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Clubs' Bulletins.
Suzanne Gill, who is the East of England EBU rep
has sent out a couple of "Club Belletins". The November Bulletin
covers the situation in the East of England concerning club affiliation,
and also discusses some restrictions on county events and sim pairs. The
December issue concerns Master Point allocations and opens a discussion
about flighted events.
You can download the November
issue by clicking here, and the December
one by clicking here. Acrobat reader is required for this. If you
cannot download either of them then use this
link for November and this
one for December. (RTF Files which your wordprocessor can read)
Women's
Teams 2009
We have received the following email from
Nicole Cook on behalf
of the EBU, the contents of which are self explanatory.
Hello
to you.
The 2009 Women’s Bridge Teams is just 9 weeks away. Sarah Teshome
and I are doing our best to encourage women from all over the country
to enter. Please will you help us by adding a link to the event website
on your county homepage, and give it a prominent mention.
We are going to try and make this year special – we’ve taken
care of food, goodies and activities for all – so we are really
hoping lots of players will come and join us for a fab weekend of bridge,
relaxation and personal challenge. Plus, we are very optimistic that
there will be a very special new prize for the highest place team where
all players are members of the same county.
The event website is www.womensbridge.co.uk.
Take a look. There is plenty to do there – Players can even hire
a coach to get them in bridge shape for the weekend if they’d
like to!
If your members don’t have a partner, or are still looking for
teammates we are confident if they register their interest we will do
our best to help them.
If you have any questions or queries please ask Sarah or myself.
Have a fantastic week, and I thank you in advance for helping us promote
the only remaining women’s event in the EBU calendar.
Nicole
Nicole Cook (on behalf of the EBU and event organisers)
New Secretary Required
As most people know Drene Brown has agreed to continue as Secretary
for another year, however she is not going to continue after the next
AGM. Is there anybody out there who can take on
the job? If you are interested, or need to know a bit more about
what is involved please contact our Chairman, Alan Andrews, or email him
on chairman@lincsbridge.org.uk
Wall
Team wins Lincoln Gold
This
season's Lincoln Gold was won on Friday 22nd May by the team captained
by Ron Wall, which included
Keith Stewart, Andrew King. Alan Brown and Brian Smith.
The team defeated Glynn
Elwick, Mike Llewellyn, Roy Hughes and Andrew Green by just 11 IMPS -
a small margin for a 48 board match. Congratulations to Ron's team and
commiserations to the losers, who will nevertheless have the consolation
of representing Lincolnshire in this year's Pachabo in June.
Roy
Hughes Receives Dimmie Fleming Award
In
a short ceremony at the Annual Championships on Saturday 9th May, Peter
Stocken, immediate past chairman of the EBU, presented Roy Hughes with
the Dimmie Fleming Award for services to bridge. Roy has devoted many
years since the 1960's to bridge in Lincolnshire. Before this he played
in Leics. He still continues to enjoy success in county events and has
won all the trophies over the years that he is eligible for. Roy
was Lincolnshire’s County Secretary for 13 years until 2004 and
County Captain for 20 years. He continued as their Vice Chairman in 2005
having served as Chairman in the early 1980's. Since 'retiring' he has
organised Bridge For All in his home village.
Over the years Roy has represented the county at all levels, including
the Tollemache qualifying (probably about 20 times), the Midland league
for many years (organising the Lincs players and the catering for home
matches), giving some players their first taste of bridge away from their
clubs, and participates in the newly formed Northern league. Roy has also
directed some county events.
The intent of the Dimmie Fleming award is to recognise publicly those
people who do not hold an official (ie EBU) office, but have, for a long
time - say, 20 years or so - worked hard for bridge, usually at County
and/or Club level.
Click here for photo
Waitrose
Trophy
The
closing date for this year's Waitrose Trophy is 7th June.
The Waitrose Trophy is presented to the pair which has scored the highest
percentage duplicate score in a year, from 22nd June 2008 to 7th June
2009. The duplicate session does not need to be at an affiliated club,
but must consist of eight or more tables. Please phone your highest pair's
score to Adrian Underwood on 01673 860270
Margaret
Balch
It was with
deep regret that our Chairman, Alan Andrews, gave the news at the Vincent
Competition that one of our honorary members,Margaret Balch, had recently
died. At 92 years of age Mrs Balch was one of our oldest members, having
played in county events for many years. In fact the Veteran's Trophy,
which is the next County event, was generously donated by her. Mr Andrews
said that she would be sorely missed in the local bridge area. A minute's
silence was observed.
Return
of Trophies
So that the trophies
may be engraved in time for the AGM, would those members who were fortunate
enough to win one last season please arrange to have them returned, either
directly or via Club Reps, by May 9th (Annual Championships)
EBU
Sim Pairs
Congratulations to our Chairman, Alan Andrews, and his partner
Harry Coates, who won the EBU Autumn Simultaneous Pairs. Alan and Harry
beat 1802 other pairs, posting a massive score of 74.97% - a full 1.86%
ahead of the runners-up. Click
here for the results
League
and Cup Draws
The draws for the Gold, Davy and the League fixtures have now
been made. Within the next few days team captains will receive all of
the details, but click here if
you can't wait to see who you've drawn
County
Team for the Tollemache Qualifier
Following the closed trials held on Sunday 9th September, the
Captain's Committee has selected the following to represent Lincolnshire
in the Tollemache Qualifier on 24/25th November. Alan & Drene Brown;
Glynn Elwick & Mike Llewellyn; Andrew Green & Dennis Mellor; Andrew
King & Ron Wall; Maurice Ladlow & Mo Parsons; npc Stuart Knox
Barbara
Maplethorpe
Lincolnshire Bridge lost one of its most popular members on Monday 30th
July when Barbara Maplethorpe died suddenly from a heart attack. Barbara
had been playing bridge since the mid seventies. She was a keen supporter
of all County competitions, this year winning the Lucy Orborne Trophy
at the Annual Championships with her partner Helen. She also donated the
Gold Cup Plate Trophy to the County. Barbara had a bubbly personality
and was well liked by everyone. Her local clubs were Horncastle and Heighington.
At Horncastle she had been a committee member since 1981 and the Treasurer
since 1995. Barbara will be sadly missed by everyone. The funeral service
will be held at 1pm on Wednesday 8th August at Billinghay Church.
EBU
Strategy Document
The following
email has been sent to Club representatives
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At
the EBU Shareholders meeting of 6 June 2007 the Board announced its
initial proposals for a future strategy for the development of bridge
in England. The board intends to have a full and considered discussion
about the proposals at the AGM in October 2007 after this period of
consultation.
Attached is a copy of the proposal for you to download.
Key features of the proposal
·
The annual membership subscription and Master Point charges
will be abolished.·
A Pay to Play (P2P) scheme will be introduced, in which a small table
charge is levied for every player at every duplicate session in an
affiliated club.·
A one-time only Registration Fee of £5 for new or lapsed EBU
members.· An extensive range of free services will be provided
to affiliated Clubs, including a National Rating scheme.·
The annual Club Affiliation fee will be based on the number of duplicate
sessions played per week.
Since these proposals would, if implemented, affect the way in which
bridge is financed within Lincolnshire, the EBU has contacted our
Chairman with a view to meeting him (along with representatives of
Yorkshire and the North East) in Doncaster on 9th July. This is before
our next committee meeting. Because we will not, formally, be in a
position to discuss these proposals, Michael has asked that you all
(as County Representatives) talk to your Clubs and give him any feedback
before the 9th July. Michael's phone number is 01205 750379 and his
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The document can be viewd by clicking
here (pdf reader required)

Congratulations
to Dennis Mellor and Andrew Green who won the 2007 Corwen Trophy for Lincolnshire.
Here they are pictured having just been presented the trophy by EBU Director
Graham Jepson. (Dennis is on the left and Andrew on the right) Dennis
and Andrew fought their way into the lead after 3 rounds, and were able
to consolidate their position in the final round to end up winning by
more than 0.5%. Our other Lincolnshire representatives, Mo Parsons and
Maurice Ladlow also finished well, in 28th place out of 102 of the nation's
finest. Click
here for the full result.
Right click
photo for download options (8KB)
EBU Club Membership
- Important News
Some
club secretaries might have recently received a confusing email from the
EBU. The County Committee decided that this year it would not pay the
EBU subscriptions for affiliated clubs. If you have
not yet paid your affiliation fee then you should contact Eileen Maunder
at the EBU her email address is Eileen@ebu.co.uk
Eileen will advise you the amount due and arrange the appropriate documentation.
Please note that your club's membership of the EBU entitles you to issue
Master Points, play in certain County events (eg Garden City Heats) and
host some Sim Pairs events.
How can we
increase entries to County Events?
Some of our restricted events are suffering in terms of entrants. Probably
it's the time of year, but our Restricted Pairs event had just 5 pairs
entered, and the Lincoln Imp was competed for by just 3 teams. Apart from
it being uneconomical to run such an event, we really must find ways to
increase numbers. Perhaps the qualification levels are set too low, and
we need to consider changing the upper limit to one which encompasses
a larger number of potential entrants. Your Competition Secretary will
soon be drawing up a Calendar for next season, and would like suggestions
to help with this problem. Please email him at competitionsecretary@lincsbridge.org.uk
with your ideas.
Important
information about entering County Events
Some new guidelines have now been drawn up to make it easier to enter
County Events. These are designed to reduce the probability of a pair
arriving to play and then finding that their entry has not been received.
Click here to see the guidelines.
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