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The 61st contest for the Lederer Memorial Trophy was held at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club on October 20-21 2007. Eight invited teams played 12 board matches against each other, with Victory Point scoring (part IMPs and part point-a-board).
The participating teams, with the exception of the President’s team, were all current title-holders. The unavailability of many players who had just returned from the world championships in Shanghai meant it was a more English event then usual, but there were teams from Scotland (Gold Cup) and Ireland (winners of the last three Camrose events), and a pair from Israel (who were part of the team which won the European Mixed Teams Championship earlier in the year in Antalya).
The position on Saturday night, after four of the seven matches, was that the Schapiro Spring Foursomes Winners were on 161 VPs, just ahead of Ireland on 159, with the President's Team on 125 and the Tollemache winners (Gloucestershire) on 119.
The Spring Fours and Irish teams both won their first two matches on Sunday, but the Irish had done just enough to overtake the Spring Fours with one match to go. The two teams went head-to-head on VuGraph, with Ireland starting 3 VPs in front. An exciting set of boards, including three slams, kept the audience on the edge of their seats. The Schapiro Spring Foursomes won the match 40-20 and regained the lead at the time that matters most.
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Spring Fours |
Neil Rosen, Martin Jones, Andrew McIntosh, Gunnar Hallberg, David Price, Colin
Simpson |
274 |
| 2 |
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Ireland |
Tommy Garvey, David Bakhshi, Tom Hanlon, Hugh McGann |
257 |
| 3 |
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Presidents |
Bernard Teltscher, Tony Priday, Willie Coyle, John Matheson, Victor Silverstone,
Chris Dixon |
234 |
| 4 |
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European Mixed |
Heather & Jeremy Dhondy, Lilo & Matilda Poplilov |
223 |
| 5 |
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Tollemache |
Keith Stanley, Richard Chamberlain, Andrew Kambites, John Atthey, Joe
Angseesing, Graham Sadie |
193 |
| 6 |
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Young Chelsea |
Steve Popham, Adrian Scheps, Mike Vail, Norman Selway, Jerry Harouni |
191 |
| 7 |
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Crockfords |
Janet de Botton, David Burn, Nick Sandqvist, Artur Malinowski, Jason Hackett,
Justin Hackett |
166 |
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Gold Cup |
Brian Short, David Walker, John Murdoch, Malcolm Cuthbertson, Douglas
Piper, Jack Paterson |
141.5 |
The winners of the Teltscher Cups in the 'Play with the Stars' event, competed for in clubs playing the same first 24 boards as in the Lederer were:
North-South (scoring with Jason and Justin Hackett):
Maurice & Janet Cahm (Wimbledon Bridge Club) + 65 IMPs
East-West (scoring with Tom Hanlon & Hugh McGann):
Margaret Owen & Helen Barnes (Wimbledon Bridge Club) +50 IMPs
Simon Cochemé
Tournament Manager
simonx@simonx.plus.com
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