Greater St. Louis Bridge News

News from Greater St. Louis Unit 143

Editor:  Sheryl Finkenstadt, St. Louis MO    sheryl@finkenstadt.com
 


“What you feed, grows.  Rehearse successes, not mistakes.”

All too often players focus on the errors.  Fine-tuning a system is one thing.  But why not discuss at least one hand per session where you did something truly competent?  Or brilliant. Especially if it was your partner’s action!


District 8 Winners:  John & Shirley Dicks placed first in District 8 in the World Wide Pairs game held Saturday, June 7,2008. Matched against all the pairs in the entire world, they scored a 60.56% game.  Congratulations. (And apologies for omitting this last issue!) 

St Louis Regional: Scoring first place in their bracket or flight were more than 70 local players, some of them more than once.  You can look them up by clicking here.

Perhaps more encouraging to the rest of us – proving it CAN be done -- were the players who scored First Place ABOVE their ACBL flight levels:

Richard Edwards Jr. & Carole Burt, two events

Henry Stern Jr. & George Markus, two events

Barbara Frith & Fran Axelbaum

Roxy Kesler & Kathleen Samoska

Anne Agovino & Lannon Corley

Betty Politte & Joan Collins

Marcia Broddon & Thelma Peskind

Barbara Simpson & Jeanne Netherton

Mike & Janet Vontz, Steve & Gilda Singer

Kay Cohen, playing with Doris Mills, Leitchfield KY

Kevin Powell, playing with Daniel Bunde, Urbana IL

Kevin Powell, playing with Daniel Bunde, Urbana IL and John Brandeberry & Margaret Stephens, Champaign IL

Norman Athy & Farid Azzam, playing with John Robey, Winchester TN & Tom Beardsley, Richmond KY

St. Louis Rams vs. Kansas City Chiefs?  St. Louis Cardinals vs. Kansas City Royals?  No, it’s the Kansas City vs. St Louis Bragging Rights!

These team game matches were begun in 2001 to end the wishful thinking of both St. Louis and KC teams that they were the best in the State.  Now we have a way to know, for sure, each year! In true “Show-Me state” tradition, each city selects its teams from members of its Units and they meet in a two-session head-to-head team game on the Saturday of the August Regional held in St. Louis.

Kudos to the St Louis Bragging Rights Unit 143 winners:

    Flight C:  Chuck & Jane Ettelson; Wojciech Golik & Donald Chase

    Flight D:  Mike Arnheim, Dorothy Santner, Cheryl Prante, & Daniel Spangler

The Regional at Tunica (Robinsonville, MS) in September is usually a popular – and lucrative one – for Unit 143 members.  This year was no exception.  For complete results, click here.  First place winners from Unit 143 included: Kenneth Bland, Jack Bryant (2x), John Burgener, Karen Erlanger, Linda Evans, Tom Oppenheimer, Jay D Shah, Beryl Shapiro (2x), Marvin Shapiro (2x), Gerald Schneider, Nell Schneider, & Rod Van Wyk (2x).


199er Championship gathers 43.5 tables on Saturday, September 27

Sectionally rated (silver points), this two single-session event completed the third full year that St Louis has offered this popular event. Chaired by Jane Ettelson, the championship was held at Maryland Heights Community Center and is open to all ACBL members with fewer than 200 masterpoints.

Held twice-a-year, the next 199er Championship will be March 7, 2009.

Congratulations to this fall’s 199er Championship overall winners:

Afternoon - Flights ABC: 
Mary Ann Shepard  &  Lee Stueby

Evening - Flight A: 
Sharlene Morgan & Marcia Ridley

Evening - Flight B:
Mary Dolan & Cheryl Schaefer

 Evening - Flight C:
Virginia Frederick & Katie Boles


Congratulations to the following players who have advanced in rank since August 1, 2008:

JUNIOR MASTERS

Joan Collins

Lannon Corley

Karen Crebs

Rita Eiseman

Irene Holmes

Arthur Loomstein

Donald Macchesney

George Markus

Cynthia Peters

Marguerite Potter

Jan Potts

Alice Slack

Ellen Svenson

Penny Williams

CLUB MASTERS

Carolyn Andrews

Brian Gallagher

Atul Hajela

Peggy Hindert

Becky Hubert

William Johnson

Jeanne Netherton

Cheryl Prante

Carol Rentz

Henry Stern Jr

SECTIONAL MASTERS

Alan Broddon

Tom Brossard

Sara Fabick

Ann Gruver

Joyce Lewin

Jane Walsma

REGIONAL MASTERS

Sue Gallop

Frank Rassieur

Steve Reiss

Shirley Ringland

Raye Zeigler

NABC MASTERS

Beth Curtis

Karen Engle

James Nunn

Charles Parker

Jane Shapleigh

Amy L Stabenow

Del Sylvester

Veena Uberoi

LIFE MASTERS

Thomas O’Reilly-Pol

Janet Vontz

Joan Wieber

Julie Woods

BRONZE LIFE MASTER

Mrs. C. J. Jung

Janice Van Buren


 Upcoming Tournaments

October 17-19, 2008  (Sectional)

January 16-18, 2009  (Sectional)

March 7, 2009  (199er Championship)