July 15, 2011
by
Jon Yinger
UNIT website: www.acblunit557.org
CLUB website: www.LongBeachBridge.com
JULY 10 Unit Game: Overall results: 1st in A: Betty McClellan/Jo Daigle, 2nd Mark Teaford/Mark Leonard, 3rd Diane Starbuck/Eddie Gruber, 4th Al and Sharon Appel, 5th Sean Lui/Hanefi Erten, 6th Betty Jackson/Gloria Sedore. In the B flight overall Lisa Kuo/Murat Veysoglu were 5th, Eileen Nelson/Ruth Kaller 6th. And in the C flight overall Rick and Robert Bukovich were 3rd, Sue Boswell/Tom Ludgwig 4th, Judith Jones/John Petire were 5th. Congratulations to all!
70+%
GAMES in the club June 16 through July 15: In open games:
June 17 Betty McClellan/Verna
Baccus had 71.30%, June 27 Lois
Perovich/John Galligher had 71.63%, June
28 (eve) Cory Hand/Bob Mault had 71.25,
July 13 Phyllis Parker/John Petrie had 69.96% (sooo close) and in the evening game Mark Itabashi/Allen
Golbert had 71.43%. And in the NLM game
July 12 Monica Gettis/George Alemshah had 70.24%. Congratulations to you all!
BIG
MASTER POINT AWARDS: 1st over-all big point awards June 16
through July 15: June 19 Earl Van Der
Vord/Jon Yinger won 4.11mp, June 20 Jo
Daigle/Doris James 4.67mp, June 21
Brandon Sheumaker/Ted Gibbs 4.33mp,
June23 Aaron Jones/Sankar Reddy 4.00mp,
June 24 Lois Abramson/Irwin Bender 6.33mp, June 24 (eve) Sherry
Troeger/Bob Mault 3.00mp, June 25 Sankar
Reddy/John Crabtree 4.33mp, June 26 Baum
Harris/Steve Skinner 3.17mp, June 29
George Welsh/Aaron Jones 4.50mp, and in the Unit Game July 10 Jo Daigle/Betty McClellan
won 4.11mp. Big awards for second
place: June 19 Sharon and Al Appel 3.08mp, June 20 Bob
Ballack/Davey Johnson 3.50mp, June 21 Rich Wasser/Jon Yinger 3.25mp, June 23 Kay Tseng/John Melis 3.00mp, June 24 Jean Kato/Barbara Frischkorn
4.75mp, June 25 T S Chernuchin/Baum
Harris 3.25mp, June 29 Roger Farmer/Bob
Ballack 3.38mp, and in the Unit Game July 10 Mark Teaford/Mark Leonard won
3.08mp. Big awards for third place: June 24 Marcie Evans/Jon Yinger won
3.56mp. Congratulations to all!
NEW MEMBERS: Judy Tsangarakis, Stan
Blitz, Bill Brooks, Kathryn Moore, Betty Witteried. Welcome to the
STATUS CHANGES: Junior Maters: Lynn Danielson, Judy Percer; Club Masters: Geraldine Landes, Audrey Linden, Hugh
Linden; Sectional Master: Elizabeth Thometz; Gold Life Master: Earl Van Der Vord. Congratulations
to you all!
UP-COMING EVENTS
AT THE CLUB: Wednesday, August 3
Inter-Club Champsionship game. Aug 14 Unit Game--lunch 12:30,
game at 1pm. The week
of August 22-28 STaC games; extra points, hand records, $11 game fee.
GET WELL WISHES
to Doris Drew.
NEWS FROM LEISURE
WORLD from Gene Yaffee: High game of 71% was scored by Bee
Kinman & Howard Smith on July 9.
Overall winners in the first ever
STaC game held in Leisure World were: Strat A--Bee Kinman & Bill Linskey
65.41%; Strat B--Diane Sachs & Fern Dunbar 64.07%; Strat C--Lottie Kostar
& Ron Yaffee 54.7%.
Monday, August 1, will be a Swiss
Team Event. Form your four person team by using the following point count
system; a team may not exceed a total of 8 points. Using ACBL current Master
Points--0 to 199 = 1; 200 to 799 = 2; 800 and up = 3. A team can have any
combination of players whose total does not exceed 8. Team Captains must
register in advance with Howard Smith at 598-6121. For more information,
please Ruth Kaller at 430-0316.
Sunday, September 18, Leisure World
will host the unit game. Lunch followed by bridge will be held in
Clubhouse #1. Reservations are a must for entry to Leisure World. Contact Ruth
Kaller at 430-0316 for more information.
A BIG, BIG THANK YOU to Ruth
Kaller who has retired from directing on Fridays and Saturdays! Ruth has
done an outstanding job and all of the players want her to know how much she
has been and is appreciated.
Results of all Leisure World games are
posted on www.acblunit557.org
Gene Yaffee,
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