan Madden.
In the seated section, Joan D’Arcy and Maura Kavanagh proved unbeatable and were a good bit ahead of Birdie Andrews and Helen Gorman in second place. They were followed closely in third spot by Mary Jameson and Robert Doyle who were third last week as well.
This week was the third last week of this club’s ten-month long season. Looking back, it has been another good one with an increase in members and some very talented beginners taking up the game for their first time.
As has been reported earlier, next season marks the 25th anniversary of the club’s existence, after it was started back in 1992 by novice players who had no admittance to the other senior bridge clubs in Wicklow. To mark this anniversary it is planned to celebrate by inviting members and, if possible, their spouses to a meal in the Fishman’s Restaurant sometime next October in conjunction with a charity bridge night in aid of the Kenya family that our club has been sponsoring. The club has been