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St. Louis Bridge NewsEditor:
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).
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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: |
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Congratulations to the following players who have advanced in rank since August 1, 2008:
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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 |
October 17-19, 2008 (Sectional)
January 16-18, 2009 (Sectional)
March 7, 2009 (199er Championship)
